Resilience isn’t built only through insight—it’s cultivated through lived, embodied experience. This experiential workshop is designed for mental health professionals who want to bring body-based and nature-informed practices into clinical work in safe, sustainable, and trauma-sensitive ways. You’ll explore how micro-interventions—small, intentional practices—can support nervous system regulation, reduce overwhelm, and foster resilience for both clients and clinicians.
We’ll focus on bottom-up strategies drawn from somatic psychology and eco-informed approaches, with special attention to accessibility across diverse settings. From breath and gentle movement to sensory outdoor reflection and imaginal nature practices, these tools are designed to meet people where they are—whether you’re in an office, online, or facilitating care in the community.
Throughout the training, you’ll engage in guided practices, demonstrations, and reflection to help you build your own “resilience toolkit”—a flexible set of micro-practices you can weave into sessions to support stabilization, presence, and healing. Clinicians will also consider how embodied resilience supports trauma recovery, strengthens therapeutic relationships, and helps prevent burnout in high-responsibility care roles.
This course welcomes clinicians of all experience levels and physical abilities. No prior somatic training or outdoor access is required, just a willingness to reconnect with the body, the breath, and the natural world as sources of regulation and renewal.
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: 08/7/2025 - 08/6/2026. 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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