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This training is intended for the realities of frontline work. The people who hold space for others, often in the toughest moments.
You show up for others, even when the days are long and the stakes are high.
You hold space for stress, grief, trauma, and emotion, often without enough support for yourself.
You want to care deeply, but not burn out in the process.
This training is for those ready to explore simple, body-based tools to make resilience, presence, and sustainable care possible — no prior somatics experience needed.
Why Somatics Now:
Reclaiming The Body in Complex Times
We are living in a time of deep disconnection, from our bodies, from one another, and from the living systems that sustain us. Many of our workplaces, communities, and institutions have been built on ways of being that value the mind above all else: productivity over presence, speed over sensitivity. Yet the body has always been here, quietly holding our stories, our stress, and our wisdom.
Learning somatics, learning to listen to the body, is an act of remembering. It is a slow revolution, inviting us to reclaim our relationship to our nervous system, our intuition, and simple embodied practices that help us move through complexity with care. In doing so, we begin to restore connection. We remember that regulation and resilience are not only personal pursuits but collective capacities.
The pressures of frontline roles, in healthcare, education, social services, or community care — make this work urgent. Burnout, vicarious trauma, and systemic pressures are real. They affect not only your work, but your life, relationships, and capacity to engage with the world. Somatic and trauma-informed practices
offer a pathway through these pressures, helping you to:
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Regulate your nervous system under stress
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Set boundaries with clarity and compassion
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Build resilience, resourcefulness, and sustainable care for the long term
Change begins not through information or efficiency, but through embodiment. Understanding our own systems allows us to re-enter communities, workplaces, and institutions with presence, clarity, and resilience, creating transformation from the inside out.
What You'll Learn
Every journey of embodied change begins within.
We start with Self — returning to the ground of our own body. Here, we learn to listen: to sensations, to the nervous system, to what has been asking for care. Through a somatic and neurobiological lens, we explore how trauma lives in the body and how we can move from dissociation toward greater embodiment. We learn to regulate, to resource, and to hold ourselves with compassion, cultivating the foundations of trauma-informed practice.
From there, we move into the Relational.
Healing does not happen in isolation. We explore how our bodies communicate with others — through co-regulation, attachment, and the subtle language of safety and threat. We examine the physiology of trauma and how triggered responses shape our interactions, learning practical tools for grounding, presence, and boundaries. Here, self-care becomes community care, as we deepen our capacity to hold others while staying connected to ourselves.
Then, we widen the lens to the Collective.
Our nervous systems are not separate from the systems we live within. Together, we explore systemic and collective trauma, power dynamics, and the ways social, cultural, and historical forces shape our embodied experience. We look at how somatic literacy can ripple out into teams, organisations, and communities — creating cultures of care rather than cycles of burnout.
Finally, we arrive at Integration.
Here we gather the threads, weaving together theory and practice, insight and embodiment, self and system. Integration is where learning becomes lived: applying trauma-informed principles, creating and holding safer spaces, and understanding our scope of practice as facilitators and practitioners.
This training is a starting point — a foundation for those curious about the body, trauma-informed practice, and nervous system literacy. It offers an introduction to embodied awareness and forms the entryway into our wider pathway of study through the 300HR Integrative Somatic Facilitator Training, where this work deepens into facilitation and systemic application.
The practices shared are not a quick fix, but an invitation to begin — to slow down, listen, and return to the body’s wisdom. This weekend offers the language, tools, and frameworks to start integrating somatic awareness into your life and work. Every revolution begins with a single step inward — and this is yours.
Upcoming Training Dates & Locations
Training Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all trainings follow the schedule below:
Friday: 5.30 PM – 7:30 PM
Saturday: 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Sunday: 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Christchurch
DATE TBC
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Investment
**All prices are in New Zealand Dollars (NZD)
TIER 1: $550
For those who are financially well-resourced. Reflects the value of the course in Western economic markets.
TIER 2:
$460
For those on medium incomes and access to financial resources.
TIER 3:
$380
For those on low incomes, caring responsibilities and from marginalized communities.
Tiered pricing is an invitation to reflect on your access to resources and privilege, the value of this work, what you can genuinely afford, and what you might pay for comparable training programs.Find out more about tiered pricing.
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