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Reclaiming the Body, Acceptance and Personal Empowerment: Grounding the Body and Restoring Contact October 27-29, 2018 Fort Lauderdale, Florida – A three-day training workshop, open to mental and physical health professionals as well as to those who wish to deepen their own professional development through a body- centered modality. These workshops teach how to begin working with clients using the principles of body-psychotherapy. Continue reading →
The Body as the Dorrway to Intervention October 23-25, 2018 workshop is in Fort Lauderdale, Florida – A three-day training workshop, open to mental and physical health professionals as well as to those who wish to deepen their own professional development through a body- centered modality. These workshops teach how to begin working with clients using the principles of body-psychotherapy. Continue reading →
Integrating Mind, Emotions and the Body in Therapy: An Holistic Approach August 31 – September 4, 2018, London, England – We introduce basic concepts in Radix body-centered work, discuss therapeutic goals in body-psychotherapy. This workshop is the basis for further modules in the training program. Continue reading →
Somatic Psychotherapy Today Volume 8, Number 1, Summer 2018 is LIVE Click here for our DIGITAL LINK Over the past eight years, SPT magazine has carved a literary “path” allowing writers… Continue reading →
Paul C. Briggs, MSW, LCSW, LMT, SEP I present to you my very first peer reviewed journal article publication: Somatic Experiencing® Informed Therapeutic Group for the Care and Treatment of Biopsychosocial Effects upon a Gender Diverse Identity. This research article discusses the process and outcomes of a study of a group of Transgender folks. Individuals participated in a 10 week Somatic Experiencing® informed support and education group. The group was designed to assist participants with opportunities to learn ways to build resiliency, to decrease the negative symptoms of depression and anxiety, and to better cope with the effects of microaggressions and discrimination. Continue reading →
Finding Resiliency Traumatic events can leave physiological and emotional scars that alter neurological structures and functions, which in turn can inhibit our progress on the path of awakening. In this class series, we will develop a body of skills that we can use to recognize and reduce the painful effects of trauma and thereby free up energy for meditation. Together, we will explore healing practices to help bring deeper meaning, connection, and freedom to our lives and practice. Continue reading →
Working Holistically in Therapy and Personal Growth: Basic concepts of the Radix approach and its Reichian Roots February 28 – March 4, 2018 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida – A 5-day training workshop presenting the theory of Wilhelm Reich and Charles Kelley, and the basic concepts of the Radix approach: Pulsation, Segments, Armoring and Counter-pulsation, Contact, Grounding, Centering, Attachment, Boundaries and Containment. Continue reading →
The Art & Science of Brain-Based Therapy: Clinical Applications of Yogic and Body Psychotherapy Friday, November 10, 2017 – 8:45am: Registration – 9am-4pm: Workshop @ Center for Applied Psychology, Piscataway, NJ. In this experiential workshop, you will learn to: (1) Summarize the important brain regions and networks associated with trauma, anxiety, and depression. (2) Discuss the implications of attachment theory in relation to implicit memory, brain & body – centered psychotherapy, and the therapeutic alliance. (3) Demonstrate ways to introduce yogic practices into treatment. (4) Practice body-based intervention strategies such as affect regulation, wordless awareness, and presence techniques. (5) Observe a demonstration of a body-centered psychotherapy session. Continue reading →
Review of the the book “The Awakening Body” by Reginald Ray I came across the term “somatic spirituality.” What is somatic spirituality? According to Ray, it “involves tuning in to the vast interior world of wakefulness, freedom, and joy that lies just beneath the surface, in our body.” He explains that the body is capable of an awareness beyond what our conscious mind can achieve, that our bodies are aware in ways that our minds are not. The consciousness of our bodies transcends that of the mind. Perhaps it is ironic that the word “mindful” is most commonly understood as meaning present and aware. Continue reading →
” Keeping Our Bodies in the Room: The Relevance of Bodily Experience in Psychotherapy Training and Practice” This conference brings together two dynamic clinician-authors at the heart of the contemporary discourse on the place of the body and somatic experience in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. The program will combine conceptual elements with discourse, clinical and supervisory examples, demonstrations of training and supervision techniques, and a good deal of experiential work drawn from the speakers many decades as clinicians and trainers. Continue reading →
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Upcoming Training Event
