Weekend Outlines
What We Teach
For more information or to register please email: shirleydvir@hotmail.com
Embodied Touch in the Therapeutic Relationship
Weekend 1 Oct 4-6
(Outline subject to change)
Day 1- Friday 12:30-5:00
12:30-2:00 Beginning meditation, Orientation to agenda.
2:00- 3:15 Why touch in psychotherapy and the ethics of touch.
3:15-3:30 Movement
3:00-3:45 Embodied touch in the therapeutic setting
3:45 -4:30 Embodiment exercises
4:30-5:00 Questions and Answers
Day 2- Saturday 9:30-5:00
9:30- Meditation
9:45-10:30 Check-in
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:30 Listening and embodiment
11:30-12:30 Transitioning to the table- Seated work to tablework
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:15 Movement
2:15-3:00 Practice transitioning to the table in dyads
Break 3:00-3:15
3:15-4:30 Basic holds
4:30-5:00 Questions and Answers
Day 3- Sunday 9:30-4:00
9:30-10:30 Check-in
10:30 -11:30 Basic Holds part two
11:30-12:30 Practice part 1
Lunch 12:30-2:00
2:00- 2:15 Movement
2:15-3:15 Practice
3:15- 4:00 Questions and feedback forms
Embodied Touch in the Therapeutic Relationship
Weekend 2 Nov 8-10
(Outline Subject to Change)
Day 1 Friday 12:30-5:00
12:30-1:00 Opening embodiment exploration
1:00-1:45 Diversity and Power Dynamics
1:45-2:00 Break
2:00-2:15 Movement
2:00-2:45 Demo of a complete session
2:45-3:15 Question and Answers
3:15- 3:45 Therapeutic skills onto the table
3:45-4:30 Practice tracking and contacting
4:30-5:30 Question and Answers
Day 2- Saturday 9:30-5:00
9:30-9:45 Embodiment exercise
9:45-10:15 Check-in
10:15-10:30 Movement
10:30 -11:15 New Holds
11:15-12:30 Practice the new holds with therapeutic tracking and contacting.
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:10 Movement
2:10-3:00 Developmental trauma and the polyvagal theory
3:00-4:30 Practice/Demo
4:30-5:00 Sharing and Questions
Day 3- Sunday 9:30-4:00
9:30-9:45 Mediation
9:45-10:15 Check-ins and sharing
10:15-10:30 Movement
10:30-11:15 New Holds
11:15-12:30 Practice part 1
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:15 Movement
2:15-3:30 Practice part 2
3:30- 4:00 Questions and Feedback Forms
Embodied Touch in the Therapeutic Relationship
Weekend 3 Dec 13-15
(Outline Subject to Change)
Day 1-Friday 12:30-5:00
12:30- 1:30 Orientation and meditation
1:30-2:00 Setting Healing Intention experiential
2:00-2:15 Break
2:15-2:45 Review the holds
2:45- 3:45 Open vs closed system
3:45-4:30 Fishbowl
4:30- 5:00 Questions and Answers
Day 2- Saturday 9:30-5:00
9:30-10:00 Mediation
10:00-10:15 New holds
10:15-10:30 Practice new holds
10:30-11:45 Break
11:45- 12:45 Developmental Strategy power point
12:45 -2:15 Lunch
2:15-3:30 Demo
3:30 – 5:00 Practice
Day 3- Sunday 9:30-4:00
9:30-10:00 Mediation
10:00-11:00 Developmental Strategy Part 2
11:00-12:30 Demo
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Practice
3:30- 4:00 Closing Question and Answers
Spring Module One 2021 is Full
If you would like to be on the waitlist for Fall Module One 2021, Please Sign Up Here.
Bonding Beyond Attachment Training
Registrations is open!
Relational Somatic Healing (RSH) is a therapeutic modality that focuses on healing relational-developmental trauma, which occurs in the first few years of life within the child-caregiver relationship. In RSH, the therapist-client relationship serves as a platform for healing and transformation in the present moment.
