WORKSHOP AND TRAINING CALENDAR
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WORKSHOP AND TRAINING CALENDAR FOR 2008
- Berkeley, California, -
- taught by Bill Bowen -
- Psycho-Physical Therapy 2007/2008 Lectures, Workshops, & Training (details below) -
* Friday, Nov.16, 2007 - Free Evening Lecture "The Heart in Somatic Psychotherapy" 7:00pm -8:30pm
- -held at 825 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, (Bancroft Way @ 6th St.)
* Friday, Jan. 18,2008 - Free Evening Lecture "The Anatomy of Psycho-Physical Transformation" 7:00pm -8:30pm
- -held at 830 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, (Bancroft Way @ 6th St.)
* Saturday, Jan.19, 2008 - one day workshop "Building Somatic Resources"
* Sunday, Jan.20, 2008 - one day workshop "Anatomy and Psycho-Physical Transformation"
* Saturday, March 8, 2008 - one day workshop "Exploring the Mind/Body Interface"
* Sunday, March 9, 2008 - one day workshop "The Heart in Somatic Psychotherapy"
* Somatic Resourcing Professional Training: Eight Three-Day Modules beginning May, 2008
May 2-4; June 13-15; Sept 5-7; Oct 17-19; Nov 14-16, 2008
Jan 16-18; Feb 13-15; Mar 20-22, 2009
(for details please see the link to the Psycho-Physical Therapy Professional Training in Somatic Resourcing on the home page)
CEU'S: Bill Bowen Trainings is approved by the California Board of
Behavioral Sciences as a Continuing Education Provider for LCSW's and MFT's
in the State of California, PCE#2731
All the workshops are held at 830 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, Calif. 94710, (Bancroft Way @ 6th St.)
To Register :
To register for evening lectures:
-please R.S.V.P. by contacting Justine Polevoy at the following phone or e-mail
To register for workshops:
- Please complete a Workshop Registration Form (avalable from the home page of this web site)
- Please let us know the titles of each course and the dates for which you would like to register.
- Please include your full name, mailing address, telephone numbers(home, office, cell) & email Address.
- Make checks payable to: Bill Bowen. Mail your check and completed registration form
to: Justine K. Polevoy, MFT at 2824 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705.
-We also accept Visa and MasterCard payments.(contact Justine for details)
-For more detailed information please contact Justine K. Polevoy, MFT, Phone: 510-888-4151 or
e-mail: EmbodiedPsychotherapy@comcast.net
- Confirmation will be emailed with directions and details 2 weeks
prior to workshop dates.
Workshop Cancellation Policy:
Credit towards a future workshop or refund (minus $50) will be provided when
notice of cancellation is received by the organizer 30 days prior to the
workshop. Credit, but no refund is available if less than 30 days notice is
provided. No refunds or credit without prior notification. Course
registration signifies agreement with the terms of the cancellation policy.
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Psycho-Physical Therapy 2007/2008 Lectures, Workshops, & Training details
Friday, Nov.16, 2007 - Free Evening Lecture - "The Heart in Somatic Psychotherapy"
7:00pm -8:30pm
Central to the process of Psycho-Physical Therapy are the qualities of awareness, connection, compassion, kindness, gratitude, and acceptance. These qualities are the ground from which new transformative options are developed and applied. These are qualities of the heart. Psycho-Physical Therapy is heart centered work. The work is grounded in heart-felt awareness. The heart is a physical organ, but it is also much more then just an organ. It is a quality of energy, a feeling, a symbol, and a way of being. In PPT we work with the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual manifestations of heart. We talk to a heart, from the heart. We feel the heart, see the heart, touch the heart, and speak to the heart. We engage the heart of our client at all stages of the therapeutic process. Heart in its fullest sense is a relational phenomenon. This fact demands of the therapist that he or she perceive, soften, and open his or her own heart as an essential part of the therapeutic work. In this presentation Bill Bowen will discuss clinical applications of the heart in somatic psychotherapy.
