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This training is hosted by The Knowledge Tree and must be accessed on their website. Each part is $109. Please click here to purchase:
Part 1: https://www.theknowledgetree.org/p/neurodivergent-somatics-part-1-online
Part 2: https://www.theknowledgetree.org/p/neurodivergent-somatics-part-2-online
Part 3: https://www.theknowledgetree.org/p/neurodivergent-somatics-part-3-online
.The field of psychology has historically pathologized Neurodivergent (ND) people and failed to see their innate health and wisdom. Nyck Walsh’s model, Neurodivergent Somatics, provides clinicians with a concrete framework for providing ND-affirming care that is anti-ableist, somatic, collaborative, and trauma-informed. Building upon the foundations from “The Dos and Donts of Counseling with ND Clients,” this 2 Part series will delve into the model’s three tenets: Pleasure/Neutrality, Global Permission, and Client as Self-expert. We will learn how to apply them to both clients and the therapists who work with them.
In Part 1, we will explore specific somatic tools and strategies to support nervous system regulation for both clients and therapists. We will explore boundaries as a source of differentiation essential to empowerment, clarity, and unmasking, both for clients and therapists. Through learning and applying these principles to your counseling practice, you will benefit not only your ND clients but all of your clients.
In Part 2 of this training, we will continue our exploration of Client as Self-Expert and cover Global Permission. We will examine how ableism/internalized ableism lives within us and inadvertently creates rules that dictate what we believe makes a "good" therapist and client. We will wander through the forest of accommodations and executive function support that clients and therapists need to exist in this world and be well. Through learning and applying these principles to your counseling practice, you will benefit not only your ND clients but all of your clients.
In Part 3 of this training, we will play with how questioning and dismantling normativity in the therapy room, particularly neurotypicality, colonization, white supremacy, and cis-heteronormativity, allows us to more authentically center, honor, support, and even celebrate our clients and ourselves. This will include some of the logistical and practical elements of being a therapist, whether in private practice, an agency, or other settings. In doing so, we all have more permission to be human and to be our own unique selves, no matter what our neurotype(s).
Also in Part 3, we will delve into how we transition and how we are supported in our work through ritual and the sacred. This is in service to reducing burnout and honoring wholeness. We will end with a focus on joy for both our clients and ourselves, leaning into joy as a potent act of resistance in the face of oppression and a vital source of energizing our life force.
This training is hosted by The Knowledge Tree and must be accessed on their website. Please click here to purchase:
Part 1: https://www.theknowledgetree.org/p/neurodivergent-somatics-part-1-online
Part 2: https://www.theknowledgetree.org/p/neurodivergent-somatics-part-2-online
Part 3: https://www.theknowledgetree.org/p/neurodivergent-somatics-part-3-online
This training is hosted by The Knowledge Tree and must be accessed on their website. Each part is $109. Please click here to purchase:
Part 1: https://www.theknowledgetree.org/p/neurodivergent-somatics-part-1-online
Part 2: https://www.theknowledgetree.org/p/neurodivergent-somatics-part-2-online
Part 3: https://www.theknowledgetree.org/p/neurodivergent-somatics-part-3-online
.The field of psychology has historically pathologized Neurodivergent (ND) people and failed to see their innate health and wisdom. Nyck Walsh’s model, Neurodivergent Somatics, provides clinicians with a concrete framework for providing ND-affirming care that is anti-ableist, somatic, collaborative, and trauma-informed. Building upon the foundations from “The Dos and Donts of Counseling with ND Clients,” this 2 Part series will delve into the model’s three tenets: Pleasure/Neutrality, Global Permission, and Client as Self-expert. We will learn how to apply them to both clients and the therapists who work with them.
In Part 1, we will explore specific somatic tools and strategies to support nervous system regulation for both clients and therapists. We will explore boundaries as a source of differentiation essential to empowerment, clarity, and unmasking, both for clients and therapists. Through learning and applying these principles to your counseling practice, you will benefit not only your ND clients but all of your clients.
In Part 2 of this training, we will continue our exploration of Client as Self-Expert and cover Global Permission. We will examine how ableism/internalized ableism lives within us and inadvertently creates rules that dictate what we believe makes a "good" therapist and client. We will wander through the forest of accommodations and executive function support that clients and therapists need to exist in this world and be well. Through learning and applying these principles to your counseling practice, you will benefit not only your ND clients but all of your clients.
In Part 3 of this training, we will play with how questioning and dismantling normativity in the therapy room, particularly neurotypicality, colonization, white supremacy, and cis-heteronormativity, allows us to more authentically center, honor, support, and even celebrate our clients and ourselves. This will include some of the logistical and practical elements of being a therapist, whether in private practice, an agency, or other settings. In doing so, we all have more permission to be human and to be our own unique selves, no matter what our neurotype(s).
Also in Part 3, we will delve into how we transition and how we are supported in our work through ritual and the sacred. This is in service to reducing burnout and honoring wholeness. We will end with a focus on joy for both our clients and ourselves, leaning into joy as a potent act of resistance in the face of oppression and a vital source of energizing our life force.
This training is hosted by The Knowledge Tree and must be accessed on their website. Please click here to purchase:
Part 1: https://www.theknowledgetree.org/p/neurodivergent-somatics-part-1-online
Part 2: https://www.theknowledgetree.org/p/neurodivergent-somatics-part-2-online
Part 3: https://www.theknowledgetree.org/p/neurodivergent-somatics-part-3-online