Lisa Loustaunau, MFA, CCEP

Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone and Other Acts of Courage

Lisa Loustaunau, MFA, CCEP
Lisa Loustaunau, MFA, CCEP

August 30–September 4, 2015 @ Kripalu

Healing, growth, and personal empowerment require a willingness to engage the unknown and go to your edge. This workshop is an invitation to take risks, dig deeper, challenge misconceptions, move energy, express feelings, reveal truth, and live more courageously.

Each of us developed physical and psychological adaptations that allowed us to navigate childhood, but which now block energy and keep us from being our real selves. Explore how those adaptations keep you stuck in predictable ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. Strengthen your capacity to feel more alive, using Core Energetics body-centered techniques, including

  • Expressive movement
  • Body reading
  • Breathing, grounding, dyad, and group work.

This program creates a safe container in which to express a full range of feelings, open your heart, and experience deeper connections to yourself and others.

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More Details on Kripalu site:  http://kripalu.org/program/view/OCZ-151/stepping_out_of_your_comfort_zone_and_other_acts_of

8 steps to pain freeGokhale, E. (2008). 8 Steps To A Pain-Free Back: Remember When It Didn’t hurt.
Reviewed by: Michael Fiorini, New York University

At first glance, 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back would appear to be a fairly straightforward book about methods for back correction. To think this would not be entirely incorrect, as the bulk of the book’s contents and the point behind its principles revolve around posture correction to alleviate back pain. Where the book diverges considerably from contemporary guides is in explaining the origins of and corrections for back pain. The book is written by Esther Gokhale, an anthropologist with a background in integrative therapy. The perspective she undertakes came after studying the postures and physically involved routines of various cultures around the world. Her point in the book is that the rampant chronic back pain observed in western cultures and modern societies stems from our poor posture, and that our change in posture is related to specific sociocultural practices. It should be noted that the book is exclusively interested in explaining this phenomenon in biological, physical, and anthropologic terms. She observes that among certain cultures with seemingly more physically intense daily routines, various postures play a role in avoiding spinal strain. The book operates as a graphically detailed guide to adjusting posture and movement to improve or eliminate back pain, taking techniques from around the world in tandem with one another to accomplish this.

Because the central focus of the book is to improve back pain, each of the eight steps mentioned in its title explain through written guides and visual aids how to change posture and body orientation. Before this, the book shows how notions of proper posture in western society are incorrect and what biological ramifications our existing conceptions have on spinal and physical health. It then goes on to explain the immediate benefits of change for the body, and details how to approach the forthcoming lessons. The lessons themselves are organized by forms of posture change followed by the scenarios readers would practice them in. It starts with stretch-sitting, then stretch-lying on your back, stack-sitting, stretch-lying on your side, using your inner corset, tall-standing, hip-hinging, and glide-walking. It also includes at the end some optional exercises, diagrams of basic human anatomy, and a list of the sources used. In each step, as postures and techniques are explained, they are also accompanied by helpful and detailed diagrams that are simple to follow. Alongside this, numerous anthropological observations are given to explain how and when posture differences developed. This is also done with consciousness towards how posture changes over the lifetime and with outcome expectancies following correction, making the dialogue fairly cohesive for readers of any age.

Those readers looking to improve their posture and physical well-being will find 8 Step to a Pain Free Back intrinsically helpful through the techniques it incorporates and the presentation style that it employs. The written and diagrammed instructions are specific and detailed, and there is a strong biological and physical therapy influence in the solutions proposed. Additionally, having suggested corrections that come from an anthropologic framework may speak more to readership involved in studying and practicing in the social sciences. As a result, this book may have greater efficacy within this particular population of readers versus other books that use similar techniques but which lack the same theoretical explanations and narrative. This is, at its core, a book on posture correction, but for those interested in mindfulness and body therapy techniques, the book may be useful in expanding knowledge in this subject.

Esther Gokhale, L.Ac., has had a lifelong interest in integrative therapies. She has studied biochemistry at Harvard and Princeton, and later acupuncture at the San Francisco School of Oriental Medicine. Following her own experiences with crippling back pain and the ineffective treatments for it, she decided to find a more lasting solution. After studying at the Aplomb Institute in Paris, she performed long running anthropological research in Burkina Faso, Brazil, India, Portugal, and elsewhere to to develop the Gokhale Method, which she currently teaches and is most known for.

