Bodywork for PTSD 1 - Bismarck

16 CE (NCBTMB & CE BROKER APPROVED)

$475

8:30 - 5:30 with 1 hour lunch break

The power of a ‘healthy touch’ is needed more today than ever. This 2-day workshop (16 CE) helps the massage professional gain clarity between stress, trauma, and PTSD/PTSI. The lecture discusses our role and scope, as massage professionals, in the healing process. Explore and learn to apply autonomic flexibility to your practice with a deeper dive into nervous system functions. Put simple techniques into your practice seamlessly that foster trust and safety with any client. Attendees have hands-on time and instructor interaction to support the integration of these proven techniques and new understandings.

Description:

• Clinical Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) discussion, taken from the DSM-V, is presented through the lens of how it shows up on a massage table and in life.
• Learn common ways to anticipate and treat triggers of PTSD episodes
• Explore how ‘healthy touch’ impacts trauma survivors and their nervous system responses.
• Empower clients to be part of their healing and facilitate change in their tissues.
• Understand your role and scope of practice in the healing process
• Get focused, hands-on time with the techniques in instructor-monitored sessions.
• Grow your understanding of listening, assessing, and treating stress and PTSD.
• We deliver a fully-clothed, trauma-informed, patient-centered approach to treating trauma/PTSD/PTSI through healthy-touch bodywork.