Embodied Touch Skills The Art of Contact

Service Description

Touch is one of our first ways of knowing ourselves in the world. Before we have language, we have contact—skin, warmth, rhythm, pressure, being held, being met. And yet many of us now live touch-starved: starved for safe, clear, attuned contact that supports the nervous system rather than trying to change it. This advanced training explores touch as communication and co-regulation—an embodied language that can support safety, restore trust, and offer a lived experience of being met with care and clarity. Embodied Touch Skills is especially supportive for practitioners working with pre-verbal and developmental trauma, attachment wounds, and the tender process of rebuilding trust after sexual abuse or assault. We focus on what the nervous system understands best: consent, pacing, choice, and attunement. This is a practice-rich container with demonstration, supervised lab time, partner exchanges, and structured integration between weekends. We use anatomy as a foundation for self-understanding—so touch becomes informed, respectful, and deeply listenable. You’ll learn to track what’s happening underneath words through breath, tone, sensation, impulse, boundaries, and nervous system state. Who it’s for: Graduates of Embodied Trauma Skills Training through Phase 3 with Stacey Madden who want to employ the gentle power and potency of touch within their existing practices—within scope, safety, and a trauma-informed process. What You’ll Learn: •Trauma-informed touch as nervous system support • Consent in practice: options, pacing, feedback • Hand skills: pressure, rhythm, placement, boundaries • State-tracking during contact • Anatomy + physiology for somatic precision • Ergonomics + technique to protect your body • Energetic centering + boundaries for nervous system safety • Integration practices between weekends Hours (84 total): 51 in-person + 21 at-home + 12 recorded (includes one immersion weekend). Dates (2026): Sept 18–20 • Oct 16–18 (Immersion) • Nov 13–15 Fri 6–9pm | Sat 10–6 | Sun 12–6 Pricing (CAD): Early Bird $1,295 + GST | Full $1,495 + GST | Deposit $400 Access Seats available by request. Payment plans available. Spots are limited to keep the practice container safe, steady, and well supported.