Gokhale, E. (2008). 8 Steps To A Pain-Free Back: Remember When It Didn’t hurt. Palo Alto, CA: Pendo Press.
ISBN: 978-0-9793036-0-9.
Paperback. 228 pages. Includes appendix, glossary, bibliography, and index.
Key words: back pain, physical therapy, anthropology, chronic pain, first-person, posture

When: Sunday May 17th in Manhattan 2-4 PM

— Please share with clients, parents, parent coordinators and school contacts.

This Playshop for children ages 8-10 will include expressive art-making and movement, opening young people to themselves in a safe, nurturing environment. We help children find their CREATIVE “CORE” or “Center of Right Energy” that leads to wonderful changes and growth.

Attendance is limited to 10.

Note: This event is led by two seasoned therapists whose practices go beyond talk therapy, including the Dynamic Play Therapy work of Dennis McCarthy and body-centered Core Energetics to address individual and family needs such as: social and emotional growth, school adjustment, attention issues, self-regulation, anger/aggression, sleep problems, separation and divorce in family, adoption, sibling conflict, family medical challenges, video/media overuse, and developmental issues.

For tickets:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dynamic-playshop-for-kids-with-expressive-art-and-movement-sunday-may-17th-in-manhattan-tickets-13708716139

Warmly, Neal

Neal Brodsky LMFT, CCEP

recollectionofsexualabuseCourtois, C. (1999). Recollections of Sexual Abuse: Treatment Principles and Guidelines.

Reviewed by: Michael Fiorini, New York University

Recollections of Sexual Abuse: Treatment Principles and Guidelines is a widely encompassing diagnostic manual for practicing clinicians to assist, frame, and guide in the treatment of sexual abuse recollection. The book first covers the past and contemporary (as of 1999) historical context of sexual abuse that is remembered after the fact. From there, it details relevant knowledge pertaining to recollected sexual abuse and outlines that information for application in the clinical setting. It establishes a practical and theoretical framework for clinicians to work through and places it along a continuum of tailored treatment. Extensive research is cited throughout the book as well, and from a research perspective it can be extremely useful as a tool for guiding future or current research. A multifaceted approach, it is designed so that even those without any background in treating this particular kind of disorder will, by the end of the book, have an intricate knowledge of recollected sexual abuse and how it differs dynamically from her forms of affect, recollections, and abuse clinically. For those who already have some knowledge of the topic but wish to further expand what they know and can use in treatment, the book is equally invaluable.

Recollections of Sexual Abuse seeks to outline what is currently known about recollections of sexual abuse, how to consider it clinically, and how to treat it. All of this is done through a strict scientific and research foundation. The book first frames how the phenomenon has been handled in the past within the psychological community and details the adverse ramifications mishandling it had for how sexual abuse and clinical treatment were approached on a macro scale. It then frames the present context and the controversies behind false memories. After the socio-historical portion of the book, the structure of the rest of the book becomes topical. It explores trauma and memory interactions, child sexual abuse and memory, the philosophy and principles of practice and the evolving standards of care, and the evolving consensus model of post-trauma treatment focused on symptom relief and functioning. After this, the book centers largely on clinical guidelines. It covers guidelines for risk management, for assessment and diagnosis, for working with memory issues, and explains countertransference issues and a treatment decision model within a framework for different clinical memory scenarios. The book closes with extensive appendices and references that comprises a quarter of the book’s total content.

Essentially an expansive textbook for explaining the clinical intervention and consideration of sufferers of sexual abuse recollection, Recollections of Sexual Abuse contains a wealth of information for professional clinicians of all levels of experience in the topic. Detailed, conscious, and considered in its means of framing clinical scenarios and underlying goals in treatment, the book could be considered required reading for those working with patients who have reported experiencing recollected sexual abuse. Strictly clinical and very dense, it can serve as a jumping off point for the treatment process and for those looking to expand their expertise in treating traumatic experiences either real or imagined.

Christine Courtois, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice and serves as clinical director of The CENTER: Post-Traumatic Disorders program in the Psychiatric Institute of Washington. She conducts national and international workshops on the treatment of incest and of forms of sexual abuse and trauma. She has also authored Healing the Incest Wound: Adult Survivors in Therapy and Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. Appointed a member of several APA investigate groups studying child abuse and family violence, she was also the recipient of the APA award for distinguished professional contributions to applied psychology as a professional practice in 1996.

