-Supporting children’s naturally occurring tremors, communication, conflict resolution, and adverse events.
A talk by Hans Holter Solhjell
-TRE® Global Certification Trainer, conflict resolution trainer, SE and Feldenkrais method practitioner.
Tuesday, January 24th | 5 pm – 6 pm CET.
This is a free talk and open to anyone.
As parents, we can sometimes see that young children will tremor or have other spontaneous movements, in addition to the more obvious emotional movements such as crying. This can happen when they are scared, angry, or experiencing pain or other adverse events. For instance, a medical or dental procedure, an accident, etc.
In these situations, the tremors and emotional movements happen naturally, without exercises, etc., to facilitate the tremors. How we relate to and communicate with the child about what happens in the body, can either create a sense of safety and normalcy regarding the body’s natural emotional processes or shut it down, making the child feel it is wrong and shameful.
In this talk, I will talk about how we can create safety and relate to those situations where tremors and emotional release occur naturally, during or after such events. I will also talk about four types of regulation, auto-regulation, self-regulation, co-regulation, and regulation-support.
I will also present the PLS regulation-support framework, a set of practically oriented educational models for developmentally supportive communication, conflict resolution, and regulation support.
An online introductory course in the PLS regulation-support framework is available on this page.
Register for the free talk here.
Working with the upper body, part two
-Explore ways to activate and work with the upper body in TRE®.
TRE® q&a, connect and tremor session led by Hans Holter Solhjell
Tuesday, January 24th | 6:15 pm – 8:15 pm CET.
(This TRE® session is not for beginners and only for those who can self-regulate well and feel safe doing TRE®. It is also more suited to those who feel safe with more intense releases and benefit from this, or feel ready to explore releases with more intensity).
A common phenomenon in TRE® practice is to only have tremors in the lower body, the legs, and the pelvis. Many ask how one can facilitate tremors in the upper body and want to release tension in those areas.
Partly this is due to the basic TRE® exercises addressing and activating mostly the lower body and, therefore, facilitating tremors there. There are good reasons for this, as tremors in the lower body mostly feel safer and are easier to navigate internally.
For some, the tremors easily move into the upper body, but for many, it does not. The upper body is, for most people, more consciously controlled and held than the legs. Tremors in the upper body can also influence breathing and emotions. This can be highly useful and facilitate deep releases but can initially feel more unsafe, uncomfortable, and strange than the basic tremors.
You will learn several principles, techniques, and also positions that can be used to help facilitate tremors in the upper body, the trunk, shoulders, arms, and hands. We will work both standing and sitting, as well as lying on the floor. We will also talk about other types of release than tremors.
This is the first in a series of sessions where I will present various ideas, principles, and techniques that help facilitate deeper releases, release beyond tremors, emotional pulsation, seeing and working with patterns of blocking release, sound, etc.
Sign up for Q&A and tremor session here.
About Hans Holter Solhjell
Hans is a Norwegian educator, trainer and practitioner of several learning, change and body oriented methods, such as the Feldenkrais method, TRE®, Somatic Experiencing. He also works with parents, kindergartens and schools with a focus on communication, conflict resolution, and developmentally supportive relationships with children.
I became actively involved in self-development as a student in my early 20’s and have been focused on learning, self-development and change processes, body-oriented methods, communication, conflict resolution, parenting, trauma therapy, Integral theory and various sports activities like barefoot running, total immersion swimming, skiing, self-defense, Aikido, Krav Maga etc.
I have trained in and are a practitioner of several practices, the Feldenkrais Method, Communicology, the Sounder Sleep System, Somatic Experiencing (SE), and am also certified as a Trainer in Trauma Release Exercises (TRE®).
After completing a major in pedagogy, and also worked at the Police College in Oslo, where I taught psychology with an emphasis on stress management and conflict resolution. I have been teaching courses, trainings, and counseling in private practice since 2006.
In my private practice, I work with councelling and courses for parents, trainings for staff in kindergartens and schools, with body-oriented trauma therapy, and body oriented learning and development processes.
I have also developed several practical models for self-development and developmentally supportive conflict resolution, among them the PLS (Positive Learning Spirals) regulation support model, a practically oriented method for development-supportive communication and conflict resolution in relationships with children.
You can read more about me here.