Haptic Healing Education and Training

What Is Haptic Healing?

Haptic Healing at the Pottery Wheel™ (Haptic Healing) is the body-based, intentional and conscious practice of using clay and a pottery wheel to foster resilience and promote post-traumatic growth. (Haptic literally means “to touch,” and relates to any experience we have which is distinguished by touch, and especially the manipulation of objects.)

Haptic Healing™ uses clay and a potter’s wheel to reorganize and regulate the nervous system; reactivate the circuits in the brain responsible for pleasure and reward; improve thinking and focus; promote regaining a sense of control of one’s environment; provide grounding; reignite motivation; and integrate both hemispheres of the brain. Haptic Healing focuses on the hands as an alternative to talk.

This work finds common ground across independent disciplines, blending contemplative teachings, art, and science. By integrating art, mindfulness, and neurobiology, skilled instructors enrich their existing teaching practices and make their classes healing and trauma-informed.

Haptic Healing at the Pottery Wheel Training

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Trauma & Resilience

Everything you need to know about trauma, and why resilience is key to healing.

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Being Relational

What it means to be relational and why it matters; how and why your relationship with your students is as important as the techniques you use to teach them.

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Why Throwing is Unique

Learn the unique benefits of throwing, and how to turn challenges at the wheel into remarkable opportunities for healing.

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Trauma-informed

Being trauma-informed does not mean you are informed about trauma; it means your practices are informed by your knowledge of and your sensitivity to trauma. Your studios and classrooms are filled with people who are drawn to pottery because it feels therapeutic. Learn how Haptic Healing™ has the power to change the way we view and relate to one another as teachers, students, and members of the human family.

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Techniques

Learn the nuts and bolts of what to say and do to foster healing without changing the personal, unique mechanics of teaching you have spent years perfecting.