Upcoming Events & Webinars

The Abiding Heart: Heart Protection, Repair, and Emergent Relational Warmth

Saturday February 14-Sunday February 15, 2026

10:00 am-4:30 pm | Fee: $275.00

This two-day workshop explores the abiding heart as a developing nervous system capacity. Many of us know moments when warmth, tenderness, or connection arise briefly, only to fade, or become difficult or painful to stay with, despite our longing for something different. Abiding refers to a quality of heart presence that organically kindles and tends an affective warmth that quietly radiates from the heart.  In this sense, abiding does not describe intensity or transcendence, but an alive ongoingness, even when warmth is not immediately mirrored or reciprocated by others.

Heart protection is an intelligent survival response  that constricts or freezes when warmth, tenderness, or connection show up. It develops not only in response to existential and relational rupture, but in response to what happened when closeness or openness are experienced. When warmth was inconsistent, followed by withdrawal, intrusion, shame, or loss, the nervous system learned that opening the heart carried risk. This often shows up not just in moments of threat, but confoundingly, in moments of ease too.

Through two live demonstrations, experiential practice, and collective inquiry, we explore how heart protection forms, and how somatic repair helps us learn to nourish the steady flame of the abiding heart. Rather than chasing peak experiences or idealized connection, this work invites a grounded capacity to live from an inner relational warmth that can be stayed with over time, and crucially, can be shared and enjoyed with others.

You will receive 2 faculty case consultation credits for this two-day workshop.

Day 1: Heart protection and repair, as a response to existential and relational rupture

• Explore heart protection patterns, and gently unwind the heart’s reflexive withdrawal or bracing
• Recognize how the protection is a necessary gatekeeper, which when respected will in turn organize a new capacity for warmth, tenderness, and connection.
• Develop the ability to track coupling dynamics around the emotional heart with greater precision, somatically, emotionally, and relationally.
• With nuanced titration, without forcing change, learn how to allow heart protective responses to soften at their own pace.
• Identify and deepen emotional and somatic markers of repair, including shifts toward ventral vagal states and increased relational ease.

Day 2: What emerges as protection eases

• Experience a somatic reorienting toward warmth arising from within, rather than searching for it externally.
• Explore the lived experience of what abides within under constriction and dissociation, without chasing intensity or idealized connection.
• Follow the threads that deepen integration, as defensive patterns release, this time without retreat or collapse.
• Sense the radiating heart as a place to rest while also aware, distinct from the old pattern of moving in and out of connection.

Pre- and Perinatal Trauma: A Two-Day Experiential Workshop 

Saturday, March 28 – Sunday, March 29, 2026

10 am-5 pm ET | Fee: $275.00

• A two-day Somatic Experiencing® workshop exploring prenatal and birth trauma, These early imprints may be expressed as diffuse longing, spiritual or existential searching, chronic self-improvement efforts, or a felt sense that safety, meaning, or belonging reside somewhere outside the body, outside relationship, or outside the present moment.
• Includes two live SE demonstrations, offering an in-depth look at working with pre- and perinatal trauma in real time, followed by facilitated Q&A.
• Covers clinical approaches to:
  • Prenatal trauma
  • Birth trauma
  • Distinguishing early imprints and their effects on nervous system organization
• Features experiential practices, including working with pre- and perinatal trauma using intentional, attuned touch, within an SE framework.
• Support clients to metabolize the pull toward early states of consciousness and to track, with greater discernment, the powerful patterns of overcoupling and undercoupling which keep the system in the recurring implicit pattern.
• Participation in the live demonstrations and discussion qualifies attendees to earn two Faculty Group Case Consultation Credits

Demo Day: Emotional and Physiological Burnout

Saturday May 23rd, 2026 – 10 am – 4:30 pm ET (1 hr lunch) 

Registration Fee: $170.00

Earn 2 faculty case consultation credits

Burnout is more than exhaustion. It is a whole-system state that affects emotional regulation, physiological functioning, and our capacity to connect, think clearly, and feel resourceful. When stress and demand accumulate faster than recovery, the nervous system begins to shut down vitality in order to protect us , and burnout develops.

This Demo Day will explore how stress physiology, emotional overwhelm, and chronic activation shape burnout, and how to support recovery using a somatic lens. We will look at how to recognize signs of sympathetic over-drive, dorsal collapse, and the subtle moments of shutting down that often go unnoticed.

The day will include:

• 2 live SE™ demonstrations with volunteers
• Then we will review the recording to explore key moments
• Discussion of emotional and physiological patterns in burnout
• How to track rising activation, collapse, and return of energy
• Gentle strategies for regulating, resourcing, and restoring capacity

The focus is on understanding how burnout happens in the nervous system, how it shows up in the body, and how to support the re-emergence of vitality, presence, and choice. Participants will leave with a deeper appreciation of the body’s wisdom in protecting us, and practical ways to help the system find its way back toward engagement, energy, and connection

Case Consultations

Why Join Dr. Glyndie Nickerson’s Group Case Consultations?

Developing skill and ease with Somatic Experiencing® comes through practice, feedback, and support. Regular case consultation is one of the most effective ways to:

• Strengthen your confidence in providing SE sessions
• Explore challenging cases in a supportive space
• Refine clinical decision-making through tracking the waves of regulation, coherence, and embodiment
  Stay nourished by connection with the SE community

Consultation provides a grounded environment to discuss your work, receive guidance, and deepen your practice

Open Group Case Consultation 10am-1 pm ET

Earn 1 faculty credit. Fee:$85.00

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