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Events posted by members of the Body Psychotherapy Network.

Embodied-Relational Therapy - a two-year modular psychotherapy training, working at the meeting place of relational, body, process, and social justice practice.  
Eden Rise https://networkofwellbeing.org/eden-rise/  Follow link below for more info on accessibility 

Start:
12/06/25
End:
16/06/25

16th Training - Starting in June 2025

ERT is an experiential, residential post-qualification training, which focuses on trainees' own work on their embodied relating with self and with other.  
We are aiming this training to appeal and be accessible to a wide range of practitioners. We are particularly interested in working with practitioners from Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, LGBTQIA2S+, neuro divergent, and disabled communities who wish to train in an embodied and relational approach. 
Learning from mistakes, and from our own ongoing training, we have recently been more successful in how we integrate working with oppression and marginalisation into the core of the training. We see, however, that a truly inclusive training would be led by a more diverse training collective. So, on this intake, we are also interested in hearing from practitioners who might like to join the training, then join us on the Training for Trainers modules. We hope that you and we will be collectively inspired to co-create a new more diverse ERT Training Collective that reflects our wider community.


COST: Sliding scale: £5000 to £3000 for the full year one course. If this cost is too high, then please contact us .

DATES:  The first year is five, 4-night residentials – starting 12-16 June 2025  

TRAINETRS:  The first-year trainers are Allison Priestman and Stephen Tame.  

Pulsing transformational bodywork
Southwest London

Greater London

Start:
25/04/25
End:
21/09/25

Pulsing is the place where touch, movement, connection and emotion meet. Vibrant & energising. Relaxing & nurturing. Pleasurable & playful. Meditative & healing.

For seekers, healers, and anyone on a journey of personal change, Pulsing offers a genuinely unique approach. Reconnect to feelings and sensations, to breath, to touch and movement. Re-awaken to self-expression, play, joy and pleasure. Rediscover your true self.

This 8-day program runs over 3 modules in April, June and September.

Non-Visible Disability and Long Term Health Conditions
online

Online

Start:
15/03/25
End:
15/03/25

Drawing from Embodied- Relational Therapy to explore disability, illness, ableism, embodiment, and care.

Exploring the lived reality of people with hidden disability and long-term health conditions? How might we offer appropriate, empowering therapy? How can we be allies to our clients living with these experiences?

Cost £50, (email allisonpriestman@gmail.com for concessions £35.)
Saturday 15 March, 2025. 10am-1pm
Facilitated by Allison Priestman

Womb Gaia trauma informed yoga therapy
Cardiff & residentials in France

Wales

Start:
28/02/25
End:
26/04/26

15 month diploma training which follows a decolonial-devotional learning pathway where knowledge is gained through personal process, heart awakening & radical embodiment.
A trauma informed course that focuses on somatic trauma practice, Ayurveda for women, Sufi-Sakhi- bhakti love philosophy, female pelvic health, holistic sexuality and indigenous midwifery/wise woman womb care.
Suited to those looking to work therapeutically with small groups and in 1 to 1's . Totaling up to 570 course hours of tuition, practice, personal and group process.
A hybrid of on line and in person weekends in Cardiff as well as 2 six day residentials in France

EMBODIED-RELATIONAL THERAPY (ERT)
Integrating Embodiment, Relationship and Social Justice
Exeter, Devon

Start:
15/02/25
End:
16/02/25

Supporting you to explore working relationally with the embodied experience of being alive.


What is Embodied-Relational Therapy? 
How do we work simultaneously - with our client's embodiment, with our own, and with the relationship that arises between us?   
How do we work with social inequality in embodied, relational ways? 

Embodied-Relational Therapy training and practice has been developing for the past 25 years. Initiated by Nick Totton, it has been developed by the ERT training team, and all the clients, trainees and supervisees who meet it. 


More recently, Stephen Tame and Allison Priestman have been integrating working more directly with embodied oppression, power and privilege in ERT. 

On this experiential workshop, we will: 
Have a deep dive into ERT 
Support you to work with the embodied relationship between yourself and your client(s), to get mobile, breathing, sensing, and feeling – working directly as bodies in a therapeutic space together. 

