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Transformational Psychotherapeutics Trainings

 

"We are Shapeshifters and Storytellers:

The brave return to learning and re-imagining life."

 

Ready to deepen your therapeutic practice? 

These trainings are designed for practitioners who wish to deepen their understanding and skill in working with trauma and transformation through somatic, relational, and imaginal practices. Both process and systems-oriented in nature, our in-person trainings offer a space for unexpected growth, curious learning, and genuine encounter. Embark on this educational adventure and discover how to optimally be with your clients (and with yourself, others, and life, in general) while facilitating healing and illuminating portals into what is possible with a friendly, creative and experimental approach.

Module 1

40 Class Hours

Dates: November 20-23, 2026, in-person in Calgary, AB 

Preparation Zoom Calls: November 3 &10, 6:30-9PM MST

Investment: $1395 - $1695 sliding scale

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Module 2

40 Class Hours

Dates: October 22-25, 2027, in-person in Calgary, AB 

Preparation Zoom Calls: October 7 & 14, 6:30-9PM MST

Investment: $1395 - $1695 sliding scale

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Module 3

40 Class Hours

Dates: April 23-26, 2027
40 hours, in-person in Calgary

Preparation Zoom Calls: April 8 & 15, 6:30-9PM MST

Investment: $1395 - $1695 sliding scale

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Entrance into these modules requires the following prerequisites:

You are currently practicing and/or actively training in therapeutic modalities that involve supporting clients in navigating and resolving mental-emotional health stresses. Ideally, you have already cultivated some capacity to navigate this territory with others in conscious, compassionate, curious conversation and are open to others supporting you in similar ways.

It could be said that everyone is fundamentally a shapeshifter

We are quite literally built to learn from and adapt to our experiences and gradually evolve an ever more elegant and sophisticated capacity to interact with and navigate our environment and relationships.  Repetitive disruptions within our human development and acute experiences of trauma impair and interrupt these natural, fluid learning processes.  They convince us, even at the level of our cellular body, that we need to be a particular way – to take on particular shapes - to be safe enough, to be cared for, to be loved, or to belong.  We reactively hold to these particular ways of being and lose track of our innate capacity for change.  Why would we want to learn something new when our past learning experiences were painful? ​

For many people, the threshold marking the return to learning and changing appears when their resistance to change becomes more distressing or uncomfortable within a changing environment than the return to learning and changing.  Learning is a vibrant living process that eventually grows around and through the fragile rigidity of old, decaying, untenable forms.  Learning is life challenging, breaking through and growing beyond domestication and colonization.  Learning is a return to untamed potential.  Learning, truly curious, vulnerable, brave learning is the return of the wild.

Module 1 Overview:

In our first module, we lay the methodological foundation for the entire training series, inspired by the body-centered psychotherapeutic method of Hakomi and its elegantly principled approach to the therapeutic process — one that moves with the natural wisdom of the body and the client rather than against it. We will explore what it means to adopt a genuinely curious, experimental mindset with your clientele: to re-engage the creative and transformative learning that trauma and conditioning have stilled. Students will develop skill in tracking, contact, pacing, and the sensitive use of imaginal, somatic, and relational experiments to constructively explore thought and belief, affect, behaviour, gesture, posture, sensation, relational interaction, and boundaries — learning to work with each as a potential doorway into resolution and what is possible. We will also explore numerous methods for supporting the effective integration of the transformation that occurs within our client sessions.

Module 2 Overview:

In the second module, we take a deeper look at one of the main impairments to learning: trauma. Trauma is a huge catchword in recent years, and its rippling and pervasive personal, familial, and broader systemic effects are being increasingly recognized and studied. Everyone has been impacted by some degree and type of trauma. For some, it can be utterly devastating. We will turn toward a mindful style of facilitation, inspired by the practice of Somatic Experiencing, that strategically utilizes both a somatic and imaginal, relational therapeutic approach to safely renegotiate our clients' painful past learning experiences and bravely imagine and embody new possibilities. We will continue cultivating the capacity to support our clients in reimagining the stories of their lives as they learn and heal.

*Module 1 required as a prerequisite, or equivalent (please contact us to assess equivalency).

