Upcoming Trainings

Bonding Beyond Attachment Training

Registrations is open!

Additional information:

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

Cancellation Policy:

Cancellations received in writing no less than 10 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.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe and apply the core principles of relational somatic healing to create a safe and nurturing space, optimal for the therapeutic process. 
2. Use an ‘internal state’ method to create a co-regulating relational field between therapist and  client. 
3. Learn and practice the non-doing state  to facilitate therapeutic change. 
4. Describe the main components of creating a relational field. 
5. Practice a non-hierarchical way of being with clients.   
6. Learn to listen to the therapists’ countertransference as a conduit to facilitate change. 
7. Learn how to receive the client's nonverbal clues of relating and connecting. 
8. Utilize the practice of “receiving” in order to create a relational connection and attune to the client’s psychological orientation and relational needs. 
9. Assess whether the client’s system is open or closed.
10. Utilize connection statements and questions to bring the client’s awareness to their present moment relational experience. 
11. Apply practice of immersion into the relational field to discover old, unconscious relational patterns. 
12. Identify the therapist’s countertransference and use it to assess and form accurate interventions. 
13. Describe developmental trauma and its relevance to healing. 
14. Describe the five developmental needs in secure relating.
15. Offer a new way of relating as a relational intervention. 
16. Learn how to work with clients’ defenses that block them from receiving nourishment.  
17. Utilize the relational somatic healing map to guide the flow of your session. 

Target Audience

This course is designed for mental health professionals – PsyDs, PhDs, LMFTs, LMSWs, LPCC, and LEP. 

Accommodations for Disabilities

We are committed to making every accommodation we can outside of the physical limitations of zoom. Individuals needing special accommodations are encouraged to contact Yevgenia Kirnos Boccieri at relationalsomatichealing@gmail.com.

Grievance Policy

We seek to ensure equitable treatment of every person and to make every attempt to resolve grievances in a fair manner. Please submit a written grievance to relationalsomatichealing@gmail.com. Grievances would receive, to the best of our ability, corrective action in order to prevent further problems. 

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. 

• For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact our training coordinator, Relational Somatic Healing’s Yevgenia Kirnos Boccieri at relationalsomatichealing@gmail.com.
• For other questions about CE, visit www.polarisinsight.com or contact Polaris Insight Center at ce@polarisinsight.com.

Character map from the Relational Somatic Healing perspective

This training is full. Please contact us if you'd like to be on the waiting list.

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Course Description 

Three weekends class on the Character Map

Character map is a developmental map that focuses on five different territories of human development: safety, connection, freedom, truth and play & love. In each territory, the child faces a task and forms patterns: patterns in the muscularity system, the energetic system, the relational system, and the emotional core belief system. 

The first developmental map originated with Freud with his five psychosexual stages. Then his student, William Reich, came up with characterological patterns, which he identified as structures held in the muscular system in the body, and he called it muscular armoring. Later, continuing Reich bioenergetic people such as Alexander Lowen, Stanley Kaleman, and Lizbeth Marcher continued to expand the map.

Ron Kurz, the founder of Hakomi, along with Jon Eisman, extended the map to focus on core beliefs – how the child is forming core beliefs in each stage. Marlin Morgan, a former Hakomi trainer in Australia, took the map from a softer, less pathologizing perspective, focusing on what each character is seeking.

This class will address the Character Map from a holistic and non-judgmental perspective, studying each stage’s needs and focus of attention. Learning to embody each stage, to recognize it, and to offer the healing experience that is needed.   

Relational Somatic Healing

Relational Somatic Healing is a clinical training appropriate for mental health professionals. Healthcare professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients.

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

Cancellation Policy:

Cancellations received in writing no less than 10 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.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the environment of each stage of development: safety, connection, space, trust, play & love.
2. Identify each stage of development.
3. Describe the emotional and core beliefs of each character.
4. Identify the resources of the safety stage.
5. Identify the limitations of the safety stage.
6. Identify the relational patterns in the safety stage.
7. Identify the resources of the connection stage.
8. Identify the limitations of the connection stage.
9. Identify the relational patterns in the connection stage.
10. Identify the resources of the space stage.
11. Identify the limitations of the space stage.
12. Identify the relational patterns in the space stage.
13. Identify the resources of the trust stage.
14. Identify the limitations of the trust stage.
15. Identify the relational patterns in the trust stage.
16. Identify the resources of the play & love stage.
17. Identify the limitations of the play & love stage.
18. Identify the relational patterns in the play & love stage.
19. Describe developmental trauma and its relevance to healing. 
20. Identify the therapist’s countertransference and use it to assess and form accurate interventions. 
21. Offer a new way of relating as a relational intervention for each character.
22. Describe how to work with clients’ defenses that block them from receiving nourishment.  
23. Describe how to apply safe touch for character armoring.
24. Describe therapeutic interventions for each stage.

Target Audience

This course is designed for mental health professionals – PsyDs, PhDs, LMFTs, LMSWs, LPCC, and LEP. 

Accommodations for Disabilities

We are committed to making every accommodation we can. Individuals needing special accommodations are encouraged to contact Yevgenia Kirnos Boccieri at relationalsomatichealing@gmail.com.

Grievance Policy

We seek to ensure equitable treatment of every person and to make every attempt to resolve grievances in a fair manner. Please submit a written grievance to relationalsomatichealing@gmail.com. Grievances would receive, to the best of our ability, corrective action in order to prevent further problems. 

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. 
• For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact our training coordinator, Relational Somatic Healing’s Yevgenia Kirnos Boccieri at relationalsomatichealing@gmail.com.
• For other questions about CE, visit www.polarisinsight.com or contact Polaris Insight Center at ce@polarisinsight.com.