Invite you to pay compassionate and curious attention to the embodied experiences of power, privilege, and oppression - exploring the reality that therapy has political and social dimensions. 

 
We encourage risk taking, within the safely held container of the workshop, to find the edges of your own process and related work - to experiment with new, embodied ways of working with clients. 

This workshop is suitable for anyone working one-to-one in a therapeutic setting i.e. psychotherapists, counsellors, coaching practitioners, body/physical/massage therapists, homeopaths etc. 
 


It is also a good taster for the Embodied-Relational Therapy Training starting in June 2025. 
 


COST £240 – £120 Sliding scale. (Please pay as much as you can afford, to help us keep workshops accessible for those on low income) 


VENUE Exeter, Devon
 Email trainersert@gmail.com to book, or Download the booking form here 

TRAINERS: ALLISON PRIESTMAN, STEPHEN TAME

EMBODIED MARGINALISATION, POWER AND PRIVILEGE
Subud Hall, Bristol

SOUTH WEST

Start:
07/12/24
End:
08/12/24

On this (non-residential) workshop we wish to explore the embodied experience of oppression. We will begin by embodied resourcing, and contacting our own lived experiences of marginalisation and privilege. Exploring our heritages and identities. Asking ourselves, what does it mean to be humble? To really open to people's experience of difference and marginalisation? Can our experiences of marginalisation become a resource in our work as therapists? Can we step into our privilege, to use it in service of others?

This is complex, confusing and demanding work. Re-enactments will happen around difference and diversity. We will make mistakes. We are interested in supporting practitioners to risk being clunky, to step forward.

As a training team we are integrating embodied marginalisation into the Embodied-Relational Therapy training. We are excited and challenged by this process. This weekend would serve as a useful introduction both to the ERT training and to how we are working with this material. The ERT training will start in June 2025

TRAINERS: ALLISON PRIESTMAN, STEPHEN TAME

COST £240 - £120 sliding scale. (Please pay as much as you can afford, to help us keep workshops accessible for those on low incomes).

CONTACT AND BOOKING: Contact stephentame@gmail.com for any questions or queries.
Booking : email trainersert@gmail.com to book, or Download the booking form here..


Please note that places are limited to 12 participants.


PLAYING WITH FIRE
9 month training; Fridays 10am-1pm fortnightly. Full fee £1060. (£160 deposit) concessions, to make the course accessible £880, £700, £565

Online

Start:
11/10/24
End:
06/06/25

Exploring an Embodied, Relational and Wild therapeutic approach. How can working in these ways, enrich and support the decolonising of our therapy practice?
“To colonise is to capture, to take, to control, to disconnect, to disenfranchise, disidentify. To decolonise is to reclaim, to reconnect, to honour, to recognise our interconnectedness with all living things.” Dr Thema Bryant.

The themes of relationship, embodiment, wildness and decolonisation are interlinked. We’ll spend some time exploring each.

Online Training: Trauma Basics: The Hakomi Way May 2024
Online

Online

Start:
25/05/24
End:
25/05/24

This is a basic introduction to Hakomi and how it supports recovery from trauma. The training will be experiential Hakomi practices, working as a whole group, in small groups, and individually.

You do not need any prior knowledge or experience of Hakomi and it is open to anyone willing to explore a mindful approach to self-understanding.

The times are 10am to 5:30pm.

The fee for the weekend is £95 (or £85 on/before 26/04/24)

Vicky and Jamie are taking bookings at hakomilancaster@gmail.com

Wild Therapy One Year Training
Middlewood Trust, Lancashire.

North West

Start:
16/05/24
End:
20/05/25

As the human world wakes up to our relationship with nature, and therapists of many kinds become aware of the crucial connections and disconnections between therapists, clients and nature, this training offers you the opportunity to re-connect with the natural world and to re-wild your practice. To immerse yourself in nature both outdoors and indoors, in mind and body, in the connections you experience in community, in yourself and with your clients.
Cost: £2700 – early bird £2500 before 31st January 2024

Hakomi Training May 2024: Hakomi and embodiment
Lancaster Quaker Meeting House, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 1TX

North West

Start:
11/05/24
End:
12/05/24

The training will be two days of experiential Hakomi practices, working as a whole group, in small groups, and individually.

