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Developing Embodied Awareness: A short residential course
10th April 2016 to 12th April 2016

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Developing Embodied Awareness:  A short residential course

Designed to be of practical value to psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists and mental health practitioners for their work and for their self-care, this short course aims to provide a stimulating and refreshing forum for the development of embodied awareness: our own, our patients’ and the relational dances that we experience in our practice.

The aim of this course is to bring our attention to the non-verbal dialogue unfolding within our sessions, how we are literally moved in relationship with our patients.  We will begin to understand how we experience this dance within our bodies and how we regulate ourselves through this embodied experience, in the moment within the session and over longer time periods in our careers.  The theme of self-care will be a focus of the course, learning how to attend to our physical self-care in the face of our prolonged engagement with patients experiencing and communicating embodied distress.

By the end of the workshop participants will
•    Have a broad overview of different approaches to working with the body in psychotherapy
•    Gain specific familiarity with the Developmental Somatic model, which emphasises how affective/ movement patterns between infant and caregiver influence psychological development, and explores how this is lived in the present moment between therapist and patient
•    Explore their own developmental movement patterns and deepen their experience of their own body in relationship
•    Learn skills of enquiry into body process for themselves and their patients and tools for supervision/ self-supervision
•    Gain insight into how to apply an informed body process to feel more resourced, whole and protected 

There will be a total of 14 hours of facilitated teaching between Sunday at 4pm and Tuesday at 4pm.

Who is the course for?

The course is open to all professionals with a core training in any modality of psychological therapy, working in all patient groups and settings.  No prior experience of body-based theories or methodologies is required.  As the course will be largely experiential in nature it is important the participants have previous experience of engaging in their own counselling, psychotherapy or reflective practice groups.  If you have any questions about the relevance of your background and training please do get in touch.

Pre-reading material will be sent out in February.

Caroline Dower is an Integrative Psychotherapist with training backgrounds in Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Integrative Psychotherapy and Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy.  She combines NHS work in Gastroenterology in Durham with private practice in Newcastle, and trains and supervises in a wider range of settings.  

Booking and cancellations policy

The full cost of the course, accommodation for two nights and full board is £300.  Places can be booked for a deposit of £50.  Cheques payable to C Dower or via internet banking account 89672593, sort code 60 04 23.  Please do add your surname and the words ‘Course deposit’ to the reference if paying online and return the booking form direct to me at carolinedower@hotmail.com or to the address on the form.

The full balance is payable by 29 February 2015.
Full refunds minus £50 deposit paid for cancellations before 29 February 2015.
50% refund for cancellations between 1 March and 1 April 2015.

Enquiries

Please do not hesitate to get in touch either on carolinedower@hotmail.com or 07974 836436.

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