Working with Body Wisdom in Therapy:
accessing and integrating it into practice
Thur 15 & Fri 16 SEPTEMBER 2022
Delivered via zoom over 2 afternoons
Never has the ability to access body wisdom been more important than now. We have collectively experienced a series of traumatic events over the last 3 years, with the wash-up effect of these experiences now impacting our collective behavioural health. Science has shown us that our body-mind holds different memories and encompasses a special logic that is worth paying attention to. When we do pay attention, we can surprise ourselves, responding in ways that are different to usual patterns of behaviour. So, as we inch towards yet another new normal, how do we learn to access our body wisdom? And, if we have already learned ways to do this, could now be a good time for us to refresh and reset – and then introduce this ‘body talk’ to our clients?
Using a variety of body-based practices, this workshop will take a step-by-step approach to help you integrate the body-mind into emotional awareness and then apply these techniques/processes to your work with clients.
What we’ll do
- Practice simple sensory exercises that can gently initiate a client’s curiosity about their inner world
- Look at ways to assist ourselves and our clients both access and understand the significance of body wisdom and the capacity for introspection
- Examine recent science on neuropsychology and mindful practice
- Explore body wisdom from an existential perspective
Over the two afternoons, you’ll be encouraged to share your experiences, observations, stumbling blocks and realisations, both in small break-out rooms and, where appropriate, with the larger group.
What you’ll walk away with
- New and refreshed understandings of the value of body wisdom in therapy – and in life
- A collection of techniques (that you have personally experienced) for accessing and integrating body wisdom
- Ways to integrate body wisdom into the therapeutic encounter
Join Alison and Sal for a gentle, restorative two half-days.
Facilitators: Dr Alison Strasser & Sal Flynn
Alison Strasser DProf (Psychotherapy & Counselling), MA, BA Hons
Alison is a practising psychotherapist, coach and supervisor. She is also an educator with a passion for imparting how existential themes can be integrated into every therapeutic approach. She was instrumental in creating the existential curriculum for many counselling and psychotherapy trainings in Australia and her doctorate focused on the process of supervision, work that led to a framework for supervisor training, now a major component of CEP’s annual program. Alison co-authored Time-Limited Existential Therapy with her father, Freddie Strasser and she has recently published a revised edition.
Sal Flynn BCHC, Adv.Dip YT, Cert YT, Dip Clinical Hyp.
Sal’s clinical practice blends the disciplines of psychotherapy, education, contemplative and mind/body awareness practices. Underpinning her work is nearly 35 years of practice and study in the mindfulness traditions and Sal trains and mentors meditators & yoga teachers. She is a group therapist, former faculty member of the Jansen Newman Institute and has a private psychotherapy practice.
The Details
ONLINE via zoom
Dates: Thursday 15 & Friday 16 SEPTEMBER 2022
Time: 2.00pm to 5.00 pm AEST each day (3 hours with breaks accommodated)
Location: online via zoom (registrants will receive an invitation to participate and all the details and pre-reading links they require well in advance of the beginning of the training)
Cost: $320 (flat rate)
CPD Hours: 6