EMBODIED

PROCESSING

The Trauma-Informed Somatic Approach for Working with Chronic Stress & Nervous System Dysregulation

Embodied Processing is a Somatic & Psycho-Therapeutic approach to exploring the roots of trauma, anxiety, depression, overwhelm, addiction and other stress related issues, through a Poly-Vagal Nervous System lens.

Embodied processing is an evidence informed, integrative and holistic approach to embodied transformation, designed to work with the whole human from the bottom up, top down and inside out. We incorporate and draw inspiration from many cutting edge modalities and neurosciencists including Somatic Experiencing (SE), Polyvagal Theory (Stephen Porges), NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), NeuroAffective Touch (NATouch), Internal Family Systems (IFS), The Diamond Approach (Open Ended Inquiry), Compassionate Inquiry (CI) and more.

EP is a somatic & psycho-spiritual modality that is grounded in both the latest neuroscience as well as the ancient healing traditions. The process helps us to draw on the body’s innate intelligence to discharge stress, heal, and return to homeostasis. By guiding ourselves and our clients to meet ourselves at the roots, exactly as we are; transformation happens on its own.

Meet the Trainers

with a combined 40 years experience in the field & unrivalled passion for helping others return to their innate sense of wholeness

Ryan Hassan

EP L2 T / Hypno / RCT

Ryan is Co-Creator of Embodied Processing & Founder/CEO at The Centre for Healing.
A lived experience practitioner with nearly a decades experience of seeing clients one on one, Ryan has trained in various modalities around trauma and alternative healing.
Ryan has been a Trauma Therapist for many years and has successfully helped countless people get past their Addictions & Mental Health issues through his experience, understanding and knowledge. He created and managed an outpatient clinic in Melbourne for years, launching a holistic program to help clients achieve amazing results. With a team of practitioners and hundreds of programs delivered, Ryan attributes the success to the 'human approach' which see the uniqueness of the individual and not a label or diagnoses. The Centre for Healing is now an online education/practitioner training platform with over 60,000 students worldwide.

Matt Kay

EP L2 T / HC Dip / TRTP / AOD Cert 4

Matt is a Somatic Psychotherapist and Co-Creator of Embodied Processing. Utilising his lived experiential knowledge and expertise on trauma and developmental trauma. Matt has worked in private practice for the last 8 years as a therapist, he has worked in various drug and alcohol rehabs supporting others in their recovery. Matt is a certified Holistic Counsellor, Addiction specialist, a certified AOD (alcohol and other drug) worker, Hypnotherapist, as well as various other modalities.
Matt’s integrative approach brings together the wisdom from ancient spiritual traditions and teachings of the nature of consciousness, as well as the modern neuroscience around trauma and the nervous system. All Matt’s teaching is intuitive, open-ended and exploratory in nature, pointing students toward a space of presence where their own wisdom and innate intelligence can bring about integration, healing and insight.

Noel Haarburger

B.B.SC, B’Ed (counselling) / Adv Dip Gestalt Therapy / Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) / MAPS / ClinGANZ / Psychologist / Gestalt Therapist Trainer at GTA

Noel has been a faculty member at Gestalt Therapy Australia since 2001, and has worked in full time private practice as a Psychologist and Psychotherapist working with individuals and couples for over 20 years, as well as offering supervision to allied health professionals. He also practices and trains Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Nature Assisted eco-therapy at the equine psychotherapy institute in Daylesford.

Noel has worked extensively in a wide variety of counselling and psychological services since 1995, including the role of Senior Psychologist at Malmsbury Youth Justice Centre, family counselling, drug and alcohol, sexual assault, problematic gambling, men’s behavioural change programs and the mental health fields during his career.

Stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, overwhelm, people pleasing, dysfunctional relationship patterns, self sabotage, low self esteem, chronic pain…

All of this has roots that live as contracted stress in our body which dysregulates our nervous system, causing suffering and pain in our daily lives. Although talk therapy can be very beneficial when it comes to the wounds from unprocessed adverse experience it doesn't touch the stress that is stored in the body, just like talking about a broken leg will not help it find resolution.

When we are working primarily with the thinking mind by reframing, cognizing, pathologizing, diagnosing and looking for intellectual bandaids, when it comes to emotional wounding these practices can only assist as coping strategies and keeping the underlying pain out of consciousness, without bringing about any true or deep transformation.

Embodied Processing is a technique which is used to safely meet and digest the underlying wounds, which is what often hides behind and is the driving force of many of our surface symptoms.