Courtois, C. (1999). Recollections of Sexual Abuse: Treatment Principles and Guidelines. New York, NY: W. W. Norton.
ISBN: 978-0-393-70397-5.
Paperback. 437 pages. Includes appendix, index, and references.
Key words: sexual abuse, rape, recollection, memory, trauma, diagnostic tools, treatment guidelines

 

Stacy Klein, LCSW

Stacy KleinNew Understandings and Strategies to Minimize and Transform OCD; A Healing Workshop for People with OCD

Sunday June 7th : 10 am- 3 pm
(we will break for an hour for lunch)

15 W 86th Street (b/w Central Park West/ Columbus)
New York, NY 10024 (SAJ; Social Hall)

Cost: $ 60

To register please email Stacey Klein at StaceyLK22@gmail.com (Space is limited)

OCD symptoms can take over your life and make you feel like something in you is broken. This is not so. You CAN heal. You are not alone and OCD need not be a stigma but can be understood as a way that you have learned to structure your experience and cope with the difficulties of being a human being. There are many tools and approaches that can work even if CBT has not been helpful to you.

In this experientially focused workshop, through awareness exercises (individually and in pairs) you will gain new understandings of your experience and symptoms and learn to expand your ability to tolerate uncertainty so you begin can heal. You will be introduced to tools drawn predominantly from body and movement oriented psychotherapies (somatic and gestalt therapy) combined with CBT (Cognitive Behavioral therapy), Buddhist Psychology and mindfulness approaches to help you manage and chip away at your symptoms. We will also discuss directions for structuring your recovery (including ways of reconfiguring and changing “exposure” treatments so they are gentler and more manageable).

This workshop is open to anyone who is interested in developing greater awareness of their sensations, feelings, thoughts, movement and relationship patterns and willing to participate in and share their experiences in the context of a safe confidential setting.

You will :

  • Be introduced to a variety of innovative and effective tools for breaking up old patterns, tolerating feelings and living more flexibly to help set OCD aside
  • Learn about the healing impact of connecting with your body to alleviate OCD symptoms and live in a more empowered way
  • Learn tools you can draw from when in the thick of an OCD episode
  • Learn to understand your experience from a compassionate perspective which promotes healing

Stacey Klein, LCSW is a somatic psychotherapist in private practice in Manhattan. She specializes in the treatment of anxiety, phobias and OCD. Stacey has developed an effective integrative and holistic model for treating OCD and has had success in helping many people recover and live more spontaneously and fully. For more information go to http://www.therapyinmanhattan.com

Aylee Welch
An Introductory Body-Psychotherapy Workshop

for Professionals and people interested in opening their capacity for joy in their life

Saturday & Sunday June 27 – 28, 2015 $275.

$150. of your workshop fee will be credited toward your tuition to Year One of the School if you register for fall 2015

Provides 13 1/2 CEU hours through NASW

Traditional psychotherapy works toward congruence in a person’s thinking, emotions, actions, and life choices. Body-oriented therapy understands that the body is also profoundly affected by our life experiences. Identifying and releasing attitudes and old images held in our physical structure adds an important component to therapy. This promotes lasting change, allowing for free flow of life energy from within us so we can more fully realize our life, our joy.

This experiential workshop will give participants the opportunity to experience the basic premises of Body-Psychotherapy that originated with Wilhelm Reich and now integrates Core Energetics and contemporary approaches including somatic approaches, current neurobiology and trauma therapy. The workshop combines lectures with movement and experiential opportunities, creativity and spirituality enhance the journey.

Space limited so register now!
Aylee Welch, LICSW
(206) 910-9766
www.bodypsychotherapyschool.com

SE_logo_150x150We are excited to announce an important training opportunity. Space is limited so please sign up soon!

The training will be conducted in Virginia and will include one of our best-trained and highly seasoned teams. Participants in the training will have a chance to be one of the treatment providers in a foundational study on SE.
This study will be conducted in collaboration with Attachment and Trauma Institute in Virginia. It has the real possibility to contribute its data to supporting the development of trauma informed care standards in the state of Virginia. This study could provide an important foundation for developing a body-oriented autonomic regulation model of trauma informed care within the state.

Furthermore, if successful, it could be adopted in state run agencies and hospitals and recognized by insurance panels within the state. The state of Virginia was recently nationally chosen as one of two states whose current trauma informed care systemic model statewide will be closely evaluated for its implementation, screening, assessment, applied treatment and outcomes. Outcomes will benefit treatment recommendations in medical and psychiatric hospitals in
both adolescent and adult units, statewide child welfare agencies and local community service boards. Cumulative outcomes gathered after two years will benefit the advancement of body based regulatory models of treatment for some of the most traumatized individuals in our society leading to national awareness.

