S10E9 - Trauma & The Embodied Arts with Monique Pangari

School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward

How can we work DEEP in the body without ‘blowing up’ someone’s trauma?

Almost all somatic practitioners (including embodiment coaches) I work go through a phase of feeling super worried about activating latent trauma & triggering a client. This is a conversation I have with women a lot.

Sometimes, this fear manifests as an extreme over-abundance of caution, need to “get it right” & hyper-fixation on strategies.

This results in practitioners holding themselves back from deepening into sensation - to everyone’s detriment, especially the clients.

Today on the podcast we’re speaking with Somatic Psychotherapist & founder of The School of Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy Monique Pangari about somatic approaches to trauma-centric therapy and what practitioners need to know if they are worried about activating latent trauma (plus so much more).

Monique's training & experience is vast & in this conversation, we explore: - Examples of somatic strategies to support clients in a trauma therapy setting - Why embodied approach are deceptively simple & some of the core components for practitioners to make them work well - The difference between trauma therapy, therapy & coaching - What practitioners need to know if they are worried about activating a client’s trauma - The importance of rupture & repair for practitioners - Attachment styles & the work Monique created for counsellors & psychotherapists

About Monique Pangari Monique Pangari, MEd, SEP, is the creator of Somatic Sand Therapy™, Somatic Expressive Therapies and Somatic Attachment Focused Expressive Therapies™ (SAFE-T). In 2020 she founded 'The School of Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy' where she offers post-graduate training and clinical supervision for professional Counsellors and Psychotherapists. Monique has been practicing Sandplay Therapy and Expressive Therapies with clients of all ages since 2002 and has been training other therapists across Australia since 2008. She began integrating Somatic Experiencing® and Attachment Repatterning into her practice in 2017. Monique has undergraduate studies in Education and Psychology and holds two Masters Degrees. She is also trained in Family Constellations, Circle of Security, Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples, NeuroAffective Touch®, ISHTA Yoga and is currently undergoing further study in Jungian Sandplay Therapy. In addition to offering Training, Supervision and Counselling in her private practice, Monique also lectures part-time at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) in the Masters of Counselling program and offers Supervision to Counselling Interns at the University Counselling Clinic. Monique is a Level 4 member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and is a member of the ACA College of Supervisors.

Resources From Today’s Podcast

● Monique Pangari - Website | Social links | Please open in new window | Pls grab from here

● Somatic Experiencing

● Diane Poole Heller

● Trauma Aware Embodiment Coaching (Podcast by Jenna)

● Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches

● Primal Feminine Flow – Embodied At Home Movement Practice

● School of Embodied Arts

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