Training Details
Module: Feeling Power--Training for the Treatment of Culturally Induced Dissociation, Stress-related disorders, and Extreme States of Fear, Anxiety and Rage
“Only the person who is not fully alive, who is dead inside, can commit acts of violence. For anyone who loves life and is spiritually fulfilled, such acts are incomprehensible to them.” Professor James Garbarino
Our disconnected culture produces individuals who are encapsulated within a man-made electronic world far from touch with our nature selves. This disconnection from the natural world, including our innate biological wisdom, results in a massive cultural numbness overlaying feelings of grief, rage and fear, which surfaces in all kinds of deviated behaviors. To treat these deviant behaviors without understanding the source only perpetuates the problem, shifting symptoms. People are hungry to reconnect with their innate natural being, yet have no idea how to do this. This Module educates the Practitioner in Ecological and Somatic Techniques for helping clients understand and handle their own numbness, underlying stress, and realign with their nature-based feeling states of love and joy. Length of training: approximately 25 hours
Curriculum (Feeling Power)
Biological Wisdom and the Natural World
Coping with Disconnection: Numbness and Denial
Reinhabiting the Body: Welcoming Terror, Rage and Grief
The Descent and the Somatic Soul
Shadow Feelings and the Body
Somatic Techniques for Handling Overwhelm and Out-of-Control Feelings
Expanding States of Joy and Aliveness through Heart-Based & Nature-Based Exercises
Therapeutic Necessity of Releasing Agenda for Clients
Handling Conflicted Feeling States
Titrating Feelings
Reinstating feelings of Belonging
Working with Higher Energies for Transmuting Lower Frequency Feeling States
Module: Heart-Mind Applications—Training for Expanding Deeper Knowing & Sensing Capacities
Our industrialized culture reveres the small-mind’s logic. Our schools tell us to think hard, focus on facts and numbers, calculate and analyze so that we may dominate and conquer the natural world. While the utilization of the intellect is an important tool, as a people we are profoundly unhappy because we have disconnected ourselves from that which gives life real meaning and joy—the ability to center ourselves deeply in our hearts, to experience ourselves as a part of the natural world, to use our senses to expand our range of pleasure and to own our sense of true belonging.
In this Module students learn a variety of heart-based and nature connection techniques to expand their ability to experience pleasure, to breathe and center into the locus of the heart, and to trust the knowledge acquired from these activities. As a result the Somatic Self expands beyond the separated egoic body to include the natural world. This is the true beginning of living in a state of creative flow. Length of training: approximately 25 hours
Curriculum (Heart-Mind Applications)
Impact of Heart and Nature Disconnection
Using Language to Support Somatic Presence, Heart Presence and Nature-based Awareness
Standing in the Center of the Heart
The Role of Silence in the Therapeutic Process
Slowing Down
Witnessing the Small-Mind—Mindfulness
Replacing Limited Small-Mind Thinking with Heart-Based & Nature-Based Thinking
Nature Reconnection exercises for Expanding our Range of Pleasure & Connection
53 Senses and Their Applications to Somatic Awareness of Self
Identity Crises and Letting Go of Attachments
Cultivating States of Allowing, Embracing, Compassion and Forgiveness
Working with Higher Energies for Transmuting Outdated Beliefs and Personality Identities
Teaching Methods at Aliveness Institute Trainings
Monday Evening Teleconference
The student learns by participating as a “student” herself in the Monday night classes. She participates through listening, writing, and taking part in experiential exercises as delivered by the founder, Jane E. Latimer and faculty.
Tuesday Evening Teleconference
Designed to teach the professional skills of that month’s module, students learn through lecture, experience and facilitation practice on the calls.
The Following Methods are used for Teaching:
Lectures
Didactic material is taught through Tele-conference lecture.
Facilitation Demonstration
Faculty demonstrates techniques through real-life facilitation of student issues on both Monday and Tuesday night calls as well as review of audio sessions with clients.
Facilitation Practice
Real life issues of students are brought to the calls giving students the opportunity to practice
the techniques with one another.
Discussion
Sharing is encouraged on all calls.
Consultation
Case consultation is provided by instructors to facilitate integrating techniques into one’s private practice.
Practice
Students are required to pair up in-between classes to practice using the tools. Those student practice sessions are recorded for instructor feedback.
Feedback
Certification requires student demonstrate proficiency with the materials. To that end, faculty listens to and critiques students’ skills during class as well as sessions recorded in-between classes.
Audio Library
Mp3 downloads of Aliveness Training sessions and demos are available for students to review on their own time at home.
Reading & Audio Assignments
Each Module has it’s own set of downloadable lessons and audio lessons to be reviewed on the student’s on time.
A Professional Manual for both the BodyWay and Aliveness Intensive Trainings are provided.
Writing Assignments
Module Lessons contain study exercises and written homework designed to facilitate application of course content.
Peer Partner Assignments
Students team up with one other student in the training for educational purposes to practice elements of the method.
Requirements for Certification
Although students may enroll in one, two, three or all four of the modules, certification requires that all four modules are completed. BodyWay students seeking certification with a focus on food and weight issues, will complete a fifth Module, which addresses those issues. Aliveness Intensive students seeking certification are required to attend a minimum of two Aliveness Intensives. Intensives are held in Portland Oregon.
Certification is given upon demonstration of proficiency.
Proficiency is determined by faculty review of the following:
Knowledge of the Material
Use of BodyWay Language
Ability to Follow Client
Demonstrates Confidence and Presence
Creates Safety
Communicates Concepts Clearly
Aliveness Skills
BodyWay Skills
20 Hours of Individual Sessions with Learning Notes
Written Assignments
Final Project
Practicum
Practicum is the portion of the program designed for students to develop skills by practicing with each other and/or clients. Students will audio tape sessions and submit for them for review by faculty for proficiency. Practicum must be completed to achieve certification.
Admission
The Aliveness Training in Somatic Process™ provides adjunctive training and continuing education units for mental health professionals, coaches, ministers and anyone desiring to deepen and advance their skills in working with others.
Note: Licensure and board certification are outside the province of this Institute.
There are no admission requirements other than a desire to live in wholeness and help others.