Location: 825 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, Calif. 94710, Bancroft Way @ 6th St. in Berkeley, CA
Friday evening, 7:00pm -8:30pm, space is limited so please contact Justine Polevoy MFT to register for this free evening presentation
To Register Contact: Justine K. Polevoy, MFT, Phone: 510-888-4151 or
e-mail: EmbodiedPsychotherapy@comcast.net
Friday, Jan. 18,2008 - Free Evening Lecture - "The Anatomy of Psycho-Physical Transformation"
7:00pm -8:30pm
The general nature of wounding is fragmentation and separation, to be broken apart. The general nature of healing is integration and connection, to be made whole. Transformation, the changing into a new form, occurs on a psycho-physical level when either pressure of different circumstances or the presence of new options allows or forces a shift in thoughts, beliefs, feelings, physical structure, etc. This is a re-forming of patterns of physical, emotional, and psychological organization. When transformation is healing there is a shift from limitation and survival towards greater creativity and expansion. It is a change towards greater possibility. In this presentation Bill Bowen will discuss the transformative process from a Psycho-Physical Therapy perspective. We will look at what is meant by transformation in somatic psychotherapy and what is "transformative vision". We will discuss what are the ingredients, requirements, and skills needed for supporting a client's physical, emotional, and psychological transformation.
Location: 830 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, Calif. 94710, Bancroft Way @ 6th St. in Berkeley, CA
Friday evening, 7:00pm -8:30pm, space is limited so please contact Justine Polevoy MFT to register for this free evening presentation
To Register Contact: Justine K. Polevoy, MFT, Phone: 510-888-4151 or
e-mail: EmbodiedPsychotherapy@comcast.net
Saturday, Jan.19, 2008, one-day workshop - "Building Somatic Resources"
This workshop will explore body based resources and their usefulness in psychotherapy. The physical, emotional and psychological aspects of our experience are interactive and mutually influential. Change on a physical level affects one's mental and emotional functioning. Change on a psychological level affects the body. Sustained change becomes possible for a client when new options become available that offer alternatives to older and more limiting physical and psychological patterns. The ability to identify and work with a client's existing and missing physical and psycho-physical resources is an essential part of successful therapy. Resources are those things, actions, and qualities that we draw upon in times of need, also support us on a daily basis to facilitate optimal functioning. They help us deal effectively with the variable situations that life presents to us. When resources are inadequate one's ability to transform and heal become restricted. When resourced, optimal functioning becomes possible.
Somatic Resources are physically based options that support a client in re-organizing towards greater functioning and sustained health. They are built from existing qualities and quiescent strengths within the client. Somatic resources are the anatomical and physiological qualities and functions that support greater capability, competency, integrity and well-being. This workshop will include models and skills that are clinically useful in the practice of building new Somatic Resources. The class will include useful theory and applications, body reading skills, demonstration and practice.
Saturday 9:30AM- 5PM
6 CEU Units available
Tuition: $135 tuition if paid in full by Dec. 15th,2007, $155 thereafter
Location: 830 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, Calif. 94710, Bancroft Way @ 6th St. in Berkeley, CA
For Information Contact: Justine K. Polevoy, MFT, Phone: 510-888-4151 or
e-mail: EmbodiedPsychotherapy@comcast.net
Sunday, Jan.20, 2008, one-day workshop "Anatomy and Psycho-Physical Transformation"
The quality and condition of a person's physical structure and the functioning of that structure has a profound affect on that person's physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. This workshop will explore the implications for somatic psychotherapy of the concept that "form influences function and function influences form". We will look at how an understanding of the structure of the body and its movements gives a therapist valuable tools that are useful in the building of new somatic based resources that support a client's transformational process. The workshop will include didactic material about the structure of the body and its movements that will be clinically useful in the building of somatic based resources and the creation of somatic interventions that access or deepen psychological material. The class will also include the body reading skills.
