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2024-2025 schedule and location of training modules
19-20.10
Tallinn
20.11
Zoom
15.01
Zoom
15-16.03
Tallinn
14.05
Zoom
13-15.06
Tallinn
Dr. Siegmar Gerken
PhD, ECP, HP (Psychotherapy)
“True healing can happen when we are willing to embrace the power of love and integration.“
— Dr. Siegmar Gerken
Dr. Gerken is a lecturer, therapist, trainer and supervisor. He is co-founder of the Scientific Committee of the EABP.
Siegmar has been a leader in body-oriented and heart-centered therapy and humanistic psychology since 1976, and is the founder of the Energy and Consciousness® www.EnergyandConsciousness.com and the remaining in Core Evolution® programs .
He has been teaching Integrative Body Psychotherapy in Core Evolution® in Estonia for 15 years.
Dr. Gerken's educational journey includes psychology, education and anthropology.
Siegmar has taught on the faculty of the JFK University Somatic Psychology Department, the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, the Esalen Institute, and the Behavioral Therapy Training Institute in Hamburg.
He now teaches at universities and private institutes worldwide, on the interconnectedness of psychosomatic processes as they manifest on the levels of body, emotions, mind, will and consciousness.
In exploring many realms of consciousness, Dr. Gerken has always been interested in building bridges between Psychology and Spirituality, Environment, Personality and Eco-Psychology, Science, Medicine, Healing and the subtle dimensions of life.
Core Evolution® TRAUMA THERAPY TRAINING
For therapists, self-improvement enthusiasts and anyone who works with people.
In one way or another, we are all affected by trauma. Learn to live a trauma-informed life with yourself and others.
Specialized training for the integration of traumatic experiences and to create healing and unity for individuals, families, generations and our collective wellbeing.
Integrative • Experiential • Body-Oriented • Mindfulness Centered
#1 Gain a comprehensive understanding of the trauma matrix.
#2 Learn effective tools for working with Integrative Trauma Therapy.
#3 Balance theory, experience and practice and regain joy; hope, humor and the reawakening of the love for life.
Learn to help yourself and others. Join the 57-hour hybrid format Core Evolution® INTEGRATIVE TRAUMA THERAPY TRAINING conducted by Dr. Siegmar Gerken. Over the past 15 years, Siegmar has worked with 500+ professionals and conducted several professional Trainings in Estonia.
🎖️ This training is internationally recognized on 4 continents, across cultures and crisis situations, and is accredited by the International Institute for Energy & Consciousness, Inc.
🎓 DIPLOMA: After completing the program, you will receive a diploma as an "Integrative Trauma Informed Practitioner/Therapist", enabling you to support and change the lives of many people.
This training is ideal for both PERSONAL and PROFESSIONAL application.
We accept up to 40 people for training.
Take the opportunity to participate in this life-changing training, which fits easily into your everyday life.
📍 IN-PERSON MODULES LOCATION: The Private School of Transpersonal Psychology and Hypnotherapy: "Teadlik Mina" - Ahtri 8, VII floor, Tallinn.
*The training is conducted in English, with an Estonian translation.
What we do and experience may echo through generations.
"With our experience of almost 50 years we address, that the woven fabric of Developmental- and Shock- Trauma are the basis for so many difficulties, fears and distortions, that people face in their life. All these experiences take place in a family and in a specific social setting and can be carried over through generations. In our work we address this as Family- and Generational-Trauma.
Echoing through generations - that is exactly what our actions and interactions do; they reverberate through space and time. Our Being and our actions in life create corresponding vibratory patterns that connect us all on a collective level. Therefore, when we work on topics of Trauma, especially also on Collective-Trauma, we also activate the dynamic towards Collective Healing.
In the Trauma Training of Core Evolution® we are supporting participants to transform difficulties and traumas in life by establishing a Matrix of Grounding™. This strengthens coherance and enables the creation of a unified Body-Feeling-Mind Field with the ability to establish Self-Empowerment and Mindful Presence.
By coming together, witnessing, feeling and supporting each other and knowing, that we are all connected, socially, as human beings and in the larger field of existence, we contribute to global coherance - which is needed to solve today’s global issues of health, wealth, environment, justice, freedom and peace.
In my lectures or on conferences, participants often express, that they had been touched by what they had heard, but that they now have practical questions like: “What can I do when….?” “How can I change certain repeating patterns….?” “How can I avoid to get triggered?” and more.
