Peter Levine & Efu Nyaki – Making the Invisible, Visible: Healing Intergenerational Trauma

Description Of Making the Invisible, Visible: Healing Intergenerational Trauma

We tend to believe in free will. That it is we who ultimately determines our fate; that we are the captains of our own ships. When working with healing trauma, this belief is often challenged, as we become aware of repetitive patterns of suffering and unhappiness that can span generations. This pattern is grounded in an energetic presence of unresolved trauma responses that were once activated for protection and have been passed on from generation to generation. These lingering “ghosts” can still have powerful influences on our emotions, reactions, behaviors, and choices.

ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP

During this 2 session online course, Dr. Peter Levine will lead us through how, unbeknown to us, we may be influenced by events and circumstances that our ancestors (and their ancestors in turn) have experienced during their lifetimes. These influences are often far out of conscious awareness. By exploring our unconscious connection to our lineage, that neither time nor distance alters, we can be capable of connecting to the complexities of our family line with healing reverence.

Throughout the course, we will practice bringing our stories of origin into awareness and observing them with open eyes, an open heart, and an open mind. During this process, we may also connect to great ancestral resources and vitality that can support us on our path to healing. It is in our collective journey that we are capable of letting go of that which does not serve our future growth. With this exploration, we can truly live our lives and claim our destinies as we move towards authentic freedom.

This course will include lecture, demonstrations, practice exercises, breakout discussion, and Q&A. It is designed for therapeutic practitioners and those working on their self-healing.

What You’ll Learn Making the Invisible, Visible: Healing Intergenerational Trauma

• Explore transgenerational transmission of trauma-based patterns over time
• Demonstrate how to bring ancestral awareness into our therapeutic practices
• Analyze the possible role of epigenetics in trauma transmission
• Identify behaviors and emotions which may have trans-generational components.
• Demonstrate practices to cultivate ancestral resources
• Explain how to build a greater capacity to help our clients by accessing and processing our own Transgenerational trauma
• Integrate how we learn how to Accept life, both in the past and present
• Practice exercises geared towards exploring our ancestors and taking responsibility for ones’ own life energy
• Demonstrate through given exercises, how we take responsibility and Say Yes to Life and Moving Forward
• Formulate time for grieving and letting go with Support

COURSE OUTLINE

DAY ONE

• Opening Meditation with Efu Nyaki
• Logistics
• 1.5-hr Lecture:
  • Understanding Transgenerational Trauma and Healing
  • Holistic & Systemic Vision
  • Energy Fields
  • Epigenetics
• 20-min Q&A
• 30-min Break
• 20-min Large Group Exercise with Efu: Balancing, Giving, and Receiving
• 20-min Demo Exercise Debrief
• 60-min Lecture:
  • Uncovering the Invisible, Making the Invisible Visible
  • Accepting & Honoring our Origins
  • Esalen Demo Video
• 20-min Q&A & Closing of the Day

DAY TWO

• Opening Meditation with Efu Nyaki
• Logistics
• 35-min Large Group Exercise: Genogram the Ancestors
• 25-min Breakout Discussions
• 20-min Demo Exercise Debrief
• 10-min Julie Video
• 20-min Q&A
• 30-min Break
• 1.5-hr Lecture:
  • From Hauntings to Wholeness
  • Grieving and Letting Go
  • Uncoupling
  • Reverencing, Letting Go, and Moving On
  • Acceptance Practices
  • 25-min Q&A
• Class Closing

Who Is This Course

This program is designed for Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Dentists, Body Workers, Yoga Teachers, Equine Therapists, Art Therapists, Healing Practitioners and those working on their own self-healing. A basic understanding of somatic psychotherapy is required.

About Peter Levine & Efu Nyaki

About Peter Levine

Peter A Levine, Ph.D., is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma. He holds doctorates in both Biophysics and Psychology. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute for Somatic Education and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing® International.

Dr. Levine is the author of several best-selling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma (published in over 29 languages). He has received multiple Lifetime Achievement awards, including from Psychotherapy Networker and from the US Association for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. His work has been taught to over 50,000 practitioners in over 42 countries. He is currently a Senior Fellow and consultant at The Meadows Addiction and Trauma Treatment Center in Wickenburg, Arizona, and continues to teach trauma healing workshops internationally. To learn more visit somaticexperiencing.com.

About Efu Nyaki

Sister Efu, a Maryknoll Sister missionary, grew up in the village of Nganjoni – Marangu, in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Currently living in Brazil, she is an SE™ Faculty member for the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute and a valued member of Dr. Levine’s SE™ Legacy Faculty with the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education, as well as co-creator of AFYA, a Holistic Healing Center in João Pessoa, Brazil (more info on AFYA below).

In 2019 Efu became a member of Dr. Levine’s SE™ Legacy team to co-teach Master Classes that enhance SE™ practitioner skills for specialization in many areas of trauma including Memory, Developmental, Attachment, Sexual, Shame, Addiction, Medical, Surgical, Syndromes, as well as exploring Efu’s expertise in the intersection of Trauma and Spirituality and Generational Trauma (our ancestors). The Legacy Faculty was established to ensure that Dr. Levine’s unique Master Classes will continue to be taught worldwide after he retires from teaching. Efu’s contributions are expected to enhance these programs and be deeply enriching.

During the past fifteen years Efu has integrated the traditional medicine of her family clan (the Nyaki clan) with her Somatic Experiencing® trauma healing work. She specializes in shock trauma, natural disasters, trans-generational trauma, emotional, developmental, and social traumas. Her SE™ practice is based in north-eastern Brazil. She teaches SE™ throughout Brazil and has offered her SE™ skills in Haiti, Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru, Egypt, India, South Korea, Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan, China, and Spain.

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