Short Description:
This 2-day (weekend) workshop aims to support therapists working one-to-one with clients. It provides a simple model for including the body and somatic awareness in the therapeutic relationship. There’s some background theory, plus a range of techniques and interventions that can be applied immediately and effectively in the therapy space. Threads of trauma, mindfulness and self-regulation run through the material. It’s a creative and experimental approach which can bring fresh energy to therapeutic encounters.
Topics covered:
Key theory and experiential understanding on how and why body-centred techniques work, plus ‘bodylistening’ skills to help you contact and work directly with the body – your client’s and your own.
- Theoretical background: Neo-Reichian body psychotherapy, attachment theory and the development of character.
- The Bodylistening model: A simple framework to help you include the body in the therapy space.
- Body dialogue and process: How to talk to the body and encourage its responses. Body-gestalt techniques.
- Working with channels: Using the channels of Image, Movement, Breath, Emotion, Sensation, Thought.
- Trauma: Working with body-held trauma. Understanding trauma as a response to overwhelm, and how to work creatively without causing retraumatisation.
- The body in relationship: Embodied-Relational approaches to therapy – how bodies relate in a client-therapist environment. Listening to my own body.
Target Audience:
This workshop is open to trainee counsellors, qualified counsellors and psychotherapists and other therapists working in the overlapping fields of physical, emotional and psychological health
About the Tutor: Tim Brown
Tim is a body psychotherapist, workshop and group facilitator and trainer. He worked as an environmental scientist and campaigner on pollution and energy issues for many years, whilst becoming increasingly involved in personal growth work. He has a body psychotherapy practice in Ashburton – see www.bodyworks.org.uk .
Tim has a Diploma in Deep Bodywork from the Entelia Institute, is certified by the International Center for Release and Integration (ICRI) as a Postural Integrator, and has an ICRI Diploma in Advanced Somatic Integration. He has also trained in Authentic Movement with the Institute for Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy, and has an Advanced Diploma in Embodied-Relational Therapy. He is a full member of the European Association for Body Psychotherapy, and was an Associate Hospital Manager for mental health services in Sussex.
Dates:
- 10:00am - 17:00pm Saturday 10th May 2025
- 10:00am - 17:00pm Sunday 11th May 2025
*Please note: Ticket sales end 6th May at 3pm.
