course »Restorative Practices: Helping Young People Be in their Bodies

Date: 3/8/2019, 9:30 am—4:30 pm
County: Alameda County
Location: Oakland
Sponsor: Seneca Family of Agencies
Phone: 510-654-4004
In this training we will explore interoceptive awareness, the inwardly-oriented sense perception of what is happening inside the body. Although recognized as a perceptual category, somatic awareness, or interoceptive awareness is a perceptual category that is neither measured, assessed, or cultivated in young people, although deficits in interoceptive competence adversely affect a wide variety of functioning, from physiological self-regulation, to self-calming, to emotion regulation. Furthermore, when interoceptive competence is not developed, young people don’t learn how to channel the wisdom of their embodied experience into decision-making, or understand how to incorporate what they feel in how they respond to their worlds. In this training we’ll look at the neurophysiology of interoception, as well as how to cultivate and enhance somatic and embodied awareness, and how to utilize it in our decision-making.