Course offerings in Tier 2 explore clinical applications of foundational concepts, theoretical models, therapeutic maps and skills introduced in Tier 1 courses. Consistent with the material being taught, the learning process combines top-down and bottom-up learning. In this way, the first “client” is the provider. Tier 2 course offerings invite an immersive experience into exploration of what enhances and inhibits embodiment and the corresponding impact on relational, emotional, mental and spiritual health. Tier 2 courses provide specific examples of interventions to use with clients to influence mental and physical health.
Current Courses
Coming to Our Senses About Eating Disorders Treatment: An Exploration of Sensory Processing Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder and Eating Disorders
Coming to Our Senses about Eating Disorders Treatment is an exploration of how Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) impacts a person’s relationship with food, the eating process and body perception. Current research shows autism is overrepresented in individuals battling an eating disorder (ED) and those with both disorders have the poorest treatment outcomes. Research also supports a link between SPD and ARFID as well as a link between visual processing patterns and body dysmorphia.
Upcoming Courses
Growing Seeds of Attachment: an exploration of Somatic Tone and Primitive Reflexes
Where does it all start?
What is our first experience of self and other?
When do we lay the foundation for our ability to connect and protect? How do we begin to learn what it means to be in relationship?
Growing Seeds of Attachment-an exploration of Somatic Tone and Primitive Reflexes is a 3.5-day experiential course integrating principles of Body-Mind Centering® and Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders to answer these questions. NOTE: Pre-requisite for this course is Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment
Upcoming Courses
Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment
Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment (formerly Phase II: Clinical Applications of ERED) course is designed for providers who have completed Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders (ERED) and are ready to apply the ERED approach to their work with clients. This training offers participants an in-depth exploration of concepts presented in Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorder (ERED). Through experiential and embodied practice, participants build a bottom-up, felt-sense understanding of Polyvagal theory, The Window of Tolerance, the Action Cycle and Barriers to Action, the Relational Cycle, the Defense-Response Cycle which are expressed through disordered eating behaviors.