Training + Mentorship
Classes, trainings, consultation and mentorship can be helpful for gaining tools and supporting deeper healing processes, whether you are learning for your own wellness or to help others.
Trauma-Informed Care:
Healing with Relational Medicine
February 17th-18th 2024
10a-4:30p PST
$350*
Virtual/Zoom
NCCAOM PDA Credits Pending
This training series is for acupuncturists, acupuncture students , bodyworkers and other touch-based practitioners and who want to make their practice more trauma-informed while also being more embodied as they work. Through a combination of somatic practices, lecture and discussion we will explore the autonomic nervous system, with specific attention to polyvagal theory, in order to better identify and tend to survival states in our patients and ourselves. We will put this in the context of the treatment space as well as the larger culture in which we live, acknowledging the ways in which systemic oppression and unattended privilege and bias perpetuate harm in healing spaces.
Developing our relational skills to assist with ongoing informed consent, respectful communication (through words, touch, presence) and compassionate, non-judgemental attention we will begin to reshape our own autonomic nervous systems and those of our patients, moving us all towards a greater felt sense of safety and connection. This positively benefits treatment goals, health outcomes and prevents vicarious trauma.
This training takes place virtually over the course of a weekend and is a prerequisite for a the Relational Medicine Mentorship, a small group mentorship for acupuncturists and acupuncturists-in-training focused on developing the presence and skills to treat trauma, which begins April 2024.
*If you would like to participate and hold a marginalized identity/ies, please inquire about a reduced rate to help minimize barriers to access.
Classes + Workshops
Join a monthly online Somatic Practice for Nervous System Health class with me.
You can also access a collection of recorded Nervous System Reset classes or my Somatic Tools for Resourcing the Nervous System workshop through The Bhakti Yoga Movement Center’s online library. I am also a contributor to trainings offered by The Breathe Network, a non-profit organization that provides education and training for health and healing professionals on the impacts of sexual trauma and best practices in providing trauma-informed care to increase survivors' access to healing. Those trainings can be accessed directly through The Breathe Network.
"As a bodyworker of 15+ years, taking Kate’s workshop on resourcing your nervous system helped me not only to recognize how my body responds to stressors, but to more clearly recognize these stressors in my clients’ bodies, and respond accordingly during a session. Her nuanced understanding of nervous system anatomy and physiology, especially polyvagal theory, is way more information than I ever got in massage school. I use the skills I learned in her workshop every day in the treatment room.”-AB
