Feb 12th - May 14th 2025

Ready for Risk: A SE+AM Course for Relational Courage and Creative Aliveness

The path of deeper connection lies in embracing the impulses that move within and between us, daring us to risk vulnerability in the dance of relationship.

What is SE+AM?

SE+AM (Somatic Experiencing + Authentic Movement) is a body-centered practice focused on deepening relationships—both with ourselves and others—through movement and witnessing.

At its heart, SE+AM is about rediscovering the intelligence of impulse and the ways it connects us to our humanity beyond egoic identities and labels. In our fast-paced, disconnected world, this practice offers a space to strip away habitual responses, allowing participants to move beyond the survival mechanisms of “protect” and “connect” into a state of creative aliveness.

Blending Somatic Experiencing (a physiological frame of human threat responses and reflexes) and Authentic Movement (a practice of moving and witnessing each other in improvisational movement), SE+AM opens up possibilities for new relational patterns.

Why Now?

This work invites participants to take relational risks, challenge deeply embedded patterns, and practice being in the discomfort of connection, all in service of forming new ways of being together.

The practice invites curiosity, vulnerability, and presence, enabling participants to see and be seen in ways that foster profound intimacy and understanding. Ultimately, SE+AM offers a pathway to create new experiences of ourselves, new dynamics in our relationships, and co-create new culture from a place of embodied aliveness, freeing us from the limitations of our reflexive identities.

This program is an invitation to step into a deeper practice of relational dynamics, where participants come into closer contact to their body's impulses as a practice of discovery. Through integrating Somatic Experiencing (SE) and Authentic Movement (AM), Ready for Risk offers a unique blend of physiological awareness and improvisational relational practices that help reveal and shift the patterns we carry.

No experience necessary. All bodies, cultures, ages and movement abilities are welcome.

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What's Included & What to Expect

All course modules will be held online over Zoom with one (optional) in-person gathering planned for summer 2025 at an additional cost (details TBA).

Registration will be capped at 60 participants.

Eight (8) Live Interactive Sessions

Online sessions:
Twice per month, participants will receive a Zoom link and other materials via email prior to the first session.

When?

February: 12th and 26th
March: 12th and 26th
April: 9th and 23rd
May: 14th and 28th

‍Time:
1-3pm EST

Integration & Support

In addition to your primary facilitator, two additional support facilitators will be present and available should support be needed for an additional, albeit, reduced cost.

We will also offer discounted session work with somatic coaches, Tim Pauly or Karine Bell, should someone seek personal support (see profiles below).

Embodied Practice and Witnessing

Each session will include guided movement, opportunities to witness and be witnessed, reflective discussions, and exploration of relational risk in a safe and supported space.

Community and Connection

Expect a supportive and collaborative environment where participants engage with both the SE+AM principles and each other in ways that foster deep connection and curiosity.

Map Experiences

Participants will be invited to visually map their experience in the integration portion of each session. This will be something we can reflect on in the last session.

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Risking authenticity requires an intimate relationship with your impulses. How they shape who you have become, move you through your life and keep you alive is worth getting to know.
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Because in the cracks of your patterns is a lot more of you that wants to be known, to be seen, and to be valued. When you practice being seen with that kind of regard, you naturally grow your capacity to reciprocate care and value.

‍It just happens. ''

‍– Weena Pauly-Tarr

Is SE+AM For You?

Anyone interested in understanding and shifting the patterns that shape their connections and interactions.

Those who wish to engage with their body's impulses and learn how to respond with more choice and authenticity.

People ready to explore relational dynamics by embodying both the roles of mover and witness, building trust and connection.

Individuals curious about how identity and impulse intertwine and affect their ways of relating.

Participants who are open to practices that encourage relational risk, inviting vulnerability and fostering deeper, more authentic connections.

Those committed to cultivating honesty and care in how they engage with themselves and others.

Learners who appreciate an environment where both growth and challenge are seen as essential components of transformation.

SE+AM Learning Objectives

Explore layers of identity

Understand how identity shapes interactions and learn to engage authentically while holding space for these influences.

Center somatic authenticity

Develop the ability to bring deeper awareness and presence to relationships.

Value and trust the intelligence of the body

Cultivate awareness of the body’s wisdom as a guide to navigate interactions, choices, and emotional responses.

Enhance capacity

Enhance capacity for being seen and deepen awareness of how we see others.

Strengthen the muscle of trust

...related to safe/not-safe physiological mechanisms: Recognize and work with the body's natural responses to safety and risk to build a foundation of trust within yourself and in relational contexts.

Develop awareness of how your body approaches or withdraws from connection

Gain insight into the subtle cues and impulses that inform how you move toward or away from relational connection, and learn to navigate these with greater choice and awareness.

Pricing & Payment Options

Spaces for this course are limited and registration will be capped at 60 participants.

For viability, the minimum number of participants is 30.

We have a limited number of partial scholarships available for those who need one.

You can apply for one here.

Pay In Full

$547 USD

Two Payments

$275 USD

Four Payments

$137 USD

Testimonials from SE+AM Students

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What I’m noticing [since completing the workshop] is that I’m able to shift it into a place that has more richness, and that I do that regularly."