Module 3 Overview:

In this third module, we enter the terrain of inner multiplicity — not as a diagnostic framework but as a living relational ecology available for genuine encounter and transformation. Drawing from the wisdom and efficacy of Internal Family Systems (IFS) while expanding meaningfully beyond it, we introduce three interwoven approaches: the construction and use of therapeutic altars, where images and objects serve as physical placeholders for parts and the people who passed burdens forward; movement and partnered expression practices that allow different part-types to be embodied rather than only narrated; and a unique alternative to the IFS approach for systematically and creatively returning burdens. You will learn, from inside out, what it is to courageously, patiently, and lovingly re-pair connections with your many parts, provide them with long needed attention and nourishment, and compassionately hand back the burdens handed down through the family line and the larger systems our families have been embedded within.

*Module 1 required as a prerequisite, or equivalent (please contact us to assess equivalency).

 

Within this set of trainings, you will:

 
• learn an elegant therapeutic process model to expand your effectiveness and scope of practice
• learn how to incorporate an increasing variety of somatic psychotherapeutic theories, principles, and practices into your facilitation
• study more about the nervous system’s role in shock trauma and more complex versions of PTSD
• increase your capacity to recognize the signs and symptoms of trauma, improving the trauma sensitivity of your facilitation
• develop the capacity to recognize the signs and symptoms of defensive mobilization and immobilization responses
• deepen your ability to track a client’s nervous system and respond accordingly to support them in staying within their “window of tolerance”
• learn the difference between emergency methods to stabilize someone experiencing a trauma response versus supporting the processing of trauma while a client is within their “window of tolerance”
• expand your understanding of resourcing and the tools and techniques that can be shared with clients to support their self-regulation
• continue fostering respectful, learning-based therapeutic relationships with clientele as you enhance your capacity to listen, communicate, and experiment effectively for therapeutic purposes
• enhance your capacity to mindfully navigate your clients’ processing of trauma via sensitive, experimental conversation integrated with your existing practices
• cultivate the therapeutic usage of mindfulness and a wide variety of other tools and practices such as:
- contact statements and acknowledgements
- affirmations, inquiries, and probes
- simple movement practices, positional changes, and takeovers
- alternative breathing practices and vocal toning
- proximity and boundaries explorations
• learn methods to safely, gently, and slowly bring awareness to attachment disruptions, embodied trauma, and shame and support its renegotiation
• explore the nuances of transformation and develop more ways to support the integration of new possibilities, insights, somatic shifts, and behaviours
• cultivate the capacity to be directive without compromising sensitive listening or the spirit of experimentation
• learn a body-based and imaginal approach to working with inner multiplicity, informed by IFS and extending meaningfully beyond it into somatic, ceremonial, expressive, and relational practice
• develop the capacity to construct and utilize therapeutic altars as living relational maps that can catalyze insight and healing
• learn to work with images, objects, and ceremony as effective, creative therapeutic tools
• develop sensitivity to the distinct somatic signatures of different part-types — the bracing vigilance of managers, the reactive urgency of firefighters, the collapsed or contracted presence of exiles — and learn to track how these signatures shift through the therapeutic process
• learn movement and partnered expression practices that allow clients to locate space for, understand, embody and metabolize the energy of different part-types, giving physical form to what often is relegated to narration
• understand the specific logic of an elegant yet often unexpected unburdening sequence and learn how to safely and creatively support clients in employing it effectively
• cultivate the capacity to hold imaginal space: neither literalizing the inner figures nor dismissing them, but accompanying clients into genuine encounter with the living presences within
• personally receive these practices so that you can then utilize them from a place of experience with clients

Storytelling of old wasn’t only for amusement or passing time…

 
it was a living communication that embodied the wisdom and mystery of the ages.  The songs and myths echoing on from human to human carried the aches and pains, sorrows and heartbreaks, courage and curiosity, and pleasures and deep loves of this blood and bone human-spirited experience.   Many of us have disconnected from being cocreators within these living stories but nonetheless, we are still storytellers.  We tell ourselves stories every day.  We live and die by these stories.  The question is what stories are we telling ourselves, what consequences do they have on our lives, and how can we creatively re-imagine them when appropriate?

It takes a combination of cultivated safety and bravery to regenerate our capacity for shape-shifting and co-creative storytelling.

 
After we have expanded our capacities to tend to our client's needs and foster a deepening of safety within our therapeutic practice we can then learn how to be more evocative for particular types of experiences when it may serve the client's needs. By doing so with an experimental mindset, our investigations with clients can sensitively and safely be accelerated. 
 
 

Cancellation Policy


We understand that life can change unexpectedly, and we are committed to supporting you with flexibility and care throughout your journey. If you need to cancel your registration, cancellations made 15 to 30 days prior to the event start date will receive a 50% refund. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer refunds for cancellations made less than 14 days before the event, as arrangements have already been made to reserve your space.