Blueprint Resonance

Verbal Skills for Embodied Transformation

A somatic approach to trauma resolution, counseling and personal growth with Anna Chitty.

 
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Developed by Anna Chitty from her 40-year therapeutic career, working with clients to integrate somatic bodywork and psychotherapeutic development. The course draws upon Anna’s extensive study of Somatic Experiencing, Matrixworks, Polarity Therapy, DiamondHeart, Zen Buddhism and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy.

Blueprint Resonance offers a way for touch practitioners to deepen their understanding and capacity to use verbal skills to support clients on and off the table. These skills help practitioners learn to work effectively with clients who show the effects of trauma and lose the ability to self-regulate. The inability to self-regulate can manifest in many common ailments: anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, physical pain and destructive behaviors. No matter what the origin of the problem (car accidents, sports injuries, disease, medical treatment, etc.), it is beneficial to be able to work with these clients not only through touch but also verbally to work with trauma, deepen engagement with the healing process, and develop cognitive awareness and skills to manage life circumstances mindfully. Upon completion of the 5 modules of Blueprint Resonance, students will receive the designation of Polarity Life Coach.

These classes will include theory and practical applications both on the table and in chairs. Modules must be taken in order; a new series starts each year. Completion of this program earns the certification of “Polarity Life Coach.”

Training Dates & Logistics

There are two ways to take this training: In-Person or Virtual. There will be an in-person cohort and a virtual cohort. Both cohorts will take place simultaneously, with the virtual students tuning into the in-person training in our classroom in Boulder. We have an immersive hybrid classroom set-up where in-person and virtual students can see each other and participate together (with separate breakout rooms for exercises and practice sessions for the virtual cohort). We will have one module that will be entirely online (for both virtual and in-person cohorts) in December 2023 (see schedule below).

Access to the virtual course will be limited - due to staffing limitations. If you are new to Anna/CSES, and wanting to participate virtually, you will need to do an interview with Anna before your enrollment is finalized. We will schedule this interview upon receipt of your application. 

Staff and Teaching Assistants are being portioned by the virtual/in-person student ratios, so we need full commitment to either the in-person or virtual cohorts. We will not be able to accommodate switching from in-person to virtual cohorts or vice versa throughout the course. 

For students new to Anna/CSES: we highly recommend completing an Introduction to Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, which will orient and fine-tune your somatic sensing prior to completing this course.

 

BOTH COHORTS ARE CURRENTLY FULL.

WE ARE TAKING APPLICATIONS FOR THE WAITING LIST - PLEASE APPLY ASAP IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN.

DATES:

Module 1: Aug 28 - Sept 1, 2023** (In-Person & Online)
**This module runs Monday to Friday to avoid the Labor Day holiday - all other modules run Wednesday - Sunday
Module 2: November 1-5, 2023 (In-Person & Online)
Module 3: Jan 17 - 21, 2024 (In-Person & Online)
Module 4: March 13-17, 2024 (In-Person & Online)
Module 5: April 24-28, 2024 (In-Person & Online) *In-person students are welcome to attend virtually this module.
Module 6: June 5-9, 2024 (In-Person & Online)

SCHEDULE:

Modules: 9am - 5:30pm MST; end at 2pm MST on Sunday

Price:

Hybrid Modules: $900
$20 administrative fee charged per module for payments made via Paypal / Credit Card

Course Syllabus

 

  • Symptoms and therapeutic verbal strategies for hyper- and hypo- states, including emotional overwhelm

  • How to help clients deepen into their experience more fully so that the inherent treatment plan can be accessed. Also covered is how to broaden the experience so that there is more capacity to be with, and somatically integrate, past events.

  • Practices to deepen the capacity for somatic tracking and naming

  • Learning how to cultivate and support the completion of defensive responses, bringing more empowerment and reinstating lost capacities

  • Learning the anatomy and physiology of the triune nervous system, how to recognize and track it, and how to work with it.

  • Being able to perceive a client’s state, and to work at the edges of the Window of Presence, including verbal and somatic skills for each specific state

  • Learning to recognize and work with truncated orienting responses

  • Learning how to manage your own activation

  • Working with pendulation of states, with the Two-Chair and other methods

  • Understanding and accessing the power of interpersonal neurobiology

  • Understanding the power of mindfulness in working with dysregulated states, and the neuroscience that validates it

  • Learning how to work with traumatic events and bring the system to discharge and completion