Somatic Experiencing®

3-year Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner Certification Program
Cairo, Egypt

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Somatic Experiencing® is a body-oriented therapeutic modality developed over the last 50 years by Dr. Peter Levine, to treat unresolved trauma.

Suitable Candidates:

Mental health workers, Social Workers, Bodyworkers, Coaches, Holistic health and wellbeing practitioners, Teachers, First responders, Mediators, Conflict resolution experts, indeed anyone with an interest in applied trauma resolution and/or a profession that involves dealing with people who are highly activated.

Requirements to apply:

  • You have attended SE® Introductory Workshop (join the waiting list for the next workshop).

  • 2 Recommendation letters from professionals of your field (or your supervisors/mentors)

  • Your updated CV

  • A scanned Passport-sized photo (4x6)

  • Legal Identification (National ID, or Passport photocopy)

About Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner Training (3-years)

Somatic Experiencing® is a body oriented therapeutic modality developed over the last 50 years by Dr. Peter Levine, to treat unresolved trauma.

  • SE® addresses subcortical regions of the brain not easily accessed through talk therapy

  • SE® supports safety and co-regulation in the nervous system

  • SE® focuses on how the body influences thoughts, behaviors, and emotions

  • SE® helps people develop awareness of physical sensations and procedural memories

  • SE® targets the underlying dysregulation that maintains symptoms

  • SE® gives tools for greater control over symptoms and unconscious dynamics

A Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP) training provides:

  • A framework to access where a person is stuck in fight/flight/freeze responses.

  • Clinical tools to resolve fixed states, transform old patterns and strengthen resiliency.

Objectives:

The basic tool kit of SE comprises resourcing; orienting; accessing the felt sense; tracking; integrating.

By the end of the 3 years professional training, the practitioner will be able to use these skills to:

  • Help clients navigate their trauma safely and at their own pace in such a way that incomplete responses can be completed and discharged.

  • Educate clients in the physiology of their trauma responses to help them harness their own innate intelligence and resilience

  • Equip clients with their own practical skills for self-regulation

Scientific Research:

Random controlled outcome research in neuroscience and psychology support the scientific foundations on which SE is built, and confirm its effectiveness for both short-term symptom relief and long-term resolution and treatment (see list for further reading below).

Somatic Experiencing® Modules

Somatic Experiencing® Modules

First Year (2023)

28 - 30 September
2- 4 October 2023

Cairo Egypt

Beginner I/II

8 - 10 February 2024
12 - 14 February 2024

Online

Beginner II/III

Second Year (2024)

20 - 26 June 2024

Online

Intermediate I/II

Intermediate II/III

10 - 12 October 2024
14 - 16 October 2024

Offline, Cairo

Third Year (2025)

To be announced

Online

Advanced I/II

To be announced

Offline, Cairo

Advanced II/III

All module days are full day training from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
It is recommended that you rest (for integration and recharging) in the day off in the middle of each module.

About your instructor

Euphrasia Nyaki (Efu)

Psychotherapist, SEP, & SE® Legacy Faculty

Euphrasia (Efu) Nyaki is a Legacy Faculty Member  of Somatic Experiencing®, and a Professor of Family Constellation System Therapy by Hellinger Institute. In the last 27 years Efu has been living in Brazil facilitating trainings and therapy for trauma healing using Somatic Experiencing® and Family Constellation System Therapy (Generational trauma healing). While living in Brazil,  Efu  has also been travelling in different countries such as India, Egypt, South Korea, China, Bolivia, Peru, Spain, Uruguay, Tanzania, Philippines,  and Hong Kong  facilitating trainings and workshops on different kinds of  trauma healing. Due to Pandemic situation, Efu has been giving international trainings, workshops and individual therapy sessions online. Efu is  a co-founder of AFYA: Holistic Healing Center located in the northeast of Brazil. Afya supports many people from the local community as well as national and international individuals that approaches the center in order to receive support in healing, using different types of natural and holistic healing methodologies.

Tuition

Somatic Experiencing® 3-year Certification Program

Hybrid (Cairo, Egypt + Online)

One Payment

$[amount]

To be paid in current exchange USD rate
in EGP currency

For Egyptians: Installment Plans are available with application with our Installment Service Vendor

Non-Egyptians’ tuition rate is $[amount] for the whole training including certificate processing (installment plan of 3 payments along the first year is available upon request).

