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Foundations of RSH: The Art of Healthy Relating

Upcoming Dates:
January 23-24, February 20-21, March 20-21, April 24-25, May 22-23, and June 12-13, 2027

When:
9:30am-5:00pm

Where:
San Anselmo, CA

Faculty:
Shirley Dvir, PhD, LMFT, and RSH teachers.

$4,800

Regular registration

$4,300

Early bird registration by November 30th, 2026

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Foundations of RSH: The Art of Healthy Relating

Lead Teacher: Shirley Dvir, PhD, LMFT

Course Title
Foundations of RSH: The Art of Healthy Relating

Course Info

Join us in our upcoming course to experience the Foundations of Relational Somatic Healing (RSH) on the art of healthy relating.

RSH focuses on healing relational developmental trauma by offering the client a new, authentic, and healthy way of relating.  

Relational developmental trauma (RDT) is trauma that originates within the child-caregiver relationship during the early years of life. RDT most often occurs in the preverbal stages of development and can profoundly affect the individual’s emotional, physical, and relational well-being. Adult clients with RDT constantly seek new ways to heal and to have a better quality of life, especially with their intimate relationships (family members, partners, parents, children, friends, etc.).  

Since RDT originated in the child-caregiver relationship, healing RDT needs to happen within the therapist-client relationship, attending to how the client relates to the therapist and offering a new way of relating. 

In RSH, the therapist-client relationship is a platform for transformation as clients experience what healthy relating feels like in their bodies: slow, authentic, regulating, nourishing, connecting and without effort.  

Through experiential learning based on somatic and psychological theory, participants will explore how to receive the client’s relational habits and establish new healing connections between therapist and client in the here and now. 

What You’ll Learn:

  • About Relational Developmental trauma, what it is, and how to attend its healing.
  • The ethics of intimacy.
  • How to create a safe, attuned, and less hierarchical therapeutic relationship 
  • Ways to practice embodied presence and internal state 
  • How to recognize and respond to your clients’ nonverbal relational cues and unconscious patterns
  • How to offer new, healing relational experiences to reach transformation 


Class includes:

  • Experiential learning: embodiment practice and other exercises in dyads  
  • Didactic teaching of theories and approaches
  • Live demonstrations 
  • Skills Practice in small groups with a trained assistant 
  • Practice sessions with fellow participants between training weekends 


Relational Somatic Healing offers mental health professionals a unique opportunity to integrate transformative tools and practices into their clinical work, enhancing the therapeutic experience for both therapist and client. 

Please note, this course does include activities that are not offered for CE credits. These include meditations, groundings, and small group connections and discussions.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe the ethics of relational work as practiced within Relational Somatic Healing.
  2. Identify and apply ethical boundaries related to therapist availability in relational work.
  3. Describe and apply clinical strategies for working with transference and countertransference in a therapeutic context.
  4. Describe and apply the core principles of Relational Somatic Healing to create a safe and nurturing therapeutic environment.
  5. Practice ways for therapists to stay regulated and present as ongoing clinical tools to support safety and relational connection.
  6. Apply internal state awareness practices to support co-regulation between therapist and client.
  7. Describe and practice the non-doing state as a clinical stance to facilitate therapeutic change.
  8. Describe the primary components involved in creating a relational field.
  9. Utilize countertransference awareness as a clinical tool to facilitate therapeutic change.
  10. Learn how to receive the client’s nonverbal clues of relating and connecting.
  11. Utilize the practice of “receiving” to create a relational connection and attune to the client’s psychological orientation and relational needs.
  12. Assess whether the client’s system is open or closed.
  13. Utilize connection statements and questions to support client awareness of present-moment relational experience.
  14. Practice naming the relational field using clinically appropriate language.
  15. Identify and name power differences within the therapeutic relationship in a clinically attuned manner.
  16. Apply immersion practices within the relational field to deepen therapeutic experience.
  17. Describe developmental trauma and its relevance to the therapeutic healing process.
  18. Differentiate between relational developmental trauma and shock trauma.
  19. Identify and describe the five developmental needs involved in secure relating.
  20. Apply relational interventions that offer clients new ways of relating.
  21. Learn how to work with clients’ defenses that block them from receiving nourishment.
  22. Learn how to stay clear and grounded when the session ends.

The Details

Prerequisites: None

When: 9:30am-5:00pm

January 23-24, February 20-21, March 20-21, April 24-25, May 22-23, and June 12-13, 2027

Where: San Anselmo, CA

Faculty: Shirley Dvir, PhD, LMFT, and RSH teachers.

Cost:

$4,800 Regular fee.

$4,300 Early bird fee before November 30th, 2026.

Additional $198 for 22 CE credits (optional).

Cancellation Policy:

Cancellations received in writing at least 14 days before the training will be refunded, less a 20% administrative fee. No refunds will be made on cancellations received after that date. Please send cancellation requests to the program admin at relationalsomatichealing@gmail.com.

Target Audience:

This course is designed for mental health professionals – PsyDs, LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs.

COVID-19 Policy:

  • Following the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) recommendations, there is no longer a statewide indoor mask mandate for the public in California. Therefore, masks are not required but are optional. Consider wearing a mask if you or your household members have health risk factors.
  • COVID testing is not mandatory; however, we request that anyone feeling unwell test themselves and stay home if necessary.

Accommodations for Disabilities:

We are committed to making every reasonable accommodation to support participants. If you need specific accommodations, please contact Yevgenia Kirnos Boccieri at relationalsomatichealing@gmail.com.

Grievance Policy:

We are committed to ensuring equitable treatment for every participant and to addressing concerns in a fair and thoughtful manner. If you have a grievance, please submit it in writing to relationalsomatichealing@gmail.com. We will review it and take appropriate action to help prevent further concerns.

Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals:

  • CE credits for psychologists are provided by Polaris Insight Center, which is co-sponsoring this program. Polaris Insight Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Polaris Insight Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  • The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association. 
  • LCSWs, MFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association. 

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