Participants in this SE training will have the chance to be a treatment provider in this study. While being a treatment provider for this study is not required to participate in this training, those who do participate in this study will have increased training opportunities and receive a high level training experience.

This study will measure changes in trauma symptoms, symptoms of dissociation, general mental health symptoms and quality of life in children and adults. Providers who are willing to participate in the study will be trained on a 10-session treatment protocol.

Providers will receive referrals (5-10 per year) from the research team, who they will have the chance to work with for 10-sessions. During the 10-session treatment providers will receive regular ongoing case consultation.

Providers role in data collection will be minimal (letting the research team know that a client has started and completed treatment). All data will be held anonymously and there will be no way for researchers to connect the outcomes of the study to individual clients or practitioners.

The comprehensive training experiences will include:

1. An extra yearly training on a 10 session SE protocol that helps you develop specific skills to foster emotion regulation in your clients

2. Monthly small group case consultation by some of our best-trained and most seasoned assistants.

3. Regular referrals with ongoing case consultation support This study will assess changes in SE clients over the course of treatment. Providers in this study will also be given regular referrals from the SE study. This will give you as a training participant a unique opportunity to have treatment experience with ongoing case management support.

We will be studying three client populations: Adults with trauma, families with attachment and trauma, and our military.

If you or some of your colleagues work with any of these populations and are interested in studying the impact of SE on clinical treatment, please consider signing up or contacting your colleagues about this opportunity. In order to join the training one must have a degree in mental health or work in a medical profession. Those who have signed up for this training will be contacted by the research team via email. The email will include information about the study and how one can become a provider in the study, information about the procedures used in the study, the study protocol and the training process.

If you would like more information about the study before signing up for the training please feel free to contact the Somatic Experiencing Research Coalition Chair, Michael Changaris, PsyD at drchangaris@gmail.com
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The beginning module I begins June 5-8.
You can review more details about the training or sign up on our website:
www.traumahealing.org

Or call the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute (SETI)
directly at(303) 652-4035
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Please sign up for the training or refer respected colleagues today.

Space is in the training is limited.

PresenceYou Don’t Have to Be Tossed Around By Your Emotions

Are your clients emotions ruling their lives? Would you like to have simple, yet concrete ideas to help them shift from being their feelings to being with their feelings? You probably know that those feelings – even the most challenging ones – can seem like the “enemy inside” sometimes, when they are really guideposts and indicators of something deeper at work on the path to profound life change. The practical, compassionate insights in Ann Weiser Cornell’s latest book, Presence: A Guide to Transforming Your Most Challenging Emotions, are roadmaps that can help you assist your clients in making that inner shift from emotion wars to a wider perspective that opens up their most empowered life possibilities and will lend you a helping hand too!
What’s Covered? Intense Feelings; Decisions & Frustration; The Trouble with Feeling Happy, Emotion Wars, Unfulfilled Desire & Relationships, Shame & Self-Criticism, Trauma, and more.
Whimsical and beautifully designed, Presence is chock full of short, easy-to-read segments that you can enjoy as bite-sized bits of wisdom even in those few moments between sessions. And it’s a wonderful referral tool for clients – easy to absorb concepts and information in an appealing format!
Accompanying 58 page workbook (pdf) and 12 guided exercises via MP3 are also available to help support the journey to wholeness.

Available May 13th. Find out more here: www.focusingresources.com/presencebook

Sharon Stopforth

Saint Arnault, D., & O’Halloran, S. (2015). Biodynamic psychotherapy for trauma recovery: A pilot study. International Body Psychotherapy Journal, 14(1), 20-34.

The following study was a longitudinal pilot study using pre- and post-tests of standardized surveys measuring depression, anxiety, physical and emotional symptoms, quality of life, social support satisfaction, and social conflict. Biodynamic interventions were delivered to eight women receiving domestic violence support services with SAFE Ireland, a domestic violence shelter. Women selected for the study were over the age of 21, in the recovery phase of their survivorship, scored high on the Kessler 6 distress inventory, and expressed interest in participating in the study through their case managers. Participants were treated over a 12 month period consisting of three two and a half day Biodynamic interventions, complemented by a three hour bodywork session. The intervention consisted of both a group intervention and an individual bodywork session six months apart. The goal of the research was to examine the feasibility and acceptability of Biodynamic interventions and to foster healing for women receiving domestic violence support. Findings indicated that women, even after having been out of violence for over four years, still experienced high amounts of distress. Findings also indicated that with Biodynamic interventions, women’s distress indicators significantly improved over time, along with vitality, use of social support, and social conflict. The only score that did not change significantly was social functioning.

