Training Dates and Pricing

SEST Training Content and Curriculum During the 15 Training Days
(Intro + 12 Days of Modules)

• Principles and practice of Ego State Therapy and Somatic Experiencing
• Development of Ego States
• Functions, roles, and characteristics of ego states
• The SARI model as a four-phase treatment approach in Ego State Therapy
• Strategies for symptom reduction, self-cohesion, and empowerment
• Indications and contraindications for working with ego states
• Preparing the client for treatment
• The concept of the inner observer
• Research in Ego State Therapy
• Dissociation and the dissociative spectrum
• History, foundations, and principles of Somatic Experiencing (SE)
• Felt Sense, SIBAM, somatic resonance, and bodily resources
• Neurobiology of trauma and resilience from the SE perspective
• Deepening the Polyvagal Theory and the concept of neuroception (Stephen Porges)
• Ventral vagal system and safety in the therapeutic relationship: from co-regulation to self-regulation
• Stabilization through SEST
• SEST as a holistic approach: top-down and bottom-up processing
• Working with containment and touch
• How many brains do we actually have?
• Stabilization through Core Self phenomena in SEST: activating resources through the inner core
• Experiences without conflict
• Trauma and memory, working with procedural memory
• SEST interventions for defensive and survival responses (hyperarousal), such as fight or flight
• Embodiment exercises
• Case supervision, questions, and challenges
• Focus on the R and I phases of the SARI model
• Maggie Phillips: strengthening resources, re-regulation, repair, and reconnection
• Challenges in trauma therapy: working with the dorsal vagal system (hypoarousal) and blocking ego states
• Collapse and immobility (hyporesponse) as survival strategies
• Window of tolerance and complex trauma
• Deepening stabilization techniques, creating connection and safety through SEST
• Containment and touch
• How many brains are there in the human body?
• Connecting with conflict-free experiences
• SEST interventions for inner conflicts
• Working with different introjects
• Case supervision, questions, and challenges
• Deepening the 3 Rs: resources, re-regulation, and repair
• Deepening skills in working with ego states and recognizing their different manifestations
• Advanced applications of SEST with hostile and destructive ego states
• Interventions for suicidal tendencies
• Tools for working with persistent (non-responsive) symptoms such as emotional and physical pain and syndromes
• Difficulties in the therapeutic relationship: repairing ruptures, reenactments, and triggers through ventral vagal activation
• Integrating ego states through empathy, compassion, cooperation, and developmental learning
• False window of tolerance
• Research in Ego State Therapy
• Completion of the SEST training and certification

Target Group

Professionals with experience in medical and psychological psychotherapy, professionals experienced in hypnosis, body-oriented therapists, practitioners in life and social counseling, education, special education, pastoral care, specialized nursing, coaching, and Somatic Experiencing practitioners.