More than 6,000 practitioners from 59 different countries – including Ireland, Costa Rica, and Lebanon – tuned in to Peter Levine’s webinar on Wednesday night.
And many of those folks left some really remarkable feedback. The comments section was full of insightful, perceptive thoughts on my webinar with Dr. Levine.
And we’re just getting started. I’m really looking forward to next week.
I just wanted to highlight a few of the most powerful insights I noticed while I was reading through the comments last night.
These webinars are designed to have immediate applications in your practice. It was gratifying to see this thought from a practitioner who’s already found ways to integrate Dr. Levine’s talk into her work:
Even if you aren’t practicing, or even if you are a student, our hope is that these webinars spark a journey toward exciting new knowledge. Each speaker has much more to offer than we could ever cover in one webinar, and that’s why it’s so exciting to see comments like this one:
And with so much more to come in the series, it’s important to take note of the powerful links we can draw between all these ideas. I like how this comment made a connection between Dr. Levine and one of our upcoming bonus speakers:
Because these webinars are online, you get the chance to engage with fellow learners from across the globe. You’ll hear perspectives you’d never encounter otherwise, and I’ve already seen some vibrant debates happening.
If you watched last Wednesday’s broadcast, what was your big takeaway? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
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I really value and appreciate Peter’s work. What about preverbal and prewalking trauma???
I have trouble grounding and wonder if it is due to having been pottie trained by 9 months. I have so much energy in parts of my body that I can spin a magent at different chakras.
Is anyone doing this kind of trauma work?
I already left a comments. But I had missed about 10 minutes of the conference.
I thought it would be at 5 and it was 6:12pm when I went to the computer, realizing that it started at 6 pm I was happy to get almost all the conference. I feel very priviledge to be able to listen to this in the confort of my home. Thanks again for your excellent work in finding those expert speakers and organized the web site for us.
I also sadly missed Peter Levine’s webinar and would be interested in hearing it. I heard about the series from a friend the following day. It appears from the comments that I am not alone in having missed it. Perhaps, to be fair to those who will pay to to access these talks after the fact, you could offer any single webinar for 1/6 of the cost of Level 1 (as there are 6 Webinars). That way anyone who misses one of the 6 at the time of broadcast can buy the talk after the fact. Please consider a way for those of us who are interested but cannot afford the total cost of a level to access this important information.
Thanks from a trauma sufferer.
Since so many people missed the 1st session with Peter’s Levine’s interview due to the newness and confusion over the time zones, would you please replay it again? Please don’t make money an issue for those of us that couldn’t sign up for the hard copies Thanks!
I missed the first one too. Took me forever to do the time change from EDT to PST and still am not sure how that works. Yes I did use the conversion chart which further confused me. Hopefully I will not miss the next one and can figure it out! Light and love, Cathy
I believe that i signed up for this free series but i was not notified about the first session. I just registered again, but i don’t know what happened to the first one.
brian
goodbye, but it was a little sad to have to leave this saciepl place, where time stands still, anda0sights and smells of morning camp are abound, every day of the
Darn I missed it too. Somehow EDT does not compute.
What happened to all the previous comments? they were here earlier this morning.
Jo.
I had an emergency to attend, thus I missed Peter Levine’s seminar.
Is there a way for me to view it?
Thanks in advance?
Irene Harwood
I Find many therapeutic modalities are important for my clinical tool box. It is important to be mindful of the body’s responses as our physical vehicle, it has something to communicate if we learn to listen. In Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, we become aware of what somatic expressions the body communicates. We learn to label a thought a thought and a feeling a feeling – as well as a sensation in our bodies as just that – a sensation. In my 30+ years working with people from a wholistic frame- of reference, I have found that the Physical, Emotional, Mental & and Spiritual aspects of this human form/unit of consciousness, each have their own languages which we have the choice to learn for better healing – or not. Pain is crystallized Wisdom and provides feedback and gifts about how we can chose to move differently under stress. It is our choices (mental, emotional, physical& spiritual) which guide the experiential lessons we receive from Earth School. Thoughts are thoughts and they become things or physical manifestations with enough attention. We get the opportunity to “Take the Best & Leave the Rest” with patient, kind, love & gentleness if we develop those qualities &/or habit patterns in our selves. For we are a bundle of memories tied with a string of habits. If we chose to discharge the emotional energy associated/ attached with toxic memories ( body memories or otherwise), we loosen the ties of habit patterns which no longer serve the purpose they once did, creating space for new directions/ experiences for learning what is right or congruent for our own individual selves. There are a plethora of ways to express energy. I find combinations of creative right brained activities, physical movement of some type, awareness of thought forms (cognitive mindfulness) and Spiritual practice blend together to move one to a space where healing can manifest. For me healing needs to occur on multiple levels on our journey towards wholeness. It is a non-linear, sacred process which we have been gifted to receive if we just allow ourselves to receive. Part of this journey is making choices of who can be of helpful service to us and who is not. Many years ago, one of my own healing break throughs was realizing that one of my “teachers” ( well known in his circle) had served his purpose in my life through sharing information I needed but I no longer wanted. All experiences have pearls of wisdom ready to be harvested when we are ready to take personal responsibility for our healing journeys. So I take the best and release the rest – always being Open to Outcome! Mitakuye Oyasin (All my Relatives).
Bunny, I am curious about what is considered the difference between a feeling and a sensation? And I am wondering if you are familiar with the emerging field I am currently studying called INTERPERSONAL NEUROBIOLOGY (IPNB, or just IN)? In a nutshell, IPNB is neuroscience informed psychotherapy. I am familiar enough with ACT to say that the each can add value to the other, and I have one example: In IPNB, we refer to the feelings/sensations that people experience, which are triggered by their surroundings/environment in real time without consciously recalling them, as Implicit Memories. These feelings can be pleasant or unpleasant, but in our field we address them when they are a burden on the person experiencing them. When that is the case, in the therapeutic dyad of practitioner-client, the client, in conjunction with the supplemental strength provided by the dyad, purposely embodies the feeling, explores it’s nature and origins, and considers interventions together with the practitioner; such as applying a more mature or alternative lens to the event; when possible, normalizing rather than pathologizing the event. This process has the effect of moving the memory from one that generates alarm/anxiety/fear/ or other unpleasantness, to one that generates understanding (and acceptance).
IPNB was started by Dr. Dan Siegel, Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute in Southern California, and I was fortunate enough to find an IPNB certificate program offered at Portland State University, administered mostly by disciples (my word) of Dr. Siegel’s.
Thank You, I am looking forward to your reply ~Paul Laskonis