Trauma Through a Child's Eyes
Interweaving Somatic Experiencing®, Art, Movement & Attachment Principles
Event Overview
This 4-Day PlayShop cleverly interweaves the basics of Somatic Experiencing® trauma healing with art, movement, attachment principles, and breath work.
This PlayShop is useful for professionals who wish to integrate the core concepts of SE™ when working with kids, as well as those wishing to deepen their understanding of inner child work with adults. It is a mixture of lecture, videos, experiential activities, and Q&A.
What You Will Learn
- The Resilience Roadmap Model for alleviating symptoms and behaviors such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, nightmares, and aggression.
- "The 8 Essentials of Healthy Attachment" to develop a resilient nervous system with activities for ventral vagal and social-emotional development.
- Teaching kids and teens sensory (interoceptive) awareness and tracking skills with art, games, and breathing to increase emotional regulation through charge/discharge cycles, settling, and integration.
- Boundary work with children and teens for empowerment after sexual or physical violation.
- Small group process work with the shock and grief from personal losses such as death, divorce, and abandonment.
- Case material fusing SE™ Principles, Art, and Movement for Individuals, Groups, and Classrooms.
Who Should Attend
This PlayShop is ideal for professionals working with children, youth, and families, including:
- Psychologists
- Counsellors
- Therapists
- Child and family therapists
- Teachers
- Youth workers
- Speech pathologists
- Integration aids
- Anyone that works with children and parents
About Your Instructor
Maggie Kline, LMFT has been in education since the 1970s, a Family Therapist and School Psychologist since the 1980s, and a Somatic Experiencing® International Faculty Member since the 1990s.
She is owner of Conscious Connections PlayShops and co-author with Peter Levine of Trauma Through a Child's Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids.
She also wrote Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof Our Schools, and contributed chapters in four anthologies, including EMDR for Complex Trauma and Dissociation in Children and The Handbook of Trauma-Transformative Practice.
Her latest contribution is My Inner Doggie Is Growling—a somatic and interactive children's picture book to help kids (and grown-ups) discover the sensations hidden beneath big emotions.
Register Your Interest
Join Maggie Kline for this transformative 4-day PlayShop integrating Somatic Experiencing® with work for children and families.