You do not need any prior knowledge or experience of Hakomi and it is open to anyone willing to explore a mindful approach to self-understanding.

The times for the two days are 10am to 5:30pm on the Saturday and 1:15pm to 6:45pm on the Sunday.

The fee for the weekend is £220 (or £190 on/before 12/04/24).

Vicky and Jamie are taking bookings at hakomilancaster@gmail.com

EMBODIED RELATING WEBINAR
10am-1pm: facilitator Allison Priestman: £50 (conc £35)

Online

Start:
19/04/24
End:
19/04/24

On this webinar we will study the complex and subtle skills of connecting to and utilising our embodiment as a relational resource. The starting place for working relationally, is being with our own experience in the moment. Working in this way requires us to develop a practice of moment to moment awareness of our multi-channelled experiences. Paying attention to our emotions, internal sensations, thoughts, dreams and fantasies as information about the unfolding process between us and our clients.

Online Training: Trauma Basics: The Hakomi Way March 2024
Online

Online

Start:
23/03/24
End:
23/03/24

This is a basic introduction to Hakomi and how it supports recovery from trauma. The training will be experiential Hakomi practices, working as a whole group, in small groups, and individually.

You do not need any prior knowledge or experience of Hakomi and it is open to anyone willing to explore a mindful approach to self-understanding.

The times are 10am to 5:30pm.

The fee for the weekend is £110 (or £95 on/before 22/02/24)

Vicky and Jamie are taking bookings at hakomilancaster@gmail.com

Hakomi Training March 2024
Lancaster Quaker Meeting House, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 1TX

North West

Start:
16/03/24
End:
17/03/24

The training will be two days of experiential Hakomi practices, working as a whole group, in small groups, and individually.

You do not need any prior knowledge or experience of Hakomi and it is open to anyone willing to explore a mindful approach to self-understanding.

The times for the two days are 10am to 5:30pm on the Saturday and 1:15pm to 6:45pm on the Sunday.

The fee for the weekend is £220 (or £190 on/before 16/02/24).

Vicky and Jamie are taking bookings at hakomilancaster@gmail.com

WORKING WITH EROTIC CHARGE WEBINAR
110am-1pm: facilitator: Allison Priestman ; £50, (conc £35)

Online

Start:
15/03/24
End:
15/03/24

When the erotic enters the therapy room, we can be swept by strong emotions arousal, disgust, enchantment, love, hate. This is complex, often subtle work, demanding integrity and rigour.

I will be offering a theoretical framework to make sense of the embodied, relational complexity that can often unfold when the erotic emerges. I will be aiming to normalise the experience and support you to draw from your existing skill base.

To book, go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-with-erotic-charge-

Radical Embodiment - with Jayne Johnson & Alex Walker
Gilling West Village Hall, Near Richmond, North Yorkshire, DL10 5JG

North East

Start:
20/01/24
End:
13/04/24

A SERIES OF FOUR EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOPS
Moving in & out of contact
Listening to the aliveness within us
Yield, orient, reach, grasp, explore
Rediscovering agency, magic and permission
Exploring wholeness through movement, play, energy work, voice, consent, and touch.

Hakomi Training January 2024
Lancaster Quaker Meeting House, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 1TX

North West

Start:
20/01/24
End:
21/01/24

The training will be two days of experiential Hakomi practices, working as a whole group, in small groups, and individually.

You do not need any prior knowledge or experience of Hakomi and it is open to anyone willing to explore a mindful approach to self-understanding.

The times for the two days are 10am to 5:30pm on the Saturday and 1pm to 7pm on the Sunday.

The fee for the weekend is £220.

Vicky and Jamie are taking bookings and you can reach us at hakomilancaster@gmail.com

North East

Start:
20/01/24
End:
13/04/24

Bear Moon Dreaming - Winter Solstice Workshop
Gilling West Village Hall, Nr. Richmond, North Yorkshire.

North East

Start:
16/12/23
End:
16/12/23

The bear is ready to hibernate. She has a final dance in the moonlight and then buries herself deep into the dark cave of the Earth. What is hibernating in you? Where and how does your animal within want to hibernate? What do the dark cave places evoke in you? How can we be closer to the Earth and really honour ourselves in this season of rest?

