Working with the Core Wounding of Existence: A Somatic and Expressive Arts Approach

Course Description

This workshop will explore somatic techniques to reconnect to the developmental period of existence needs: the need for safety and space, presence and protection. When fulfilled in a regular and consistent way, somaticized safety builds the substrate for interoception, exteroception, exploration, and connection to needs -all from a place of safety, rather than from a place of survival-orientation.

The emphasis of this workshop will be experiential, including time to debrief after each activity, as well as time to journal or engage in art, with community sharing and Q&A at the end.

Objectives

• To learn how to engage in somatic enquiry through soliciting implicit body memory.
• To critique somatic techniques for reconnecting to the developmental period of existence needs.
• To analyze, through somatic experiments, the impact of experiencing the developmental experiences of protection and safety through caregiver presence.
  
• To analyze, through somatic experiments, the impact of experiencing the developmental experiences of presence, attunement, reciprocity and delight through caregiver interaction.