SOMATIC EGO STATE THERAPY® TRAINING (SEST) . 21. March 2025-7. JUNE. 2026. THIS IS THE FIRST FULL ENGLISH SPEAKING SEST TRAINING. 12 DAYS TRAINING 4 X 3 DAYS IN NORWAY

TEACHERS: SILVIA ZANOTTTA, PHD AND RACHI SANGKASAAD, SE-TRAINER. BOTH ARE CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS  

Application for SEST-training

SOMATIC EGO STATE THERAPY® CURRICULUM – SYNOPSIS
SOMATIC EXPERIENCING® (SE) and EGO STATE THERAPY (EST) have been wonderfully combined into a creative, effective and holistic therapy approach by Maggie Phillips, PhD, called Somatic Ego State Therapy (SEST). SEST is useful for a wide variety of problems, conflicts, symptoms and traumatic experiences. Rachporn Sangkasaad and Silvia Zanotta, the presenters of this training, spent years working alongside Maggie Phillips, the founder of this curriculum, and also Peter A. Levine, the founder of SE.
Although there are many “parts models,” Ego State Therapy is unique in using hypnosis and other tools to reach unconscious, hidden, and evasive aspects of the self that play a major role in posttraumatic symptoms including anxiety, pain, dissociation, depression, and syndromes that are not responsive to usual treatment approaches.

The special approach of SOMATIC EXPERIENCING® (SE) to precisely address the nervous system and thus enable changes on the neurophysiological, somatic, energetic and psychological level, represents an additional and deeper possibility of perception and processing. The specific focus on
personality traits (Ego States) and their embodiment opens up exciting possibilities for how difficult and complex problems can be holistically changed and solved. Participants will learn how to resolve inner struggles among “self states” which often block progress in
therapy and maintain persistent symptoms for extensive periods of time.

Somatic Ego State Therapy also provides ways of understanding and resolving some of the most difficult and complex problems that lead to disempowerment, like shame or preverbal / attachment trauma.

Participants will learn and practice hypnotic and nonhypnotic methods to connect with adaptive, introjected, and trauma-related states while building safety, stabilization and balance of the nervous system through co- and self-regulation.

The workshop format will emphasize live demonstrations, theory and practice of Ego State Therapy and Somatic Experiencing methods. Opportunities will also be given for case consultation and discussion of clinical applications of the Somatic Ego State Therapy approach.

Content and Curriculum during the 12 days of SEST-training: 

21-23 March 2025: Module 1 of the SEST.

Principles and practices of Ego State Therapy and Somatic Experiencing
Development of Ego States
Functions, roles and characteristics of Ego States
The SARI model as a 4-stage treatment of EST
Strategies for symptom resolution and relief and for self-cohesion and empowerment
Indications and contraindications for Ego State work
Preparing the patient for treatment
The concept of the inner observer
Ego-state therapy research

22-24 August 2025: Module 2 of the SEST.

Dissociation and the dissociative spectrum
History, foundations and principles of Somatic Experiencing (SE)
Felt Sense, SIBAM, somatic resonance, body resources
Neurobiology of trauma and resilience from SE perspective
Deepening the polyvagal theory and the concept of neuroception (Stephen Porges)
Ventral vagus and safety in the therapeutic relationship: from co-regulation to self-regulation
Stabilization with SEST
SEST as holistic approach: top-down & bottom-up
Working with containment and touch
How many brains do we have?

Stabilization with SEST Core Self Phenomena: Activating resources with the center core self
Conflict-free experiences
Trauma and memory, working with procedural memory
SEST interventions in defense and survival responses (hyper-response) such as fight, flight
Embodiment exercises
Case supervision, questions, difficulties

21-23 November 2025 Module 3 of the SEST: 
 
Focus on phases R and I of the SARI model
Maggie Phillips' 3 R's: strengthening resources, re-regulating, "repairing", reconnecting
Challenges in trauma therapy: working with the dorsal-vagal system (hypo-arousal) and with blocking
ego states
Collapse and immobility (hypo-response) as survival strategy
Window of tolerance and complex trauma
Deepening stabilization techniques, establishing connection and safety with SEST
Containment and touch
How many brains in the human body?
Connecting with conflict-free experiences
SEST interventions for inner conflicts
Working with different introjects
Case supervision, questions, difficulties

5-7 June 2026 : Module 4 of the SEST 

This module focuses on deepening and refining the SEST methods for complex and treatment-resistant
symptoms and syndromes.
 
Deepening the 3 Rs: strengthening resources, re-regulating and repairing 
 
Deepening skills in dealing with Ego States while recognizing their various manifestations.
Advanced applications of SEST with malicious and destructive Ego States
Interventions for suicidal tendencies
Tools for working with persistent (unresponsive) symptoms such as emotional and physical pain and syndromes.

Therapeutic relationship problems: how to repair ruptures, reenactments and triggers through ventral-vagal activation.
Uniting Ego States through empathy, compassion, cooperation and developmental learning
False window of tolerance
Ego State Therapy research
Closure of the SEST curriculum and certification

Target audience
People with professional experience in the fields of medical and psychological psychotherapy, professionals with background from hypnosis, body-oriented therapists, life and social counseling, pedagogy, remedial education, pastoral care, specialized nursing, coaching and Somatic Experiencing Practitioners.

Registering: click on this link: SEST-Training