Resources, Relationships, and Emotional Processing

 $447 USD $99

This course offers somatic practitioners an integrative approach to working with clients through embodied demonstrations of strength, resourcefulness, relational awareness, and emotional understanding. Drawing on the expertise of Dr. Scott Lyons and Manuela Mischke-Reeds, the modules explore embodied strengths and resourcing techniques, alongside nuanced insights into transference, countertransference, and the somatic experience of shame. Practitioners will gain tools to recognize and amplify internal capacities, attune to subtle body-based cues in the therapeutic relationship, and foster healing through presence, compassion, and connection. Together, these teachings deepen somatic practice by bridging inner resilience with relational attunement in clinical and personal settings.

About this course

Being a great practitioner isn't just about what you know—it's about how you show up. Your presence, your pacing, your ability to read the room, track the body, and hold space with both skill and softness. This curated training series, led by Dr. Scott Lyons and expert faculty, is designed to help you refine the most essential skills in somatic and trauma-informed care—not just in theory, but in your body.

Beyond Technique:

Many practitioners learn somatic tools and interventions but struggle to embody them in practice. This series bridges that gap, helping you move from using somatic tools to becoming a true force for healing. Because when your presence is embodied, your interventions land so much deeper.

What You'll Develop:

Through experiential learning, guided practices, and expert instruction across four comprehensive modules, you'll learn to:

Module 1: Embodied Strengths - Cultivating Resilience from Within

Strength-Based Somatic Practice:

• Apply strength-based psychotherapy to enhance the therapeutic process
• Identify and embody client strengths through journaling and somatic exploration
• Explore various categories of strengths including wisdom, emotional intelligence, and relational skills
• Expand awareness of client resources beyond problem-focused assessment

Embodying Client Resources:

• Use gestures to represent and anchor positive attributes
• Integrate slowing down movements and reflective language
• Help clients deepen their felt sense of inherent strengths
• Create foundations for navigating challenges through embodied resilience
• Enable clients to access these resources when addressing difficulties

Module 2: The Embodied Toolkit - Building and Accessing Inner Resources

Multi-Stage Resourcing Process:

• Identify and accumulate internal and external supports (pets, nature, personal strengths)
• Embody resources through breathwork and absorption practices
• Amplify the felt sense of resourced states
• Bookmark resources with words, images, or gestures for easy access
• Practice recruiting resources in moments of need

Assessing Capacity for Resourcing:

• Observe client responses to discussions about resources
• Recognize indicators of overwhelm or underwhelm
• Inform your approach to introducing and deepening resourcing practices
• Understand that resourcing aims to enhance presence and capacity, not just calmness
• Know when clients have sufficient resources before engaging with challenging material

Module 3: The Unspoken Dance - Somatic Transference and Countertransference

Understanding Relational Dynamics:

• Explain fundamental concepts of transference and countertransference
• Differentiate between general and somatic transference/countertransference
• Recognize how clients unconsciously transfer bodily sensations and physical reactions
• Track your own somatic responses as indicators of client experience

Working with Somatic Cues:

• Develop awareness of your own somatic countertransference
• Use bodily responses as valuable information for therapeutic interventions
• Adjust level of support based on somatic indicators
• Explore client awareness of their own somatic experiences
• Deepen therapeutic engagement through skillful work with these dynamics

Module 4: Unraveling Shame - An Embodied Path to Self-Compassion and Connection

Understanding Shame Somatically:

• Describe physiological and somatic manifestations of shame
• Differentiate shame (feeling bad) from guilt (doing bad)
• Recognize how shame activates the autonomic nervous system
• Identify fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses to shame
• Track somatic markers like constriction or gut sensations

Therapeutic Interventions for Shame:

• Acknowledge client shame without making it a "big deal"
• Foster shared experience and connection as antidotes to shame
• Offer simple somatic grounding techniques (breath, feet on ground)
• Recognize the underlying desire for connection beneath shame
• Meet clients in their shame with presence and understanding rather than reactivity
• Cultivate self-compassion and acceptance in yourself and clients

Core Skills Developed Across All Modules:

Somatic Tracking and Awareness:

• Deepen capacity to track somatic cues in real time
• Read subtle shifts in breath, tension, posture, and micro-movements
• Develop felt sense as a primary assessment tool
• Track both client's and your own nervous system simultaneously

Regulating Language and Communication:

• Use language that supports regulation, not reactivation
• Choose words and pacing that create safety
• Know when to speak and when silence serves healing
• Craft interventions that meet clients where they are

Embodied Presence and Attunement:

• Cultivate felt sense of attunement with clients
• Establish healthy boundaries while staying connected
• Practice staying grounded when clients are dysregulated
• Master the art of pacing and holding space with skill and softness

Expert Faculty:

Learn from Dr. Scott Lyons (Modules 1-2) and Manuela Mischke-Reeds (Modules 3-4), who bring decades of combined experience in somatic psychology and trauma-informed practice.

For All Healing Professionals:

Whether you're a therapist, coach, bodyworker, or facilitator, this series helps you refine the foundational capacities that make all your other skills more effective. These aren't just techniques to apply—they're ways of being that transform how you practice.

The Embodied Difference:

The most powerful interventions come not from what you do, but from who you are in relationship with your clients. When you can work with strengths, build resources, navigate transference, and meet shame with compassion—all while maintaining embodied presence—your work becomes exponentially more effective.

Essential training for practitioners ready to move from competence to mastery, where technique meets presence and knowledge becomes lived wisdom in your body.

Join our brilliant experts for the following sessions:

MANUELA MISCHKE-REEDS

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