Sunday 9:30AM- 5PM
6 CEU Units available
Tuition: $135 tuition if paid in full by Dec. 15th, 2007, $155 thereafter
Location: 830 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, Calif. 94710, Bancroft Way @ 6th St. in Berkeley, CA
For Information Contact: Justine K. Polevoy, MFT, Phone: 510-888-4151 or
e-mail: EmbodiedPsychotherapy@comcast.net
Saturday, March 8, 2008, one-day workshop - "Exploring the Mind/Body Interface"
A client's psychological issues are inseparable from what is occurring in their body. The quality and depth of the therapy is enhanced when a therapist can identify and work with both physical and psychological issues as part of a simultaneous therapeutic process. The therapist facilitates awareness of mind/body integrity by directing focused awareness to what is occurring physically, what is occurring psychologically and the interactions between the two. Particular attention is given to the interconnection of body and mind, and the way that a client's physical patterns and psychological issues mutually influence each other.
This one day class explores the interface between physical and psychological experience. You will learn to identify and work with the physical and psychological components of a client's presenting issues. You will learn to track a client's psycho-physical responses to therapeutic explorations, interventions and interactions. Techniques for working back and forth between the psychological and physical expression of underlying issues will be taught. Interventions that encourage psycho-physical integration will also be taught. The class will include clinically useful information, observational skills and tools for working with physical experience as an expression of psychological material.
Saturday 9:30AM- 5PM
6 CEU Units available
Tuition: $135 tuition if paid in full by Feb. 1st, 2008, $155 thereafter
Location: 830 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, Calif. 94710, Bancroft Way @ 6th St. in Berkeley, CA
For Information Contact: Justine K. Polevoy, MFT, Phone: 510-888-4151 or
e-mail: EmbodiedPsychotherapy@comcast.net
Sunday, March 9, 2008, one-day workshop "The Heart Somatic Psychotherapy"
This workshop will explore the qualities of the physical and emotional heart as essential
aspects of the transformational process. Psycho-Physical Therapy is heart centered work.
At the center of the PPT process are the qualities of awareness, connection, compassion,
kindness, gratitude, and acceptance. These qualities are the ground from which new
transformative options are developed and applied. These are qualities of the heart. Psycho-Physical Therapy is heart centered work. We engage the heart as a physical organ, but also much more then just physically. Heart is a quality of energy, a feeling, a symbol, and a way of being. In PPT we work with the physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual manifestations of heart. We engage the heart of a client at all stages of the therapeutic process. Heart in its fullest sense is a relational phenomenon. This fact demands of the therapist that he or she perceive, soften, and open his or her own heart as an essential part of the therapeutic work. This workshop will include the use of specific clinical applications for engaging the physical and emotional heart as part of a somatic psychotherapy process.
Sunday 9:30AM- 5PM
6 CEU Units available
Tuition: $135 tuition if paid in full by Feb. 1st, 2008, $155 thereafter
Location: 830 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, Calif. 94710, Bancroft Way @ 6th St. in Berkeley, CA
For Information Contact: Justine K. Polevoy, MFT, Phone: 510-888-4151 or
e-mail: EmbodiedPsychotherapy@comcast.net
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Psycho-Physical Therapy Professional Training in
Somatic Resourcing
Taught by Bill Bowen
- beginning Spring 2008, Berkeley, Calif. -
Eight three day weekends - approximately 150 class hours
May 2-4; June 13-15; Sept 5-7; Oct 17-19; Nov 14-16, 2008
Jan 16-18; Feb 13-15; Mar 20-22, 2009
(Detailed information about the somatic resourcing training can be found at the
Psycho-Physical Therapy Professional Training in Somatic Resourcing link on the PPT web site.)
