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Aliveness Infusion Project for Women in Transition
From addictions, eating disorders, homelessness, and domestic violence
This program is designed to facilitate in the recovery of the clients sense of her own selfhood through direct contact with the vitality of “aliveness”. The Project requires the leadership of a trained professional and is directed at women in transition from addictions, eating disorders, homelessness and domestic violence.
The Aliveness Infusion Project™ Certification Program is a five-day intensive training program which certifies mental health and related professionals to facilitate this five to ten week somatic reconnection program. Course content draws on research from somatic psychology, applied ecopsychology, expressive arts healing, and wholistic mind-body healing, combined with aspects of dynamic play to manifest pathways to health, vitality and well-being.
The Aliveness Institute contends that modern social institutions are built on a framework which disowns the somatic, instinctual rhythms of the individual as well as the innate need for belonging and community. Consequently so called “normal functioning” in our culture is founded(, remove comma)on a state of disconnection and fragmentation. In fact, success is often measured by an individuals’ ability to disconnect from their own body rhythms and inner/broader states of knowing.
For traumatized individuals, this state of disconnection is magnified. Traditional behavioral and cognitive psychotherapies, while well-intentioned and often temporarily successful, focus on solving client problems within the framework of this fragmented or disconnected state of the modern mind, leaving the traumatized client’s somatic heart and soul as empty as it was to begin with.
The Aliveness Infusion Project Certification Program addresses these fragmented and traumatized states. Professional Students learn to deliver an effective five to ten-week somatic, expressive arts program that recaptures the wholeness inherent in the client. Methods for reconnecting and aligning the somatic whole with cognitive and emotional states underlying trauma, addictions and eating disorders, as well as “normalized” addictions such as too much doing, spending, and giving, are taught.
Benefits for your clients
• enhances positive choice-making
• builds psychological core strength and flexibility
• promotes authenticity and healthy boundaries in relationships
• enables discharge of difficult and overwhelming feelings in safe ways
• supports new perspectives
• provides practice for positive risk-taking
• teaches principles of mindfulness
• stimulates creative thinking and expression
• facilitates the embodiment of joy
Utilizing movement, rhythm, sound, poetry and theatre games, interwoven with key cognitive principles for positive change, clients are provided with methods that enliven while facilitating the healing of the underlying causes for poor choice-making due to trauma and other negative life conditions.
Movement short-circuits the censorship of the conditioned mind. Dissociative patterns, resulting from trauma are interrupted as the disowned body is reincorporated into the client’s psyche. As frozen or restricted movement patterns are interrupted, the individual’s frozen and restricted mind patterns are brought to light to be dissolved.
The body’s ability to communicate to us through the language of sensation, breath, and movement enables clients to enhance self-awareness for improved self-regulation and decision making. As an embodied sense of fulfillment and core-strength occurs, clients are less likely to fall into addictive or destructive patterns due to habituated patterns of lack and low self-esteem.
Rhythm and percussive instruments, used to connect individuals to their ancient, primordial roots increases a sense of belonging and community. Wonder and magic is reinstated through the communal connections established through these ancient pathways.
Sound Healing, which recent research indicates is a powerful modality for reinstating harmonious states of well-being, opens the voice to discover a wide range of sounds enabling clients to tap into repressed feelings and expressive power.
Professionals working with women in transition from addictions, eating disorders, homelessness and domestic violence are trained to deliver this program to their clients. Some prior experience with music or movement is recommended for successful delivery.
Once trained, this program can be delivered to your clients in five or ten 2-3 hour segments.
Trainings take place over a 5-day period and can be conducted on-site or at HeART House in Portland Oregon. .
You receive:
• Six to eight hours of training a day over a five-day period; includes co-facilitation for your first Aliveness Infusion Project group
• Teacher-Training Manuals (2)
• Student Workbook Templates (2)
• Template for client invitations/fliers
• Supply List
• Recommended reading list.
• In addition to your 5-day on site training you will have the opportunity to participate with professional’s enrolled in our Aliveness Training In Somatic Process™ year-long teleconference training.
Cost: $3,300 (plus travel expenses) for up to two professional staff members
Additional staff, add $600 per person.
For more information and to schedule a training, call The Aliveness Institute at 503.293.8906 or 1-800-765-1319.