Practicum Nov 15th, 2026
Topic: TBA
Upcoming Practicums
1 practicumRecorded Practicums
45 recordingsEarly Development & Attachment
11 practicumsPrenatal and Perinatal Somatics III: From Imprint to Blueprint
Topic: PRENATAL and PERINATAL SOMATICS III - From Imprint to Blueprint. June 22nd, 2025
Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics II: Recovering Our Embryonic Potential
Topic: PRENATAL and PERINATAL SOMATICS II - Recovering Our Embryonic Potential. April 27th, 2025
Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Early Infancy
Early infancy and pre/perinatal imprints in touch-centered practice.
Implicit Developmental Relational Movements Part VI: Return to Wholeness
Later phases of implicit relational movements and integration toward wholeness.
Implicit Developmental Relational Movements Part V: The Emotionally Absent Mother
Working with the impact of emotional absence in early caregiving.
The Six Implicit Relational Movements – Part IV: What Follows the Oral Phase?
Transitioning beyond the oral phase using touch and relational cues.
The Six Implicit Relational Movements – Part III
Deepening understanding of implicit movements in mid-sequence.
The Six Implicit Relational Movements – Part II
Exploring earlier implicit relational movement patterns.
The Six Implicit Relational Movements: Emotional Meanings and Implications
Emotional meaning of each implicit movement pattern.
The Implicit Self
Touch-based access to implicit self-states in therapy.
Working with Neglect
Addressing early neglect through relational touch.
Developmental Movement & Embodiment
3 practicumsDevelopmental Movement, Part 3
Faculty: Samantha Persoff
Topic: Builds on the earlier Developmental Movement Awareness practicums by exploring how awareness of developmental movement patterns can support embodiment, somatic understanding, and clinical practice.
Movement, Pattern, and Possibility: Tracking the Unfolding Narrative of the Body (Part 2)
Faculty: Samantha Persoff
Topic: Part 2 - Movement, Pattern, and Possibility: Tracking the Unfolding Narrative of the Body with Samantha Persoff, Apr 19, 2026
Developmental Movement Awareness
Faculty: Samantha Persoff
Topic: Developmental Movement Awareness with Samantha Persoff, Dec 7, 2025
Emotions, Shame & Dissociation
9 practicumsEmotions – Somatically Engaging Negative and Positive Emotions
Somatic pathways to engage a full emotional range.
Eating Disorders: Caught in a Vicious Cycle
Faculty: Lauren Moses
EATING DISORDERS - Caught in a Vicious Cycle - March 17, 2024
Presenter - Lauren Moses
Shame – Part 2: The Inner Experience of Shame – From Shame to Self-Affirming Identity
Moving from shame states toward self-affirming identity.
Shame – Part 1
Foundations of working with shame in touch-informed therapy.
Touching Our Emotions – The Power of CT Afferents
Using CT touch to reach emotional circuitry safely.
Dissociation – Part 1
Dissociation - Part 1, Jan 22nd, 2023
The Disappointed Self
The Disappointed Self, Oct 2, 2022
Tools for Working with Fear
Tools for Working with Fear, March 2022
Breath and Emotions
Breath and Emotions, March, 2020
Body-Region & Structural Focus
8 practicumsThe Face
Working with facial structures and affective expression.
The Heart
Touch-based access to heart-centered affective states.
Heart, Arms, and Hands
Integrating upper limb and heart contact.
Shoulder Girdle
Supporting shoulder girdle organization and emotional load.
Thoracic Inlet II
Deepening thoracic inlet work.
The Ears
Engaging the ears as a portal to regulation and connection.
The Psoas
Touching core support and psoas-related patterns.
Thoracic Inlet I
Introducing work with the thoracic inlet.
Children, Teens & Families
2 practicumsHolding the Heartbroken: Supporting Children Living with Non-Biological Parents
Faculty: Sue Bell, OBE
Topic: Holding the Heartbroken: Supporting Children Living with Non-Biological Parents with Sue Bell, OBE Sept 7, 2025
NeuroAffective Touch for Children, Teens, and Their Families
Faculty: Sue Bell
Adapting NeuroAffective Touch for younger clients and family contexts.
Sexuality, Voice & Gendered Themes
3 practicumsThe Silencing Response: Reclaiming the Voice–Vagina Connection
Addressing voice and sexuality dynamics through touch and awareness.
The Throat Connection (Australia)
Throat-focused work for regulation and expression.
The Throat Connection
Exploring throat, voice, and connection.
Neuroplasticity, Interoception & Online Work
5 practicumsHolding the Brain (Australia)
Holding the Brain (Australia) Oct 8th, 2022
Holding the Brain
Holding the Brain, June 2022
Protocols for Engaging Neuroplasticity
Practical touch protocols to support neuroplastic change.
Developing Interoceptive Awareness
Supporting clients' internal sensing through touch.
Working with Self-Touch Online
Translating touch principles to online and self-touch formats.
Embodiment & Somatic Languaging
4 practicumsEmbodied Cognition: Liberating the Intelligent Body
Topic: Embodied Cognition: Liberating the Intelligent Body
Channels of Embodiment – Movement Toward a Unifying Wholeness
Faculty: Dr. Kristi Foster
A framework for channels of embodiment and integration.
The Language of Tenderness
The Language of Tenderness, August, 2020
Somatic Languaging
Developing somatic vocabulary and languaging in touch-informed work.