Aim:

In our realities of systemic oppression and marginalization, people need to re-awakening their awareness of being oppressed and is ready to respond to the social justice issues, through felt sensing the oppression and experiencing its connection to the whole.  This training aims at somatic focusing on the collective liberation, unpacking oppressive social norms and systems, restoring inner strength through coherence building as a resource for collective trauma. 

 

Objectives: 

1. Learning how the socio-cultural & structural institutions shaped our social norms and dominant behaviors that have power over the oppressed; this understanding can radically empower our approaches to healing, resilience building and to social change.

2. Understand feeling safe is an embodied experience from the polyvagal perspective which provides a neurophysiologically-based to create strategies for the oppressed.  This understanding helps to explain the significance of providing trauma-informed care practice.

3. Using Neuro-Somatic Wholebody Focusing Oriented process and skills to create a safe, empowering and healing environment for client to address the systemic oppression and collective liberation through the embodiment of self-sensing and resilience building.

 

Content Outline:

1. Understand the individual experiences are shaped by collective experiences, and there are intersections between personal and systemic/collective trauma. 

2. Using felt sense to bring the somatic awareness & opening to understand the socio-cultural, economic & political world and to identify the mechanism of personal and social domination.

3. From the polyvagal perspective, that the person’s stress/trauma response is adaptive. Explore the strength-based approach of resilience and its application to trauma prevention, healing and post-traumatic growth at the individual, collective and structural levels causing by inequity or systemic oppression.

4. Making connection inside of a conscious relational field through experiencing the process of Wholebody Focusing Heartfelt Conversation, Somatic Felt Sense Movement for liberation and for social change.  Other reference from Non-Violence Communication and Narrative Practice will also be included.

5. Understand the Trauma Informed Care practice is to promote safety, belonging and dignity.

 

Course Structure & Requirement:

• 3.5 lecture & practice days

• Participants shall practice a month of WBF in pairs, once a week for half an hour each as Focuser and Listener (in pair practice, online or in person). 

• Assessment 

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Suitable Participants:

• This training is also suitable for participants doing group/project work besides clinical work.

• Art work, somatic movement or theatre-based activities will also be used as a means for the neuro-experiential felt sensing process.

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Requirement for Proficiency in Focusing Partnership (PFP) Award:

To be awarded as PFP from International Focusing Institute, participants must have to complete Module I, Module II & III as well as the practicum requirement on Wholebody Focusing (WBF) pair up practice.  Recommendation for PFP is based on skills assessment by the Trainer.

Please click this link for details of Module I.

Please click this link for details of Module II.

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About The international Focusing Institute

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導師︰

Dr. Paulina C.Y. Kwok 郭志英博士, RSW

Certified Wholebody Focusing Oriented Therapy Trainer & Therapist (TIFI)
Certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP®, Trauma Institute) 
Certified Ego-State Therapist (ESTI)
Certified Integral Somatic Psychology Practitioner (ISP)
Supervisor Candidate, Fellow (AAMFT)
Fellow,  Approved Counselling Supervisor, Certified Counsellor (HKPCA)
Certified  Clinical Supervisor & Family Therapist (HKMFTA)
Fellow, Consultant Supervisor & Certified Social Work Specialist (HKSWA)
Crisis Intervention Practitiener (Individual, Group, Strategic planning, (ICISF)
Certified Transformation/Performance Coach (PCTC, ICF)

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Comment of Participants:​

• 課程提升了對别人的盛載力，在工作上能有另一角度理解服務使用者。

• 課程為我帶來自我療癒和對己對人有更多覺察。

• 整個學習過程中，學習到如何聆聽身體信息，接納自己，達到與身體整合；同時，用在案主身上時除了更快了解案主的狀態，還可幫助案主更整合自身經驗，經歷治癒。

• 課後的練習，彼此探索及分享的主題，變得更深入，互相支持度很高。

• 我是很着重體驗學習的人，課程令我明白wholebody focusing的原理和威力，令我更有動力於課堂以外與其他學員練習及多用於日常輔導工作中。

• 課程助我放慢下來，減低了我在面對案主時的緊張。另外，多次的練習成為我面對壓力的及時幫助。已約定學員以後都保持這種練習，互相支援守望相助。

• 整體來說，我現在可以信任和等待身體的帶領，去處理自己和個案一些在認知上似乎束手無策的情況。

• 完成三個單元後，感到喜出望外，因課程能助己助人，在輔導案主時更顯著有用。

• 喜歡單元三的設計和活動練習，用全身生命自覺結合表達藝術、動態舞動身體等均是很好的體驗，喚起埋藏已久的身體記憶、和思想更明辨，感到釋放與自由。

• 學習能幫助案主的內在智慧出來安慰、鼓勵和指示，不用花很多時間就得到療效。