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Touching into Channels of Healing and Transformation

by Efu Nyaki April 27, 2012

[Editor's note: in March we published Dennis Moorman's account of the amazing work he and a team of SEPs conducted in Haiti after its devastating 2010 earthquake. Here we share another account of the work, adding further dimension to the positive impact of Somatic Experiencing® worldwide.] I recently returned from Haiti where I went for [...]

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Re-Establishing ‘Grounding’ in Haiti after the Earthquake

by Dennis Moorman March 6, 2012

My first visit to Haiti was just one month after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck. The scale of destruction to buildings and infrastructure was massive. Far more tragic were the multitudes I encountered striving to cope with the day-to-day survival demands of finding shelter, food, and clean water. The experience was an opportunity to make [...]

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The Faces of Cruel Reality in North Kivu, DRC

by Joelle Depeyrot November 9, 2011

Faces, hundreds of faces are what I recall of the 11 months I spent in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo working as a mental health officer with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). People ask me: “So … How was it?” I try to respond. But I can’t answer in [...]

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Treed by Trauma: Somatic Experiencing in War-torn Congo

by Anthony "Twig" Wheeler August 17, 2011

I‘d like to tell you a story about a time I saw a huge group of people grok* the ideas behind SE®. It was in 2008 during my first of two trips to rural Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 200 people were sitting around a massive mango tree while Toss Mukwa, a pivotal figure [...]

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Tsunami Tremors and Children’s Ability to Self-Regulate

by Alé Duarte July 11, 2011

Right after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, Chieko Fujiwara, an active Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP), invited me to help work with children and victims of the tsunami in Sendai. The idea was to prepare an introductory workshop for introducing SE® to mental health professionals while also organizing teams to implement SE into their own community. [...]

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