Resilience, Revolution & Beyond: Somatic Trauma Healing & Social Justice
- Speaker:
- Kai Cheng Thom, MSW, MSc
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 05 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Jun 28, 2025
- Product Code:
- POS150292
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Many cutting-edge somatic modalities hold that the development of an embodied sense of safety is central to trauma recovery – but what does this mean for individuals and groups who live in the perpetual shadow of societal oppression and systemic violence? How can practitioners of somatic trauma healing work meaningful and transformatively in the context of enormous social upheaval and widening inequality?
Join professional somatic coach, Sexological Bodyworker, group process facilitator, group process worker, author, and human rights advocate Kai Cheng Thom for a powerful exploration of trauma healing work as a key element of transformative justice and the creation of a better world. Participants will leave with both theoretical frameworks and practical techniques for working with clients experiencing minority stress, systemic violence, and other forms of trauma rooted in human systems of oppression.
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Speaker
Kai Cheng Thom, MSW, MSc Related seminars and products
Kai Cheng Thom, MSW, MSc, is a certified Somatic Sex Educator, Qualified Mediator, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Certified Professional Coach based in tkaronto/Toronto. She is also the author of five award-winning books in various genres. Kai Cheng's work focuses on the intersection of social justice, pleasure activism, and transformative approaches to healing conflict. A noted speaker and practitioner of somatic wellness, healing, and group process facilitation, Kai Cheng supports individuals and groups who are seeking to repair relationships and make transformative change. She also teaches as Adjunct Faculty at the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kai Cheng Thom has an employment relationship with Arise Embodiment Coaching & Consulting. She receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kai Cheng Thom has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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Objectives
- Examine client experiences of minority stress, traumatic oppression, and persecution.
- Use somatic principles and practices to develop intervention plans for working with clients in the complex terrain of traumatic stress that is a feature of the sociopolitical environment.
- Apply the processes of somatic alliance-building and somatic allyship within individual and group trauma healing work.
Outline
- An exploration of individual and collective trauma healing from an ecosystemic and sociological perspective
- Bridging the gap between the somatics of the individual body and the somatics of the collective body
- Reframing “safety” as a dynamic embodied process rooted in allyship and solidarity
- Understanding socioeducation and psychoeducation as trauma healing interventions with political dimensions
- powerful somatic practices and strategies for working with clients who are currently living in traumatogenic environments of oppression and injustice
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Physicians
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
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