Professional Training Structure
The Somatic Experiencing Professional Training consists of three training levels: Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced.
A training level provides 12 days (72 hours) of classroom attendance per calendar year, giving 36 days in total for the whole training.
Beginning Level
Two 6-day modules spaced six months apart
Intermediate Level
Two 6-day modules spaced six months apart
Advanced Level
Two 6-day modules spaced six months apart
SE Professional Training – Melbourne 2025 – 2028
Veriu Hotel – Queen Victoria Market
📍 91 Therry St, Melbourne VIC 3000
| Training Level | Dates | Year | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beginning I/II | October 11th-16th | 2025 | Maggie Kline |
| Beginning II/III | May 22nd-27th | 2026 | Maggie Kline |
| Intermediate I/II | Nov 14th-19th | 2026 | Linda Stelte |
| Intermediate II/III | May 21st-26th | 2027 | Linda Stelte |
| Advanced I | Oct 21st-26th | 2027 | Berns Galloway |
| Advanced II | May 18th-23rd | 2028 | Berns Galloway |
SE Professional Training – Queensland 2026 – 2028
Oaks Sunshine Coast Oasis Resort
📍 Cnr of North St & Landsborough Pde, Golden Beach, Caloundra, QLD 4551
| Training Level | Dates | Year | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beginning I/II | March 19th-24th | 2026 | Berns Galloway |
| Beginning II/III | Oct 14th-19th | 2026 | Berns Galloway |
| Intermediate I/II | March 9th-14th | 2027 | Berns Galloway |
| Intermediate II/III | Oct 9th-14th | 2027 | Berns Galloway |
| Advanced I | April 5th-10th | 2028 | Lael Keen |
| Advanced II | Oct 11th-16th | 2028 | Lael Keen |
SE Professional Training – Sydney 2026 – 2029
Vibe Hotel North Sydney
📍 171 Pacific Highway, Sydney NSW 2060
| Training Level | Dates | Year | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beginning I/II | Nov 4th-9th | 2026 | Linda Stelte |
| Beginning II/III | May 11th-16th | 2027 | Linda Stelte |
| Intermediate I/II | Nov 11th-16th | 2027 | Francine Kelley |
| Intermediate II/III | May 4th-9th | 2028 | Francine Kelley |
| Advanced I | Oct 26th-31st | 2028 | Lael Keen |
| Advanced II | April 19th-24th | 2029 | Lael Keen |
Your Trainers
World-class faculty bringing decades of experience in Somatic Experiencing®
Maggie Kline
Senior SE Faculty | USA
Maggie Kline has been a marriage, family and child therapist for nearly 40 years and is a retired school psychologist. Originally trained in Satir's Family Systems, Gestalt, and Humanistic Psychology, she specializes in trauma recovery through the lens of Somatic Experiencing and embodied mindfulness.
Maggie integrates SE concepts with art, dream work, movement, and attachment play when working with children and teens. She is a senior Somatic Experiencing instructor for SEI teaching internationally and creator of Conscious Connections PlayShops.
She co-authored Trauma through a Child's Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing (2007) and Trauma Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide to Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience (2008) with Dr. Peter A. Levine. Her latest book, Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof Our Schools: A Heart-Centered Movement for Wiring Well-Being (2020) is intended to inspire an evolutionary shift to relieve trauma and stress in communities and cultivate a culture of kindness.
Teaching In: North America, Australia, New Zealand
Levels Taught: Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced
Private Sessions & Case Consultations: Available
Berns Galloway
SEP, CCC, MEd | Somatic Psychotherapist, Educator, Certified Canadian Counsellor
Berns Galloway's first professional incarnation was as an elementary teacher in New Brunswick and Northwest Territories, Canada. After 12 years of being in front of the classroom his focus shifted to psychotherapeutic group work. He studied various humanistic approaches and bodywork at PD Seminars, then earned a Masters degree from the University of Victoria in 1995.
Berns has worked as a mental health therapist for a non-profit community agency, providing short term therapy to adults, training and supervising volunteers, and supervising graduate students' practica. He also maintains a private practice. In 2000, Somatic Experiencing entered his life and has since been a major focus in his professional orientation.
Early in his SE learning process, Berns was privileged to be part of a gifted training team working with First Nations peoples on Vancouver Island. The depth of the trauma and commitment to change foreshadowed the transformation through the healing process. He continues to marvel at, and be awed by, the continuous richness Somatic Experiencing offers.
Teaching In: North America, Australia, New Zealand
Levels Taught: Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced
Private Sessions & Case Consultations: Available
Francine Kelley
SEP, RYT500, LCPC | Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Registered Yoga Teacher
As a little girl growing up in Jamaica, Francine wanted to be a dancer. Watching dancers move, and moving her own body, seemed like the most natural and delightful of experiences. That seed was nourished through immigrating to the US and being introduced to West African dance in college, then through years of studying and performing modern, West African, Afro-Modern and Caribbean dance.
When she went back to grad school to study counseling, she discovered Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Amy Weintraub's Yoga for Anxiety and Depression and Trauma-Sensitive Yoga training. She learned a valuable lesson while teaching yoga to women at the DV shelter where she did her internship: less is more. Sometimes very small shifts can lead to big changes.
Her integrative private practice in Chicago combines SE, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, yoga, DBT, somatic touch and a healthy dose of humor. Sharing the magic of SE with BIPOC practitioners during her mentorship in the BIPOC cohorts has been a very fulfilling experience. It is her intention to continue to share SE with communities that so desperately need ways to heal from the very human, and so often debilitating, effects of trauma.
Teaching In: North America, Australia
Levels Taught: Beginning, Intermediate
Private Sessions & Case Consultations: Available
Lael Katharine Keen
Advanced Level SE Faculty | Brazil
Lael Katharine Keen is an Advanced Level Teacher for the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute, a direct student of Dr. Peter Levine and is a founding member of the Brazilian Trauma Association (ABT). She has been teaching Somatic Experiencing® in Brazil, the USA and all around the world, since 1998.
In addition to teaching for the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute, Lael has taught Rolfing® Structural Integration for the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute since 1995. She holds a 6th degree black belt in Ki-Aikido and has studied many different disciplines that focus on the body-mind connection. She is a Trainer of Matrixworks Living Systems, an approach to working with groups.
She lives in the south of Brazil where she and her husband (also a Somatic Experiencing® teacher) own and operate a training center in the Atlantic Rain Forest on the Island of Santa Catarina. She continues to study and learn about what it is to be a human being and how we can heal at all levels, body, mind, soul and spirit. She has been studying Anthroposophy since 2003 and holds certification as an Anthroposophic Art Therapist and an Anthroposophic Biographical Counselor. She is also an Educator for the Bates Method of Vision.
Teaching In: South America, North America, Europe, Asia, Australia
Levels Taught: Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced
Private Sessions & Case Consultations: Available
Website: www.laelkeen.com
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