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Workshop Event

Trauma through a Child’s Eyes Playshop with Maggie Kline

Overview

This 4-Day PlayShop cleverly interweaves the basics of Somatic Experiencing® trauma healing with art, movement, attachment principles, and breath work. It also represents Maggie Kline’s final in-person delivery of this PlayShop in Australia, making it a particularly meaningful learning experience

Learning Outcomes

What You Will Learn:

  • The Resilience Roadmap Model for alleviating symptoms and behaviors such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, nightmares, and aggression.
  • “The 8 Essentials of Healthy Attachment” to develop a resilient nervous system with activities for ventral vagal and social-emotional development.
  • Teaching kids and teens sensory (interoceptive) awareness and tracking skills with art, games, and breathing to increase emotional regulation through charge/discharge cycles, settling, and integration.
  • Boundary work with children and teens for empowerment after sexual or physical violation.
  • Small group process work with the shock and grief from personal losses such as death, divorce, and abandonment.
  • Case material fusing SE™ Principles, Art, and Movement for Individuals, Groups, and Classrooms.
  • This PlayShop is useful for professionals who wish to integrate the core concepts of SE™ when working with kids, as well as those wishing to deepen their understanding of inner child work with adults. It is a mixture of lecture, videos, experiential activities, and Q&A.

 

Who should attend:

  • Psychologists
  • Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Child and family therapists
  • Teachers
  • Youth workers
  • Speech pathologists
  • Integration aids
  • Anyone that works with children and parents

Presenter(s)

1. Maggie Kline

About the presenter(s)

Maggie Kline, LMFT has been in education since the 1970s, a Family Therapist and School Psychologist since the 1980s, and a Somatic Experiencing® International Faculty Member since the 1990s. She is owner of Conscious Connections PlayShops and co-author with Peter Levine of Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids. She also wrote Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof Our Schools, and contributed chapters in four anthologies, including EMDR for Complex Trauma and Dissociation in Children and The Handbook of Trauma-Transformative Practice. Her latest contribution is My Inner Doggie Is Growling—a somatic and interactive children’s picture book to help kids (and grown-ups) discover the sensations hidden beneath big emotions.

Notes

• Cancellation Policy: Tickets are non refundable

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Online Registration

$AU1800

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Melbourne

Veriu Hotel

101 Thierry Street
Melbourne , VIC 3000
Australia
Venue is wheelchair accessible


14 May - 17 May 2026

10:00am - 05:00pm AEST


Show Location

Organiser

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Restoring Resilience P/L

Restoring Resilience is a trauma-informed training organisation supporting practitioners, organisations, and communities across Australia. We believe healing happens in relationship — with the body, with one another, and within the systems that hold us. Restoring Resilience is the organiser of Somatic Experiencing® professional trainings across Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland, and also develops its own education programs for those working in therapeutic, educational, and leadership roles. Our work equips psychologists, counsellors, educators, and leaders with somatic and relational skills to support safety, connection, and resilience in their professional practice. Through thoughtfully designed trainings, workshops, and public events, we create learning spaces that are grounded, ethical, and deeply human.

Contact: Lucy Gigliuto