Uncovering Hidden Trauma: Transgenerational Healing Approaches
A 6-session on-demand online course with Peter Levine, PhD, Efu Nyaki, and Dr. Diane Poole Heller.
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Course Description
Break the cycle of inherited trauma––learn somatic practices, family constellation methods, and DARe™ attachment techniques to cultivate generational healing and resilience.
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What’s included in the training?
Six On-Demand 90-Minute Session Recordings + Q&A with teaching—plus demos, experiential exercises, interventions, mastery practices, and Q&A.
- Session 1––Healing Transgenerational Trauma: From Hidden Pain to Wholeness & Ancestral Practices
- Session 2––Lessons from Tanzania: Somatic, Family Constellations
- Session 3––Correcting Parentification Through Therapeutic Role Reversal
- Session 4––Healing Intergenerational Trauma: A Demonstration with Dr. Peter Levine (Recorded LIVE)
- Session 5––Orders of Love: Foundations for Healing and Harmony
- Session 6––Healing Generational Boundary Rupture
Includes practice exercises, corrective techniques, and additional resources that reinforce concepts and help you apply somatic skills to therapy sessions.
Recording of a LIVE Demonstration with Dr. Peter Levine on Healing Intergenerational Trauma
A rare opportunity to watch a LIVE demonstration focused on creating a ‘safe container’ to explore deeply rooted patterns and better understand bottom-up, somatic-based principles, tools, and healing.
Interactive Demos + Debriefs––plus “Put Your Skills Into Practice Exercises
Efu Nyaki and Dr. Diane Poole Heller guide you through recorded demos, so you can see how the DARe and family constellation approaches can be applied to address intergenerational trauma.
Plus, each session includes “Put Your Skills Into Practice” exercises designed to help you apply what you’ve learned— feel more capable and confident in supporting clients.
Private Course Portal with Lifetime Access to Course Materials including video recordings, audio, transcripts, demos, and slide handouts and additional resources for each session.
Why take this course?
Learn to recognize and heal inherited trauma through somatic practices, DARe attachment work, and family constellation methods.
Have you ever worked with a client whose challenges seem rooted in something deeper than their own life experiences?
As therapists, we often see clients who struggle with issues that seem disconnected from their personal history––persistent anxiety, unexplained fears, or recurring relationship conflicts that don’t seem to stem from any specific event in their lives.
You sense there’s more beneath the surface, but without knowing how to reach the root of the trauma, you’re left feeling uncertain and less confident in your ability to help your client truly heal.
What many clients and therapists don’t realize is that these issues often point to something deeper––patterns of inherited trauma. These patterns can take various forms, such as intergenerational trauma passed directly from parent to child, transgenerational trauma affecting multiple generations, or even ancestral trauma rooted in historical and cultural experiences.
The problem is that traditional approaches often fall short in addressing these complex patterns. What’s needed? A more holistic approach that includes complementary methods, so you can be flexible and responsive to each client’s unique needs and history.
When you help clients uncover these hidden influences, you open the door to profound healing. They begin to understand the roots of their pain, allowing them to break free from patterns that have controlled their lives and build a future defined by resilience and strength.
Develop a toolkit to address unconscious patterns, build resilience, and break the cycle of inherited trauma.
What you’ll learn?
Develop a toolkit to address unconscious patterns, build resilience, and break the cycle of inherited trauma
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Here’s what’s in the training curriculum…
Session 1
Healing Transgenerational Trauma: From Hidden Pain to Wholeness
In this foundational session, Dr. Peter Levine introduces transgenerational trauma, highlighting how unresolved experiences of our ancestors can shape our emotions, behaviors, and sense of self.
Learn to recognize inherited trauma as unhelpful patterns that often operate unconsciously and explore ways to draw on ancestral strengths to support healing through guided self-discovery. You’ll identify your own patterns and gain a deeper understanding of how these influences operate in your life and relationships.
- Understand why trauma from previous generations can affect your life, often unconsciously.
- Learn how to identify both the challenging and supportive influences within your ancestral lineage.
- Practice somatic techniques to release inherited trauma patterns and deepen your connection with yourself and others.
- Explore ways to turn these insights into practical tools for building resilience and moving from victims of our own history to active participants in our healing.