What was really interesting about the study was that women who had been considered to be stable and functioning well in the community by having new relationships, raising children, and working or going to school, still had high mental health distress. This confirms what the authors expected at the beginning of the study from their review of the literature and the effects of complex trauma. The study also confirms that bottom-up approaches to therapy for complex trauma are needed to adequately resolve trauma symptoms. I appreciated that the authors advocated for more studies in the field of women’s mental health on services needed for women beyond the first year of leaving an abusive relationship. Another important suggestion from the authors was that the definition of healing needs to go beyond symptom reduction and needs to look at healing as including moving back into the social world.

The authors indicated that the limitations of their study included: a small sample size and the lack of a control sample. The authors suggested that future studies should include larger and more complex trials as well as comparison research studies with standard intervention strategies such as cognitive behavioral therapy. They also recommended learning what services women access and the benefits and limitations of those services to assist women with their healing to thrive after leaving an abusive relationship. While the authors state that several of the women had experienced prior childhood abuse and violence, it would have been interesting to look at the severity of each woman’s full trauma history and their recovery rates to get a better picture of the effectiveness of the trauma interventions.
This study contributes to the field of body psychotherapy in that it demonstrates the effectiveness of bottom-up interventions on trauma resolution and quality of life. I also appreciate that this study suggests how body psychotherapy can not only impact symptom reduction for survivors, but significantly improve relationships and foster integration for trauma survivors back into society as fully contributing members. I hope to see further studies in body psychotherapy that show the development of resilience and wellness that go above and beyond simple symptom absence.

Hello Friends!!

My business partner Aimee and I have just created our second t-shirt in a series of many to come, and we are really excited to share it with you! (pictures are attached at bottom of email)

“Don’t Just Wear it Live it” the ImBODYment clothing line is a concept Aimee and I created while building a Core community in Boston.

The idea? Both of us found ourselves wearing items of clothing or jewelry that reflected a state of being or concept that we wanted to embody.
We realized that the words on our shirts or hanging on our wrists could be taken further than just on own body. What if the words were actively pursued in our daily lives and brought out into our communities?

surrenderteesWith that in mind we created ImBODYment. The idea is to offer you not only the t-shirt but the opportunity to explore the words on the shirt both for yourself and your community.

Beginning May 15th we will begin a month long explanation of Surrender. This includes emails, reminders, exercises, suggested readings, an interactive forum and a final exercise with suggestions and member inspirations on how to bring the concept out into your community as some kind of offering ie: workshop, contribution, talk, or donation to a charity.

We hope you will join us on this new endeavor. To purchase the T-shirt ($35.00) or the T-shirt PLUS exploration ($45.00) please email me directly at
Dianabuonocore@gmail.com

I will need your size, and quantities. At that point I will send you a PayPal request.

Please have your orders in by April 20.

Aimee and I wish you and yours an abundant Spring full of new growth and we hope to connect with each of you soon.

Warm Regards,
Diana Buonocore, CCEP
and
Aimee Falchuk, MPH, M.Ed

We are offering our Body Holds the Key: Guided Self Healing First Year 1st Wknd workshop AGAIN! Why ? Because we believe it is so powerful that if you learn
these simple tools, it can change your life!

If you have ever taken it and would like to take it again, you can at half price!

Transform your life and/or your clients lives, too. Learn the most efficient & effective way in one weekend to help others or yourself heal & grow.

Students completing Year I Weekend I will master the following basic GSH skills:

  • Learn the 5-Step Guided Self Healing Process for transformation
  • Discover how our difficulties are stories that we are trying to remember in order to heal and grow
  • Learn 20 energetic and spiritual practices you can take home and immediately begin to use. For ex., accupressure interventions to release fear, anger, shame, dissociation, creating boundaries, or interventions for releasing limiting beliefs, or for creating boundaries.
  • Discover how to access the deepest wisdom in your body and the inner knowing that has been there all along

This weekend can be taken alone or it can also be the foundation for the year long Guided Self Healing Training where we will discover and learn to work with the deepest universal themes that affect our lives

Saturday, April 25th, 2015 – Sunday, April 26th, 2015

Saturday & Sunday from 9:30a.m.to 6p.m.

Location: 115 Worcester Lane, Waltham, MA

Facilitated by Joan Beckett, LMHC, Guided Self Healing Trainer and Guided Self Healing Founder, Andrew Hahn, Psy.D.