— A.I. Online Student

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‍I spend my life in my head, writing for clients and for myself. It was within SE+AM that I finally felt myself accept that I didn’t have to hold myself in a certain way - I integrated the tense, nervous, unsure parts of myself in that first session - and I didn’t have words for it at the time - but the end result, was a functional sort of peace. I left with it in my bones for weeks afterward.”

‍– M.V., Online Student

“ I had one of the most beautiful experiences of my life. Afterward I cried. I told my therapist and then I cried again and my therapist cried too. I had never experienced that kind of feeling before in my life and I want to make sure everyone gets to experience this bliss that I felt.”

-K.O. Online Student

About Your Facilitators

The holders of this program are experienced practitioners in somatic education, movement practices, and embodied relational work. With decades of combined experience, they bring a deep commitment to guiding participants in reconnecting with their innate sense of aliveness and fostering meaningful interdependence.

Their backgrounds blend somatic practice, community building, and transformative inquiry, creating a rich and supportive space for exploring authentic connection and embodied engagement.

Together, they offer a unique blend of insight, creativity, and wisdom to help participants cultivate deeper self-awareness and relational presence.

Weena Pauly-Tarr, Creator of SE+AM

Weena created SE+AM and is the primary facilitator for this program. She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, a facilitator in the Rooted Global Village, a dance theater maker, movement trainer and mother to four. She has been working and playing in the worlds of dance and somatic therapies in New York City for over 26 years. Now, she works with individuals and groups all over the world via the magic of Zoom and in-person locally. Her guiding light is to value the interconnected reality of embodied aliveness (and its absence in the tangible sense). She is interested in what shifts human-made systems toward that which protects, cares for, and supports interdependence, rather than the mythology of separateness. SE+AM is a body of work she has developed that focuses on making direct contact with internal, bodily-felt aliveness that connects us through the practice of seeing and being seen. Through that contact, the aliveness within oneself and others becomes a compass for choices in life, in relationships, and for world building.

Karine Bell

Karine Bell is a mother of two, life partner to Daniel, and founder of and co-dreamer in the Rooted Global Village. A bi-cultural Black woman, she is also an SEP, somatics educator, practitioner, somatic abolitionist, scholar-activist, and clown-in-training. She is currently alive with curiosity around how we can learn to weave ourselves and each other into ecologies of care, countering cultures that create fragmentation, alienation, and hyper-independence; to embrace difference, cultivate embodied capacity for transformation, and engage in radical acts of friendship across division. She is guided by curiosity and wonder as compass points, and research as an act of reverence for life. She is a PhD candidate at Pacifica Graduate Institute where she combines continued practice and study in somatics with studies in decolonial depth psychology with a focus on community, liberation, indigenous and eco-psychologies.

Tim Pauly

I care. This stuff really matters to me: finding our way out of our way so that life can express itself more clearly and with more vigor. My path through life has always returned me to my body. Sometimes it has looked like going to the gym. Sometimes it’s been extensive meditation practice and retreats. Sometime the discovering and flourishing of intimacy and sexuality. Sometimes dance. Sometimes yoga. Sometimes therapy. Sometimes biking. Sometimes grief, loss, racialization, and gender. All of this has taken place in my body and has called out greater intimacy with my body. I'm now fully trained as a Somatic Coach through the Strozzi Institute and the International Coaching Federation. Helping others connect somatically feels like my past lovingly informing the present and future. In the service of life.

FAQs

Monday, January 13th, 1pm EST
Join the Free Info Session for “Ready for Risk”. Register here.
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If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding the course, please don’t hesitate to reach out at care@rootedglobalvillage.com.

What if I cannot attend Live?

This experience will really rest on the live interactive sessions we are in together. However, in the event you cannot attend live, we will provide a recording for a limited time (through the program run + 2 months). Sessions will be designed so that you will have opportunities to practice outside of the live sessions. We will also make connection with others in the program possible (always optional), should participants wish to connect and practice together.

What Materials or Equipment Do I Need?

You’ll just need a quiet space where you can move comfortably, an internet connection, and a device to access Zoom. Comfortable clothing is recommended.

What is the refund policy?

All purchases for this course are final, as recordings of the sessions will be available for the specified time. We may consider partial refunds for truly unexpected circumstances that impact your ability to attend the program. We appreciate your understanding and commitment to the transformative journey this course offers.

How many people will be in the course?

Maximum capacity for participants is 60 to ensure a meaningful group experience. 30 is the minimum for the course to proceed. Refunds will be issued in the case the program cannot commence.

What if I have limited mobility?

SE+AM is an adaptive practice that respects individual needs and abilities. Movements can be modified or imagined, and the focus is on connection and awareness rather than physical performance. Please contact us in advance if you have specific questions or accessibility needs.

How do the scholarships work?

We are committed to accessibility and offer both full and partial scholarships. Scholarship applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until spots are filled. Learn more and apply here.

Is this course trauma-sensitive?

SE+AM is informed by principles of trauma sensitivity and somatic awareness. While the course is not a replacement for therapy, it offers a supportive environment for exploring relational dynamics and embodied practices.

How long will I have access to materials?

We do not edit the recordings, so to maintain the integrity of the container, recordings are made available to view for the duration of the program + two months after the program ends, before they will not longer be accessible.