We'll be exploring connections with nature, movement/dance with music, stillness/meditation/shamanic journeying, artwork. £75 (£65 early bird).

Reclaiming your shadows of sexuality
Wimbledon

Greater London

Start:
21/10/23
End:
21/10/23

Join our non-sexual self-discovery workshop led by an experienced body psychotherapist. Explore hidden desires, release shadows, and gain a fresh perspective on intimacy and sexuality in a non-judgmental space. Engage in bodily exercises, authentic relating, consensual touch experiences, and more.

Discover your true self, build confidence, and tap into your unique identity. Uncover your hidden facets, connect with your deepest self, and unlock your true potential in life.

2nd Wild Therapy Introductory Weekend
Middlewood Trust, Lancashire.

North West

Start:
20/10/23
End:
22/10/23

Bringing Therapy into The Wild and Wildness into Therapy
A weekend of ecopsychology for counsellors, psychotherapists, bodywork, shamanic practitioners and other interested people.

This weekend workshop offers you the opportunity to include the other-than-human in your work, and rewild your practice, both indoors and outdoors, in your mind and body, and in the connection you offer to those you work with.

Cost £295– early bird £265 by 31st Aug 2023

Focusing Oriented Therapy Certification Training
London and online

Online

Start:
14/10/23
End:
29/06/24

London Focusing is a community of teachers, students and fellow Focusers who are eager to make the practice and philosophy of Focusing available to professionals and the general public. Every few years we offer a new intake into our Certification Programme. We are pleased to announce that LFI plan to offer the 2-year Post-Graduate Focusing Oriented Therapy (FOT) Course, beginning Autumn/Winter 2023/4. This course will alternate workshops between online and in-person (central London).

Hakomi parts work
Lancaster Friends Meeting House, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 1TX

North West

Start:
30/09/23
End:
01/10/23

The training will be two days of experiential Hakomi practices, working as a whole group, in small groups, and individually. Many modalities offer a way of considering our internal world as configurations of self, inner child, archetypes or a family system and Hakomi also supports the exploration of this idea.

The times for the two days are 10am to 5:30pm on the Saturday and 1pm to 7pm on the Sunday.

You can book by contacting Josh Gifford by email at: hakomiadmin@phonecoop.coop

FULLY BOOKED! Wild Therapy Introductory Weekend
Middlewood Trust, Lancashire.

North West

Start:
22/09/23
End:
24/09/23

Bringing Therapy into The Wild and Wildness into Therapy
A weekend of ecopsychology for counsellors, psychotherapists, bodywork, shamanic practitioners and other interested people.

This weekend workshop offers you the opportunity to include the other-than-human in your work, and rewild your practice, both indoors and outdoors, in your mind and body, and in the connection you offer to those you work with.

Cost £295– early bird £265 by 31st July 2023

What are we learning regarding work with whiteness?
online

Online

Start:
14/09/23
End:
14/09/23

1000-1200 offered online

In this workshop Susan will share observations from her experience of offering work around whiteness. Your own reflections will be invited in what is hoped to be a spacious and somewhat playful space.

Please note that this is an event for those who are seen as and identify as white. You will need to have your camera on to support a sense of trust and connection. Please keep some time after the workshop to digest and reflect on what has been shared.

Fee: £12.50.

Body Psychotherapy weekend
Bovey Tracey, Devon TQ13 9HQ

South West

Start:
01/07/23
End:
02/07/23

Stephen Tame & Judith Salling-Ash are offering deep therapeutic process weekends drawing on Embodied-Relational Therapy and Radix.
These non-residential weekends invite you to work with your process, and are intended to be transformative. We invite you to work at your own pace and depth with the material you bring.You will have the opportunity to work therapeutically with both Judith and Stephen.
Please note that these are therapeutic rather than training weekends.

