The SE™ Professional Training
The SE™ Training is a 3 year program. There are three training levels – one level for each year of the training. The levels are referred to as Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced. Each training level consists of two 6-day modules, providing 12 days of classroom attendance per level, equating to a total of 36 days over 3 years.
Credit Hours: Each module of six days awards 6 attendance credit hours per day for a total of 36 hours per module, totaling 216 attendance credit hours for the entire training.
Beginning Level
Year 1 - Foundational Skills & Knowledge
Beginning Module I/II
First 6-day intensive module
Beginning Module II/III
Second 6-day intensive module
Year 1 Requirements
- Four Personal Sessions with an approved SE Beginning Session Provider
- Four Case Consult Sessions with an approved SEP Beginning Case Consult Provider
Learning Objectives
Develop foundational knowledge and skills in the SE biophysiological model for the resolution of trauma.
- Analyse the physiology of traumatic stress and its effect on the autonomic nervous system (ANS)
- Practice the fundamental SE method of tracking sensation to access responses in the ANS
- Study titration and establishing continuity through the felt sense
- Assess the neurophysiology of each aspect of the threat response: defensive orientation, fight/flight/freeze, deactivation and completion, and exploratory orienting
- Develop skills in working with the SE model of tracking sensation to support completion of the threat-response cycle and incomplete survival responses
- Demonstrate how to "titrate" (modulate) the SE trauma-renegotiation process to ensure healthy integration of experience
- Begin to explore and integrate Porges' Polyvagal Theory of ANS function
- Explain the SE model of SIBAM (Sensation, Image, Behavior, Affect, Meaning) and its significance in trauma
- Explore coupling dynamics—the over- and under-association of the elements of SIBAM and elements of physiological responses to traumatically-stressing experiences
- Self-regulation – be able to identify, normalize, and stabilise traumatic reactions
- Attain skills to avoid the pitfalls of re-traumatisation
- Support clients in re-establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries
- Learn to identify, normalise, and stabilise traumatic reactions
- Acquire brief intervention skills that provide long-term solutions to acute and chronic symptoms of trauma
- Explore the integration of SE into ongoing professional practice
- Explore the appropriate use of touch in the context of SE
Intermediate Level
Year 2 - Trauma Categories & Interventions
Intermediate Module I/II
First 6-day intensive module
Intermediate Module II/III
Second 6-day intensive module
Year 2 Requirements
- Four Personal Sessions with an approved SE™ Intermediate Session Provider
- Six Case Consult Sessions with an approved SE™ Intermediate Case Consult Provider
Learning Objectives
Assess the different categories of trauma as addressed in the SE model. Identify the primary characteristics and hallmarks of each category of trauma, as well as specific approaches and interventions for working with each category effectively. The knowledge may be applied to many other traumatic or high stress experiences.
- Global High Intensity Activation: pre- and peri-natal trauma, early trauma, anesthesia, suffocation, choking, drowning
- High Impact/Failure of Physical Defense: falls, high impact accidents, head injury, motor vehicle accidents and other high impact accidents
- Inescapable Attack: assault, animal attack, rape or sexual abuse, inhibited escape
- Physical Injury: surgery, anaesthesia, burns, poisoning, injury due to accidents or attack
- Natural and Man-Made Disasters: earthquakes, fires, tornadoes, floods, war, terrorism
- Horror: seeing an accident, witnessing abuse or causing harm to another
- Torture and Ritual Abuse: war torture, concentration camp
- Emotional Trauma: severe neglect, abandonment and loss, ongoing abuse
Advanced Level
Year 3 - Complex Trauma & Integration
Advanced Module I
First 6-day intensive module
Advanced Module II
Second 6-day intensive module
Year 3 Requirements
- Four Personal Sessions with an approved SE™ Advanced Session Provider
- Eight Case Consult Sessions with an approved SE™ Advanced Case Consult Provider
Learning Objectives
Further integrate and deepen your understanding of SE theory and practice while developing a greater capacity for resonance with the client. Assess how to work with complex trauma and syndromes (IBS, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue). Expand on the use of touch in SE practice.
- Explain the importance of stabilisation when working with complex trauma
- Explore the SE concept of "coherence" in working with complex trauma
- Refine touch skills for supporting containment and coherence
- Explain about the inter-relationship between dysregulation of the ANS and the SE model of syndromes (non-reciprocal relationship between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems)
- Analyse the Polyvagal Theory as it relates to working with syndromes
- Refine the necessary SE skills of "titration" and "pendulation" when working with highly sensitive and syndromal clients
- Apply the SE model for working with the eyes
- Develop SE touch-based skills for working with different categories of trauma
- Explain how SE uses joints, body diaphragms, and the viscera to access ANS responses and to support completion of incomplete survival responses
- Explore scope-of-practice issues relating to the integration of SE and SE touch into professional practice
Case Consults and Personal Sessions
Supporting your professional development throughout the training
Session Overview
Individual and group consults are made available to students to support translation of SE™ practices into client work.
The recommended distribution of personal session and case consults are to support students to embody, integrate and apply SE™ their scope of practice.
Recording and Documentation
All personal sessions and case consults are to be recorded and logged by the student with each entry signed off by an approved provider.
The cost for all personal sessions, individual case consultations and attendance of small group consults is the responsibility of the student and the fee is based on a private agreement between student and provider.
Session Availability and Delivery
Sessions and consults will be offered during the training and can be completed in-between modules. Outside of the trainings, sessions and consults can be done in person and online with an approved provider.
It is the student's responsibility to ensure the person they are working with is approved by SEI to provide session and/or consult at the level required. Faculty consult will also run during the training to ensure students meet faculty consult requirements.
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