Psycho-Physical Therapy is a resourcing based model of psychotherapy. We work to support the client's transformation be helping the client create new physical and psychological options that replace old limiting patterns. Resources are those things, actions, and qualities we can draw upon for aid in times of need. They are the awareness, abilities, and skills that support a person in maintaining a sense of self and a feeling of competency, regardless of what is occurring in his or her environment. There are many different categories of resources: psychological, emotional, intellectual, relational, athletic, artistic, spiritual, somatic, etc. In Psycho-Physical Therapy we explore the interface of two resource categories, the psychological and somatic. We ground the resourcing process in the body by focusing the therapeutic work on the building of somatic based resources and then by building psycho-physical resources which integrate the physical and the psychological. The body is at the heart of this method of psychotherapy. This is psychotherapy through the body. We keep coming back to the body because it is what brings us most efficiently into the transformative moment. We continually explore the integration of mind and body by engaging both the physical and the psychological in a process of working across the interface of mind and body.
This training is designed to give psychotherapists a practical understanding of the anatomy, biomechanics, and psychology of a client's somatic patterns and movements in a way that is clear, accessible and directly applicable to psychotherapeutic practice. The PPT Somatic Resourcing Training is experientially based allowing therapists to both deeply experience how the body moves as well as understand how to use movement and touch as psycho-physical interventions in their work. This training is valuable for psychotherapists who wish to deepen their ability to work somatically and for advanced body workers who have psychological training. Techniques and the underlying theoretical base for working at the interface between posture/movement patterns and psychological issues will be explored in detail. The building of new and more optimal somatic patterns and resources as they relate to psychological issues will be addressed through out the training.
The purpose of the Somatic Resourcing Training is to create a clinically useful understanding of the anatomy and movement dynamics of the human body. The training is designed to give therapists practical skills and knowledge that will allow them to assess and work with movement and touch in the building of new psychological and physical resources.
Some of the valuable material covered in the Somatic Resourcing Training includes:
- Introduction to the Somatic Resourcing
- Building somatic resources
- Building psycho-physical resources
- Somatic Resource Themes
- General anatomy of the body cavities
- Organs of the thoracic cavity of the body cavities
- The psychological significance of the body cavities
- Specific clinical applications and somatic interventions for psychotherapists
- The therapeutic relationship and contractual agreements
- Transference and counter transference issues in somatic psychotherapy
- Touch and palpation skills
- Touch as a psychotherapeutic intervention
- Boundaries when working with touch
- Concerns and contraindications when working with the body in psychotherapy
- Reading the body in relation to Somatic Resource Themes
- Movement as a psychotherapeutic intervention
- Boundaries when working with movement
- Core and periphery of the body as a psycho-physical model
- Stability and mobility as a psycho-physical model
- Anatomy and biomechanics of the upper and lower extremities
- Body reading, structural and movement patterns of the upper and lower extremities
- The psychological significance of the upper and lower extremities
- Therapeutic relationship when working with movement and touch
- Tensegrity as a somatic psychotherapy model
- The physical core and psychological core material
- Anatomy and biomechanics of the pelvis/trunk/core
- Psycho-physical resources in relationship to the core of the body
- Body reading structural and movement patterns of the pelvis, spine and thorax
- Psychological issues associated with the core and periphery of the body
- Specific clinical applications and somatic interventions for psychotherapists
- Working at the mind/body interface
- Physicalizing
- Anatomy and biomechanics of the throat, neck, head, and face
- Body reading structural and movements of the neck, head and face
- Psychological issues associated with the throat, neck, head, and face
- Working with the "Somatic Sense of Self"
- Psychotherapy through the body
- Integrating the whole embodied experience
- Creating psycho-physical interventions
- Therapeutic strategy
- Therapeutic homework
- Demos, exercises and practice
- Practice and supervision
- Clinical applications
- Demos
For a more complete description of the training visit the Psycho-Physical Therapy Professional Training in Somatic Resourcing link on the home page.
CEU Units are available
The Somatic Resourcing Training is held over eight three day weekends.
Class hours: Friday 1:00-6:00, Saturday 9:30-6:00, Sunday 9:30-5:30
Tuition: $Tuition: $3750, if paid in full by cash or check by March 25, 2008, $3,900 thereafter.
For more information about details of the Somatic Resourcing Training, locations,payments, etc. please contact the organizer,
Justine K. Polevoy, MFT, Phone: 510-888-4151 or
e-mail: EmbodiedPsychotherapy@comcast.net
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