INTRODUCTION TO THE TARA APPROACH: SELF CARE

Thursday, September 18th, 5:30-8:30
Friday, September19 th, 10-7

Early registration by September 1st , 2008: $175.
After September 1st , 2008: $250.
If you would like to take this course as a refresher and have already taken a Self-Care training, early registration is $125, after September 1st , $150.

The TARA Approach provides a path to understand, treat, and resolve patterns that inhibit us physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Connective tissue holds the memory of our entire lives. By using subtle touch on specific areas of the body you reclaim your innate health along with your personal truth. Accumulated tension is released, allowing your body, mind, and spirit to reorganize, unwind, and find true balance and wellbeing. (continued > )

At the heart of the TARA Approach is self-care that supports personal transformation, evolution, and energetic renewal. Developed by Dr. Stephanie Mines, the TARA Approach is specifically geared to bring the nervous system back into balance after experiencing overwhelming experience, such as trauma or shock. After many years of research and clinical practice, Dr. Mines combined her training in the treatment of trauma with her studies of energy medicine to create an empowerment based healing system available to all.

In this introductory training you will:

* Learn the twenty-six areas of the body that, when touched, balance the nervous system;
* Understand how the body responds to overwhelming experience;
* Practice simple energy medicine treatments that will benefit you immediately;
* Experience how to treat others easily and safely;
* Cultivate resources that will enhance your health and the health of others.

LEVEL ONE TRAINING:
ATTUNING THROUGH PULSE, LANGUAGE, AND DIALOGUE

Saturday, September 20th, 10-7
Sunday, September 21st, 10-7

Early Registration before September 1st , 2008: $475,
After September 1st, 2008: $575
If you are registering for both Level 1 and Level 2: early registration is $950, after September 1st, $1100

The areas of greatest restriction in our bodies are often caused by overwhelming shock and trauma. Using the TARA Approach to assess and treat the roots of these restrictions allows you to move to the source of symptoms more efficiently and accurately, thereby fostering long lasting health and healing. When we attune to the connective tissue using the art and skills of pulse listening and dialogue, the body tells us the entire story of our lives. The capacity to attune and assess using the pulses, language, and dialogue is critical to working with the overwhelming shock and trauma that compromise us structurally, developmentally, and spiritually. Emphasis in the Level 1 training is on attunement, assessment, and treatment strategies. The learning environment will be highly experiential. Self-Care is a prerequisite to take this class. In the Level 1 training you will learn:

* How to assess the energetic areas of greatest restriction through the pulses;
* How to design treatment plans based on pulse attunement and assessment;
* How to use the energy of language and specific dialogue skills to resolve shock and trauma as well as to initiate structural, developmental, emotional, and spiritual change;
* Evidence based information on how our neurology is connected to our fascia and how to navigate these structural and nervous system highways through TARA Approach assessment and treatment models.

LEVEL 2 TRAINING: UNDERSTANDING OUR DEEPEST WOUNDING, UNDERSTANDING OUR GREATEST STRENGTHS: THE PRENATAL PERIOD

Friday, September 26th, Friday, 1-5:30
Saturday, September 27th, 10-7
Sunday, September 28th, 10-7

Early registration before September 10th, 2008: $525.
After September 10th, 2008, $625.
If you are registering for both Level 1 and Level 2: early registration is $950, after September 10th, $1100

Our experiences from conception through birth build the blueprint from which our structural, emotional, relational, spiritual, and energetic developmental capacities are formed. When we identify, treat, and repattern our earliest experiences of trauma our capacity for health, wellbeing, relationship, and balance grow exponentially. In understanding the deepest routes of our wounding we can begin the process of reclaiming our lives. In this reclamation we free ourselves from the limitations of the past and orient towards the infinite possibilities and strengths we embody in the present moment. This training will be highly experiential. The prerequisites for Level 2 are Self-Care and Level 1

In this training you will:

* Understand how specific energetic and developmental milestones throughout the prenatal and birth experience shape us;
* Be able to understand, assess, and treat likely obstacles present throughout the prenatal and birth experience;
* Learn to assess and treat yourself and others using the Rivers of Splendor, also known as the extraordinary meridians, which are energetic reservoirs formed prenatally to support optimal grow.

INTRODUCTION TO THE TARA APPROACH:
SELF CARE PRACTICES TO REBALANCE THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

Seattle, Washington
Facilitated by Deborah Sweet, MA, CCH

Saturday, November 15th, 5:30-8:30
Sunday, November 16th, 10-7

Early registration by November 1st , 2008: $175.
After November 1st, 2008: $250.
**Student/New Professional Rate (enrolled in 4+ credits or have graduated within the last year) before November 1st, $125, thereafter $175
**If you have taken a Self-Care training with Deborah Sweet previously, you may take this training as a refresher.
Cost of refresher before November 1st, $125, thereafter $175.

