Learn how to Help Your Clients Get Unstuck, End Repeating Patterns and Have Embodied, Lasting Results.
Do you Want to be able to Access your Clients' Subconscious Drives, Create Breakthroughs and Gain Tools to Work in a Trauma-Aware Way?
That feels easeful and natural in its simplicity?
Let me help you tie together your current skills with nervous system physiology and a map of the Soul - so you can create holistic, grounded and trustworthy processes that work.
You're a practitioner who's passionate about your work ... but you're feeling under-equipped to deal with the nuances of the nervous system, and maybe worried about making things worse.
This can translate into:
🌟 Sessions that stop and start and feel uncertain and unclear for both you and your client,
🌟 Fear and anxiousness when a client starts looping on old habits or seems unable to move through that tricky emotion or heady state,
🌟 Frustration that your clients can't seem to break through. You've tried guiding them into mindfulness, giving space for emotional expression, mindset and making sense of their story, setting smaller goals... but they either stay resistant all through the session, or come back in the next time telling the same story and full of shame that things haven't shifted.
🌟 A quiet concern that your clients might get overloaded, or go somewhere neither of you have the capacity to hold. Meaning you are less enthusiastic and wholehearted in your promotions, you have less clients booking back in with you and less resources to make improvements,
🌟 Generally lower sense of satisfaction because you know how awesome your sessions can be and the kind of breakthroughs people can experience!
🌟 And maybe simply wondering if there's a way to make the process more integrated and nourishing!
Ultimately you want to offer processes that create change, resilience and groundedness in the world, without blowing peoples circuits or getting stalled in their resistance or habit-loops.
And you want to have a thriving, successful business that feels good to you!
The Intro to Somatic Soul workshop is for you if you:
🌿 Want clear guidelines to work with the nervous system safely and effectively,
🌿 Want to up-level your business and income by improving your skill base and embodiment in a values aligned way,
🌿 Have great skills already but lack the confidence to guide clients into the deeper nuances of the body and soul,
🌿 Have some understanding of the nervous system, but feel disjointed and unclear when it comes to doing anything with that inside sessions,
🌿 Love having community, connection, mentoring and fun to support your business,
🌿 And are passionate about self development and the magic of transformation (this is your calling, your path, your jam)
You don't have to fumble through because
There is a clear and systematic way:
🌿 To build your confidence to navigate complex situations,
🌿 Integrate, digest and incorporate the pieces of training already you've done into a clear framework,
🌿 Create more ease in accessing subconscious memory well,
🌿 Get clarity around your own triggers inside of sessions (so your clients don't need to deal with it),
🌿 Get better at dropping into your own body to find your embodied intuition and trust,
🌿 Have more community, connection, mentoring and fun in your business,
🌿 And build your work satisfaction and client retention -
so more clients benefit and you feel great about your contribution to your clients' wellbeing.
This is possible when we include the role of the nervous system in our work
Because it's often the body memories held there which stop your clients making those transformations.
It's also the nervous system that allows more resilience and integration.
Understanding the subconscious drives in your clients and the workings of trauma is likely a lot simpler than you think!
It gives you a map so your clients are more receptive and regulated on the level of their animal/ instinctual drives as they work with you. And creates a level of safety to change and grow that isn't achieved simply with cognitive work or emotional processing work.
Working with the nervous system means working with the way the brain has developed to help us survive and thrive.
This creates more embodied safety, grounded expression, healing and increased satisfaction (for each of you!).
Let me help you discover the missing piece that's preventing your clients from moving past their biggest mental and emotional blocks.
(Even if you're well established in your skill set in other ways)
If you're struggling to maintain your own composure and not knowing what to do when a client freezes, goes numb or reacts out of proportion to the present moment,
If you're worried that your sessions or processes might be making things worse for your clients rather than better,
And if you love your embodied therapeutic or coaching work, but feel like you're missing some key pieces to access and work with your clients subconscious drives,
It's probably not because you're unskilled, without empathy or care, or needing to do some big new 3 year training.
It's simply because a lot of what we've been taught about coaching and helping clients achieve transformation, totally neglects this role of the nervous system.
This is why I'd like to invite you to this Somatic Soul workshop where I'm going to teach you exactly how to be more trauma aware, so you can help your clients achieve more lasting and powerful transformations.
