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In the midst of global pandemics, uprisings for racial justice, political backlash and climate change, it is vital to understand the connections between personal and systemic transformation. How do we align our actions with our visions and values? How do we build relationships of equity and interdependence, when we are deeply shaped by injustice and separation? Somatics, with a social analysis, can help us live into these questions.
Somatics understands that safety, belonging and dignity are core needs for all people. Yet, our society and economy don’t meet these needs equitably. Often our lived experiences leave us with trauma, and embodying our social conditions, even when we don’t agree with them. These “power-over” systems are the root cause of many traumas, both individual and collective.
Embodied transformation and purposeful practice can help heal the impacts of violence and numbing, work with the deep shaping of both oppression and privilege, and deepen our capacities for empathy and bold action. While somatics in the West has most often been used for individual healing alone, it has much more to offer. With an understanding of systemic inequity, and a commitment to systemic change, somatics can powerfully contribute to personal and collective transformation.
Personal and systemic transformation are interdependent yet distinct processes. Each, at its best, can empower the other. Healing from trauma and oppression can powerfully serve movements for social justice. Organizing and building collective power can be deeply healing. Through somatic practice, emergent frameworks and embodied processes, we’ll explore these vital connections, as well as some of the costs when we don’t.
Faculty
Staci K. Haines and Erika Lyla
Schedule
Registration Deadlines
Dec 23, 2022: Early enrollment ends
Jan 13, 2023: Final registration date
Session Dates & Times
January 20-22, 2023
All times are Pacific
Fri, Jan 20 1:00-5:00
Sat, Jan 21 10:00-5:00
Sun, Jan 22 9:30-1:30
Location
Oakstop – Gaines Gallery
1740 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, CA 94612
CEs: 12.5
What You Will Learn
In this workshop, you will:
- Learn a holistic framework for embodied trauma healing that integrates an understanding of how we are shaped by our social conditions
- Discover the automatic reactions we take on to take care of safety, belonging and dignity, and how they become embodied
- Discover how to access our longings and what we care most about, and how to center these in healing
- Learn why somatic awareness, somatic opening and somatic practices are all core to healing individual and collective traumas
- Discover the connection between personal and social transformation and how each can serve the other
Class Schedule
Below is the schedule for the weekend.
(All times are Pacific.)
Friday, January 20
1:00-2:30 Learning activities
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-3:45 Learning activities
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Learning activities
Saturday, January 21
10:00-11:30 Learning activities
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-1:00 Learning activities
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Learning activities
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:00 Learning activities
Sunday, January 22
9:30-11:00 Learning activities
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:15 Learning activities
12:15-12:30 Break
12:30-1:30 Learning activities
For Whom
This workshop is open and relevant to both clinicians and the general public.
Prerequisites
None
About the Faculty
This workshop will be taught by Staci K. Haines and Erika Lyla.
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.
Erika Lyla
Somatic Coach and Bodyworker
Erika Lyla
Somatic Coach
Bodyworker
Erika Lyla is a somatic coach and bodyworker with a practice in Oakland, CA (unceded Ohlone territory), and also teaches with generative somatics and Strozzi Institute. Erika works with people to reveal their power, potential, and purpose. She guides with love and laughter towards life grounded in authenticity and shaped by dream. She has been training groups and individuals in social and emotional development as well as creating and launching social emotional programs for over 15 years. Erika holds a Master’s Degree in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley and specializes in working with people facing psychiatric crises, survivors of sexual violence, and individuals healing from complex trauma. She has also worked with school age children as an afterschool teacher and program director. She continues to offer healing for individuals and communities as we collectively move towards liberation. In her free time, Erika loves family time, camping, snowboarding, hiking, paddle boarding, and delicious food.
Tuition
Early Registration: $525 if enrolled by December 23, 2022
Regular Tuition: $625 if enrolled by January 13, 2023 (final registration date)
Discounts for ISITTA Students:
If you’re enrolled in ISITTA Level 1, 2 or 3, you’re entitled to a 20% discount off the regular tuition price.
— On or before December 23, please enter discount code IWE20.
— After December 23, please enter IWR20.
If you’re enrolled in all three ISITTA trainings (1, 2 and 3), you’re entitled to a 35% discount off the regular tuition price.
— On or before December 23, please enter discount code IWE35.
— After December 23, please enter IWR35.
VISA, MasterCard, Discover and American Express accepted.
Cancellation Policy
Cancellations received by email or phone by January 6 will receive a full refund minus a $30 administrative fee. No refunds will be granted for non-attendance or cancellations received after the cancellation deadline.
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 12.5 hours of continuing education credit 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 by February 20. 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 this course, you must attend the entire weekend, sign in and out each day, and submit a signed class evaluation form.
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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