Upcoming Presentations
COMING JUNE 21-23, 2024 BY POPULAR DEMAND
Dear Friends & Colleagues,
FINALLY, together with the loving collaboration of my dear SE friend Nichi Avina, 2022 CA Teacher of the Year, I will be sharing how to combine Somatic Experiencing skills with attachment play for kids on Zoom in the Pacific Daylight Time Zone. Please invite your friends in mental health and education to join us. This PlayShop will be recorded to accommodate different time zones and will be available to view for one month.
Trauma Through a Child's Eyes
This 12-hour Introductory Zoom PlayShop cleverly interweaves the basics of Somatic Experiencing® trauma healing with art, movement, attachment play & breathwork in a 2-path model that is easy to implement.
Maggie’s latest book now available!
GOOD NEWS! Maggie Kline‘s new book, Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof Our Schools is available on Amazon.
Drawings Before and After SE Exercise
Taipei, Taiwan
Prague, Czech Republic
Brussels, Belgium
Sydney, Australia
Sydney, Australia
Trauma Through a Child's Eyes
with Maggie Kline
This 12-hour Introductory Zoom PlayShop cleverly interweaves the basics of Somatic Experiencing® trauma healing with art, movement, attachment play & breathwork in a 2-path model that is easy to implement.
What You Will Learn:
The Resilience Roadmap Model for alleviating symptoms & behaviors, such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, nightmares & aggression from ordinary and extraordinary events
“The 8 Essentials of Healthy Attachment” to develop a resilient nervous system with activities for ventral vagal & social-emotional development
Teaching kids & teens sensory (interoceptive) awareness & tracking skills with art, games & breathing to increase emotional regulation through charge/discharge cycles, settling & integration
Case material fusing SE™ Principles, Art & Movement for Individuals, Groups & Classrooms
When: June 21- 23, 2024 10:00-2:00 Pacific Daylight Time
This PlayShop is useful for professionals who wish to integrate the core concepts of SE™ when working with kids and those wishing to deepen their understanding of inner child work with adults. Learning will be a mixture of lectures, videos, experiential activities, and Q&A.
About Your Instructor:
Maggie Kline, LMFT, has been in education since the ’70s, a Family Therapist and School Psychologist since the ‘80s, and a Somatic Experiencing® International Faculty Member since the ’90s. She is the owner of Conscious Connections PlayShops. Maggie is co-author with Peter Levine of Trauma through a Child’s Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids. She also wrote Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof Our Schools, chapters in 4 anthologies, including EMDR for Complex Trauma and Dissociation in Children and The Handbook of Trauma-Transformative Practice: Emerging Frameworks for Working with Individuals, Families and Communities for the Australian Childhood Foundation.
Recommended Reading
Trauma Through a Child's Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing by Peter A. Levine and Maggie Kline
Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof Our Schools: A Heart-Centered Movement for Wiring Well-Being by Maggie Kline
Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience by Peter A. Levine Ph.D. and Maggie Kline
About...
Maggie Kline
M.S., LMFT, SEP
Maggie Kline has been a family therapist for almost 40 years, a retired school psychologist and a member of the Somatic Experiencing® Global Faculty since 1999. She combines Gestalt, Family Systems, SE™, art, and play therapy in her work with professionals and parents.
Maggie co-authored Trauma through a Child's Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids with Peter A. Levine. Her latest book, Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof Our Schools: A Heart-Centered Movement for Wiring Well-Being was released and introduced at the Harvard/MIT/Johns Hopkins Conference in 2020.
She is passionate about teaching her inspirational Trauma Healing PlayShops that have taken her all over the globe, including Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, and New Zealand.