What You'll Discover in the Introduction to Somatic Soul training
How the brain lays down repetitive patterns, behaviours and feelings states that can be worked with via the map of the nervous system,
How to work with body memory so your client doesn't need to re-tell or re-traumatise in order to heal,
The keys you need to embody to help your very heady or resistant clients to drop into presence and listening to their body,
A tool kit to work with trauma within your scope of practice,
Why getting your client to think about it, plan, strategise or tell their story won't change their repetitive habits (even if they consciously want to),
How befriending the survival structures of the body and the ego can create a pathway to the soul,
You’ll discover the simple system for slowing down activation in your clients, so they can process and release their blockages, even if they are very heady or challenging.
Who is This Training For?
🌟 Counsellors, or therapists,
🌟 Embodiment, sexuality or spirituality coaches,
🌟 People wanting to work with the instinctual brain (in themselves or their clients) for greater health and thriving,
🌟 Facilitators running their own groups and programs and wanting to ensure they're well-informed and equipped.
A Boutique Training - Delivered straight to your inbox
You'll Receive:
A 3.5hrs of recorded workshop the nervous system and working in a trauma informed way with your clients and groups,
A comprehensive 10 page manual so you can follow along with the video trainings and refer back to diagrams and clear instructions when you're using the skills in your work,
The 5-Step Somatic Soul sequence to take the guess work out of how to hold a Somatically therapeutic session, without overwhelming or confusing your clients,
A Bonus video to teach you 2 nervous system informed methods to create more resilience and well-being for yourself and your clients,
What Other People Have Been Saying About The Somatic Soul Method and working with Amanda
Emma Shields, Meditation Teacher and Senior Project Manager
"I have much more awareness of my client's physical cues, and ways to help them move things through their body simply and effectively. In this training I learnt simple tools which were easily transferrable, in a practical and embodied way, plus felt supported as I integrated the learnings and tools. Dive in!"
Marissa - Bodywork and wellbeing expert
I finally have a tool that ushers release through the body's own intelligence
"Somatic therapies with Amanda is profound. After working with body-mind therapies for over 20 years, I finally feel like I have a tool that ushers release through the body's own intelligence in a gentle and very respectful way. I feel deeply cared for as the practitioner which provides my own health with such relief.
Having studied with Amanda online, I'm awed with how subtle, yet powerful online therapies can be, which is such an important medium for thriving human connection in these times. My own somatic awareness has also improved, leading to more fulfilling work and personal relating. I wholeheartedly recommend this course to all bodyworkers and anybody who desires to be deeply present and available to humanity.
This is an aspect of therapy that was missing from my coaching/counselling delivery
"What I loved about your workshop was how professionally it was delivered from beginning to end.
I loved the way you described how you would work with a client from the start of a session. Your delivery was really clear for me too and I learned heaps of great techniques and tools that I can use with my own clients. I feel this is an aspect of therapy that was missing from my coaching/counselling delivery. I can see how somatic tools help to empower a client to find awareness/acceptance of their felt-sense and internal world and in achieving this, to find a way of releasing the grips of trauma.
Thank you so much for a really enlightening day!!”.
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Dee Dee, Life Coach
You blew my mind with your generosity of sharing your knowledge and actual experience!
"Amanda you blew my mind with your generosity of sharing your knowledge and actual experience. I loved cementing and growing my love for the wisdom of the body. Finding new ways to listen, and understanding how to guide someone gently though trauma and unreleased emotion, so that the body can release naturally and we can begin to befriend the whole spectrum of feelings."
Jody Brown, Shiastu therapist and Somatic Guide
Who runs this program?
Amanda Patterson is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Attunement therapist, Expressive Arts and Attachment Therapist, Essence Coach and creator of the Somatic Soul Method, the Trauma Informed Practitioner and Mastering Trauma-Informed Leadership Certification.
"Over many years of training and working with people I've seen up close how unprocessed trauma (in its many forms) disconnects us from ourselves and from our natural state of wellbeing. I'm passionate about the process of re-knitting the Spirit into the flesh and into our human lives, helping other practitioners gain these amazing tools and bringing us back into connection (on all levels) to anchor more fully in the here and now.
The body is a place of such wisdom, depth, and intelligence. And understanding and using the physiology of the nervous system and attachment programming can make a huge difference in how well we live and heal... And how well we can serve our clients.
In this workshop, we take a peak into the method of Somatic Soul and apply it directly to your life.
