About this event
Depression is often characterised by a sense of stuckness, heaviness and feeling empty with a ‘lack of’ running through every aspect of life. Lack of energy, motivation, joy, peace, connection. Vital life force energy at a cellular level can compromise a persons capacity to be fully in world and feel alive.
Accompanying this there is often ‘too much of’ within the mind – rumination, self-criticism, worrying and perpetuating feelings of helplessness. This can leave a person spiralling between hyper and hypo arousal in the window of tolerance and never quite feeling connected and relaxed within themselves, with others and with life.
With often the route cause being in early attachment relationships and trauma, talking through depression often only gets us so far. With the ‘symptoms’ occurring within the body, at a cellular level, with protector parts taking shape to reinforce a persons sense of self, a body-based approach can enhance the internal shift from stuckness to flowing.
Research shows how breath work and somatic interventions can help to free up energy, move it through the body and bring an internal experience of compassion and fulfilment.
In this workshop we’ll explore how depression manifests in the body through energy, posture, gesture, sensation and the breath and how working with these aspects of a person can offer new opportunities to your client. The techniques you’ll learn are simple & safe and you’ll be ready to bring them straight into your practice.
This is an experiential workshop where the learning is by doing so you too can experience the benefits of breath work and somatic interventions.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Understand how depression manifests in mind and body at a cellular level.
- Learn a range of breath practices and somatic interventions to bring into your client work today!
- Explore how protector parts take shape within the body and mind to keep a person in a depressive place.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Therapists and anyone with an interest in trauma, the body and the breath.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- To add breadth to your trauma-informed client work.
RECORDING
This event will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.
ZOOM
This event will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.
SELF-SELECT FEE
The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.
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Kate Williams
Kate Williams has been in therapeutic practice since 2009 with a background in counselling in further education. She currently runs a busy private practice, works with NHS clients and enjoys running workshops for onlinevents and staff wellbeing workshops for NHS Hull & Humberside.
Kate is centre manager for the Bedfordshire Centre for Therapeutic Studies where she teaches on the CPCAB L6 in Attachment, Parts and Inner Child work, CPCAB L5 in Somatic Trauma Therapy course & L3 Award in Breathwork Coaching as well as the Level 4 in Therapeutic Counselling.
Kate has a passion for bringing the body into her practice supporting clients to release the trauma that is held within their bodies. Kate is know for her relaxed teaching style, experiential somatic practices and skill of bringing theory to life and making it applicable.
Website | www.bedfordshiretherapeuticstudies.co.uk