2025 NCGPS Spring Event: From Sensation to Relation
- ALL AGES
This is a 1-day event: Saturday, May 3, 2025. Lunch is included.
Date and time
Location
Berkeley City Club
2315 Durant Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704Refund Policy
Agenda
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Doors open / Check-in / Refreshments (coffee, tea, water)
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Presentation with Carlos Canales, PsyD, CGP
About this event
- Event lasts 8 hours
- ALL AGES
- Paid venue parking
From Sensation to Relation:
Applications of Somatic Experiencing in Group Therapy
This 6-hour in-person training will explore the inherent and restorative wisdom of the body as it relates to interpersonal relationships and intrapsychic dynamics. The voice of the body is often subtle, unspoken, and particular to each individual. Prioritizing the body allows for wholesome, secure, and satisfying connections. Conversely, ignoring the body can lead to dissociative, intellectual, or partial communication with compromised living.
Through didactic and experiential learning, this workshop will advocate for prioritizing the body in group psychotherapy.
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Practice Somatic Experiencing principles and techniques.
2. Describe the somatic experience of felt security, as an attachment precursor.
3. Experience and articulate moments of physiologi- cal change (proprioception) around states of intra- psychic and interpersonal safety and danger (neuroception).
4. Assess aliveness, connection, disconnection, and collapse in experience somatically.
5. Evaluate and apply Somatic Experiencing concepts such as orienting, pendulation, titration, SIBAM, settling, and various forms of freeze responses.
About the Workshop Leader
Dr. Carlos Canales, Psy.D. is a bilingual/bicultural Clinical Psychologist, a Certified Group Psychotherapist (CGP), Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) and Fellow for the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA-F).
Frequently asked questions
Scholarships are available for any in need as we want to make this event accessible to all clinicians interested in group therapy. To apply for a scholarship please email info@ncgps.org with your name, contact information, and the email address that you will use to register.
6 CEUs are available for this workshop, for an additional cost of $20 per person. Full attendance is required to receive credit.
NCGPS is approved by the CPA to provide continuing education for Psychologists, which also satisfies the requirements of the BBS as a provider of continuing education for LCSW’s, LMFT’s, LPCC’s and LEP's. NCGPS maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
There is a parking lot next to the venue and 2 more public parking lots nearby. Berkeley is notorious for giving out parking tickets, so avoid parking on the street.
Reasons to Carpool: You’ll get there on time. You get to be a passenger, you don’t have to drive, you can sit on your butt and watch the scenery. You’ll have made friends before you even get to the event. Email info@ncgps.org to set up a carpool (include if you want to drive, or be driven)
A boxed lunch is included in your ticket: - mixed green salad with balsamic vinaigrette dressing - roast turkey breast OR marinated grilled eggplant and zucchini (meat or vegetarian) - cheddar cheese - bread or gluten free bread - freshly baked brownies - coffee (regular & decaf), select teas, water
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