Welcome to the new theme of this year's Somatics course. This year, we are deeply exploring the autonomic nervous system, or your body's natural protective responses and ways that it resources itself through adverse conditions. We know that trauma is in the person; their history and perception. We each have our own adaptation patterns. This lecture will be an overview of the year long course, with a few exercises to help ground, settle, and center. We always work with the notion: It is not just what you do that matters, but also how you are on the inside. Come have an orientation to our new Somatics course. This lecture is also part of Monday LIVE and Creating Safety

Kate White is an award-winning prenatal and perinatal educator and an advanced bodyworker. She is trained in somatic therapies, prenatal and perinatal health, lactation, brain development, infant mental health, and has specialized in mother-baby dyad care using somatic prevention and trauma healing approaches for nearly 20 years. She is a mother of two children, holds a BA and MA in Communication, is a Registered Craniosacral Therapist in the Biodynamic Craniosacral method and a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. Her work combines somatic therapy with brain development to help give families with babies and small children the best possible start. She was Founding Director of Education for the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health from 2013 – 2018 where she managed a large online educational program for professionals. She currently co-directs this department, administering an online program for parents and parent professionals, runs a private practice and offers her own seminars through the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, ppncenter.com