IIBA – Professional Development Workshop 2018 – SHAME October 19, 2018 – This Bioenergetic Analysis PDW will address how, as a clinician, we work with shame, how we may get caught in our own shame while working with our clients and how to maintain or repair the connection that shame disrupts. Shame resides in the dark recesses of our psyches. It restricts the flow of energy in our bodies and deadens the spirit. Shame inhibits us from contact with others. Rage makes active our inner helplessness and shame. Expressing rage moves energy out, freeing, temporarily, built up tension. Rage feels powerful and protects us from feeling the shame within. However, the cycle of shame and rage will again be put into process if the underlying shame is not acknowledged and addressed. Continue reading →
Core Energetics Introductory Retreat NYC CORE ENERGETICS WEEKEND RETREAT – Discover and Express Your Best Self! Imagine a place where you can discover and express your strengths as well as reveal your struggles…a place where you can receive support in an environment that is welcoming, nurturing and fun. In this retreat, you will discover tools that will create profound changes in how you experience yourself and live your life. Join us for a program that includes individual exploration and group work, facilitated by some of our most seasoned faculty members, including Institute of Core Energetics Executive Director, Kate Holt. Continue reading →
Mindfulness, Loving Presence and Embodiment: An Introduction to the Hakomi Method June 22-23: This workshop may serve as the prerequisite for 2-year Hakomi Comprehensive Trainings, scheduled to begin in Chapel Hill, NC, in October 2018. Continue reading →
Radical Aliveness at Omega – May 6-11, 2018 The Radical Aliveness approach to personal growth, spiritual development, and social awareness is a unique group process that welcomes powerful feelings and dynamic group interactions. Working with the personal, the interpersonal, and the systemic, it demands courage, committed engagement with others, and a strong desire to discover and develop your potential within an accelerated, intense time frame and setting. Continue reading →
A Sensorimotor Approach to Couples Therapy – MAY 4, 2018 – MAY 5, 2018 Beverly Hill Women’s Club. In this workshop we will describe major reactive patterns in both the body and the brain, as well as primary dysfunctional attachment strategies. Special attention will be given to skill development in mindfulness, attunement, boundaries, parts work, object relations, and differentiation. We will exercise techniques and interventions to convert these reactive patterns to a relational mode. Continue reading →
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Training for the Treatment of Trauma – JUNE 10, 2018 – APRIL 1, 2019 Level I: Affect Dysregulation, Survival Defenses, and Traumatic Memory – 2112 59th St, Brooklyn, NY 11204 – Sensorimotor Psychotherapy can be easily and effectively integrated into psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and EMDR-focused treatments. Continue reading →
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Training for the Treatment of Trauma – SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 – APRIL 13, 2019 Cathedral Counseling Center, 50 E. Washington St., Chicago, IL 60602 – Level I: Affect Dysregulation, Survival Defenses, and Traumatic Memory: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy can be easily and effectively integrated into psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and EMDR-focused treatments. This Training consists of approximately 80 contact hours. Continue reading →
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Training for the Treatment of Trauma – OCTOBER 12, 2018 – APRIL 14, 2019 TBA, Minneapolis – St. Paul, MN – Level I of The Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Training Program in Affect Regulation, Attachment, and Trauma equips therapists to better understand the symptoms and issues of these challenging client populations and to work with them in a more effective way. Continue reading →
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Training for the Treatment of Trauma – OCTOBER 19, 2018 – APRIL 28, 2019 Trinity University – Payden Academic Center – Rm 101, 125 Michigan Ave NE, Washington, DC 20017 – Level I of The Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Training Program in Affect Regulation, Attachment, and Trauma equips therapists to better understand the symptoms and issues of these challenging client populations and to work with them in a more effective way. With a better understanding of the presenting problems of these clients and equipped with interventions that speak directly to how their issues are driven by the body and the nervous system, students will be able to directly impact the direction of treatment not only for these client populations but also in their practice settings. Continue reading →
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Training for the Treatment of Trauma – OCTOBER 26, 2018 – JUNE 1, 2019 Rudramandir, 830 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94710 – The Level I Training presents simple, body-oriented interventions for tracking, naming, and safely exploring trauma-related, somatic activation, creating new competencies and restoring a somatic sense of self. Students will learn effective, accessible interventions for identifying and working with disruptive somatic patterns, disturbed cognitive and emotional processing, and the fragmented sense of self experienced by so many traumatized individuals. Continue reading →
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