That is when lectures or webinars are just not enough anymore and it needs the experience and dynamic interactive exchange.
In this Trauma Training I bring abstract concepts into the down to earth reality of your life. Of course most questions can not just be answered with one exercise, one visualization or other - but with empathy, competence, creativity and love, we can create a shift in the field of the person, that allows them to re-connect with their personal qualities and unique potential, to activate their inherent power of love, goodness and the capacity for self-healing. From this place you can change your actions and expand your consciousness, which then can “echo through generations” to create harmony again."
– Dr. Siegmar Gerken
The price of the training
57 hours of professional teaching and heartfelt sharing and processing.
Early Bird: €925
Until 30.09.2024. You invest €16.20/hour in your own therapy and education.
Regular price: €975
From 01.10.2024. You invest €17.10/hour in your own therapy and education.
It is possible to pay in two parts: €500 by October 19 and 475€ by March 15.
A place is guaranteed by registration and payment of at least €500 by October 19, 2024.
Core Evolution® Integrative Trauma Therapy Training
General curriculum - in-person and online
Contemporary trauma theories describe, that a traumatic experience that has made an impact on a person’s system and could not be fully processed and integrated, can often leave the system in a state of stress or shock. Neuroscience and decades of practice experience show, that with the principles of this Integrative Trauma Therapy Training of Core Evolution, you can find a place of healing.
Being a pioneer for almost 50 years in the field of Humanistic, Somatic and Transpersonal Psychology, Dr. Siegmar Gerken has developed an integrative approach to work with Developmental-, Shock, Generational-, Collective- and other forms of traumas, that are held in the person’s system, from past or present.
"We come to understand, that a trauma is not just held in the brain. A trauma is an energetic, somatosensory and emotional experience affecting the entire human system.”
— Dr. Siegmar Gerken
Traumatic situations in early or later phases of life can lead to a protective withdrawal or to a distortion of reality. These conditions have a strong influence on the forming forces of the personal development and the coping mechanism of how a person lives the daily life. Traumatic experiences are then often becoming ‘frozen patterns of history’.
These patterns manifest on the emotional, somatic and cognitive level of your life and can a) limit your capacity for harmonious self-regulation, and b) make it difficult to stay in deep contact with yourself and allow a natural and authentic expression of your life- energy.
This Integrative Trauma Therapy Training in Core Evolution gives you an expanded understanding by recognizing and describing the forces that traumatizing patterns can have in the life of a traumatized person, in terms of: a) Influencing the state of personal harmony and happiness; b) Recognizing triggers especially also in relationship and Intimacy, that makes it hard to stay open and loving; c) Often then it is not easy anymore to connect with the creativity and joy in the professional expression.How a person structures the information in a traumatic event will also determine how resources can be accessed and activated, so that optimal coping strategies and healing processes can be developed accordingly.
Module 1: in Tallinn, on site
19.10.2024 at 9.30-19.30
20.10.2024 at 9.30 to 17.00.
Module 2: Online
20.11.2024 at 17.30-21.00
It is also possible to participate only in the first module. Read more: https://healing.ee/et/trauma-training-introduction
Trauma Experiences and their Effects on the Body, Psyche and our Fields of Life. Foundations for the Comprehensive Understanding of Psychological Traumas
Stress – Trauma – Traumatization
Theoretical models and therapeutic approaches in therapy and medicine often focus on the direct trauma or clinical criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Since trauma is always processed by each individual differently, we also need to recognize the whole person in its present life situations and social structures.
The teaching and practice includes::
- Terms and definitions in Trauma Therapy
- Psychophysiology of stress and trauma – important aspects of interpersonal neurobiology
- The central nervous system and the regulation of traumatic experiences
- Sympathetic and parasympathetic states of fight, flight and freeze - from simplicity to complexity
- Research: The most important Fundamentals in Integrative Trauma Therapy incorporating the neurological, biochemical and psychological aspects.
- Change is possible – brain structure, Neuroplasticity and preparing for change;
- The Practice of Mindfulness and Somatic Awareness supports the re-organization of the personal system;
- Evaluating Resources and establishing healthy boundaries
- Therapeutic presence and creating a safe space
- Learning to anchor (Grounding) and how to prevent re-traumatization;
- Practice to safely release and integrate energies that are still held in a traumatic experience.