The TARA Approach (Tools for Awakening Resources and Awareness) is an integrative healthcare system developed by Dr. Stephanie Mines to bring balance to the nervous system after overwhelming experience (shock and trauma). It has been tested in clinical trials and is currently in use in hospitals and healthcare agencies throughout the world. The TARA Approach is a body-centered design that combines subtle touch with assessment and treatment tools to resolve the developmental, emotional, psychological and physical impacts of unresolved trauma.

Participants will learn how to use a map of 26 Sacred Sites on the body that are keyed to meridian functions to provide nervous system balance. Students will leave the training with a path to empowered self-care and the gift of attunement. The importance of sequencing (unlayering the impacts of traumatic overload), resourcing (providing solid reference points for embodiment and selfhood), and titration (treating without creating additional overwhelm) will be demonstrated. The TARA Approach provides breakthrough information about the prenatal origins of health and how to prevent and treat early trauma.

The TARA Approach can supplement psychotherapy, bodywork, physical therapy, and all healthcare services. It is also completely self-sufficient and independent as a comprehensive intervention. This introductory course is the first in the certification sequence. It provides tools for your immediate benefit and to serve others. The course stands on its own, or participants may choose to continue training through the Foundations Certification program.

LEVEL ONE TRAINING:
ATTUNING THROUGH PULSE, LANGUAGE, AND DIALOGUE

Seattle, WA
Facilitated by: Deborah Sweet, MA, CCH

Saturday, December 6th, 1-7
Sunday, December 7th, 10-7

Early Registration before November 15th , 2008: $475,
After November 15th, 2008: $575
If you are registering for both Level 1 and Level 2: early registration is $950, thereafter tuition is $1100
**Students and New Professionals receive a 10% discount, to qualify you must be enrolled in 4+ credits, or have graduated from a college, university, or professional school within the last year.

The areas of greatest restriction in our bodies are often caused by overwhelming shock and trauma. Using the TARA Approach to assess and treat the roots of these restrictions allows you to move to the source of symptoms more efficiently and accurately, thereby fostering long lasting health and healing. When we attune to the connective tissue using the art and skills of pulse listening and dialogue, the body tells us the entire story of our lives. The capacity to attune and assess using the pulses, language, and dialogue is critical to working with the overwhelming shock and trauma that compromise us structurally, developmentally, and spiritually. Emphasis in the Level 1 training is on attunement, assessment, and treatment strategies. The learning environment will be highly experiential. Self-Care is a prerequisite to take this class. In the Level 1 training you will learn:

* How to assess the energetic areas of greatest restriction through the pulses;
* How to design treatment plans based on pulse attunement and assessment;
* How to use the energy of language and specific dialogue skills to resolve shock and trauma as well as to initiate structural, developmental, emotional, and spiritual change;
* Evidence based information on how our neurology is connected to our fascia and how to navigate these structural and nervous system highways through TARA Approach assessment and treatment models.

LEVEL 2 TRAINING: UNDERSTANDING OUR DEEPEST WOUNDING, UNDERSTANDING OUR GREATEST STRENGTHS: THE PRENATAL PERIOD

Seattle, Washington
Facilitated by: Deborah Sweet, MA, CCH

Friday, January 2nd 5:30-8:30
Saturday, January 3rd 10-7
Sunday, January 4th 10-7

Early registration before December 15th, 2008: $525.
After December 15th, 2008, $625.
If you are registering for both Level 1 and Level 2: early registration is $950, thereafter $1100
**Students and New Professionals receive a 10% discount, to qualify you must be enrolled in 4+ credits, or have graduated from a college, university, or professional school within the last year.

Our experiences from conception through birth build the blueprint from which our structural, emotional, relational, spiritual, and energetic developmental capacities are formed. When we identify, treat, and repattern our earliest experiences of trauma our capacity for health, wellbeing, relationship, and balance grow exponentially. In understanding the deepest routes of our wounding we can begin the process of reclaiming our lives. In this reclamation we free ourselves from the limitations of the past and orient towards the infinite possibilities and strengths we embody in the present moment. This training will be highly experiential. The prerequisites for Level 2 are Self-Care and
Level 1.

In this training you will:
* Understand how specific energetic and developmental milestones throughout the prenatal and birth experience shape us;
* Be able to understand, assess, and treat likely obstacles present throughout the prenatal and birth experience;
* Learn to assess and treat yourself and others using the Rivers of Splendor, also known as the extraordinary meridians, which are energetic reservoirs formed prenatally to support optimal growth and development
* Learn about the substantial neurobiological evidence of how our growth and development is so significantly influenced by our prenatal experiences;
* Learn how to assess and treat the impact of our prenatal experience on the nervous system;
* Learn strategies to prevent and treat shock and trauma with the children of the future.

SESSIONS AND MENTORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

The TARA Approach is a transformative experience not to be missed. Whether you would like to focus on your own personal process of growth and development, or would like to learn more about using the TARA Approach within your practice, there are multiple opportunities for further learning available.

Deborah is available in person in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and in Seattle, Washington. She is also available for phone consultation, sessions, and mentorship. For more information please contact Deborah at 206-547-9854 or by email at deborah@tensegritycenter.com.

There are often opportunities to create semi-private mentorship or case consultation groups as well, please contact Deborah for more information.