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ISITTA Training Level 1 (2022)
Innate Somatic Intelligence, Relational and Collective Trauma and Social Justice
(This training was previously called Dharma of Trauma Level 2.)
Please submit an application if you haven’t taken Hakomi Professional Training Level 1 or Hakomi Comprehensive Training Level 1. You’ll also need to take a two-day Hakomi workshop as an additional prerequisite for this course. Application deadline: September 23, 2022
If you’re a Hakomi graduate and will have completed ISITTA Foundations before the first day of class (or its predecessor Dharma of Trauma Level 1) you’re welcome to register.
Registration deadline: September 23, 2022
ISITTA Level 1 offers cohort-based live online learning. To deepen the learning from each weekend, this training features an instructor-facilitated practice group after each module.
Faculty: Manuela Mischke-Reeds
Practice Group Teacher: Ashley Ross
Not all somatic or mindfulness-based techniques yield results. How do we tailor these powerful tools to neurodiverse clients? In this module, you’ll learn focused trauma-informed somatic techniques that you can apply with a broad range of clients. These polyvagal-informed somatic applications will help you to build a tool set for regulating your client’s nervous system while staying resourced within yourself. Above all, the techniques you learn in this module will help you to access your innate somatic intelligence and use it to inform your work with trauma clients.
Faculty: Manuela Mischke-Reeds
Guest Instructor: Arielle Schwartz
Practice Group Teacher: Ashley Ross
This module focuses on how to work with relational trauma, including developmental and complex trauma. You’ll learn attachment-focused methods that are sensitive to your clients’ internalized systems as well as the complexity of the therapeutic relationship. Topics we’ll explore include working with proprioception and relationship, using expressive, symbolic language in trauma therapy, developing a greater sensitivity to trauma transference, and offering safe and respectful somatic interventions that honor your client’s therapeutic learning style.
Faculty: Manuela Mischke-Reeds
Guest Instructor: Staci Haines
Practice Group Teacher: Ashley Ross
This module will examine the interconnection of individual and collective trauma. We’ll look at how somatic imprints of social location, somatic patterns of oppression and systemic trauma have imprinted clients’ experience. We’ll also examine the central importance of the trauma practitioner’s mindset in safely addressing systemic trauma and explore gentle therapeutic techniques for working in this domain.
2022 Schedule
Registration/Application Deadlines
Sep 1: Early enrollment deadline
Sep 23: Final registration/application deadline
(Application might be required — Please see Prerequisites tab)
Online Training / Practice Group Dates
Module 1: Oct 7-9 / Oct 19
Module 2: Oct 28-30 / Nov 16
Module 3: Dec 2-4 / Dec 14
(Dates subject to change)
Online Session Times
Zoom Training Sessions
Fri: 1:30-5:30
Sat: 9:30-5:30
Sun: 9:30-1:30
Zoom Practice Groups
Wed: 5:00-7:30
(All times are Pacific)
Location
Online via Zoom sessions
For Whom
This training will benefit psychotherapists, counselors, interns, health practitioners, trauma coaches and other helping professionals who want to learn precise techniques for healing trauma and maintaining their own sense of health and wellbeing when working with trauma.
Prerequisites
- ISITTA Foundations (or its predecessor Dharma of Trauma Level 1)
- Hakomi Professional Training Level 1 or Hakomi Comprehensive Training Level 1
If you haven’t taken prior Hakomi training, you’ll need to submit an application and take a two-day Hakomi workshop as a prerequisite for this course.
Class Schedule
Below is the schedule for each Zoom weekend and practice group of this training.
Fridays
1:30-3:30 Learning activities
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:30 Learning activities
Saturdays
9:30-11:15 Learning activities
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-1:00 Learning activities
1:00-2:30 Lunch
2:30-3:45 Learning activities
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-5:30 Learning activities
Sundays
9:30-11:15 Learning activities
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-1:30 Learning activities
Wednesdays
5:00-7:30 Practice group
(All times are Pacific)
All teaching is experiential and includes time for practice and feedback. Schedule subject to change.
Faculty
Manuela Mischke-Reeds,
MA, LMFT
Certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer
ISITTA Founder and Trainer
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT
Embodywise Founder and Director
ISITTA Founder and Trainer
Hakomi California Co-Director
Hakomi Trainer
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT, is a Certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer, a licensed Somatic Psychotherapist, and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 40823). She trains health professionals in the Hakomi Method in California, Australia and Europe. She recently developed a Hakomi based trauma and attachment training for clinicians in Germany. Manuela specializes in integrating somatic psychotherapy with somatic trauma therapy, attachment psychotherapy, infant mental health and movement therapy.
She serves as a faculty member at John F. Kennedy University and Sofia University (formerly the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology). She holds an MA in Somatic Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies, and a BA in Dance Therapy from the Naropa University.
In addition, she has trained in various methods of working with trauma and counseled survivors of political oppression, torture and trauma. She is a practitioner of Somatic Experiencing, a trauma resolution method developed by Peter Levine. She is a graduate Fellow at the Napa Infant Mental Health Fellowship Program, led by Dr. Ed Tronick. She is a recent graduate of the Child Trauma Institute of San Francisco and has expanded her practice in working with children and parents suffering the effects of trauma.
Manuela has extensive training in the field of movement therapies, and is an authorized Continuum Movement teacher. She has also been a student of Buddhist meditation practice for many years and has authored two books: 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness: Practical Strategies for Emotional Health and Well Being and Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox: 125 Worksheets and Exercises to Treat Trauma & Stress.
