Module 1: (completed)
Working Therapeutically With The Body
In Transpersonal Psychotherapy
Starting on the 16th of January 2009, this module focuses on the role of the Body in therapy. A fully holistic or integral approach to therapy is and must directly work with and impact on the manifestation of the soul (Psyche): the body (Soma).
Seminar 1:
The Inclusion Of Bodywork In The ‘Therapeutic Dialog’
(Jan. 16 – 19th, 2009)
This seminar will explore the importance and possibilities of integrating the body in the therapeutic work. Often, a Body-Psychotherapist might be working either with the body or in dialogue. This can create a new kind of split, where the body is contacted under special conditions (e.g. mattress or massage-table). Then, living in your “physical home” becomes again something special and might not be easily integrated into daily life and the habitual patterns of relationship. Working with the body while in dialogue is experienced as difficult by many therapists; however, there are various ways to include the bodily reality of both client and therapist into the verbal process. The involvement of the body can go far beyond a mirror function of consciousness (as in the question: “Where do you feel that?”). It can activate the flow of the self-healing energy of life, which is probably one of the most important aspects of therapy.
Seminar 2:
The Central Theme, Inner Attitude & Victim Place: The Energetic Connections between the Emotional Brain and Body (March 27-29, 2009)
In this seminar we will work with themes of the inner attitude, the central theme of your life,
getting out of the victim place, and the energetic connections between the emotional brain and the body.
We will intensively address questions like how we form relationships – how we have learned to build them
starting very often from a place of suffering and without good role models – and how to get out of the trap
of falling into the same patterns again and again, even though we meet totally different people.
The very base for this will have to be the relationship with ourselves and how we can gradually become
our own allies instead of our own enemies and critics. People who attempt to lead a spiritual life often develop
a friendly attitude towards themselves which does not reach into the really deep layers and then find themselves
at times confronted with surprising self destructive thoughts and feelings which their spiritual or religious mindset
had helped to diminish, but not to release.
The inner attitude as a therapeutic tool will play an important role in this.
Seminar 3:
Working with the Dreambody: Process work with Psyche and Soma
(May 8 – 11, 2009)
Arnold Mindell has discovered fabulous ways of working with physical symptoms like pain, illness, deformations, etc. by understanding them as signals from the Essence of our being. When we are engaging with a client in these signals through play, sound and movement, the repressed and precious aspects of the self can re-surface and integrate.
Rainer Pervoeltz has himself come to integrate the work and training he did with Arnold Mindell into his own practice of Gestalt, Body and Transpersonal Psychotherapy and will present it from there.
We will explore ways of integrating the “Dream-consciousness” into both: daily lives and therapeutic practice. Dream-consciousness is an expanded awareness, which goes beyond our trained routine-perception and allows us to experience the world in a fresh, surprising and a more or less encoded way. We all have some experiences of it.
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