*Tuition fees doesn’t include personal sessions, individual supervision sessions, or group supervision sessions you will need along the training to finish your certification requirements. - They are usually of a charge of ($30 to $50) paid separately and individually to your session/supervision provider (a list of approved providers will be sent to you during the training).

*Early bird deadline date is fixed and we can’t change it, it is an offer from the installment company (ADVA), and we wanted you to be informed about.

*You will be required to submit some documents (National ID photocopy, HR letter OR bank statement) to our installment plan service provider. In case you have an activated ValU account, the installment plan will be added to your account on the same day (confirming with ADVA, our installment service provider).

*You can customize your payment plan if you paid a percentage of your tuition upfront and paid the rest in an installment plan (this requires discussion with our installment service provider company, ADVA agent).

*Once you register for an installment plan, ALL your payment management are through the installment company, ADVA.

+ 75 USD per module (paid in USD)

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes. Arabic translation will be available during the training.

  • Yes of course. This is open for all Arabic-speaking people from the Arab world, since this training is translated into Arabic in real time.

  • No. This training is face-to-face in Cairo, Egypt and will not be streamed online.

  • No. This training is not and will not be recorded.

  • Yes. In case you want to pay for the workshop in installments, please contact our Admin: +201063609925 (click here to sent a whatsapp message)

  • Last Cohort training tuition didn’t cover instructor fees, senior assistants fees, their accommodation, or their flights.

    Last cohort, teachers and senior assistants were very generous to offer the training free of charge. We are grateful for them, as their initiative and generosity are the reasons we now have an Arabic Egyptian community for the SE® in Egypt and the MENA region.

    In this cohort, tuition fees cover a fraction of the expenses for instructors and senior assistants. They are generously giving us much lower rates to support our SE rising Egyptian community.

  • We are planning to have limited conditional partial scholarships, we will email you once we have more information about scholarships. (if you have subscribed in our newsletter OR applied in our waiting list or registration form).

  • For you to get certified as Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, you have to:

    • Complete your attendance of the lectures and practice sessions during the training.

    • Make up for any hours you didn’t attend (in lecture or practice triads), to complete your attendance.

    • Finish 18 personal sessions with session providers.*

    • Finish 12 credit hours of supervisions (1 individual supervision hour = 1 supervision credit hour, 3 group supervision hours = 1 supervision credit hours).

    • Adhere and follow the SE® policy and regulations.

  • For more information about Somatic Experiencing in general, you can check SETI website: traumahealing.org

    And check the last section in this page for more information about research around SE®.

  • No.

    Attending the 2-day introductory workshop is one of the prerequisites of applying to the 3-year training.

    If you have missed the 2-day workshop, you can join the waiting list here)

  • Yasmine Madkour & Noha Farouk (current Graduates and Teaching Assistants of SE) are the organizers of SE in Egypt. Their work is an extension of the generous initiative of Katriona Shawki and Rebecca Porteous, whose work brought SE to Egypt and built the current SE community.

    All four organizers (former and current) collaborate to offer the best experience for SE graduates and students. None of them are teaching, though they are assisting in many of the upcoming modules, and continuing education trainings and workshops.

  • Check the self help form designed to help you apply for any of our events and/or answer all of your questions.

Learn more about Somatic Experiencing®

A Short selection of Books and Scientific Studies

In an Unspoken Voice, Peter Levine,2010

The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk, 2014

The Polyvagal Theory, Stephen Porges, 2011

“Amygdala, Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Hippocampal Function in PTSD”, Annals of New York Academy of Science, 1071 (2006) Shin, Rauch, Pitman

“Clinical Implications of Neuroscience Research in PTSD”, Annals of New York Academy of Science, 1071 (2006), van der Kolk

“Somatic Experiencing for PTSD, A Randomised Controlled Outcome Study”, Wiley Journal of Traumatic Stress, June 30, 2017, Brom, Stokar, Lawi, Ziv, Ross, Nuriel-Porat

“Somatic Experiencing: Using Interoception and proprioception as Core Elements of Trauma Therapy” Frontiers in Psychology 2015, 6:93 Payne, Levine, Crane

“Effect of  Somatic Experiencing Resiliency-Based Trauma Treatment Training on Quality of Life and

Psychological Health as Potential Markers of Resilience in Treating Professionals” Frontiers in

Neuroscience, 16 February 2018, Winblad, Changaris,Stein Links https://traumahealing.org/about-us/

Https://www.youtube.com/watch/v=3pxo9IEdISg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs-jOsxuCVM

 

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