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What happens when we apply systemic constellations to our earliest, pre-verbal experiences?
Trauma work connects you with your “being” nature.
Constellations create deeply felt, long-lasting change.
Together, they bring healing to your embodied experience of pre-verbal traumas.

In this training series, you will learn how to use cranial sacral biodynamics in combination with systemic constellations work.
You, together with the safe container of your co-learning group of professionals and students, will:
About Your Facilitator
Johannes
Benedikt Schmidt, Founder of
Aptitude-Academy, M. A. in
Psychology, M.A. in Human
Development, workshop
presenter, consultant, and
psychotherapist, author.
Johannes has been trained in Behavior Therapy (IWVT-Hamburg), Hypnotherapy (M.E.G.-Munich), Constructivist-Systemic Work (IGST, Heidelberg), Constellation Work (Bert Hellinger), Somatic Experiencing (Peter Levine), and in Craniosacral Biodynamics (Franklyn Sills/Michael Shea). Johannes was trained in farming, worked for an insurance company, and as a freelancer for consulting companies.
Today he teaches in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and USA. He offers seminars in Systemic Constellation Work, Trauma-Work, Systemic Communication, and diverse personal change processes. He facilitates solutions for individuals, companies and family businesses. Johannes is currently a doctoral student at Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara.
A four-part integrative CEU course combining body-based trauma healing techniques, developmental work, and systemic constellation set-ups for multi-level trauma recovery.
Module 1: A 4-day theoretical preparatory seminar to provide students with a necessary understanding for the required framework for trauma healing. Students will be enabled to understand and practice essential basics for creating favorable healing conditions, self-regulating in the presence of highly activated clients, create a functional relationship with traumatized individuals, and find their way into a functional treatment attitude with respect to trauma specifics.
Module 2: A 4-day introductory seminar into the nature of trauma as a nervous system event. A body-based view of trauma, trauma-symptoms, and inter-relational consequences will be explored. Effects of shock-, developmental-, or “lack-of”-trauma will be discussed. The implications of attachment theory, Steven Porges Polyvagal Theory and other related subjects will be presented. Self-exploration of students, practice units and exercises for self-regulation complete this part of the training.
Module 3: Specifics of trauma constellations will be introduced and practiced as well as required modifications for developmental trauma-healing, and “non-verbal” issues of the client. Besides, extensive self-exploration of client, working on personal issues, practicing of relevant techniques, revising attitudinal requirements, and deepening perceptual skills is part of this module’s curriculum.
Module 4: Integrative close of the training. Here the different levels of learning and work will be synchronized into a versatile, personalized approach. Practical facilitation skills, theoretical understanding, self-regulative faculties and ethical considerations will be reviewed and relevant topics of the previous modules deepened. The course of treatments will be considered and the personal progress over course time evaluated.
112 CEU’s (7 per day) upon application approval
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