Releasing the Body's Hold of Trauma and Chronic Stress - Kate Williams

In this workshop you’ll learn the key structures involved in trauma patterns within the body and why we can end up feelings so stuck in life and unable to change certain thinking and behavioural patterns.

Tension patterns start in the nervous system but certainly don’t end there. Repeated stress & trauma will cause muscles to tense and shorten over long periods of time, or weaken and become flaccid. This will then develop a particular posture & behavioural pattern that will include beliefs about self and the world…eventually concluding with a fixed identify, for example, “I’m such a negative person” “I’ve always been anxious”

The structures we’ll be taking a deep dive into are:

• the facia
• the diaphragm
• the psoas muscle

These structures hold tension patterns of trauma & chronic stress and can perpetuate poor posture, stress, anxiety, depression, poor sleep, digestion, fertility and weight.

The great news is that tension can be release from these structures and strength can be increased. Getting to know these parts of the body more and learning how to befriend and work them will:

• help you back into the flow of life
• unblock unhelpful patterns
• step into new behaviours and beliefs
• feel freer within your body
• feel more connected to self and others
  

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• Learn how fascia is essential to health and wellbeing – it’s role, function and how tension patterns are created
• Learn how tension builds within the diaphragm and how this keeps us stuck, and can lead to poor mental & physical health
• Learn how the psoas muscle perpetuates stress

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• Everyone who is invested in their mental and physical health and that of others. Practitioners will develop another dimension to their work

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• Learning how the body perpetuates stress and trauma responses will support your clients to develop body awareness

This workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.

https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/ethics-and-standards/ethical-framework-for-the-counselling-professions/

Kate Williams has been in therapeutic practice since 2009 with a background in counselling in further education. She currently runs a busy private practice, works with NHS clients and enjoys running workshops for onlinevents and staff wellbeing workshops for NHS Hull & Humberside and other organisations.

Kate is centre manager for the Bedfordshire Centre for Therapeutic Studies where she teaches on the CPCAB L5 in Somatic Trauma Therapy course & L2 Award in Breathwork Coaching as well as the Level 4 in Therapeutic Counselling.

Kate has a passion for bringing the body into her practice supporting clients to release the trauma that is held within their bodies. Kate is know for her relaxed teaching style, experiential somatic practices and skill of bringing theory to life and making it applicable.

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Event Venue

Online