Equine Affective Touch
Thetford Norfolk

East of England

Start:
28/05/23
End:
28/05/23

Equine Affective Touch Day

Explore the power of Affective Touch though the teachings of two individual gentle horses. Receiving clear to read non-verbal feedback to your spatial presence, intention, physical and non- physical touch and your trust in relationship. And in the words of past participant's,
MUCH MUCH MORE.....
Limited number to allow each participant plenty of hands on practice. £140.00
More dates and training available.
Norfolk based.
Contact susanjoan17@gmail.com

Bee-ing in the body-sound bridge: an embodidment and sound workshop - with Anne L Ryan
Oxfordshire

South East

Start:
03/12/22
End:
03/12/22

Working with the body, encouraging slow movement, and focusing gently on the breath, the body becomes deeply relaxed. From this space we work with the impulse to make sound. Once we connect and work with this, we create a body sound bridge. By working with this soft gentle sound again and again, it creates an emotional healing bridge resonating between our body and mind. This sound replenishes and revivifies our body’s whole system.

Body Psychotherapy weekend
Bovey Tracey, Devon

South West

Start:
08/10/22
End:
09/10/22

Stephen Tame & Judith Salling-Ash are offering deep therapeutic process weekend groups drawing on Reichian traditions: Embodied-Relational Therapy & Radix.
These non-residential weekends are intended to be transformative. You will have the opportunity to work therapeutically with both Judith and Stephen, at your own pace and depth with the material you bring.
Recent feedback: “The level of safety created enabled me to go deeper into my experience than I’ve done in the past"

Dance of Awareness Training - 7/10 Oct & 18/20 Nov
Brighton

South East

Start:
07/10/22
End:
20/11/22

The training is designed for anyone wishing to develop their skills working in non-verbal group settings – particularly movement work, group process, non-verbal interpersonal communication, & conscious dance. We also welcome therapists who are looking to incorporate movement and body awareness more fully into their one-to-one client work. We explore the use of character structure, mindful body awareness, somatic attunement, attachment bonding & empathic reflection in ways which can assist transformation.

Wild Therapy One Year Training
Middlewood Trust,

North West

Start:
02/06/22
End:
09/05/23

As the human world wakes up to our relationship with nature, and therapists of many kinds become aware of the crucial connections and disconnections between therapists, clients and nature, this training offers you the opportunity to re-connect with the natural world and to re-wild your practice. To immerse yourself in nature both outdoors and indoors, in mind and body, in the connections you experience in community, in yourself and with your clients. With Jayne Johnson & Leonie Guest.

Embodied-Relational Therapy Training Course 2022
Totnes, Devon

South West

Start:
28/04/22
End:
20/02/23

We attract participants looking for a robust training in working with embodiment and relationship, and are passionate about supporting you to become more deeply the therapist you already are.
ERT encourages spontaneity, creativity, and deep trust of our own inherent competence, and the trustworthiness of our clients and their unfolding process. A central theme is working with our embodied relationship with our clients.

Therapy as Play webinar
Online

Online

Start:
11/02/22
End:
11/02/22

Is our work as counsellors and psychotherapist about to become more complex and demanding? It’s unknown how the turbulence from Covid-19, an approaching economic depression, the climate and biodiversity crisis etc will impact ourselves, our client’s, and our culture. This webinar seeks to resource practitioners in their work; specifically exploring how we might relax into our demanding role.

Being and Becoming - An Introduction to Embodied-Relational Therapy
Online

Online

Start:
15/01/22
End:
16/01/22

As relational body psychotherapists, we see our core task as being alongside our clients, supporting them in their becoming more authentically themselves – more mobile, relaxed and empowered…less frozen, stuck and disempowered.
Embodied-Relational Therapy offers a clear and robust frame to contain and support this process. This workshop offers the opportunity to explore an innovative body psychotherapy modality.

Messiness and Mistakes webinar
Online

Online

Start:
19/11/21
End:
19/11/21

Like in life, therapy relationships can at times be messy - we make mistakes. On this webinar we are interested to explore how we can creatively make use of ourselves as therapists. Can we own and utilise our inevitable clumsiness and mistakes?
Our aim is for this to be a resourcing experience - offering support for you to survive and make good use of turbulent relational times.

Intimacy webinar
Online

Online

Start:
03/11/21
End:
03/12/21

Intimacy is right at the heart of the therapeutic project. Therapy could be defined as the study of what happens when we offer our clients intimacy- our availability, our openness to relationship. Intimacy is supported by and supports honesty, openness and spontaneity. It can be shut down by defensiveness and avoidance.