Cost: This 2 day workshop is $500 if registered by April 17, 2015.

After April 17th, 2015, the cost is $550. If you have taken the Training before and would like to take it again, you can for $250.

This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers for 14 CEU’s for Clinical Social Work Continuing Education Contact Hours
Reservations: Contact the office of Guided Self Healing at 781.891.7448 or by email info@GuidedSelfHealing.org



HakomiHakomi Experiential Psychotherapy integrates mindfulness and somatics into the therapy process with uniquely effective results. Hakomi is a body-centered psychotherapy. The body is viewed as a “map of the psyche” – a door that can be opened to reveal the entire character and belief system of the individual. The body’s structures and patterns become a powerful access route to core material.

This workshop is designed for therapists, counselors, social workers, healing professionals and students in these fields. We will experientially learn Hakomi skills and approaches that are immediately applicable, and the workshop also serves as the prerequisite for the Comprehensive Hakomi Training.

Find out more download the flyer: Mindfulness and Somatics in Experiential Psychotherapy: An Introduction to the Hakomi Method

SE offers a framework to assess where your client is “stuck” in the fight, flight, freeze, or collapse responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states that underlie so many trauma symptoms. Our educational model is both theoretical and highly experiential, offering you effective skills for restoring nervous system regulation and resolving trauma that can be immediately integrated into your professional practice.

Chapel Hill, NC—March 20-23, 2015

How SE May Benefit Your Practice

  • Join the leading edge in trauma resolution. SE is becoming recognized as a
    premier method for resolving trauma symptoms. Our graduates are increasingly
    sought out for referrals based on their SE training.
  • Learn practical and effective skills that help resolve trauma without re-traumatization.
    These gentle, powerful interventions will inspire and empower your clients, restoring
    resilience and providing them with a greater capacity to enjoy life.
  • Have an extraordinary life experience. Many students find the SE training
    professionally and personally transformative. Join our joyful and compassionate healing
    community, and experience meaningful growth for yourself and those you serve.

 

Register now at traumahealing.com. Limited space available.

dave bergerDave Berger, MFT, PT, LCMHC, SEP
SE Trauma Institute faculty member, Dave Berger, has practiced physical therapy and somatic psychotherapy for over 30 years. With graduate degrees from Stanford University and California Institute of Integral Studies, Dave has been a college professor and clinician presently seeing individuals and couples. He specializes in PTSD, anxiety, acute and chronic pain, spinal and movement problems. He has also developed and teaches BASE™ (Bodywork and Somatic Education™) for trauma therapists.

Ongoing nonverbal interactions with our primary caregivers during the first year of life set a relational
foundation that is apparent both in the everyday life of the adult and in psychotherapy. Even though our
adult postural attitudes, gestures, gait and breathing patterns have changed over time, the foundations
established in our first year remain readily observable and available. Attending to these patterns within
psychotherapy is especially powerful.

Edinburgh Gestalt Institute, June 8 – 11, 2015

Location: Edinburgh

For more information and to register email info@egi.uk.com

EVENT INFORMATION IS IN THE INSTITUTIONAL EVENTS

This workshop will approach the development of human connection by experiencing the role of the structure of the body in relationship. Posture, movement, sensorimotor development and kinesiology are rarely understood as important features in human bonding. Yet, it is through movement and touch that self-regulation develops, dyadic bonding is learned and a sense of self grows. Through lecture, experiential exercises and practice we will examine the primary structures of attachment and how shifting the structure can shift the relational field. Included will be exploration of 5 Early Primary Structures of Attachment, Developmental Movement Patterning, Polyvagal Theory in Early Relationship, Co-regulation and Self-Regulation, and Overview of Rupture and Repair Cycles and practice with Dyadic Somatic Tracking. **SEP’s, Advanced SE students, BASE-P’s, BASE students; others welcome on an individual basis**

December 4-7,2015 – Austin, TX

Download Flyer here:BASE™

We’ve heard and seen thousands of messages about what a “good” body is supposed to look like; now, experience ways to re-claim your body from inside out to promote health, happiness and make peace with the body. Drawing from her experience as a Yoga Instructor, personal trainer and Psychodramatist, Linda will lead the group in an experiential workshop that includes poetry, action methods, Yoga and meditation practice to re-pattern thinking about beauty, taking up space, having presence, and being at ease with the miraculous mind-body continuum that is our Selves.

