Trauma Informed Stillpoint Method
Certify as a Somatic Mindfulness Coach
Healing Ourselves Helping Others
TUESDAYS 7 TO 9 PM -
April 30 - May 21, 2024
We Need Trauma Informed Coaching and Counseling
Trauma-informed is a buzz word the last few years for good reason. Many people felt stressed, scared, disconnected, and like we could barely keep our head above water before Covid, then it intensified.
Trauma is not just something that happened to us in the past. We are moving through a collective experience of trauma now. We feel the impact on our nervous systems, and are aware of how hypervigilance plays out in our personal lives, politics and in the media. We need help to build strength and resilience.
Trauma informed somatic mindfulness is not therapy, although it can have therapeutic benefits. As we regulate our nervous system, we experience authentic safe connection. As we learn and practice the tools we offer our clients, we become more stable and trustworthy for ourselves and each other.
We can only help others to the extent that we have and are healing. This work is not a quick fix. It takes time, persistence, and courage AND we don't have to be fully healed ourselves to help others.
Unresolved trauma hijacks our system and keeps us in perpetual hypervigilance and survival responses of fight/ flight/ freeze/ fawn. We don’t have to live that way.
We teach others these tools and practice helping clients and students to work effectively with compulsive thinking and feel safe enough to connect with the sensations, energy and feelings in their own body.
Now we build on our 6 week course Strong Mind and Resilient Nervous System: more somatic awareness, deepening comfort with the sensations and energy in our body, and increased capacity for reliable emotional regulation.
We meet in small breakout rooms to practice with each other.
This course is specifically for coaches, counselors, facilitators, and others in helping professions and you have the option for certification as a Stillpoint Method Somatic Mindfulness Coach.
Enrollment in the six week program Strong Mind and Resilient Nervous System is a prerequisite for this training.
We Become Skilled At Healing and Helping
As our intuition sharpens, we tune in to what is happening moment to moment. People we connect with feel our unconditional acceptance, attention, and care.
We have all known joy, hurt, heartbreak, shame, grief, and love. To the extent we allow ourselves to feel these emotions, we can afford to connect with what someone is feeling about their experience.
We Get Better At Life
We deeply know our authentic self on all levels of mindbody. We regularly access higher levels of awareness and stillness. We no longer fear the trauma that is stored as sensations and energy in our body. We cultivate welcoming all that is here.
With mindfulness of our thoughts and energy, we continue to redirect our attention away from movement and into stillness and our own basic goodness.
Certification and CEU
Everyone is welcome to attend the classes live or through replays, and to participate in whatever way works best for you.
Participants who also complete the following are eligible for a certificate as a Stillpoint Method Somatic Mindfulness Coach, and 10 Continuing Education Credits for Yoga Alliance.
Participate live in 3 of the 4 classes
Pass a open book written exam based on course content and personal reflections
Submit a 20 minute video of coaching another class participant using principles from the course
TRAINING AT A GLANCE
Elements of Trauma Informed Coaching and Counseling
☀ Somatic Mindfulness: We recognize what is happening in our nervous system and those around us. Clients co-regulate with our more settled nervous system, and from this experience of feeling safer, are better able to open to healing.
☀ Friends With Our Mind: Anxiety about the future or ruminating about the past creates a storm of catastrophic and shaming thoughts. We help clients intervene on the spot with proven somatic tools to build awareness and change their relationship with their mind.
☀ Core Deficiency Beliefs: We develop beliefs based on our experiences. Seeing through our own core deficiency beliefs, we develop a warm authentic relationship with who we are now, and with our younger self. We model that for our clients.
Becoming a Somatic Mindfulness Coach is for you If:
☀ You are a life coach, facilitator, or counselor who helps people align with their values and supports them in making practical changes
☀ You are a therapist wanting to integrate more trauma informed somatic therapy into your cognitive based work with clients
☀ You are a yoga teacher, school teacher, nurse, chiropractor, doctor, massage therapist, general holistic practitioner, or peer supporter
☀ You are a student or newly certified in any of these professions
BY participating in this course,
you will :
☀ Build resilience and strength in your nervous system and whole mindbody
☀ Become more grounded, resourced, and present in the safety of this moment
☀ Know how trauma shows up in yourself and others, recognize trauma responses in clients of fight/flight/freeze/fawn
☀ Become skilled at emotionally regulating yourself, and be a grounded co-regulating presence for others
☀ Learn and be comfortable teaching practical somatic healing tools for your clients and students to work with troubling thoughts and energies
YFI is a Yoga Alliance continuing education provider and this Course is worth 10 CEU hours.
PRICING
After enrolling in this course, you’ll receive an email from ‘support@yogafarm.us’ with the course access details.
About Your Instructor:
Lynn Fraser
As instructors, we have a combined depth of experience that is rare, and our love for our mission, for each other and for our students creates change on both an inner and outer level that is unique.
Lynn Fraser
Lynn Fraser brings the depth of 25 years experience to teaching meditation and yoga.
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She specializes in holding safe, trusted space for healing trauma in her online groups and classes. Lynn lives near her family, ocean and forest in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Lynn is a senior teacher in the Himalayan Yoga Meditation tradition, and founder of the Stillpoint Method of Healing Trauma.