We aim to dive into some of the complexity and richness of embodied relating, in both theory and practice.

Roots & Rhythms
Gilling West Village Hall, Near Richmond

North East

Start:
01/11/21
End:

First Monday of every month I offer an 'in person' evening (7-9pm) dance/movement session with a space to bring yourself however you are, to move, sit, roll around on the floor, listen, connect with yourself and others with an eclectic mix of musical genres. The space is completely free style to ‘dance and move’ in your own way and no previous experience is needed. Contact Jayne: mail@jaynejohnson.co.uk for more details.

Playing with Fire - online course
online

Online

Start:
22/10/21
End:
03/06/22

​This training starts from the position that we are all embodied, relational animals and explores what kind of therapy is needed to meet that reality. What does an Embodied, Relational and Wild therapeutic approach look like? Working in this way requires us to turn up, to be available - emotionally, physically, intellectually. This course aims to support robust and non-defensive practice. Resourcing practitioners for the reality of working in a demanding profession, in a taxing medium.

Bodylistening Training
Brighton

South East

Start:
16/10/21
End:
20/02/22

The Bodylistening training is being offered in 4 weekend workshops. The programme is designed to introduce modern body-centred therapy, with a mixture of theory, demonstration and experiential work. Designed for​ anyone working in (or towards) psychological, body and movement disciplines.

Power and Privilege webinar
Online

Online

Start:
15/10/21
End:
15/10/21

Second only to money in the embarrassment stakes, power and privilege are not discussed in therapy nearly as much as they should be. In this webinar, the latest in our occasional series 'How To Be A Bad Therapist', we intend to grasp the nettle and explore how silence about these issues can be a strong obstruction to therapy, while discussing them frankly can be a tremendous boost, allowing the client (and us) to revisit painful and taboo material.

Dance of Awareness Facilitator Training
Brighton & Hove

South East

Start:
24/09/21
End:
07/11/21

DoA is based on psychoanalytic theory and developmental psychology.

The story is of the ego individuating as I differentiate into who I am. Its also the story of the evolution of consciousness, the story of ‘becoming’. I am becoming more than my ego as we move from instinctual through egoic to transcendent.

The journey is of discovery. As I rediscover parts of myself that have been lost or forgotten, it makes space for freedom connection and creativity. Consciousness speaks as the body tells its story.

Embodied Relating - Webinar 10am-1pm
online

Online

Start:
24/09/21
End:

On this webinar we will study the complex and subtle skills of connecting to and utilising our embodiment as a relational resource. The starting place for working relationally, is being with our own experience in the moment. Working in this way requires us to develop a practice of moment to moment awareness of our multi-channelled experiences. Paying attention to our emotions, internal sensations, thoughts, dreams and fantasies as information about the unfolding process between us and our clients.

Walk in the Wild - webinar 10am-1pm
online

Online

Start:
17/09/21
End:

An opportunity to gain confidence in working with clients outside.

On the workshop my aim is to find our path between:-
The practical – contracting, reconsidering the frame, the scope and possibility of client work outside.
The personal – supporting our own and our clients wildness. Exploring how to develop wild mind, or ecological consciousness.
The political – What hope can eco-systemic thinking offer us and our world at this time of turbulence?

Being in the body-sound bridge: a workshop in body, movement, breath, sound. Anne L Ryan
The Ballroom, Asthall Manor, Asthall, West Oxfordshire OX18

South East

Start:
07/08/21
End:
07/08/21

This workshop is a creative safe space to explore the body in movement with vocal sound. Being with the body, encouraging slow movement, and focusing gently on the breath, the body becomes relaxed. Taking time to tune to your own rhythm, the body's system slows into moving stillness. From a deep quiet space, we tune to the impulse to make sound. Working from this soft space, gently we begin to resonate the sound of our own emotional healing bridge. Please go to my website to read more and register.

Working with Erotic Charge – online webinar
online

Online

Start:
16/07/21
End:
16/07/21

I will be offering a theoretical framework to make sense of the relational complexity that can often unfold when the erotic emerges. I will be aiming to normalise the experience and support you to draw from your existing skill base. The morning webinar will combine theoretical input, group discussion, explorations in breakout rooms and supervision.

