Lasting resilience grows from what people live and feel in the body, not insight alone. In this hands-on workshop, clinicians learn to add somatic and nature-based practices to their work in a manner that is safe, sustainable and attuned to trauma. We explore micro-interventions, brief deliberate exercises that calm the nervous system, ease overwhelm and strengthen resilience for clients and for therapists.
The approach is bottom-up, drawing on somatic psychology and ecology-informed methods, and it keeps accessibility in view for many settings. Tools range from breathing and light movement to sensory reflection outdoors and imagined nature scenes, adaptable to an office, a telehealth session or a community program.
Through guided exercises, demonstrations and discussion you will put together a personal resilience toolkit, a flexible collection of brief practices to use in session for grounding, presence and healing. We also consider how body-based resilience aids trauma recovery, deepens the therapeutic relationship and guards against burnout in demanding caregiving jobs.
Everyone is welcome regardless of experience or physical ability. You do not need somatic training or access to the outdoors; curiosity about the body, breath and natural world as sources of renewal is enough.
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to
- Define embodied resilience and its relevance in trauma-informed care.
- Apply somatic micro-interventions for in-session regulation and stabilization.
- Utilize nature-informed practices to enhance presence, regulation, and recovery.
- Design a resilience toolkit tailored to clinician-client needs and practice setting.
Syllabus:
Introduction
- Grounding exercise: guided breath + gentle body scan.
- Group check-in: current challenges to resilience.
- Overview of somatic and nature-based foundations.
Objective #1: Define embodied resilience and its relevance in trauma-informed care.
- Key concepts: window of tolerance, pendulation, co-regulation.
- Explore resilience as both a personal and relational process.
- Discuss embodied responses to systemic stress and burnout.
Objective #2: Apply somatic micro-interventions for in-session regulation and stabilization.
- Practice: orienting and containment tools.
- Demonstration: “micro-movements” to shift state.
- Integration: matching somatic tools to client activation patterns.
Objective #3: Utilize nature-informed practices to enhance presence, regulation, and recovery.
- Chair-based outdoor reflection prompts.
- Sensory fieldwork: sound, texture, horizon gaze.
- Clinical adaptations for clients with nature barriers or trauma associations.
Objective #4: Design a resilience toolkit tailored to clinician-client needs and practice setting.
- Build a menu of micro-practices: indoor/outdoor/imaginal.
- Identify strategies for embedding resilience in documentation and treatment plans.
- Closing ritual: sharing one practice to carry forward.
Summary/Q&A
Social workers completing this course receive 3 Clinical asynchronous continuing education credits.
For other board approvals, this course qualifies for 3 Clinical continuing education training.
Instructor: Kristin Whiting-Davis, LCSW-C, LICSW, LCSW
Recording Date: April 4, 2026
CEUS On-Demand, LLC, provider #2274, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 08/7/2026 - 08/6/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 3hrs Clinical continuing education credits.
CEUs On-Demand, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7091. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CEUs On-Demand, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
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