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When working somatically it is essential that we develop enough capacity to meet unprocessed stress within the felt sense of our physical body.

As we begin to safely bring attention down into the body and meet the parts of ourselves which we have innocently repressed or suppressed, our window of tolerance grows and overtime we develop the ability to meet more dense and intense levels of sensation without falling into overwhelm. When we learn to meet ourselves with unconditional love and acceptance, our past begins to metabolise and we naturally begin to live a more present and embodied life.

This is a transformative training where all students are encouraged to work through their own childhood wounds, limitations, insecurities, triggers and stressors and embody the teachings and techniques in their daily lives.

Whether you are a psychologist, coach, counsellor, healer, yoga teacher, massage therapist or someone who is wishing to deepen your own healing journey, EP will give you the skills, insights and understanding to safely and effectively work with your own nervous system and that of your clients.

What will I gain?

Learn to work with nervous system stress from the ground up, working with the physiology of the body as well as psychological processes

Join a thriving Student Community of over 800 like-minded individuals to practice & connect with

Gain certification as an Embodied Processing Practitioner & start sharing your medicine with the world

What you will learn

MODULE 1

Welcome to EP

Topics covered in module:

- How to approach and engage in this training
- What’s expected
- Traps in the Healing world
- Setting the right context
- Disembodiment vs Embodiment
- How to approach the techniques you’ll learn
- Emergency measures
- Your WHY

MODULE 2

Trauma (Part 1)

Topics covered in module:

- What is Trauma?
- Developmental trauma
- Acute Trauma
- Preconscious/Precognitive Trauma
- Intergenerational Trauma
- Collective Trauma
- Resourcing

MODULE 3

Trauma (Part 2)

Topics covered in module:

- The nervous system and Polyvagal theory (neuroscience of trauma)
- Trauma & memory
- Identity and trauma
- Trauma and relationships
- Trauma and our worldview
- The importance of nervous system regulation
- Bottom up approach vs Top down approach
- Working with/meeting sensation

MODULE 4

Foundations as a Practitioner

Topics covered in module:

- Holding space as a practitioner
- Becoming attuned to our own nervous system states in session
- Attunement with client
- Mirroring/Relaying back
- Nervous System Regulation with client (co-regulation)
- Sharing your experience with a client...yes or no?
- Traps Practitioners can fall into
- Growing in capacity

MODULE 5

Emotions

Topics covered in module:

- What is an Emotion & why are they are so important
- Developing emotional awareness, from thinking to feeling
- How to work with shame
- Anger, primal rage, the belly and the jaw
- Working with Fear, contrasting fear and safety, terror of annihilation
- Emotional survival patterns
- Addiction or Suppression of emotions (positive or negative)
- Craving & Aversion
- The difference between emotions and states
- Sympathetic vs parasympathetic emotions
- Anchoring positive emotions into the body
- Emotionally Numb?

MODULE 6

Conscious, Unconscious & The Body

Topics covered in module:

- Conscious vs subconscious mind (first 7 years)
- The body is the unconscious mind
- Unconscious core beliefs
- The language of the unconscious mind
- Can we make true conscious change?
- Unconscious self sabotage
- Who programs us?
- Making the unconscious conscious
- Seeing through core beliefs instead of changing them
- Working with resistance

MODULE 7

Addictions

Topics covered in module:

- What actually is addiction?
- Trauma, addiction and Polyvagal theory
- Sympathetic vs parasympathetic drugs
- Are we all addicted?
- The Addiction Pyramid
- Drug & Alcohol addiction
- Behavioural addictions
- Food addiction
- Addiction as a gateway to healing
- Compulsion to escape
- Rules for working with addiction
- Importance of community and external support

MODULE 8

Trauma & Spirituality

Topics covered in module:

- Trauma and Spirituality
- Upward path/Downward path
- Healing trauma and spiritual growth
- Spiritual Bypassing
- Awareness : That which was never harmed, has never changed
- The 3 Dantians (brains) - Head, Heart, Gut
- Existential Trauma, Birth, Life and Death
- Past life trauma or subconscious metaphor?
- Presence
- Archetypes and symbols
- Identity

MODULE 9

The Process

Topics covered in module:

- EP Overview
- Initial Session/Consultation
- Determining what is to be Investigated
- Grounding in Resource
- Inviting in the Trigger
- Discerning the Emotion
- Finding Origins
- Processing Techniques
- Finding Resolution/Completion
- Finishing a Session
- Emergency Measures
- Demo Sessions