We completed a wonderful teleseminar on February 8 with Bill O'Hanlon on Post-Traumatic Success. Here are some of the comments we received:     

"The call was loaded with great content... I especially liked the bonuses. I'll be able to use the resources that you and Bill provided for us. Again, thank you!" -- S.T.

 "The webinar was a lot of fun!... I really appreciated the information. Thoughtfully prepared and presented." -- D.W.

"Thank you for the seminar (I have used Bill's ideas and books for many years). It was very useful, and I look forward to trying some of both of your ideas in my work." -- P.C.

Peter Levine and I are proposing a new format for our Freedom from Pain online clinic in March and April, which will focus on somatic skills that are crucial to the effective treatment of pain and trauma. We have an abundance of material we'd like to cover from our new book and are offering two 2-hour sessions. As always, if you can't attend live, your registration includes permanent audio download so you can keep our presentations in your library to listen whenever it's convenient for you. With our optional Highlights (edited transcripts) and CEU's for licensed professionals in the US, Freedom from Pain will provide an intensive learning package. Go here now to register for this e-course at www.maggiephillipsphd.com/courses_teleseminars_pl3.html 

The first meeting on Thursday, March 15 from 11 am - 1pm Pacific Time will feature the important interactions between pain and trauma and several tools for treating the effects which are held in the body, thus creating bracing and inflammation that contribute to persistent and chronic conditions.

During Part 2 on Thursday, April 12 from 11 am - 1 pm Pacific Time, we will follow up on your progress in applying these tools with yourself and with clients during the month interval between sessions. There will also be time for consultation with us on common pain problems including migraines, fibromyalgia, back and neck pain, and chronic regional pain (RSD), among others.

June 1 & 2, I will be teaching in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Finding the Energy to Heal: Learning What the Body Knows. For more information and registration, contact Dr. Dan Kohen dpkohen@umn.edu.

I am excited to be teaching in Europe and South Africa this spring and early summer.  

On 22, 23, & 24 June I will be teaching a 3-day workshop on Ego-State Therapy from the Body Level Up in Heidelberg, Germany. For more information and registration, please contact Ursula Härle ursula.haerle@meihei.de. Private sessions are available on 21 June by contacting me directly at mphillips@lmi.net.

On 25 & 26 June, I give a Master Class in Ego-State Therapy in Zurich, Switzerland. Please consider this an exceptional opportunity to expand your skills in a small group intensive. A few openings are available. Contact Silvia Zanotta szan@bluewin.ch. Private sessions can be scheduled on 27 June, by contacting me at mphillips@lmi.net.

Next is the Somatic Experiencing® Beginning Level Certification Program in Cape Town, South Africa, from June 30 - July 6. This 6-day training workshop teaches the essential somatic building blocks to help release the long-term and acute effects of traumatic stress in order to create comprehensive, permanent, positive change from the body level up.Topics include the neurophysiology of the threat response cycle, the preparatory and orienting response cycles, and how to recognize these cycles in clients. Participants will view and discuss video demonstrations of the work of Peter Levine during these workshops. There will also be live demonstrations to illustrate various SE skills such as how to restore healthy orienting responses; how to observe orienting and preparatory responses; and how to restore equilibrium through threat responses. Participants will learn specific ways to facilitate movement through time for problems that have been "frozen" due to various types of trauma; methods of containing and managing flooding and overactivation of post-traumatic symptoms; and how to help clients restore gentle cycles of sympathetic and parasympathetic interplay using various types of language patterns.

Create an amazing learning intensive experience of a lifetime by adding a post-workshop safari in the African bush near Kruger National Park. For more information and registration, please contact Callie Hattingh callie@intekom.co.za and visit www.meisa.biz.