COURSE OUTCOMES

By the completion of
The Somatic Processing Framework Labs
participants will be able to:

• Develop embodies literacy by recognizing, interpreting, and responding to the body's internal signals - including sensation, impulse, emotion, and state - as meaningful information.
• Establish and maintain nervous system regulation using body-based tools that support safety, presence, and adaptability across varied contexts.
• Differentiate cognitive narratives from somatic information, learning to access meaning through sensation rather than story alone.
• Understand movement, stillness, and rest as informational inputs, not merely as exercises or techniques, and use them intentionally to influence internal state.
• Identify patterns of tension, protection, and adaptation held within the body and understand their functional and historical role.
• Increase tolerance for sensation and experience, including discomfort and stillness, without overwhelm, avoidance, or dissociation.
• Integrate somatic insights into daily life, including relationships, movement practices, self-regulation, and decision-making.
• Apply The Somatic Processing Framework independently as an ongoing method for self-inquiry, regulation, and embodied change.

MODULES

1. Arrival and Orientation
2. Regulation and Safety: Finding Your Way Home
3. The Felt Sense: Learning Your Inner Language
4. Movement as Information
5. Movement for Change: Choosing Interventions, Not Forcing Outcomes
6. The Body-Emotion Bridge
7. Stillness, Discomfort, and Tolerance
8. Chemistry, Altered States, and Feeling Good: How the Body Naturally Moves Toward Wellbeing
9. Integration: Coherence and Expansion
10. Living the Framework