Please join Institute presenter Javier Gracias, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (he/him/his/él), CAGCS, CCTP-II, C-DBT, C-PD, CMIP, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP), EMDR Certified Therapist and Consultant: GREP, C-GTEP, GPEP, ASSYST, National Board-Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist.
This will be a 3 Session Training! 2 virtual sessions and the last one In Person.
The Trauma of Racism & Somatic-focused Trauma Training
Somatic-focused Trauma Treatment is a basic overview of somatic-focused psychotherapy interventions, incorporating polyvagal theory and themes of rupture and repair. Trauma is not only remembered, it is often carried in the body, nervous system, and unfinished survival responses. Decolonizing the field focuses on identifying how the modern mental field is a continuation of the exploitation of our indigenous communities. Not the exploitation of materials, land, and body but the exploitation of healing knowledge and the lack of indigenous contribution to the field of mental health. Pervasive trauma treatment: trauma of racism is a comprehensive examination of the onset of racism and its impact on the psyche. We use a Frantz Fanonion psychotherapy model to assess for and directly treat "symptoms" of racism. This training introduces a somatic-focused approach to understanding and treating trauma by recognizing how the body attempts to protect itself through patterns of activation, shutdown, collapse, and appeasement. Participants will learn how to safely support clients through grounding, nervous system regulation, somatic awareness, and gradual processing strategies that promote integration rather than overwhelm. Designed for clinicians working with acute trauma, developmental trauma, Complex PTSD, and intergenerational and transgenerational trauma.
Feb 20th: Somatic Part 1 (9am - 12pm PST): A comprehensive walkthrough of somatic-focused treatment (neurobiology of threat responses, the science of rupture and repair, Sensations: Language of Survival, Stabilization, Methods and Techniques, Intergenerational and Transgenerational Wounds and Intro to Pervasive Trauma Healing. We will have group activities and experiential learning, not just lectures.
March 6th: Somatic Part 2 (9am - 12pm PST): Working with Thwarted, Stuck, Incomplete and Unresolved Threat Responses (Fight, Flight, Freeze/Tonic Immobility, Appease); Pervasive Trauma Treatment Model (in its entirety). We will have group activities and experiential learning, not just lectures.
March 21: Part II, in-person (8am - 4pm): In-vivo experiential (triads and group activities), Communal and Ancestral Resources, Indigenous methodologies, Where does our field go from here?- Back to Its Roots (how modern psychology has, and continues to exploit indigenous and non-Western knowledge, making access to our own healing methods unreachable for clinicians and clients seeking healing)
