Somatic Workshop:
Grief, Joy, and the Return to Your Authentic Self
w/ Ergos Institute Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) Faculty Ursula Funke-Kaiser
November 2nd, 2025
Online - Recording Included
Grief lives in both the obvious and unseen losses of our lives. When we learn to meet it with safety and awareness, grief can become a powerful gateway back to resilience, vitality, and joy.
Prerequisite:
This professional development program is open to the SE Community & other healing professionals.
*This Online Workshop is an introduction to the upcoming SE™ Master Class in Norway, February 5–8, 2026 - Learn more HERE - The SE Community receives a $50 credit to the Norway Master Class for attending this Workshop.
Grief is one of the deepest teachers we encounter in life. It touches not only the losses we consciously mourn, but also the unacknowledged and unseen losses that become lodged in our bodies and souls. This workshop invites you to explore grief as a portal back to your authentic self—where resilience, vitality, and joy can emerge.
In this experiential day of learning and practice, we will ask:
Which losses shaped the course of my life?
How did I learn to grieve—or to not grieve?
What patterns or obstacles remain unresolved?
Using Somatic Experiencing® principles and practices, we will create the safe ground needed to touch sorrow gently, with awareness. Together, we will touch into the Seven Portals of Grief—from personal loss and ancestral sorrow to existential grief—understanding how each may show up in us and in our clients.
Through lecture, guided practice, and supervised integration, you’ll begin to learn how to:
Identify and navigate the layers of grief in yourself and others
Work safely with emotional charge using SE tools (titration, pendulation, SIBAM, coupling dynamics, joining)
Recognize how grief shapes identity—and how to open space for transformation
Reconnect with the inner wellspring of resilience and joy that grief can conceal but never destroy
By opening to grief, we make space for renewal. By tending to sorrow, we touch into the well of life itself—what Peter Levine calls the inexhaustible fountain described in the I Ching. This process allows us to rediscover vitality, benevolence, and our authentic self.
Workshop Format:
Didactic lecture with Q&A
Experiential guided practices
Supervised practice and integration
Demonstration sessions
This Workshop is designed for the SE Community and the other healing professionals who wish to deepen their process while strengthening their ability to guide clients through grief with skill and compassion.
Join us with Ursula for this online immersion into the healing power of grief and the joyful return to self.
Ursula Funke-Kaiser
Ergos SE™ Master Class Faculty
Stuttgart, Germany
Ursula Funke-Kaiser is a lawyer and certified healing practitioner for psychotherapy whose professional path was transformed after meeting Dr. Peter A. Levine. Since then, her work has been dedicated to trauma healing through Somatic Experiencing® (SE™). She has collaborated with Dr. Levine in trainings across Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Israel, and Gaza, and today teaches SE Professional Training at all levels in Germany and throughout Europe.
A founding member of the Board of the German Association of Somatic Experiencing, Ursula is committed to advancing SE within the medical health system. Alongside her mentorship with Dr. Levine, she maintains a Somatic Experiencing® practice in Stuttgart. She is also a mother and grandmother, bringing warmth and depth of life experience to her teaching and practice.
Her background includes earlier studies in law and years of work as a judge, followed by extensive training in body and breath therapy, art therapy, and Jungian psychotherapy. She is engaged in Zen meditation and has completed the Nondual Teacher Training with Dr. Peter Fenner.
(PDT) Schedule - check US time change
7:00am - 9:45am Session (w/ 10-min break)
9:45am - 10:15am Meal Break
10:15am - 1:00pm Session (w/ 10-min break)
(CEST) Schedule
4:00pm - 6:45pm Session (w/ 10-min break)
6:45pm - 7:15pm Meal Break
7:15pm - 10:00pm Session (w/ 10-min break)
Cost:
$135 USD
Prerequisite:
This professional development program is open to the SE Community & other healing professionals.
*This Online Workshop is an introduction to the upcoming SE™ Master Class in Norway, February 5–8, 2026 - Learn more HERE - The SE Community receives a $50 credit to the Norway Master Class for attending this Workshop.
*Breakout sessions will be split between SE Community members and Public participants.
*This registration is for Online live-streaming & recording access. This is not an in-person program.
*Sales will close 12 hours before the program begins. At that time, you will receive an email with a link to join the program.
*Ergos Institute of Somatic Education is managing this Workshop.
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