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Introduction
Somatic Experiencing
Alaine D. Duncan, M.Ac., L.Ac.,
Dipl.Ac. Executive Director Crossings
HealingWorks Local Coordinator Somatic
Experiencing Training
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Our Mission

• . . . is to bring ancient healing traditions
  that restore and renew the body mind spirit of
  people touched by trauma creating peace for one
  family, one community, one world one person at
  a time.

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Peter Levine, Ph.D.
Human beings have the same innate self regulatory
mechanisms as wild animals, but tend to be
inhibited by our rational cerebral cortex.
This restriction prevents the completion of the
activation-discharge cycle in our
neuro-physiology.

• Peter Levine
• Founder of Somatic Experiencing

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Healing Trauma
Animals in the wild instinctively discharge very
high levels of traumatic activation in their
nervous systems. Why dont humans?
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Trauma Disorganizes the Nervous System
Neocortex/Forebrain Rational -- Thinking,
Language
Limbic Area/Midbrain Relational -
Feeling/Emotions
Brainstem/Hindbrain/Reptilian Brain Movement -
Sensing, Autonomic and Instinctual Centers the
4-Fs Biology of Fight/Flight/Freeze Response
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Autonomic Nervous System
Parasympathetic Branch Parachute or Brake
Sympathetic Branch Surge or Accelerator

• Fight or Flight
• Increases heart rate, blood pressure, and
  muscular tension
• Accelerates breathing
• Blood travels from the
• skin and into the muscles
• Sugar is discharged from liver
• Pupils dilate, eyelids retract
• Gastrointestinal system slows

• Rest and Digest
• Slows heart rate
• Slows breathing
• Pupils constrict
• Increase saliva
• Increase digestion

Sympathetic and Parasympathetic branches work
together to maintain homeostasis When one is
up, the other is down
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The Discharge Cycle

• Somatic Experiencing works with the charge
  and
• discharge of arousal in the Autonomic Nervous
• System that arises in response to a threat.
• Activation will be resolved to the extent the
  discharge cycle is allowed to complete.

easy charge
Easy discharge
sympathetic
parasympathetic
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The high intensity activation in response to an
overwhelming experience can overwhelm our
fight/flight response.
Too Much Too Fast
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When is trauma Trauma?

• The flight/fight/freeze response was
• mobilized but not allowed to complete
• A person remains stuck in what was a successful
  survival mode but now the danger has passed
• A persons instinctive survival responses become
  unreliable causing a cascade of physical and
  psychological symptoms

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Trauma is defined not by the causal event, but by
the response of that individual to the event.
Trauma is in the Body
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A Soldiers response in war is not about valor,
courage, or choice. It is a highly adaptive and
successful negotiation of an organism for its
survival.
Its Not About Duty
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A Soldiers response in war is not about valor,
courage, or choice. It is a highly adaptive and
successful negotiation of an organism for its
survival.
Its Not About Duty
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A Soldiers response in war is not about valor,
courage, or choice. It is a highly adaptive and
successful negotiation of an organism for its
survival.
Its Not About Duty
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The Symptoms of Trauma

• The symptoms of trauma, including hyperarousal,
• dissociation, and freezing, are based on
  successful
• evolution of predator/prey dynamics.
• They are the result of
• highly activated but
• incomplete biological
• responses to threat,
• frozen in time.
• By enabling this frozen
• response to thaw and
• complete, trauma can be healed.
  Peter Levine

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Trauma Ruptures Our Stimulus Barrier.

• Trauma is a breech in the protective barrier of
  the nervous system

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Formation of Trauma Vortex
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Resources Oasis of Safety
Building the Parasympathetic Nervous System
EXTERNAL RESOURCES
INTERNAL RESOURCES
My dog, cat . . . My family Walking in the
woods Sunday dinner at Grandmas My
unit Music Art
My sharp mind Im a good parent My prayer life My
integrity, honesty, sense of humor My
character My guts, intestinal fortitude
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Renegotiation of Trauma Vortex
The Healing Vortex
Contraction vs. Expansion of Stimuli
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SE Framework

• The SE approach trusts the bodys inherent
  movement toward self-regulation. We are
  hard-wired to heal.
• We help clients move gently through the
  activation/deactivation cycle to facilitate
  discharge of stuck fight/flight/freeze states.
• Over time traumatic stress symptoms are resolved,
  a person finds greater resilience and flexibility
  and the charge/discharge rhythm in their nervous
  system is restored.

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SE Objectives

• To reorganize habitual patterns in the
  brain-mind-body
• dynamic.
• To restore the orienting response and survival
  reflexes
• of fight and flight.
• To resolve cognitive, physical, affective and
  energetic
• symptoms related to trauma.
• To increase ones capacity to experience a broad
  range
• of emotional states without getting disorganized.
  

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Three Distinct Languages

• Neocortex/Frontal -- Words

Thinking, language, higher brain functions,
conscious control
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Three Distinct Languages

• Limbic - Emotions

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Reptilian/Brain Stem - Sensations
Three Distinct Languages
Instinctual center - breathing, circulation,
digestion, reproduction, fight/flight/freeze ---
all things below our conscious control
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Language of Sensations
Courting the Reptilian Brain
Shaky Numb Stuck Easy Cold Buzzing
Light Alive Flowing Loose Foggy Expanded
Thick Jumpy Radiating Fuzzy Dull Smooth
Heavy Dead Tight Hot Easy Prickly

• What do you sense?

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Tracking
What do you notice when you remember_____? What
sensations arise when you (see, feel, hear
experience) that memory? As you sense ___, notice
what happens next Is there a color? An image?
A voice? An emotion in that sensation? What
happens in your system as youre feeling___? What
does that mean to you?

• What are you
• experiencing now?

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Protocol of a SE Session
Middle
End
Beginning
Create a field of workusing body awareness,
rapport, safety Use language of sensation Notice
body changes Minimize overwhelm Resource as
necessary
Allow the ANS to self-regulate Empathize with
client, educate Normalize their
experience Facilitate its integration via the
felt sense. Allow time for the body to
reorganize.
Shift focus back and forth from activating
sensations to resourcing sensations Encourage
and support discharge -- tingling, yawning,
burping, warmth Keep within therapeutic window
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• Transformation

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Foundation for Human Enrichment

• www.traumahealing.com [phone]
• Special thanks Peter Levine, Raja Selvam, Diane
  Poole Heller, Maggie Kline, Geneie Everett, Deany
  Laliotis

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Training Opportunities - 2007

• Beginning I May 4 7
• Beginning II September 28 October 1
• Beginning III December 7-10
• Crossings - 8505 Fenton Street, 202
• Silver Spring, MD 20910.
• Discounted early-registration fee (675)
  available to attenders of this workshop until
  April 18, 2007.
• CEUs are available for social workers,
  counselors, acupuncturists and massage
  therapists.

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