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September 2018
Relational body-focused skills practice with Nick Totton
This weekend is for anyone who wants to strengthen and develop their ability to work in a relational and body-focused way with clients. It should be suitable both for people who have trained in body psychotherapy, and for those from other modalities who simply have an interest in and attraction to this style. Although there will be some theoretical discussion, and some teaching of skills, the central aim is to help you develop your practical understanding of how you can…
Find out more »October 2018
An Embodied Integration of Trauma Therapy Approaches with Morit Heitzler
Morit has been teaching Integrative Body Psychotherapy and trauma work for the past 20 years. She brings 30 years of experience of clinical practise to her teaching and draws upon approaches including Somatic Trauma Therapy, EMDR, Biodynamic Massage, Sensorimotor Therapy and a Systemic approach to Family Constellations and Transgenerational Trauma. Her integrative approach combines knowledge and experience gained at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy, Metanoia Integrative Psychotherapy MSc, the Maudsley Hospital and the Oxford Stress & Trauma Centre as…
Find out more »December 2018
Embodied Approaches to Therapeutic Theories of Developmental Wounding and Habitual Patterns with Michael Soth
The presenting past The majority of humanistic and integrative approaches these days relies on developmental theory in the way that psychoanalytic traditions have always done. We see the client's current problems in their adult life as intricately linked to life-long habitual patterns that originated in childhood. We see the client's capacity for engaging in life as an adult as a function of their developmental wounding and importantly as a function of their defences against it, which were established early on…
Find out more »March 2019
Grounded Steps in the Minefield – Embodied Trauma Therapy
A training and in-depth supervision weekend with Morit Heitzler This next event in our series with Morit is CPD that includes both training and in-depth supervision. The depth of this weekend training is a key benefit as is the opportunity to be part of an ongoing group making connections and offering continuity from one workshop to the next. You can receive trauma-related teaching and supervision input whilst also learning from other participants' experience relevant to the themes and issues emerging…
Find out more »The Embodiment of Relational Stances, Spaces & Modalities with Michael Soth
A three weekend course with Michael Soth The notion of 'relational modalities' originated in the early 1990’s with Petruska Clarkson, and was one of the most coherent manifestations of the paradigm shift towards two-person psychology. However, whilst it usefully shifts the ‘talking cure’ towards the ‘relating cure’ (thus organising the therapeutic profession around the principle that “it is the relationship that matters”), what is lacking in this formulation of relationality is the bodymind connection. That particular lack of embodiment then…
Find out more »May 2019
Working with the Breath in Psychotherapy with Michael Soth
This weekend is the first in a series which aims to work towards a comprehensive understanding and practice of breathwork, drawing from the diverse traditions and trying to integrate them on the basis of a holistic bodymind psychological understanding. Specifically, it will include to some extent mindfulness, meditative and yoga breathing, but focus on the lesser known approaches like Grof's holotropic breathing, rebirthing, vegeto therapy, and an integrative relational form of breathwork developed at the Chiron Centre focussing on bodymind…
Find out more »July 2019
Grounded Steps in the Minefield – Embodied Trauma Therapy
This next event in our series with Morit is CPD that includes both training and in-depth supervision. The depth of this weekend training is a key benefit as is the opportunity to be part of an ongoing group making connections and offering continuity from one workshop to the next. You will receive trauma-related teaching and supervision input whilst also learning from other participants' experience relevant to the themes and issues emerging during the two days. Each day will be a…
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The Embodiment of Relational Stances, Spaces & Modalities, Part 2 with Michael Soth
The second part in this three weekend series with Michael Soth The notion of 'relational modalities' originated in the early 1990’s with Petruska Clarkson, and was one of the most coherent manifestations of the paradigm shift towards two-person psychology. However, whilst it usefully shifts the ‘talking cure’ towards the ‘relating cure’ (thus organising the therapeutic profession around the principle that “it is the relationship that matters”), what is lacking in this formulation of relationality is the bodymind connection. That particular…
Find out more »February 2020
The Embodiment of Relational Stances, Spaces & Modalities, Part 3 with Michael Soth
The third weekend course in the series with Michael Soth The notion of 'relational modalities' originated in the early 1990’s with Petruska Clarkson, and was one of the most coherent manifestations of the paradigm shift towards two-person psychology. However, whilst it usefully shifts the ‘talking cure’ towards the ‘relating cure’ (thus organising the therapeutic profession around the principle that “it is the relationship that matters”), what is lacking in this formulation of relationality is the bodymind connection. That particular lack…
Find out more »September 2020
Working with the Breath in Psychotherapy with Michael Soth
There are a multitude of techniques instructing us how to breathe correctly, derived from a multitude of traditions, Eastern and Western. Many of these diverse systems and instructions contradict each other, being either oriented towards calming us down and helping us centre (generally Eastern), or targeting emotional blocks by provoking primal regressive and cathartic experience (generally Western). These experiential weekends are based on the assumption that ALL types of breath work technique have some validity with some of the people…
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