Throughout the training we will practice the Principles of Mindfulness and safe exercises for the concept of grounding, activation and harmonizing of body and feelings with breathing and movement, developing a Body-Feeling-Thinking-Mind-Awareness as an integrative approach to Trauma Therapy.
Module 3: Online
15.01.2025 at 17.30-21.00
Module 4: In Tallinn, on site
15.03.2025 at 09.30-19.30
16.03.2025 at 09.30-17.00
Expanding the Therapeutic Realm Beyond the Trauma
The Social Brain
Every person is part of a society, family, profession, institution, religion, traditions, culture, etc. Therefore, we also have to recognize the complexities of the social dimensions of trauma and its impact on a person’s life.
A traumatized, over-reactive system in general activates some physio- logical, cognitive and behavioral survival mechanisms via the subcortical areas of the brain. This often can leave a person with the feeling of not being supported, as well as feeling estranged and isolated, which limits healthy integration and carries the seed for post traumatic stress.
The over-reactive system is regulated by intra-personal processes as well as being co-regulated by empathic interaction. Therefore, facilitating regulation and social integration should always be part of a psychological first aid.
The teaching and practice includes::
- The Social Brain - its development, personal structuring and our ability to relate*;
- Empathy, attunement and mirror neurons;
- Auto-Regulation, Self-Regulation, Co-Regulation and the therapeutic relationship
- Implicit and explicit memory, the complexity of memory recognition and research beyond the brain*,;
- How Developmental Trauma structures our ability to access our inner and outer resources
- Generational and Intergenerational Traumas leave strong imprints in a person. We will delve into the depth of our family histories, shedding light on intergenerational patterns and narratives that have influenced our lives;
- Functional exercises for the integration of body, feelings and mind;
- Body-oriented processing, Polyvagal activation and other neuro-regulatory interventions;
- Attain skills to track the energy dynamic in a person;
- Resourceful processing of somatic memories
* documented in the lectures and research by Dr. Siegmar Gerken, PhD
Module 5: Online
14.05.2025 at 17.30-21.00
Module 6: In Tallinn, on site with a Graduation Ceremony
13.06.2025 at 16.00-20.00
14.06.2025 at 09.30-19.30
15.06.2025 at 09.30-15.00
The Coherent Self – development and stabilization of a healthy ground
Self-Acceptance – Integration of Affects, Thoughts, Images, Believes and Attitudes
The Integrative Trauma Therapy of Core Evolution provides the ground for a life-affirming direction, initiating ones life-energy again after a traumatic experience and a renewed meaning in life.
The practicing of the body-oriented and mindfulness-centered approach focuses on self-acceptance and positive feelings. With that the clinical approach to Trauma Therapy is expanded and deepened with humanistic values and transpersonal aspects of life.
The teaching and practice includes::
- Collective trauma and cultivating Collective Resilience. We can harness the power and wisdom of collective resilience and will create a space where our collective experience becomes catalyst for growth and transformation.
- The systemic approach reaches from cell-biology to the universe;
- The Coherent Self – development and stabilization of a healthy ground
- Work with unspecific psychosomatic issues (burnout, chronic pain, etc.)
- Working with situations of complex traumatization;
- Concepts of working with trauma in different topics like: accidents; surgery, anesthesia, severe loss, war and other existential situations, earthquakes*, natural and man-made disasters and other topics that participants bring;
Read the article by Dr. Siegmar Gerken: Healing Individual and Collective Trauma
https://www.coreevolution.de/media/healing_individual_and_collective_trauma_.pdf
VIDEO: Integration and Healing of Traumatic Life Situations
VIDEO: Collective, Generational and Family Trauma to Individual Trauma and Beyond
Sign up
57 hours of professional teaching and heartfelt sharing and processing.
It is possible to pay in two parts: €500 by October 19 and €475 by March 15.
A spot is guaranteed by registration and payment of at least €500 by October 19, 2024. By paying the full amount no later than the first module of the training - 19-20.10.2024 - the "Early Bird" price applies - €925.
TRAINER: Dr. Siegmar Gerken, PhD, ECP, HP (Psychotherapy)
ORGANISER: Everiin Silas, MSc, Holistic Healing
Contact: events@healing.ee or +372 5353 5572