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ISITTA Training Level 2 (2023)
Moving Beyond Trauma
(This training was previously called Dharma of Trauma Level 3.)
ISITTA Level 2 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
Guest Instructor: Mahshid Hager
Practice Group Teacher: Ashley Ross
Working with extreme trauma can be triggering and dysregulating for practitioners. Learning how to read clients’ nonverbal communication accurately without becoming triggered is an essential skill that takes training and support to develop. In this module, you’ll learn how to meet your clients’ intense nonverbal expressions with a calm, grounded sense of respect and compassion. You’ll also learn trauma-sensitive techniques for resourcing and regulating neurodiverse clients and safely moving them towards the trauma memory processing stages of therapy. In the session led by guest instructor Mahshid Hager, we’ll explore the impact of war and the therapeutic nuances of working with war victims.
Faculty: Manuela Mischke-Reeds
Guest Instructor: Maci Daye
Practice Group Teacher: Ashley Ross
This module focuses on developing interpersonal skills using expressive and relational movement techniques that can be used with complex and developmental trauma. You’ll learn how to use relational movement for dyadic and group regulation. In the session led by Maci Daye, we’ll learn about trauma and sexuality.
Faculty: Manuela Mischke-Reeds
Guest Instructor: Arielle Schwartz
Practice Group Teacher: Ashley Ross
In this module you’ll learn about the stages of posttraumatic growth and how to facilitate a growth therapeutic mindset. We’ll work with expressive and creative movement techniques to process trauma stories and embody a new personal narrative. In the session led by Arielle Schwartz, we’ll learn practical resources for developing resilience and compassionate strategies for working with complex trauma.
2023 Schedule
Registration Deadlines
Early enrollment extended through December 9, 2022
Jan 2, 2023: Final registration deadline
Online Training / Practice Group Dates
Module 1: Jan 6-8 / Jan 18
Module 2: Feb 3-5 / Feb 15
Module 3: Mar 3-5 / Mar 15
(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 Level 1 (or its predecessor Dharma of Trauma Level 2)
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.
Mahshid Fashandi Hager, LMFT
Psychotherapist
Somatic Experiencing Faculty
Mahshid Fashandi Hager is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Originally from Tehran, Iran, Mahshid moved to Germany with her family after the Iranian revolution. After high school, she immigrated to the Kumeyaay territory, known as San Diego, California, where she now lives with her husband and two sons. Her professional life includes providing therapeutic services to clients from all walks of life in her private practice, volunteering for non-profit organizations in San Diego that offer resources to new incoming refugees, and attending Somatic Experiencing training modules in various capacities and supporting SE students. Mahshid is currently on the faculty track at Somatic Experiencing International and aspires to teach this modality to a broad range of helping professionals. In her free time, Mahshid enjoys traveling, hiking and writing.
Maci Daye, LPC, CHT
Psychotherapist
Founder of Passion and Presence
Maci Daye is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, and Certified Therapist and Trainer of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy. Since 2010, she has led her popular retreat series Passion and Presence® in the USA, Europe and Australia. Shambhala Publications released her book, Passion and Presence: A Couple’s Guide to Awakened Intimacy and Mindful Sex in 2020. Maci has a doctorate in human sexuality from the Parkmore Institute, a master’s degree in human development from Harvard University, and an educational specialist degree in counseling from Georgia State University. She also completed the Level 2 Somatic Experiencing trauma training. Originally from the United States, she currently resides in Mallorca, Spain.
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.
Tuition
Early Enrollment: $1,700 if enrolled by December 9, 2022
Regular Tuition: $1,850 if enrolled by January 2, 2023 (final registration deadline)
Repeating Participants: If you’ve taken this training before (or its predecessor Dharma of Trauma Level 3), you can repeat for $925 (a 50% discount). On or before December 9, please enter discount code IL2EREPEAT; after December 9, please enter IL2RREPEAT.
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 register early as space is limited. Here’s a reminder of the prerequisites.
- ISITTA Level 1 (or its predecessor Dharma of Trauma Level 2)
Registration deadline: January 2, 2023
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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