Mind the Gap
Brighton

South East

Start:
10/07/21
End:
11/07/21

A weekend workshop - Mind the Gap is a psychotherapy and personal development group with roots in Authentic Movement. It is a new adaptation of the Free/Form structure, responding to the need for a safe space where movement can still be explored. We will use the familiar format of opening circle, movement phase, integration circle.

Embodied-Relational Therapy Training Course 2021
Bovey Tracey, Devon

South West

Start:
19/06/21
End:
22/05/22

We attract participants looking for a robust training in working with embodiment and relationship, and are passionate about supporting you to become more deeply the therapist you already are.
ERT encourages spontaneity, creativity, and deep trust of our own inherent competence, and the trustworthiness of our clients and their unfolding process. A central theme is working with our embodied relationship with our clients.

Therapy as Play – online webinar
online

Online

Start:
18/06/21
End:
18/06/21

Play, like therapy, is a very serious business when done properly. What the two centrally have in common is the quality of ‘as-if” that things both are and aren’t as they seem. Entering this as-if space together, client and therapist are able to explore feelings and impulses that would otherwise be too dangerous and/or mysterious to entertain. We will explore how we can usefully bring in playfulness to help explore the spontaneous and creative aspects of living, enabling us to relax and let things happen

Discovering the Gift of Embodied Presence 5-week course
Zoom

Greater London

Start:
14/06/21
End:
12/07/21


Embodied Presence offers you a different way of being with yourself. It is a body-centred mindfulness practice and a process of cultivating a deeper, more wholesome relationship with body and mind. This course will nourish you with a unique combination of embodied meditation practices and imaginative open sharing opportunities. Carefully tailored guided practice between sessions will enhance your learning experience. The fee includes post-course check-in; access to practice recordings; and a course book.

Stepping into Wild Mind, our Ecological Consciousness Webinar
online

Online

Start:
14/05/21
End:
14/05/21

In connecting to Wild Mind we step into our wildness, stepping into our ecological consciousness, connecting to the other-than-human.
Wild Mind is a meta skill, a way of being, an active meditation. When in Wild Mind we are resting in our embodiment, being aware of the whole of our experience. Paying attention to our clients facial expressions, the intonation of their voice, to the light dancing in the room, the cat at the window, and the tension in our stomach.

Embodied Relating Webinar
Online webinar

Online

Start:
16/04/21
End:
16/04/21

We will study the complex and subtle skills of connecting to and utilising our embodiment as a relational resource. The starting place for working relationally, is being with our own experience in the moment. Working in this way requires us to develop a practice of moment to moment awareness of our multi-channelled experiences. Paying attention to our emotions, internal sensations, thoughts, dreams and fantasies as information about the unfolding process between us and our clients.
10am-1pm

The Ground Beneath Our Feet - Body Psychotherapy Network online gathering
Online

Online

Start:
27/03/21
End:
27/03/21

Everyone is talking embodiment these days. But is some of it just that, talk? Is there a danger of embodiment becoming commodified – and identified with a comfortable white, Western, able-bodied, heteronormal experience? Whose embodiment is this anyway? Is it possible to find some solid ground?

The day will be structured around interaction rather than passive reception, with no invited speakers. In the morning there will be space for anyone to speak for a limited time, on any topic relevant to the conference theme or to BPN; this includes advertising workshops, which will take place in the afternoon. Anyone is welcome to propose a one hour workshop.

Therapy as a Practice of Truth webinar
online webinar

Online

Start:
26/03/21
End:
26/03/21

This webinar will present a view of therapy as a practical study of truth and its consequences, untruth and its consequences, and how to distinguish the two. The truth which therapy studies is not just rational but emotional. Exploring it teaches us that no truth is absolute – that truth is not singular but plural and contingent, and therefore subject to negotiation.
26th March 2021 - 10:30am-1pm

An Experience of Embodied-Relational Therapy Webinar
online

Online

Start:
27/02/21
End:

This online one day workshop, will support you to explore working relationally with body experience. We will explore, through experiential and theoretical practice, the 4-stage model of Embodied-Relational Therapy (ERT): contact, information gathering, amplification and integration.