I look forward to sharing what I know with you"
More Details of What's Included:
How to work with your clients instinctual and limbic brain to shift core patterns at the root,
How to create pleasure and safety as a felt sense, enabling clients to face their challenging emotions instead of avoiding them,
Why getting your client "into their body" can make things worse,
How to recognise fight/flight/freeze or fawn states and what to do about it,
Tools for settling your own nervous system in your own life or when hearing distressing content from a client.
How to increase mindfulness, self-awareness, presence and an improved quality of life in your clients and yourself.
To help you More Effectively Apply what you learn in this training, I'll also throw in these 3 Bonuses when you enrol
BONUS #1 The Nervous System Ladder
Your client is reactive and acting unconsciously, but you're not clear if you should try to relax them or get them to express what's going on. Maybe they are even "freezing" and you don't know what to do.
That's why I put together the Nervous System Ladder PDF, so you can recognise which nervous system state your client is in, and how to support them to stop looping old unhelpful patterns, resolve these patterns and have more capacity to connect, problem solve and feel hope and optimism again.
BONUS #2 Helping Heady Clients Into Their Body
One of the biggest barriers to successful Somatic Therapy is not knowing how to deal with a client who is stuck in their head.
This 5 Page Guide includes;
💡 What creates heady patterns in the first place,
💡 The 3 central patterns to look out for with interrupting or intrusive thoughts,
💡 The 3 core challenges of a heady client,
💡 The 8 keys to supporting your heady client do somatically therapeutic work with you,
💡 PLUS 👉🏼 my favourite tool for helping heady clients experience feelings, sensations and emotions in a manageable way.
Bonus #3 Resources and Recommended Reading List
There is so much information out there when you're first diving into this topic, it can be overwhelming!
That's why I'm sharing my 20 years of research and experience tasting and learning under the best teachers to give you the top teachers and authors in this field.
For those of you itching to go deeper before (and after) the training these are the texts I recommend to students learning the Somatic Soul Method.
Let me give you the tools to help you make more lasting and integrated changes within your clients and your own life!
Enrol in the Intro to Somatic Soul training now:
Where + When?
You'll receive the workshop to your inbox straight away
More Testimonials
Georgie - Psychologist
Deeply important information for clinicians, beautifully presented.
"I did the Somatic Therapy training last weekend and it was absolutely worthwhile. Amanda Patterson knows her stuff. Deeply important information for clinicians, beautifully presented. Highly highly recommend"
I've seen a deepening of how I work as well as my clients results
"Amanda's workshop was a beautiful and powerful (much like Amanda herself) learning experience...
Simple and powerful somatic experiencing tools were presented in a clear and grounded way. I've already started integrating what I've learned into how I work with clients and have seen a deepening of how I work as well as my clients results".
Jerika - Soul-led coach and Psychic
Professional, embodied, wise, loving and insightful
"I totally loved the course. Professional, embodied, wise, loving and insightful.
It was a real joy and inspiration to be in the training with you!
... and best of all, we have a zoom follow call still to come!
Thank you 🙏 ✨🙏 ”.
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Claudine - Transpersonal Counsellor and Womens Sexual Wellness Guide
Treysi Orion, Transpersonal Counsellor
I gained so many new skills and tools I could take away and apply to my own clients
"Amanda delivered theory and practical tools in such a succinct and easy to understand way that I felt I gained so many new skills and tools I could take away and apply to my own clients as a Transpersonal Counsellor.
For my own healing journey I gained new insights and understanding of patterns still present in my nervous system and body.
I would highly recommend this training for anyone curious about the nervous system and our ‘animal body’ and/or anyone who wants to deepen their skills as a therapist regardless of modality.
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I felt I needed to constantly push, wrangle and control my body and mind to work at a consistently high level of performance that matched the mold of what ‘high performance’ and ‘success’ looked like based on my social and cultural conditioning, rather than honoring and trusting my body’s unique natural rhythms to find my flow-state.
What is the Somatic Soul Method?- The Story
Nearly 12 years ago I undertook a life changing training in Somatic Experiencing. I had been a deeply spiritual, good hearted and not so grounded person in the world, and this training (as I got to know my animal body and nervous system responses intimately) felt like Knitting my soul into my body.
The more places I healed past traumas, and got comfy with the movements of my fight, flight, freeze and fawn, the more I felt present, here and now.
My spirituality became very much about being in and with this human body, its attachment system and needs, and the profound gift that it is to have a body and its wisdom as my guide.
