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07 12.2007 |
 FHE News Announcement from FHE Board Chair and E.D. First Annual SE Conference! 2008 Practitioners Registry SE Training News New Somatic Experiencing® Training Manual Student Resources New SE Session Logs SE Research News FHE Research Program News is not only possible, she is on her way. On a clear day I can hear her breathing." -- Arundhati Roy, activist |
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FHE NEWS What's New Announcement from FHE Board Chair and E.D. As we approach year's end, we are already reflecting back on 2007 and our challenges and accomplishments of the past year. The FHE Board of Directors added three new members in 2007, Dr. Nancy Thoennes, Mr. Arne van Roon and Mr. Bruce Gottlieb. Nancy Thoennes is a distinguished social policy researcher specializing in the areas of child custody and parental rights policy. She is a Colorado native and counts among her passions the Colorado Rockies baseball team, who recently competed in the Baseball World Series. Arne van Roon is originally from Holland, and now makes his home in Switzerland. Arne has a deep background in international business. He has also completed all three levels of SE® training, Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced. He believes deeply in the FHE mission and wants to help SE® expand... read more First Annual SE Conference! The Foundation for Human Enrichment (FHE) is thrilled to report that our first International Somatic Experiencing® Conference, “Life Energy and the Emergent Therapeutic Paradigm: A Balanced Approach to Body, Brain and Mind,” October 24-26, 2007, at the Claremont Resort and Spa in Berkeley, California, was a huge success! Four hundred practitioners, researchers, thinkers and educators met to learn and share the latest and best knowledge and wisdom in trauma healing. Somatic Experiencing® (SE) is a short-term, naturalistic trauma-healing approach that enables people to access their innate ability to rebound from overwhelming experience. SE facilitates the healing process by helping traumatized people release stored survival energy and complete interrupted biological patterns that have gotten stuck in the nervous system. The celebrated founder... read more
2008 Practitioners Registry With the New Year fast approaching, the time has come to be listed on the 2008 FHE Annual Practitioners Registry. This professional registry is vital in helping the general public find those who use Somatic Experiencing® in their practice AND is vital in assisting professionals in providing SE® referrals to their patients and clients. Beginning December 31, 2007, all 2007 profiles will be removed from the registry. Below are the steps for either keeping or updating your current profile or to join the registry for 2008. All profiles will be posted beginning Jan 1, 2008. Returning Practitioner registry process * You will be charged based on your training level via MasterCard or Visa. If you do not wish to pay online, you may call the FHE office (303) 652-4035 to pay by phone, or you may mail a check to FHE, 6685 Gunpark Drive, Suite 102, Boulder, CO 80301. Don’t lose out on this opportunity to be in the right place
at the right time! When the FHE Central Office gets calls from those
who have just read one of Peter Levine’s books and want to
find someone who is trained in SE®, we refer them to the Annual
Registry. When professionals call to refer clients to a therapist
or body-worker who uses SE®, we refer them to the Annual Registry.
Remember, if you’re not in the Annual Registry, they
won’t be able to find you!
The cost for the new manual is as follows: Ordering Options:
NEW SE SESSION LOGS Download Form The FHE now has a new, updated session log on which to record your SE® sessions. In order to expedite processing of SE session logs and alleviate questions as to which type of session was recorded, the new forms allows you to just circle the level and type of session. You can click here to download a form or visit the Members Section of the website. Please start using the new forms as soon as possible. Please forward your original session logs to the FHE upon the
completion of required hours for SEP certification and keep
a copy for your records. Remember, participants are always responsible
for tracking their own session hours.
STUDENT RESOURCES Now that the new SE® manuals have been completed, our attention will be turned to getting the Student Resources portion of the FHE website up and running. This section of the FHE website will eventually contain SE®-related articles, links to other reference material, articles written by FHE faculty and other resources to support our SE® students’ learning. We are getting started on this section by posting a new SE®
Informed Consent form, which may be downloaded at no charge. There
is also information, prepared by our ethics consultant, Dr. Ofer
Zur, about Standard of Care in relation to SE®, treatment planning
and clinical recordkeeping. You may access this information by clicking
on the following link - http://www.traumahealing.com/Members/ or by going to the Members Section of the
FHE website.
SE Reseach News FHE RESEARCH PROGRAM NEWS Dr. Laurie Leitch, Research Director, FHE The first SE outcome study has been published! It is in the journal Traumatology Vol.13, No.4:11-20 and describes the work in Thailand after the tsunami. The second study of the Hurricane Katrina/Rita survivors is currently under review at the journal Social Work. We had a wonderful turnout for the Research meeting at the October SE conference in Berkeley. More than 50 very interesting people came and contributed their enthusiasm and described their ideas for extending the research agenda. It feels as if we are creating a strong community of people interested in helping FHE build a much-needed evidence base. Also, at the Research meeting Abi Blakeslee presented her dissertation research. We hope that Abi's presentation to a group of peers is just the first of other such presentations. And a big thanks to Abi for blazing a new trail! If you were not at the meeting and want to keep up with FHE-based research, please check the website. We will be updating it soon and we will be able to have interactive dialogue about research issues. Also on the website will be instruments that can be used in SE outcome studies, description of the "gold standard" for research studies, and funding sources for trauma-oriented research. We encourage SE students to consider doing an SE study for Masters thesis or doctoral dissertation work. If you are interested in, or planning to do an SE-based study, please contact Laurie. We would like to keep an up-to-date list of SE researchers. The following research projects are "in development": 1. A study of SE and domestic violence will be submitted to NIMH in mid-February. We will need at least 3 sites; so if you have access to a domestic violence program and there are SEPs in your area, please contact Laurie Leitch (l.leitch@comcast.net). 2. The veterans focus group project is underway. If you are involved with an organization that serves vets and might be interested in being a pilot site for a Phase 2 study of SE effectiveness with vets, please contact Laurie. We would like to conduct a multi-site study with some geographic variability. 3. Development of a case-study protocol. The protocol can be used by SE students and faculty to report on SE qualitative outcomes of single cases. The protocol will include how to write up the results for publication. This is a complement to the more quantitative outcome studies we will be conducting with vets, domestic violence survivors, etc. When the case study protocol is posted on the Research Program part of the FHE website everyone will receive an email notification. We hope to see lots of case studies getting published! We are looking for a doctoral student or other research-oriented person who would be willing to develop and standardize an SE-specific outcome instrument. Most symptom inventories are lacking in some of the domains we would want to explore in an SE outcome study. Please let me know if that would be of interest to one or several of you who could work together. Finally, at some point in the near future we will be organizing a Research Special Interest Group (R-SIG). This group will meet during annual conferences and will stay in touch about emerging research issues and interests. You will be notified when we initiate the R-SIG. A lot is happening on the research front at FHE!
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