Oslo, Norway 2023 Touch Immersion

Foundation Training

August 25-29, 2023

In-Person Five-Day Touch Immersion*

[This training is BOTH Module 4 of the online/hybrid USA/Europe Foundation Training

and it is OPEN TO ALL GRADUATES who wish to review and deepen their skills]

with Dr. Aline LaPierre

“Our bodies tell the story of our struggles to love and be loved.”

 

In this five-day in-person Touch Immersion, we explore the hands-on NeuroAffective Touch protocols that connect us with the relational matrix, repair ruptures in the developmental progression, and bring us in alignment with our human blueprint.

In Modules 1, 2, and 3, we saw how body and mind weave together somatic, emotional, and cognitive experiences that bind a person’s identity to the somatic adaptive patterns that are the outcome of their family history. We now:

• • Fine-tune treatment intentions to repair the somatic matrix that underlies identity
  • Engage the positive shifts that signal post-traumatic growth
  • Move through the developmental sequence from attachment to separation to individuation

With the completion of this Touch Immersion Module 4, students who have taken the first three online modules earn their Foundation Training Certificate of Completion.

This five-day Touch Immersion is also open to all Foundation Training graduates who wish to update, deepen, or refresh their touch skills and personal body-mind relationship.

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*Prerequisite: Foundation Training Modules 1, 2, 3. 

 

A Personal Psychobiological Journey   This experiential touch intensive takes you on a personal psychobiological exploration that deepens your embodied presence—an excellent opportunity to discover your own body in new ways. Your capacity for connection and attunement depends on your ability to become a neuroaffective regulating resource. This in-person touch immersion will help you develop your interoceptive body-mind communication skills to entrain clients toward safety and connection. The immersion combines vital hands-on touch protocols, self-directed touch explorations, and somatic contemplations to… Enhance anatomical and biological attunement to the implicit self Increase your connection to the healing power of life’s pulsations, breath, and energy flow Develop somatic resonance by exploring intersubjective space—enhancing how as a therapist, you experience your client’s psychosomatic states and share the experience with them—an essential interpersonal skill when working with attachment deficits and developmental issues Orient developmental processes to the midline regulatory axis, and touch into the polyvagal energy centers that shape your patterns of connection, protection, and safety

 

 Touch Immersion Overview

Day 1

The three touch systems and how to work with them

• • Palpation skills to sense changes in tissue and skin density
  • Exteroceptive skin awareness and the development of the self 
  • Proprioceptive keys to energy organization
  • Interoception, neuroception, and emotional expression and containment

Sympathetic regulation

• • A nurturing touch focus that supports the neurological, emotional, and relational capacities to trust, yield and receive
  • Awakening the spine and individuating the vertebrae
  • Supporting the sacrum, back, neck, brainstem, and brain

 

Day 2

Touching the emotional body—the heart and breath

• • How relational shocks to the heart impact attachment and the capacity for relationship
  • The heart and mediastinum emotional centers
  • The touchpoints for the heart and lungs
  • Heart-mind collaborative language to reduce self-judgment and shame

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Thoracic inlet, arms, hands

• • Open the diaphragmatic gates at the thoracic inlet and cranial base 
  • How the mind overrides the body’s wisdom—neuroaffective signaling as it shifts from dysregulated contraction to regulated pulsation

 

Day 3

The digestive and enteric nervous systems 

• • Naval radiation
  • Oral pulling, peristaltic pulse, anal release
  • How stressors and aggressions reverberate in the soft tissues of the digestive system 

 

Day 4

Pelvis and sacrum

• • Supporting the pelvis
  • Connecting brainstem, cranial base, and sacrum

Hips, legs, feet, toes

• • Empowering the hips and legs 
  • Reflexology and Calatonia
  • Grounding points

 

Day 5

The social engagement system 

• • The neuropsychological convergence of the eyes, ears, jaw, cranial base, and throat to reset the vigilance system
  • The brain’s predictive mechanism and time-line awareness
  • Help the eyes stop looking for threat
  • Help the ears stop listening for danger 
  • Help the vocal cords express the truth of the heart

 

What students are saying…

“I learned how to facilitate healing rather than demand I be the healer. That allows my work to be sustainable and regenerative. This is such a gift to my patients because I get to model something entirely different than our medical system and our healing systems offer.”

 

“Professionally being able to understand more of the nuances around early developmental trauma and where and how the bracing and tensions present in the tissues, I made so many more connections with the work I do. So a lot personally and professionally.” 

 

“Gratitude. Sometimes I rush through things, and this training really made me realize, I can slow down and my body needs time. It needs a lot of time. The space feels so inclusive and there’s a lot of kindness which really touched my heart. I had some pretty incredible personal sessions too, where I felt like I was born into the world and received.” 

 

“To be at a training where I feel comfortable working with everyone is rare. I’ve never had that experience. It’s really, really sweet. My biggest aha moment was the realization that my body and mind sometimes have very, very different agendas. The gift of loving presence allows my body to speak and gives it space to heal.” 

 

“Like everyone else, there have been so many aha moments! This work is so different than any other work. It’s really precious that I found this at the beginning of my journey going into touch work.”

 

Training Schedule

Aug 25th—29th, 2023 (CEST)
Aug 25th, Friday                09.15 AM—17.15 PM
Aug 26th, Saturday            09.15 AM—17.15 PM
Aug 27th, Sunday              09.15 AM—17.15 PM
Aug 28th, Monday             09.15 AM—17.15 PM
Aug 29th, Tuesday            09.15 AM—16.15 PM (75min lunch)