Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing
CEU Weekend Intensive

12 CEUs Approved by the State of Ohio, Counseling,

Social worker, and Marriage and Family Therapy Board

August 23rd and 24th 9am-5pm

Shaker Heights, Ohio (exact location disclosed at registration)

$500 due at registration (includes a free book MBSEP Book)

Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing (MBSEP) is a mindful, body-centered approach to activating intrinsic emotional processing in the brain. The processing is activated and maintained by the client’s and the therapist’s mindful, Felt-Sense Attention upon the client’s  somatic experience. The client’s emotional processing is enabled, focused, and supported through the attuned relational connection between the therapist and the client. A focus on tender, compassionate awareness creates a special quality of attention which  helps to activate the healing process. MBSEP is a practical, useful method for  initiating and promoting essential emotional processing. It can easily be incorporated into any therapeutic modality.

MBSEP is based upon the interaction between focused attention and internal experience: Where attention goes, energy gathers; where energy goes, experience unfolds. The mindful attentional focus of Felt-Sense Attention originates in, and is regulated by, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Felt-Sense Attention focuses awareness on the body’s somatic, sensory experience. It serves to activate right-hemisphere limbic processes related to emotional memory, body awareness, attunement, and affective experience.

Training workshop Objectives:

  • Learn the psychodynamic and neurobiological foundations of MBSEP

  • Develop the skills for focusing and supporting Felt Sense Attention

  • Apply the elements of attuned relationship with clients

  • Learn the somatic markers of emotional processing

  • Apply the principles of mindfulness to emotional processing

  • Supporting the witnessing function

  • Learn how to support the client’s unfolding emotional processing

  • Using MBSEP for strengthening client resources

  • Support integration of right-brain with left-brain processing

  • Incorporate MBSEP into the flow of your therapeutic approach

Outline of the MBSEP training

DAY 1

9am-4:45pM

(Schedule includes breaks and one hour lunch)

  • Experiential introduction to MBSEP

  • Basic Neurobiology of MBSEP

  • Right-hemisphere vs. left-hemisphere functions in the healing process

  • Attachment & Attunement: supporting the client to allow deep emotional processing

  • Mindfulness & Felt Sense Attention

  • Mindfulness in emotional processing

  • Practicum in MBSEP

  • Questions & discussion

DAY 2

9am-4:45pM

(Schedule includes breaks and one hour lunch)

  • Resourcing with MBSEP, practicum

  • Practicum in MBSEP

  • Questions & discussion

  • Titrating the level of stimulation in MBSEP

  • Supporting the client’s unfolding emotional processing

  • Integrating right-hemisphere and left-hemisphere processing

  • MBSEP practicum, discussion

  • Incorporating MBSEP into the therapeutic flow