Transforming the Trauma Tree: Recognizing, Reaching and Integrating Earliest Wounds When Working with Adults

Kate White, MA, BCBMT, RCST®, CEIM, SEP, PPNE, PLC Kate White is an award-winning educator, advanced bodyworker, and trauma resolution therapist. She is trained in somatic therapies, prenatal and perinatal health, lactation, brain development, infant mental health, and has specialized in parent-baby dyad care using somatic prevention and trauma healing approaches for over 20 years. She is a mother of two children, holds a BA and MA in Communication, a Registered Craniosacral Therapist in the Biodynamic Craniosacral method and a Somatic Experiencing®Practitioner. Her work combines somatic therapy, birth preparation, recovery from difficult birth, breastfeeding support, trauma prevention and resolution, and neurodevelopment to help give families with babies and small children the best possible start. She runs a private practice and offers seminars and training as the Founder and Director for the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, ppncenter.com. In 2019, she founded the online school, Prenatal and Perinatal HealingOnline, where she focuses on skills training in prenatal and perinatal somatic therapies for professionals. In 2023, she further founded the Institute for Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics, ppnsomatics.com.

Content Description: 

Therapies are increasingly incorporating somatics, including implicit experiences from the prenatal and perinatal time. Birth psychology, or the study of how earliest experiences may impact human development throughout the lifespan, examines patterns of experience starting preconception. Additional layers may be broken down into conception, prenatal dynamics, birth and after birth. This talk presents how the roots of health originate in our prenatal and perinatal period, and how to recognize and reach these experiences. If there is trauma here, it will impact how we grow. New developments in healing implicit preverbal trauma include prenatal and perinatal somatics. Practitioners of all kinds can learn skills of Recognition and ways to Reach these earliest experiences.

Once professionals get the sense of what is possible for healing earliest trauma, they want to know specific skills. I have developed several maps to help professionals learn. This session will explore the “how” of how to work with early trauma. Some clients need a corrective experience, which is an attachment sequence. For those clients who are ready for transformation we use a somatic approach to being with trauma states (autonomic nervous system reactions) so that they can integrate. I will introduce the work of several pioneers in the field. There will be several group practices. Attendees will walk away with a description of the skills needed.

Course Agenda

Transforming the Trauma Tree: Recognizing, Reaching and Integrating Earliest Wounds When Working with Adults

with Kate White

Live Online Zoom Session 1: Transforming the Trauma Tree: Recognizing and Reaching Earliest Experiences – Thursday, December 12th – 9-10:30am PST/12pm-1:30pm EST/5-6:30pm GMT – 1.5 CEs 

Session Content:

• Welcome and Meditation. Overview of the Trauma Tree, naming all the prenatal and perinatal roots of health, and places where we can recognize ruptures. (10 min)

• Definitions of earliest trauma based on the baby’s experience, and how these early places can be broken down into layers for stability and workable pieces for integration. (15 min)

• Specific ways we teach recognitions of early experiences include (30 min)

• Listening to the Story, 

• Slowing the Pace, Reflection (Practice)

• Creating a Map of the Layers of Experience

• Understanding the Sequence as a Key Code (Discussion in Pairs)

• Helping Clients Understand Prenatal and Perinatal Trauma Patterns 

• Professionals and Clients can learn to differentiate from the history and deepen into the present. The second part of this first session presents the skills needed to reach these early layers such as developing presence, somatic listening skills, and using touch in relationship. (20 min, includes meditation, and exercise)

• Inquiry, or the use of open-ended questions that evoke the felt sense is one of the key skills in prenatal and perinatal somatics. This first session will end here, and set up listeners for session two. (10 min)

• Q and A (5 min)

Live Online Zoom Session 2 – Integrating Earliest Trauma to Nurture the Roots of Health for Transformation – Thursday, December 19th, 2024 – 9-10:30am PST/12pm-1:30pm EST/5-6:30pm GMT – 1.5 CEs 

• Welcome and Meditation, Overview of What we Learned in Lecture 1 (5 min)
• Developing Facilitation Skills for Integration of Early Wound, Maps for Practice
  • 5 Layers of Experience (10 minutes)
  • Recognizing ANS States Connected to Early Wounds (15 minutes with group practice)
  • Shifting States for Integration, Introducing Pendulation and Titration (15 minutes with group practice)
  • Recognizing Blueprint and Imprint, Coherency and Reactivity (10  minutes)
  • Specific Steps and Skills: Overview 
    • Build Coherency (5 min)
    • The Leading Edge (Ray Castellino) (5 min)
    • The Bodying Process (Jim Feil) (5 min)
    • Deepening and Broadening (Anna Chitty) (10 min)
• Conclusions Q and A (10 min)

Transforming the Trauma Tree: Recognizing, Reaching and Integrating Earliest Wounds When Working with Adults

with Kate White

Learning Objectives

Session 1: Transforming the Trauma Tree: Recognizing and Reaching Earliest Experiences

1. Participants will be able to identify 12 prenatal and perinatal roots of health and trauma when working with adults.
2. Participants will recognize 5 parts of a developmental sequence based on the birth experience.
3. Participants will be able to utilize at least 4 skills when working with earliest trauma.
   

Session 2: Integrating Earliest Trauma to Nurture the Roots of Health for Transformation

1. Participants will be able to identify 5 layers of experience.
2. Participants will be able to name 3 autonomic nervous system states
   
3. Participants will be able to recognize 4 ways to integrate the earliest trauma when working with adults.

For intermediate mental health professionals including Psychologists, Social Workers, LPCs, and LMFTs.

Continuing Education

This program offers limited Live CEs/Contact Hours.

Continuing education credit/Contact hours are awarded on a per-session basis, with full attendance required for the entire 90-minute duration.  There is no additional charge for the CEs.  Application forms and other required CE materials will be available to participants by the Academy of Therapy Wisdom.

NOTE:  To receive continuing education credit, applicants must complete all CE materials, comply with attendance regulations, and submit an evaluation form for the session attended.  It is the responsibility of the attendee to determine if CE credit/contact hours offered by Academy of Therapy Wisdom meet the regulations of their state licensing/certification board.  

Psychology:  This course does NOT provide CEs for Psychologists.

Counseling:

Academy of Therapy Wisdom has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7370. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Academy of Therapy Wisdom is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.  This program is approved for 1.5 CE Credit Hours for each live session for a possible total of 3 CE Credit Hours.

Marriage/Family Therapy: See below for CAMFT information.

This course is $97 per month or $997/year. You can purchase it here.