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ForwardWednesday Post-Conference Workshop: Stress Reduction Through the Body: Add Somatic Skills to Your Toolkit
Trauma and toxic stress are pervasive. We need to enhance our healing toolkits in order to facilitate stress reduction. More material is emerging linking trauma and toxic stress to ill health, proving somatic skills are an integral part of the solution. The work of Drs. Bessel Van Der Kolk, Gabor Maté, Ruth Lanius, Peter Levine, Pat Ogden, Stephen Porges, and Janina Fisher are gaining traction. As lifestyle medicine practitioners, we have all been taught the benefits of cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and positive psychology. There’s a whole branch of the tree of stress reduction that is open to explore: somatic, or body-based practices. Many people whose amygdalas are overactive struggle to access their neocortex. What this translates to in clinical practice is people who are either dissociated or overthinking. It makes participation in cognitive processes difficult. Luckily, there’s another entry point to reduce stress. The body. This workshop will be a mix of didactic and experiential, participatory skills-based training.
Learning Objectives
- Differentiate between polyvagal scenarios where somatic and cognitive skills would be most effective for stress management.
- Develop an approach to somatic skill sharing that can be done in a few minutes during your clinical intervention.
- Design an enhanced therapeutic toolkit to teach patients or clients somatic methods to regulate their nervous system.
- Christine Gibson, MD CCFP MMedEd DProf DipABLM
Available Credit
- 3.00 AAFP Prescribed
The AAFP has reviewed Wednesday Post-Conference Workshop: Stress Reduction Through the Body: Add Somatic Skills to Your Toolkit and deemed it acceptable for up to 3.00 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed credit(s). Term of Approval is from 11/15/2025 to 1/15/2026. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 3.00 ABLM MOC
The American Board of Lifestyle Medicine has approved 3.00 maintenance of certification credits (MOC) for this learning activity.
- 3.00 ABS Accredited CME
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
- 3.00 ACPE Pharmacy
Rush University Medical Center designates this knowledge-based Enduring material for a maximum of 3.00 contact hour(s) for pharmacists.
- 3.00 ACPE Technician
Rush University Medical Center designates this knowledge-based Enduring material for a maximum of 3.00 contact hour(s) for pharmacy technicians.
- 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Rush Medical Center designates this Enduring material for a maximum of 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 3.00 ANCC
Rush University Medical Center designates this Enduring material for a maximum of 3.00 nursing contact hour(s).
- 3.00 APA
Rush University Medical Center designates this Enduring material for 3.00 CE credits in psychology. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship in the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.
- 3.00 ASWB
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Rush University Medical Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved continuing education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 3.00 general continuing education credits.
- 3.00 Attendance
Successful completion of this course activity, including active participation in the evaluation component, entitles the learner to receive a participation certificate from ACLM. Please note that this certificate is offered solely in recognition of engagement, and no academic or professional credit is awarded.
- 3.00 CPEU
This Enduring material has been approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration. Completion of this activity awards 3.00 CPEUs.
- 3.00 Occupational Therapy CE
Rush University Medical Center is an approved provider for physical therapy (216.000378) and occupational therapy (224.000220) by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation. Rush University Medical Center designates this Enduring material for 3.00 continuing education credits.
- 3.00 Participation (AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for non-MDs)
Rush University Medical Center designates this Enduring material for a maximum of 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 3.00 Physical Therapy CE
Rush University Medical Center is an approved provider for physical therapy (216.000378) and occupational therapy (224.000220) by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation. Rush University Medical Center designates this Enduring material for 3.00 continuing education credits.