This training will be lead by Linda Stelte and Berns Galloway
Linda Stelte, MED, CCC
Masters in Education, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and Faculty with the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute
Berns Galloway, MED, CCC
Masters in Education, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and Faculty with the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute
Linda has been teaching SE™ internationally for the past 5 years, and within Canada for the past 8 years.
Her teaching of SE™ is informed in part by her 20 years in the human service profession where she has had the opportunity to apply Somatic Experiencing® in a variety of diverse settings and with people of various ages.
Linda has co-developed and implemented a trauma informed treatment unit for children and youth at a residential treatment center. In addition, Linda has had and continues to have the rich experience of working in a small First Nation community on Canada’s west coast. She also has a small private practice in her hometown of St.Albert, Alberta, Canada.
Linda has an interest in the impact of generational trauma, early trauma, attachment and how SE supports the healing of these experiences.
From the academic perspective, Berns graduated from the University of Victoria with a Masters in Education in 1995. He received his SEP designation in 2003, and was appointed faculty with the Somatic Experiencing Institute in 2008.
From the experiential perspective, Berns has been working with people since 1980 when he started working with elementary school kids. While working in the public school systems, he challenged himself and kids to become more then they imaged by engaging in performance and theatrical endeavours. Here Berns directed, coached and encouraged others to go beyond what was possible. His own personal growth lead him to challenge his own limitations which lead to a career change from education to counselling/mental health/therapy – working with groups, couples and individuals.
From a personal perspective, Berns has been exploring identity and how that impacts our experiences. As a white cis-gender gay male, Berns is becoming more familiar with the privileges and limitations these identities have had over his life time. He is interested in how identity impacts our experience.
Berns brings his academic, experiential and personal perspectives to the SE trainings, facilitating a bottom-up inside-out process for leaning and discovery, in service of becoming an effective somatic oriented practitioner.