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Question 1

What do resources provide support for and what are 8 categories of resources?

Answer 1

Resources provide support for maintaining safey, a sense of self and both connection and differentiation from others regardless of what’s occurring in the environment.

1) Skills 2)abilities 3)objects 4) relationships 5) nature 6)communities 7)spiritual 8)services

Question 2

Three questions to Evoke Existing Resources

Answer 2

1. How did you make it through?
2. How did you survive?
3. What helped?

Question 3

3 Ways to Categorize types of Resources

Answer 3

1. Survival vs creative (old tattered coat vs new coat)
2. Existing vs missing
3. Internal vs external

Question 4

Example of a containment resource for hyperaroused clients (hint it involves pushing against the body)

Answer 4

Pushing the heels of the hands together. Or pushing the heel of the right hand against the inner knee of the left leg and the heel of the left hand against the inner knee of the right leg.

Question 5

4 Somatic Indicators of posture issues and how to intervene so they can become a resource instead

Answer 5

1. Collapsed chest - ask them to lift chest
2. Pulling in with the belly - breathing out and softening the belly
3. Head tilts up- lower chin
4. Chest puffed up and arms tense - take a deep breath out and let you chest come down

Question 6

5 Ways to Assess Somatic Resources

Answer 6

1. Look at the content of what the client is saying
2. Tracking - observing muscular, movement, postural and structural patterns
3. Hear from the client mindful reports of their own body and how it connects with personal psychology
4. Ask questions about past experiences, competencies and limitations
5. Conduct mindfulness experiments

Question 7

Two diagnostic assessment to figure out how a person feels about reaching out for support and attachment

Answer 7

1. Put a pen out and have them reach for it
2. Have them hold a pen tightly, imagine its a good friend and then let it go

Question 8

4 Approaches to Developing Somatic Resources

Answer 8

1. Psychoeducation on structural and movement patterns
2. Therapist demonstrates client’s patterns
3. Modeling somatic resources
4. Client practice in session and in daily life

Question 9

3 Centering Exercises

Answer 9

1. Place one hand on the heart, and one hand on the belly
2. Micro-movement in the small muscles of the spine
3. Sitting, feel that each organ has weight. Feel the tug of gravity on the organs. (This mitigates shock)

Question 10

2 Grounding Exercises

Answer 10

1. Sit and sense the ground through the perinuem. Rock and wiggle on the sitz bones, balancing within gravity - this is how baby’s learn to sit. Sense the ground through the pelvic floor.
2. Stand and relax the feet. Put weight on different areas of the feet. Bend knees, move up and down. Sense the ground pushing back. If needed, stomp or jump.

Question 11

3 Vertical Alignment Exercises

Answer 11

1. Become aware of the “stacking of the body” + arms hanging off the torso
2. Working with the spine: lengthen the spine and have client notice difference between collapse in the spine
3. Imagine being lifted by a hook from the top of your head, while feeling the pull of gravity on your tailbone

Question 12

Containment Exercise Using Back to Wall/Chair (5 steps)

Answer 12

1. Get back in contact to something like wall or chair
2. Have them feel their back
3. Move back against object, using it to “wake up” the back and notice the sensations
4. Then stop and slowly move away from object, seeing if they can stay in contact with those sensations.
5. Ask if there is a phrase that comes up related to those sensations

Question 13

What do transformations represent?

Answer 13

Transformations represent the new experience that has been waiting and wanting to happen

Question 14

8 Example signs of transformations

Answer 14

1. Any spontaneous physical reorganization, such as relaxation, a pleasant feeling in the body, energy flow, movement, and sensation
2. The ability to make previously unavailable or unfamiliar motor movements
3. Spontaneous affirming statements
4. Increased trust and connection in the therapeutic relationship
5. Different orientation to the future or a new sense of having a future
6. Experience of the principles: Being in touch with the organicity of one’s own process, with more gentleness toward the self, or with a greater feeling of mind/body/spirit holism. All of these are often reported when transformation occurs.
7. Feelings of peace, joy, excitement, self-confdence, and so forth, might be expressed
8. Spiritual awareness, insight, or connection.

Question 15

What is the 4 step cycle?

Answer 15

1. Track
2. Contact present experience (5 core organizers)
3. Mindfulness directive
4. Mindfulness question

Question 16

4 Steps of Practice integration through walking

Answer 16

1. Walk from the new experience transformation
2. Get precision about the movement or way of walking that supports the transformation
3. Get precision about any other somatic resources to support that movement or new way of walking
4. Practice new movements or new way of walking in various ways: imagining different people, situations, feelings, etc.