Webinars & Introduction Workshops
Somatic Experiencing Spain
Introduction Workshop - Face-to-face and Online
Face-to-face in Madrid
September, 2026
Contents
In this 12-hour theoretical and practical workshop, participants will learn:
- What is Somatic Experiencing (SE) and how does it differ from other therapies?
- What do we mean by ‘trauma’ in this approach?
- Basic SE principles and tools
- The Autonomic Nervous System Why is it relevant to understand how it works?
- How does trauma work?
- Resilience, self-regulation and resources
- Demonstration
- Working methodology and group practices
The workshop is aimed at people from different areas of work and offers tools that can be used both personally and professionally to reduce the symptoms of nervous system dysregulation.
Unlike cognitive therapies (top-down approaches), SE is a bottom-up therapy, focusing on the body and ‘body memory’. As such, it stresses the importance of the subcortical levels of the brain. Starting from these more ‘primitive’ brain structures and their bodily reactions, bottom-up approaches aim to change the way the body responds to traumatic experiences, working upwards to the higher cortical systems (Kuhfuß et al., 2021). SE is a complementary tool to top-down approaches such as psychoanalysis, cognitive behavioural therapy, Gestalt therapy etc.
Details
- Format: Hybrid (in person in Madrid and online)..
The teacher will deliver the workshop live online from Brazil. Fuensanta Muñoz, the school director and senior assistant, will be there in person. The assistant team will be present both in the room with the in-person participants and supporting the online participants. - Face-to-face format: Casa Cristo de El Pardo
Pista del Cristo de El Pardo, 11, 28048, Madrid.
Online: En tu ordenador. - Instructor: Irene Trajtenberg.
- Language: Spanish.
- Tuition: €250 until 08/05/2026 and €300 from 08/06/2026
- Places are limited.
- Introductory workshops are a prerequisite to access to the official three-year training.
- Students are responsible for checking in advance for time differences between countries.
- Those registered will receive the necessary information in advance of the start of the workshop (link to the virtual classroom, access instructions, etc.).
Note: To obtain the certificate of attendance, it is essential to have participated in 100% of the scheduled workshop hours.
Instructor
Irene Trajtenberg, SEP
Clinical psychologist with extensive experience in body approaches and trauma treatment. She has been trained in Character-Analytic Orgone Therapy, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Somatic Experiencing® and Bodynamic Analysis.
She graduated in Somatic Experiencing® in 2005 and teaches SE at the Basic and Intermediate levels in trainings offered by the Brazilian Trauma Association (ABT). Irene Trajtenberg is also a representative of Somatic Experiencing® in Brazil.