Introducing HISE, an expert in Healing Informed Somatic Education.
Join us for in-person and online programming featuring the leaders in body-mind trauma healing.
Our Approach
At HISE, we empower leaders in healing to inspire individuals and communities to thrive. Our transformative, healing-informed programs integrate body-mind practices, trauma-aware care, and experiential learning.
Through immersive workshops, retreats, and specialized programs, we guide participants toward a profound connection with their authentic selves, fostering resilience and expanding the capacity for meaningful, enduring transformation.
Building the Bridge to your Authentic Self.
Fostering connection and support.
Our Offerings are Global
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In-Person Workshops
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In-Person Retreats
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Online Programming
What is Healing Informed Somatic Education?
The difference between being trauma-informed and healing-informed is subtle but significant—it's the shift from awareness to transformation, from surviving to thriving.
Healing-informed care invites us not just to manage trauma, but to transform it. It’s not about returning to who we were before the rupture, but becoming more fully who we are—rooted, connected, and alive.
Trauma-Informed: Awareness & Safety
Being trauma-informed means understanding how trauma impacts the nervous system, behavior, and relationships. It’s rooted in principles like safety, choice, trust, and empowerment. A trauma-informed lens recognizes signs of trauma and works to avoid re-traumatization. It’s about creating environments where people feel safe enough to begin the work of healing.
This approach is essential—it helps providers, educators, and caregivers meet others with compassion and sensitivity. But being trauma-informed alone can sometimes stop at the level of caution. It knows what not to do, but doesn’t always offer a clear path forward.
Healing-Informed: Transformation & Reconnection
Being healing-informed goes deeper. It doesn’t just ask, “What happened to you?” but also, “What’s possible for you now?” A healing-informed approach acknowledges trauma but doesn’t define a person by it. It centers not only on regulation and safety, but on growth, reconnection, and the reclamation of wholeness.
Healing-informed care brings in embodiment, creativity, relationship, and meaning-making. It trusts in the body’s innate capacity to reorganize and heal. It values pleasure, expression, joy, and awe—not as luxuries, but as essential parts of becoming whole again.
Trauma- and Healing-Informed Somatic Education is an approach to learning, growth, and embodiment that integrates an understanding of how trauma impacts the nervous system with a commitment to cultivating wholeness, resilience, and aliveness through the body.
It’s not just about what we teach, but how we teach—honoring the body as both a site of memory and a powerful source of transformation.
At its heart, trauma- and healing-informed somatic education is about helping people come home to their bodies—not as something to fix, but as something to listen to, trust, and honor. It’s where education becomes not just informative, but transformative.
Our somatic healing principles are rooted in Somatic Experiencing®, developed by Peter A Levine, PhD.
Meet the HISE Team
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Melissa Stager, EMBA, SEP
Founder & CEO
Vista, California, USA -
Sherri Pula
Program Support
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
“I have attended three in-person programs hosted by this team, and each time, they felt seamless in execution and plentiful in support. They are more than facilitators; they truly understand and embody their offerings.”
— Lisa, Participant
Our Partnerships
We work together with industry leaders to create the best programming possible.
Peter A Levine, PhD
Ergos Institute of Somatic Education
Dr Gabor Mate
Compassionate Inquiry
Dr Diane Poole Heller
Trauma Solutions
Betsy Polatin
betsypolatin.com
Dr Scott Lyons
The Embody Lab
Barbara Collier
Equinimity Tucson
Dafna Lender
Integrative Attachment Family Therapy
and more.