Session 2
Lessons from Tanzania: Somatic, Family Constellations & Ancestral Healing Practices
In this session, Efu Nyaki introduces a multifaceted approach to healing transgenerational trauma by drawing from somatic practices, family constellation work, and ancestral wisdom from Tanzania.
Explore how generational experiences and emotions are inherited and interconnected—and how family constellation work can connect physical sensations with emotional experiences, helping to process previously inaccessible emotions and leading to deeper healing.
Efu will also introduce practices to release generational burdens like guilt, judgments, and unresolved grief, creating space for connection and growth.
You’ll learn how to integrate ancestral awareness into your practice and life, balancing respect for ancestral legacies with the need to let go of patterns that no longer serve you.
- Understand how we inherit invisible, interconnected experiences and emotions through past generations.
- Learn how family constellations work connects body and emotions for deeper, more effective healing.
- Practice techniques to release generational burdens, including guilt, judgment, and unresolved grief—and find new space for connection and healing.
- Honor ancestral legacies while releasing patterns that hinder growth in you and for your clients.
Session 3
Correcting Parentification Through Role Reversal
This session addresses the complex issue of parentification, where generational boundaries are ruptured––leading a child to take on the emotional or physical caregiving role for a parent or caregiver.
Explore how parentification shapes emotional and relational patterns into adulthood. Dr. Diane Poole Heller will introduce the Therapeutic Role Reversal technique—a powerful tool to heal parentification by addressing core wounds of parents or ancestors.
Diane will also show a client demonstration, highlighting how DARe Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience™ techniques and strategies break the cycle of intergenerational boundary rupture and can be integrated into therapy sessions.
- Learn how and why parentification shapes long-term emotional and relational patterns.
- Examine the lasting effects of parentification on emotional health and relationships.
- Watch a client demonstration to learn the Therapeutic Role Reversal technique using the DARe approach and see how to integrate it into your therapy sessions.
- Discover how to guide clients in meeting the unmet needs of their parents or ancestors by using an active imagination technique.
Session 4
Healing Intergenerational Trauma: A (Recorded) Live Demonstration with Dr. Levine
In this session, Dr. Peter Levine leads a one-on-one demonstration of bottom-up, somatic techniques to address intergenerational trauma, providing a valuable opportunity to learn directly from him.
See how Dr. Levine uncovers the imprints of ancestral trauma, demonstrating how deeply rooted patterns from our lineage can shape present experiences, often without our conscious awareness.
He guides viewers through body-based techniques that develop somatic awareness, reveal subconscious patterns, and support transgenerational healing. This recorded demonstration offers insights into somatic-based healing, followed by a reflective discussion to deepen your understanding of how to apply these concepts in therapeutic practice.
- Get insights and expand your clinical skills set using somatic techniques to address intergenerational trauma.
- Discover why developing somatic awareness can uncover subconscious patterns and facilitate healing.
- Learn body-based techniques that reveal and support healing from the imprints of ancestral trauma.
- Reflect on the techniques and discussion—practice resolving and integrating your own experiences for more effective healing.
Session 5
Orders of Love: Foundations for Healing and Harmony
In this session, Efu Nyaki introduces Bert Hellinger’s three Orders of Love—Belonging, Hierarchy, and Balance—as a framework for healing transgenerational trauma.
Efu demonstrates how these principles can be applied in therapy or personal reflection. She guides practitioners in helping their clients accept challenging life events, take responsibility within family dynamics, and deepen their relationships as they move forward in the healing process.
- Explore Bert Hellinger’s Orders of Love and their role in resolving transgenerational trauma.
- Understand how promoting Belonging can heal rifts within family systems.
- Apply the principles of Hierarchy to reduce familial burdens and resolve conflicts.
- Examine the importance of Balance in relationships to address patterns of dysfunction.
Session 6
Healing Generational Boundary Rupture
Boundary ruptures across generations can lead to attachment issues and challenges in adult relationships. For example, when children overly identify with their parents’ needs or emotions, they may internalize these struggles, resulting in difficulties such as a lack of personal identity, feelings of guilt, and a preoccupied attachment style. This session explores how unclear boundaries within families can perpetuate trauma across generations.
Through an in-depth analysis of a recorded client demonstration, Dr. Diane Poole Heller discusses how these unhealthy patterns perpetuate and shares strategies for healing.
