Facilitator: Faan Yeen Sidor, PsyD
November 22, 2024, 9:00am-4:30pm
Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
$225***
6 CEUs are offered for LCPCs, LCSWs, LMFTs, Nurses and Clinical Psychologists.
*CCIH strives to make training accessible for as many participants as possible. For this workshop, we are offering a lowered fee of $175 for students or other participants in need of a reduced fee. Contact Victoria at officemanager@theccih.com to request.
**20% discount available for groups of 3 or more–contact Victoria at officemanager@theccih.com to request
The field of psychology is inherently Western in its origins and as a result limited in its perspective. The foundational scholarship of our field was largely done by white men of privilege who brought their own limitations and biases, and its standard of truth accepts only that which can be proven through data and observation.
This foundation can curtail our openness to other ways of knowing and may prevent us from trusting what we and our clients know through our own lived experience. In order to most effectively use somatic approaches with clients, we must widen our perspective and learn to trust knowledge that is felt and known in the body as an important source of information.
In this workshop we will work to broaden our view and offer some practical ideas of how to bring this wider outlook into our healing work. Through experiential learning and group discussion, we will learn how we can use connection with nature as a way to sense into the body. We will broaden our view by exploring epigenetics and the ways in which the wounds of our ancestors appear in our own and our clients’ lives. We will explore how we can collaborate with our clients to create meaningful rituals, which can help mark and honor passages, transitions, new beginnings and endings.
In this workshop we will:
- Explore and practice body centered approaches to use with clients
- Discuss ways of creating meaningful rituals with clients to facilitate healing
- Learning the significance of epigenetics and intergenerational transmission of trauma wounds and how to track this in clients
Faan Yeen Sidor
Faan Yeen Sidor, Psy.D. (she, her, hers) is a licensed clinical psychologist and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy trainer. She has over twenty years of clinical experience including over a decade as a subject matter expert with active-duty military members, veterans and their families, suffering from combat-related PTSD, complex trauma.
Faan Yeen is a first-generation American, born to immigrant parents from China and Hungary. Her passions include work with racialized trauma, gender-related trauma, relational trauma, and attachment. Her professional experience and personal background have led her to incorporate spirituality, culture, intergenerational trauma and healing into her work. Her current areas of exploration are indigenous healing practices and ritual.