All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with debilitating shame, sexual/gender identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.
This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material not covered in the SE training.
PROFESSIONAL CONTENT:
Day 1:
How to work with those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies
Learn multiple exercises to deepen and expand embodiment and pleasure in comfortable, titrated ways
Day 2:
Learn new ways of strengthening boundaries and establishing genuine “embodied consent”
Learn skills specific to working with male survivors
Day 3:
Learn how to support couples when one is sexually avoidant, or when there are sexual incompatibilities
Tools for healing shame
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN PERSONALLY:
Become friends with your body, and inhabit it with comfort and ease, all parts of it…
Develop more awareness, find new levels of pleasure. Even enjoy sex more!
Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.
WHO WILL BENEFIT
This is an advanced program for experienced Therapists, psychologists, social workers, MFTs, coaches, and any professional practitioner who wants to become more adept at treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues.
Workshop Schedule:
Friday February 11, 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST includes two 15 minute breaks
Saturday February 12, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm PST includes two 15 minute beaks plus 30 min. for lunch
Sunday February 13, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm PST includes two 15 breaks plus 30 min for lunch
Cost to attend: $350
No refunds after February 7, 2022
CEUs are available for this program through R Cassidy..
https://www.academeca.com/CEUReg/SeminarInfo.aspx?seminarId=4307
Evaluations and Certificates are available by email and online following course completion at
https://www.academeca.com/CEUReg/Admin/PrintableEval.aspx?seminarId=4307
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program
Payments can be made through Venmo, Zelle, or Paypal (between friends) via arielgcal@gmail.com
Zelle—the account is under ariel@fullembodiment.org
Feel free to contact me with any questions at ariel@fullembodiment.org
About presenter:
Ariel Giarretto, MS, LMFT, SEP has been a body-oriented trauma therapist for many decades. On staff at the Esalen Institute throughout the 90's, she studied with some of the finest somatic teachers and sexuality /Tantra experts. Trained in a wide variety of somatic therapies, she is primarily informed by Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing (SE), the beautiful, heart-centered work that treats the physiological effects of the trauma, as well as connects people to their deepest, core self. For 19 years she had been full-time SE teaching faculty, training and mentoring professionals all over the globe. She is trained as a bodyworker, and is a certified Somatic Sex Educator and Sexological Bodyworker. She has extensive training in pre and perinatal psychology, and attachment and developmental trauma, and volunteered for many years as a doula.
What participants say about the workshop:
“Ariel’s course for SEPs offers brilliant interventions for supporting survivors of sexual assault. The space she creates is safe, welcoming, choiceful, permissive, and gently playful. The experiential components provide powerful tools for recognizing when and how practitioner's own moralizing beliefs and sexual stories diminish our capacities to hold open, accepting space for our clients. She teaches concrete, non-invasive tools for exploration with survivor clients; these tools sustainably cultivate safe, affirming and yet sensuous, intimate connection with self. I appreciate that I was immediately able to integrate these tools into my practice with real ease, which I attribute to Ariel’s skillful translation of her material. And I'm amazed by the ripple effects of this weekend experience: for me the theme of this workshop was radically compassionate self-acceptance of one's sexuality.” K. F. SEP, Somatic Therapist & Anthropologist
“Thank you so much for offering this workshop. This is my second workshop in three years with Ariel. I notice after each weekend that I am more comfortable being in my own body, and way more comfortable talking to clients about their sexual experience, desire, inhibition and embodiment. Sexual Trauma Healing provided me with information, insight and exercises that immediately helped me to work with some of my most challenging clients with more ease and confidence, especially in gently challenging rather than colluding with their discomfort and shame. Sandy, SEP/MFT Associate