The session also includes an experiential exercise to help practitioners apply these techniques in their work with clients, addressing the intergenerational patterns that disrupt attachment and relational health.
- Understand how generational boundary ruptures contribute to attachment issues in adulthood.
- Identify the signs of unhealthy boundary patterns and their impact on personal identity and relationships.
- Learn strategies to help clients separate their own emotions from those of their caregivers.
- Apply techniques from the client demonstration to heal generational wounds and improve relational health.
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Meet the Experts
Meet the Expert
Peter A. Levine, PhD
Trauma is not just in the event, it’s in the nervous system. And this can be passed down from one generation to the next, influencing our behaviors, emotions, and the way we relate to others.
Peter A. Levine PhD is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma, which he has developed over the past 50 years. He is the Founder of the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute and the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education™, and his work has been taught to over 50,000 therapists in over 45 countries.
Dr. Levine served as a stress consultant for NASA and on the American Psychological Association task force for responding to large-scale disasters. He holds doctorates in Biophysics and Psychology and is the author of several bestselling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger and An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey.
Efu Nyaki, SEP
There is an intelligence beyond the mind that runs through all of us, all of nature, and all of life. When we learn to tap into that intelligence, we can heal trauma and reclaim our wholeness.
The late Euphrasia “Efu” Nyaki, SEP, was a pioneering Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner whose work bridged traditional African healing wisdom with modern trauma resolution techniques.
Raised in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, she taught Mathematics and Science and joined the Maryknoll Sisters Religious Community before becoming a trauma healing expert. As a member of Dr. Peter Levine’s SE Legacy Faculty with the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education, she co-taught Master Classes worldwide.
She was renowned for her work with shock trauma, natural disasters, and transgenerational trauma, and for exploring where trauma meets spirituality and generational healing. Her teaching continues to inspire, including the sessions she recorded for this training.
Dr. Diane Poole Heller
As we heal and move toward secure attachment… our nervous system learns to be more regulated. And we open our capacity to love and experience greater compassion for ourselves and others.
Diane Poole Heller PhD is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and teaching expert in adult attachment theory and trauma resolution. She created the Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience™ (DARe), an approach that gives therapists and individuals practical skills for healing attachment and trauma wounds.
Her work helps adults with childhood attachment injuries develop Secure Attachment Skills (SAS) that lead to more connected and fulfilling relationships. Her expertise in trauma healing has supported survivors, helpers, and families affected by events such as 9/11, Columbine, and other school shootings.
She has authored several books, including The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships and The Attachment Workbook.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about course access, the training format, continuing education, and purchasing. If you need more information before enrolling, our support team is always happy to help you choose the right training.
Do I need to be a therapist to benefit from this training?
While most people who take this course are both new and experienced practitioners we do sometimes have non-therapists who join us.
Due to the sensitive nature of the material, however, we highly encourage non-therapists who choose to take this course to have therapeutic support in place should the material become activating. Note, the material in this course is not meant as a substitute for therapy.
How long can I access the course materials if I purchase this training today?
You’ll have lifetime access to ALL training materials, including videos, transcripts, worksheets, demos, resources and bonuses too. You may also download, print or save materials at any time to your professional reference library for personal use.
In the interest of privacy, client demo videos are not downloadable.
Are the class sessions live or recorded?
All sessions were recorded live, including the Q&A segments. This reissued training features recordings of all five 90-minute sessions, along with client demonstrations, audio recordings, written transcripts, complementary resources, and exclusive course bonuses.
All of the training is on-demand, so you can learn at your own pace, or revisit sessions more than once.
Will taking this course qualify me as SE Trained?
This is a demonstration-based course suitable for both introductory students and those already trained in Somatic Experiencing® (SE).
Throughout the sessions, various common techniques are demonstrated and applied to different situations and cases. Please note that taking this program will not qualify you as ‘SE Trained,’ as it does not replace the 8-module training through Somatic Experiencing®.
However, it will ensure that you are ‘SE Informed.’
Are CE credits available for this course?
Continuing Education (CE) credits are not available for this training at this time.
Is there a refund policy?
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Because this is a re-issue of a previous training and course materials are downloadable, all sales are final.
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