Module 1, Calgary AB: Transformational Psychotherapeutics Practitioner Training
CALGARY, AB
November 20-23, 2026
Preparation Zoom Calls: November 3 &10, 6:30-9PM MST
Training Schedule: 9am to 6pm, daily (unless otherwise stated in training logistics emails)
This training is designed for practitioners who wish to deepen their understanding and skill in working with efficient and effective somatic practices. Located in the heart of Calgary, our in-person sessions offer a space for growth, learning, and connection. Embark on this educational adventure and discover how to facilitate healing with a creative and experimental approach.
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.
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
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.
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.