Bringing Embodiment Online
online

Online

Start:
22/01/21
End:

How can we work with embodiment online? How can we maintain good contact, an alive relationship, depth and creativity in the work, while online? Huge cultural trauma, translocation and change is unfolding around us, disembodiment is often part and parcel of such experiences. Consequently, finding ways to support our own and our clients embodiment feel central at this time.
Minimum booking donation £18

Playing with Fire Online Course. Exploring an Embodied, Relational and Wild Therapeutic Approach
Online

Online

Start:
02/10/20
End:
21/05/21

​This training starts from the position that we are all embodied, relational animals and explores what kind of therapy is needed to meet that reality. What does an Embodied, Relational and Wild therapeutic approach look like? Working in this way requires us to turn up, to be available - emotionally, physically, intellectually. Aiming s to support robust and non-defensive practice. Resourcing practitioners for the reality of working in a demanding profession, in a taxing medium.
Friday mornings fortnightly

Therapy as Play. Resourcing practitioners to work in turbulent times
Online

Online

Start:
10/09/20
End:
10/09/20

Re-conceptualising therapy as play, offers the possibility of relaxing and being lighter with the demands of our role. It also gives us theoretical ground to support more-than-rational and non-expert approaches.

On this experiential workshop we will explore ways that you may currently play in your work and ways to develop and expand playing as a resource. Getting curious about the play of words, sensations, movements, images, fantasies and contact.
Minimum booking donation £15.

Hakomi
In a safe space in your house

Online

Start:
21/08/20
End:
22/08/20

Around the world Hakomi has gone on line and we are all grateful that we can deliver our courses on this platform in these times of change, uncertainty, confusion as well as creativity and even innovation.
You can join our multilevel training at whatever stage. This weekend will offer many opportunities for self study in small groups. There will be frequent breaks as well as time for deep immersion. For more info contact Josh hakomiadmin@phonecoop.coop

Working with Erotic Charge Webinar
Online

Online

Start:
24/07/20
End:
24/07/20

Erotic desire is a universal impulse and an essential ingredient of life. Without the fire, the playfulness and the energy of the erotic our lives can become deadened. Yet when the erotic enters the therapy room it can become deeply challenging for both client and therapist.

When clients become attracted to us, or we become attracted to them, our capacity to think and feel creatively and clinically can become compromised. This workshop seeks to resource practitioners to work with the erotic .

Grief Tending in Community
Online - Zoom

South West

Start:
12/07/20
End:
12/07/20

Grief Tending Stroud is offering this ceremony, adapted to the time of physical distancing and protection from Covid-19. We welcome you to join us by way of Zoom and connection over geographical distance to share the grief that burdens our hearts.

Within the time allocated we will take an hour away from zoom to resource, either by going into Nature or resting in our connection to whatever resources we have access, and afterward enter a ceremonial process with gratitude, grief and invocation of new light.

Bringing Embodiment Online
Online

Online

Start:
09/07/20
End:
09/07/20

In these times when we are not able to meet our clients in person, how do we still work with their embodiment and our own? Huge cultural trauma, translocation and change is unfolding around us, disembodiment is often part and parcel of such experiences.
Consequently, finding ways to support our own and our clients embodiment feel central at this time.

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Northern Ireland

Start:
28/05/20
End:
30/05/20

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Poole

Yorkshire and the Humber

Start:
14/05/20
End:
15/05/20

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East Midlands

Start:
14/05/20
End:
14/05/20

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Reichian Breath Work: an introduction to making it work when you are breathing
The Spiral Centre, Islington

Greater London

Start:
21/02/20
End:
16/02/20

Reichian bodywork explores breath, tension and relational contact as paths to release and transformation. It asks the simple but difficult question: Can we breathe freely while staying in contact with the other? When we try to do so, this amplifies patterns of bodily tension - ‘armouring’ - which we have developed in order to suppress difficult feelings of need, fear, grief, rage and so on; releasing these through physical expression and voice opens a larger space in us for joy, love and creativity.

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Poole

North West

Start:
20/02/20
End:
29/02/20

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