Over the years as I added more tools to my tool belt - including going deeper into attachment therapy, trauma healing and sexuality, expressive arts, voice dialogue (similar to Internal Family Systems) and Essence coaching - people began coming to me, asking me to teach them what I was doing in my sessions.
This began the creation of the Somatic Soul method. A five step process that combines nervous system regulation practices, embodied goal setting, and the capacity to read the nervous system as a map to the subconscious - where we re-wire old strategies and create deep embodied safety and joy - in friendship and respect of the intelligent animal body.
I combined my learning in the therapeutic arts with my experiences sitting with non-dual teachers Ganagji and Jared Franks over many years so that this method address 3 levels of self: the mind and personality, the nervous system and subconscious bodily responses, and the Essential self.
At its core, this Method rests on the belief that all suffering arises from the perception that we are separate from our own love and Beingness.
And that that separation is both exquisitely painful, and a profound doorway home.
I hope you'll join me in this beautiful, profound journey
I used to work hard in a high-performance corporate role here in Australia. Through my sheer will and determination, I succeeded in many areas professionally. I was good at what I did. I was passionate and dedicated. But trying to fit myself into a corporate fast-paced world, without realising it at the time, eventually led to my losing my inner harmony.
The constant pressure, focus, and grit required to keep up in a corporate world, which for me entailed an environment crafted predominantly by men for men, meant that the one area that constantly let me down was my female body and my health.
I wanted to serve to my fullest potential and make this world a better place. But instead, I spent years suffering, and contorting to fit myself into an image of 'success'.
All the Details Summarised:
What you get:
THE PRACTICAL FEATURES:
✔️ 3.5hrs of recorded training on the nervous system and working in a trauma informed way with your clients and groups,
✔️ A comprehensive 10 page manual so you can follow along with the workshop and refer back to diagrams and clear instructions when you're using the skills in your work,
✔️ The 5-Step Somatic Soul sequence to take the guess work out of how to hold a Somatically therapeutic session, without overwhelming or confusing your clients,
✔️ VIDEO: The 2 nervous system informed methods to create more resilience and well-being for yourself and your clients.
PLUS THESE BONUSES:
🌿 Bonus #1
The Nervous System Ladder; so you know where and how to guide your clients to greater internal safety and wellbeing.
🌿 Bonus #2
Helping Heady Clients into their Body (5 page PDF guide).
🌿 Bonus #3
Resources and Recommended Reading List (drawing on 20years of research and study).
Frequently Asked Questions
Id love to do this but prefer live courses? Do you have any live trainings scheduled?
I don't have plans to run this live again this year, I recommend jumping in!
Is this training suitable if I've never done any somatic training?
As a practitioner training, there is a basic level of psyche/mind/body awareness assumed. If you are unsure if the content will be right for you, please email Amanda on amanda@wisdombody.com.au to check.
Is this training suitable if I've done lots of somatic trainings?
In short, yes. Some of the information on the physiology will be familiar (as that doesn't change), but Amanda's tool set is unique; combining Somatic Experiencing, Attachment trauma, parts dialogue, Essence coaching, energetic healing, bodywork and her extensive history in self-development.
Can I call myself "trauma informed" after this training?
This training help you to be "trauma aware". (The phases are; trauma aware > trauma informed > trauma specific treatment).
It will give you background and tools to be aware of how trauma is created and held in the body and nervous system, with foundational tools for assisting regulation in the nervous system and easier embodiment. It is not comprehensive enough to call yourself "trauma informed" unless you have also done previous trainings. If you are interested in something deeper, I would recommend my 4 month Soul Soul Method program (Certificate of Attendance) and/or the 12 month Certification (Certified in Somatic Therapy and recognised by IICT) in order to be fully trauma informed. Our next intake closes soon. You can email Amanda@wisdombody.com.au if you'd like to hear more.
Can I get a Certificate for this training?
No, we do not provide a certificate for this 1 day training. Please check the answer above about our longer trainings.
Can I attend if Im not working with clients?
Yes, this workshop will be helpful for anyone looking to slow themselves down and meet their desires and what stands in the way of what they love.
Can this help me as a yoga or dance teacher?
Yes absolutely! The information and maps given in this training will help you set the tone in your groups for more safety, to support your pariticpants to develop more presence and self awareness (leading to greater well-being) and help you to be more aware if a participant is triggered with ways to move them towards balance and presence.
Still have a question?
We'd love to hear from you!
Please email us at admin@wisdombody.com.au