DATE: Saturday, March 28, 2015
TIME: 1:00pm-3:00pm
PLACE: GoGo Guru 8289 Main Street, Ellicott City, MD 21043
Cost: $25 at the door ($20 in advance) To Register: http://www.gogoguru.net/yoga-studio-workshops.php

Share with Others, download PDF Flyer: Learn to Love Your Body thru Yoga

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Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested….

Children coming from the tri-state NY, New Jersey Connecticut region and ONLY A FEW SPOTS LEFT…. 

SUNDAY MARCH 1, 2015

1:00 – 3:00 PM

Core For Kids “Playshop” in Manhattan
(download flyer)

with Neal Brodsky and Elaine Oswald

(8-10 Year Olds at this event)

$90 per child

Attendance is limited to 10

NOTE: Please contact us if you have a young person of another age as we see them in our private practices. 

 

Find out more and Buy ticket(s) for the March Playshop on the Core For Kids Eventbrite page at https://core4kidzinfo.eventbrite.com

Many children experience individual challenges that include the empty feeling that they are “just not good enough” as themselves, and this often manifests as disturbances in relationships and behavior.  We help children find their CORE or “Center of Right Energy” that leads to wonderful changes in their lives.

This Playshop will include expressive art-making and Core Energetics movement, opening young people to themselves in a safe, nurturing environment.

Note: The event is led by two seasoned therapists whose practices in body-centered psychotherapy address family and individual challenges such as: school adjustment, anger/aggression, attention issues, self-regulation, sleep problems, separation and divorce in family, adoption, sibling or parental conflict, family medical challenges, video/media overuse, and developmental delay.

 

About the Playshop Leaders:

Neal Brodsky LMFT, CCEP is the co-creator of Core for Kids and a holistic psychotherapist whose practice in Connecticut and Manhattan uses expressive therapies to help young people and adults create lives they love. He is licensed in Marriage & Family Therapy and presently interning on the Institute of Core Energetics faculty. Neal’s chapter “Emergence: A Tale of Two Boys” will be included in the upcoming book “Deep Play: Depth Psychology with Children.” Click here to learn more about Neal’s practice with children and families at www.CoreForKids.com 

Elaine Oswald, LCAT, ATR-BC, CCEP is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Certified Core Energetics Practitioner with a private practice in Manhattan and Brooklyn.  She has over a decade experience working with individuals, families and groups to address trauma, relationships, depression, anxiety and life transitions.  She is dedicated to sharing the power of expressive and somatic process work to help people find greater vitality and authenticity. Click here to learn more about Elaine and her practice.

Also visit us on the Core For Kids Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/core4kidz

Buy ticket(s) for the March Playshop on the Core For Kids Eventbrite page at https://core4kidzinfo.eventbrite.com

 

Theory and Practice of Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy

This training, intended for professionals and students in the mental health and human services field, provides a foundation in the theory and techniques of psychodrama, sociometry, and related group methods. The training, for individuals with up to 150 hours of prior psychodrama, is designed specifically to provide a solid foundation in the basic theory, concepts, and methods, along with skills practice and other experiential learning opportunities. Depending on participants’ interests, there may also be presentations and demonstrations on using action methods with populations and settings of interest, such as in the treatment of people with addictions, eating disorders, trauma and other mental health conditions, and in settings such as schools, other educational settings, faith communities, and organizational and community development.

Dates: The third Wednesday of each month, January through June 2015, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with a 60-minute lunch break. February 18 March 18 April 15 May 20 June 17

Note: Participant are asked to make a commitment to participate in the entire series, and payment is expected for all six sessions. Location: Laurel, Maryland (near Route 29 and I-95)

Fee: $175 per session, for a total of $875. If you pay for the entire series in advance or on the first day, you will get a $75 discount ($800). Cash, check and credit cards are accepted. (Please note: If you pay by credit card, there is a 3% service charge.)

Continuing Education Credit/Psychodrama Training Hours: For each session, 5.5 hours are granted through NBCC, NAADAC, ASET, American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, and Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners.

Psychodrama Training Group Feb-June 2015 – DOWNLOAD HERE

A Graduate Workshop for Somatic Practitioners, Therapies and Healers who want to upsurge CONFIDENCE, CLIENTS and COMPEN$ATION so you feel respected and valued, feel eros for your work, ignite your creativity. Humanity and the planet need you in your greatness!

What you are meant to fulfill in Life is also what Life is meant to fulfill in you!

We came to this work
because we were in pain.

We believe in this work
because we transformed.

We share this work
because we love.