Ashley Ross, MA, LMFT
Certified Hakomi Therapist
and Teacher
Ashley is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 115141), a certified Hakomi teacher and a holistic reproductive health practitioner. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa and attended The Wright Institute in Berkeley, where she earned her Master’s in Counseling Psychology. Prior to attaining her MFT license, Ashley provided counseling to adults, couples and children and designed and facilitated support groups in a variety of settings. She has been a part of the Hakomi community since 2006. Ashley is currently in private practice in Los Angeles where she works with individuals, couples and groups. Ashley’s dual training in somatic psychotherapy and holistic health opened her to the benefits of using our bodies to achieve an integrated state of wellbeing. She brings this sense, along with a deep love of our messy humanness, to her work and teaching.
Staci Haines
Developer of Generative Somatics
Staci Haines
Developer of Generative Somatics
Staci K. Haines is the developer of generative somatics. Her work emerges from the somatics tradition of Richard Strozzi Heckler, integrating Polarity Therapy, Gestalt, Vipassana meditation and Aikido. Staci integrates her extensive study of personal and social change, trauma and recovery and Neuro-Linguistic Programming into this unique and powerful work. She is a senior teacher in the field of somatics and leads courses in Somatics and Leadership, Somatics and Trauma, and Somatics and Social Justice. The current focus of generative somatics is to bring the transformative power of somatics to serve the social justice movement. She has been working and teaching in the field of somatics for the last 16 years. Since 1992 Staci has been working and organizing to prevent child sexual abuse. She is a founder of generationFIVE, a social justice organization whose mission is to end the sexual abuse of children within five generations through survivor leadership, community organizing, transformative justice approaches and movement building. Staci is committed to the intersection of personal healing and social justice work, and sees that both have to be addressed to bring the change and justice we want in the world.
Arielle Schwartz, PhD
Clinical Psychologist
Developer: Resilience Informed Therapy
Arielle Schwartz, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist, EMDR therapy consultant, somatic psychotherapist, certified yoga instructor and internationally sought-out teacher. She is the author of six books, including The Complex PTSD Workbook, EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology and The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook. A leading voice in the treatment of PTSD and complex trauma, Arielle specializes in applied polyvagal theory for trauma recovery. Her integrative mind-body approach to therapy includes relational therapy, parts-work therapy, somatic psychology, EMDR therapy and therapeutic yoga for trauma. She believes that the journey of trauma recovery is an awakening of the spiritual heart.
Karen Daley, MA, LMFT
Psychotherapist
Hakomi Teacher-in-Training
Karen Daley, MA, LMFT
Hakomi Teacher in Training
Therapist
Karen is honored to be traveling with others on their journey…toward wholeness. She uses the Hakomi principles and practices as a container for her work as a licensed psychotherapist (LMFT 106479). Alongside twenty years of experience in the field of community mental health, she also brings ten years as a senior leadership trainer/organization development consultant with AmeriCorps and various other non-profits.
Karen co-created and for four years directed the Resilience Clinic at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, where the goal was to partner with families and build on their own knowledge by introducing both caregiver and child to nervous-system regulation and tracking, to mitigate the effects of stress.
She believes in collaboration and the power of equanimity as we deepen our awareness and understanding of our own social location as well as the social location of others. Karen believes in the transformative power of the Hakomi Method to facilitate deep healing both on an individual and a collective level.
When not with others, Karen can be found tending her garden or going on long walks.
Tuition
Early Enrollment: $1,700 if you register or apply by September 1, 2022
Regular Tuition: $1,850 if you register or apply by the final registration deadline of September 23, 2022
Repeating Participants: If you’ve taken this training before (or its predecessor Dharma of Trauma Level 2), you can repeat for $925 (a 50% discount). On or before September 1, please enter discount code IL1EREPEAT; after September 1, please enter IL1RREPEAT.
VISA, MasterCard, Discover and American Express accepted.
Cancellation Policy
Cancellations accepted via email or phone. If you cancel 30 days in advance of the first day of training, you will receive a full refund less a $30 administrative fee. If you cancel 15 days in advance of the first day of training, you will receive a 50% refund less a $30 administrative fee. No refunds will be granted less than 15 days before the first day of training. No refunds will be granted for non-attendance.
Continuing Education
Innate Somatic Intelligence Institute is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and/or LCSWs. Innate Somatic Intelligence Institute maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. This course meets the requirements for 16 hours of continuing education credit per weekend (48 hours total) for LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. CE approval agency: CAMFT. Provider number: 82187. We will email CE certificates within 30 days after each weekend of the course ends. If you live outside of California, please check with your local licensing board to ensure that they’ll accept this course for CE credit. As an approved continuing education provider, Innate Somatic Intelligence Institute is required to award CE credit for instructional time only; no CE credit will be granted for lunches and breaks. To receive CE credit for a given weekend, you must attend the entire weekend plus the followup practice session for that weekend, sign in and out each day, and submit a signed class evaluation form.
To Register for This Training
Please submit an application if you haven’t taken Hakomi Professional Training Level 1 or Hakomi Comprehensive Training Level 1. You’ll also need to take a two-day Hakomi workshop as an additional prerequisite for this course. Application deadline: September 23, 2022
If you’re a Hakomi graduate and will have completed ISITTA Foundations by the first day of class (or its predecessor Dharma of Trauma Level 1) you’re welcome to register. Registration deadline: September 23, 2022
For More Information
For more information, including accommodation for special needs and details about our grievance process, contact our administrator at
415-839-6788
or info@embodywise.com.
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