Moving and Soothing
Learn to apply practical tools and strategies to support recovery for children and young people using body based interventions
Increasingly, there is an understanding that talk-based interventions on their own do not address all the needs of children and young people who have experienced trauma or entrenched adversity.
The residue of such toxic stress remains in the body and brain of each child and young person. Those who support these children need a range of strategies to promote repair and healing. Body based interventions that are child focused provide opportunities for practitioners in multiple settings to support children and young people to engage with their own physiological responses and change these to enable a felt sense of safety and trust.
It will offer individual, family and group work approaches for delivering this modality of therapeutic intervention. The workshop draws from the knowledge base associated with sensorimotor psychotherapy, dance and movement forms of intervention, and play based modalities.
