4-Days Workshop · Coherence – Aligning with Our True Nature
24th to 29th of September 2026 – Hotel Belvedere Resort, Maistra Vrsar, Istria, Croatia
Guest & Co-Facilitation with SE Faculty Berns Galloway (MEd, CCC, SEP)
For SE students and SEPs
This workshop on exploring coherence is a four‑day immersive experience grounded in somatic therapy. It offers space to explore coherence as a lived, embodied process — emerging through awareness of bodily sensations, emotional experience, and cognitive understanding.
Through guided somatic practices, experiential exercises, reflective inquiry, and group processes, participants are supported in developing greater self‑regulation, embodied clarity, and integration. The emphasis is not on achieving a particular state, but on listening to the body’s innate intelligence and allowing coherence to unfold naturally.
Set in the calm and restorative surroundings of Hotel Belvedere Vrsar in Istria, the workshop provides a retreat‑like environment that supports nervous system regulation, presence, and meaningful inner exploration.
About Co-Facilitator & SE Faculty Berns Galloway (MEd, CCC, SEP)
Berns Galloway’s first professional incarnation was as an elementary teacher in New Brunswick and Northwest Territories, Canada. After 12 years of being in front of the classroom, his focus shifted to psychotherapeutic group work.
He studied various humanistic approaches and bodywork at PD Seminars, and then earned a Masters degree from the University of Victoria in 1995.
For 14 years he has worked as a mental health therapist for a non‑profit community agency, providing short‑term therapy to adults, training and supervising volunteers, and supervising graduate students’ practica.
He has had a private practice and now facilitates SE trainings full time. Somatic Experiencing® entered his life in 2000 and has since been a major focus in his professional orientation.
Incorporating SE bodywork / touch has deepened his experience and strengthened the impact of the therapeutic process. Early in this learning process he was privileged to be part of a gifted training team working with First Nations peoples here on Vancouver Island.
The depth of the trauma and commitment to change foreshadowed the transformation through the healing process. He is grateful and humbled to have witnessed this. They reinforced how organic somatic work is, the power of connection, and the necessity of embodying the full range of life’s energy.
Collaboration and connection is key. We are not meant to go it alone.
He continues to marvel at, and be awed by, the continuous richness Somatic Experiencing offers. Training internationally has expanded his scope and appreciation for just how similar our nervous systems are, and how unique our experiences manifest.
Hotel Belvedere Resort
This four‑day Immersive experience concerns SE students and SEPs. 60 spots are available. For registration and all the information on the retreat and prices please contact udrugasomatiq@gmail.com.