Member:  Kate Holt

A Graduate Workshop for Somatic Practitioners, Therapies and Healers who want to upsurge CONFIDENCE,  CLIENTS and COMPEN$ATION so you feel respected and valued, feel eros for your work, ignite your creativity.  Humanity and the planet need you in your greatness!

Here’s the link to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/accelerate-evolution-tickets-15479177637

March 7 & 8 @ 150 W. 28th NYC

Portion of the proceeds benefit the Institution of Core Energetics

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ACCELERATE EVOLUTION FLYER

Advancing the Mind-Body Connection: Seeking Embodiment in the Psychotherapeutic Process

RECOVERING FROM OVERWHELMING EXPERIENCES
Bringing the Body Into the Work
March 7, 2015

The somatic, implicit, and nonverbal impact of overwhelming emotional and physical experiences will be explored in this seminar. Silent guided experiential processes will teach clinicians how to track somatic, emotional, and cognitive responses to clinical material, illuminating Bucci’s Multiple Code Theory as a theoretical model for understanding and treating trauma. Recent advances in the neuroscience of trauma will be explicated. Discussion of detailed clinical process will afford opportunities to identify the implications of Bucci’s model and enhance clinical skill in engaging the unspoken dimension in helping people recover from overwhelming experiences.

Dr. Frances Sommer Anderson, PhD, SEP, Psychologist, psychoanalyst, pain and trauma specialist, is recognized internationally for psychoanalytic publications about the body; books include Relational Perspectives on the Body (1998) and Bodies in Treatment (2007). Dr. Anderson and Eric Sherman, PsyD co-authored Pathways to Pain Relief (2013), a collection of case studies illustrating their psychodynamic treatment of chronic pain. She will give the 22nd Annual John Bowlby Lecture in London (April 2015), using clinical examples to elaborate how early attachment disruptions can be related to the development of chronic pain in later life; she will also give a workshop on Experiencing the Pain Matrix ® at the Bowlby Centre. She practices in Manhattan.

TIMH Series Feb 2015 – DOWNLOAD HERE

Full Time Faculty and Program Director
Somatic Psychology M.A. Program
Starting Date: July 1, 2015

The Somatic Psychology Program of the California Institute for Integral Studies announces an opening for a full-time faculty member who will also assume the role of Program Director at the end of the first year of the contract. The Somatic Psychology program at CIIS is an original one in the field, and one of four accredited clinical degree programs in the US that integrate both traditional and body-oriented approaches to psychotherapy. Students graduate with a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Somatic Psychotherapy. It is one of five concentrations in The School of Professional Psychology and Health at CIIS that lead to the Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology fulfilling the academic requirements for Marriage and Family Therapist licensure in the State of California.

From its creation 30 years ago, the program has served as a seedbed for the evolution of a now rapidly growing body of successful practitioners and scholars in the field. It now has a community of 80-120 students. The program creates an exciting learning environment that combines experiential work with didactic learning. New faculty will enter a community committed to discussion and forward-looking thought in the field of somatic psychotherapy. The program has an active interest in developing a larger research component in the program. The program has for many years supported a successful clinic where students earn practicum credits while doing and learning body-oriented approaches to psychotherapy under the supervision of licensed practitioners.

Duties Include: The Program Director will teach 12 units per year, organize Somatic Psychology program faculty and student meetings, recruit and train new program faculty, serve as liaison with the administrative departmental chair, collaborate with faculty and the Academic Vice-President, lead discussions about policy and training, and work with fellow Program Directors.

Minimum Qualifications:
Successful applicants will hold a doctorate degree or equivalent. They will have broad and deep experience in the field of Somatic Psychology, graduate level teaching experience, and background in both family systems approaches and psychodynamic approaches to psychotherapy. Evidence of established research interest, cultural studies and community orientation will be enhancing. Applicants must also show evidence of administrative and leadership skills and experience.

Salary: At the Associate level and is commensurate with academic experience.
CIIS is committed to building a culturally diverse faculty and strongly encourages applications from minorities and individuals with disabilities. Early career professionals are also encouraged to apply.

Benefits: Excellent health benefits package.

You must apply online:

In addition to your online application, please forward your two published articles, and two letters of recommendation to jobs@ciis.edu.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

CIIS is committed to providing an open, fair, inclusive, non-discriminatory environment for all individuals across differences of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, socio-economic status, ethnicity, age, physical ability, or medical condition. We seek to increase the presence, representation and inclusion of U.S. historically under-represented people of color, international, bilingual and bicultural students, faculty and staff; and, to provide an environment that will attract and retain individuals identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and intersex (LGBTQQI).

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