The Professional Training in Somatic Resourcing
8 three-day weekends (24 full days - 150 class hours)
The PPT Professional Somatic Resourcing 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 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.
The building of physical and psychological resources is central to the Psycho-Physical Therapy process. Psycho-Physical Therapy is a therapeutic method that actively integrates approaches of both psychotherapy and body therapy as a simultaneous process. The therapeutic work is continually integrating the physical with the psychological and vice versa. A client's physical, mental and spiritual issues are all seen as parts of a complex interactive system, where all parts are inseparable from the whole. The body is seen as the container of this interactive system. It is a primary vehicle for therapeutic exploration and transformation.
Psycho-Physical Therapy is a resourcing based model of psychotherapy. 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. 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.
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. Transformation of our limitations, wounds, and restrictive patterns requires the introduction and integration of new physical and psychological options. These options are the resources we explore in Psycho-Physical Therapy in order to make effective change.
Psychotherapists who wish to work in depth on both sides of the mind/body interface have often had to engage in long and comprehensive body therapy training programs in order to glean the information needed to work effectively with the physical patterns that accompany psychological issues. They then had to adapt this somatic understanding to a psychological framework in order to work in an integrative way with both physical and psychological issues.
This training is designed specifically for psychotherapists who wish to deepen their ability to work somatically. The material is presented in ways that is clinically applicable to psychotherapy practice. The Somatic Resourcing Training may also be valuable for advanced body workers who have some 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.
SOMATIC RESOURCING TRAINING - LEARNING OBJECTIVES
· To gain a practical understanding of human anatomy, biomechanics and movement dynamics
as they relate to psychological issues.
· To gain greater clinical understanding of the theory of somatic and psychological resourcing
as it is applied to supporting clients in reaching their therapeutic goals.
· To be able to see and assess limiting and expansive physical patterns, movement patterns, and
somatic themes in regards to the presence, or lack of psycho-physical resources.
· To be able to support clients in developing new psychological resources by introducing new
postural and movement options.
· To gain skill and comfort in the use of touch as a useful tool in somatic psychotherapy
practice.
· To be able to create somatic and psychological interventions that support clients in reaching
their therapeutic goals.
· To gain practical experience and confidence in working with a somatic approach to
psychotherapy.
For more information, please contact our organizer by email at organizer@psychophysicaltherapy.com
CEU'S: Continuing education credits are available. Bill Bowen Trainings is approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences as a Continuing Education Provider for LCSW's and MFT in the state of CA. PCE #2731