In the Bonding Beyond Attachment course, participants will learn how to receive their clients’ somatic expressions of relational habits, hold their clients in their wholeness, and encourage their clients to experience a new healing relationship with their therapist in the here and now.
Research underscores how chronic, early ruptures in relationships can affect a person’s sense of safety, identity, relational connection, and physical and emotional regulation. The Bonding Beyond Attachment course presents a theoretical and experiential curriculum designed to facilitate a co-regulative, transpersonal, healing field between therapist and client.
The Bonding Beyond Attachment course includes experiential practices in which participants learn skills on how to attune, receive, use connection statements and questions, and immerse their clients in the awareness of their habitual relational patterns in the here and now.
Relational Somatic Healing is a clinical training appropriate for mental health professionals, allowing them to incorporate the tools and practices from this program in ways that benefit their clients or patients.
The Details
When:
- February 16th & 17th, 2024, 9:30AM - 5:00PM
- March 15th & 16th, 2024, 9:30AM - 5:00PM
- April 19th & 20th, 2024, 9:30AM - 5:00PM
- May 31st & June 1st, 2024, 9:30AM - 5:00PM
Where: In-Person at Oakland Center for Spiritual Living, 5000 Clarewood Dr, Oakland, CA 94618.
Faculty: Shirley Dvir, LMFT; Traci Uchida, LMFT; Jacki Hull, LMFT, and Lu Jackson, LMFT.
Cost: $2,600 Regular registration.
$2,350 Early bird registration before December 19th, 2023.
Additional $79 for 17 CE credits.
*We have limited amount of spaces.
For any inquiries please email RelationalSomaticHealing@gmail.com
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
- Describe and apply the core principles of relational somatic healing to create a safe and nurturing space, optimal for the therapeutic process.
- Use an ‘internal state’ method to create a co-regulating relational field between therapist and client.
- Learn and practice the non-doing state to facilitate therapeutic change.
- Describe the main components of creating a relational field.
- Practice a non-hierarchical way of being with clients.
- Learn to listen to the therapists’ countertransference as a conduit to facilitate change.
- Learn how to receive the client's nonverbal clues of relating and connecting.
- Utilize the practice of “receiving” in order to create a relational connection and attune to the client’s psychological orientation and relational needs.
- Assess whether the client’s system is open or closed.
- Utilize connection statements and questions to bring the client’s awareness to their present moment relational experience.
- Apply practice of immersion into the relational field to discover old, unconscious relational patterns.
- Identify the therapist’s countertransference and use it to assess and form accurate interventions.
- Describe developmental trauma and its relevance to healing.
- Describe the five developmental needs in secure relating.
- Offer a new way of relating as a relational intervention.
- Learn how to work with clients’ defenses that block them from receiving nourishment.
- 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.
About the training:
- Safety
- Needs
- Freedom
- Authenticity
- Play
In each territory we will:
- Deepen understanding of the developmental stage, the wound, the somatic armoring, and the potential healing.
- Address how to work with touch work and non-touch work.
- Practice and explore developmental movements to experience and embody each phase.
Dates:
- October 6-8, 2023, 9:30am-5:00pm
- November 3-5, 2023, 9:30am-5:00pm
- December 15-17, 2023, 9:30am-5:00pm
Tuition:
Location:
For any inquiries please email RelationalSomaticHealing@gmail.com
Additional information:
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:
- Describe the environment of each stage of development: safety, connection, space, trust, play & love.
- Identify each stage of development.
- Describe the emotional and core beliefs of each character.
- Identify the resources of the safety stage.
- Identify the limitations of the safety stage.
- Identify the relational patterns in the safety stage.
- Identify the resources of the connection stage.
- Identify the limitations of the connection stage.
- Identify the relational patterns in the connection stage.
- Identify the resources of the space stage.
- Identify the limitations of the space stage.
- Identify the relational patterns in the space stage.
- Identify the resources of the trust stage.
- Identify the limitations of the trust stage.
- Identify the relational patterns in the trust stage.
- Identify the resources of the play & love stage.
- Identify the limitations of the play & love stage.
- Identify the relational patterns in the play & love stage.
- Describe developmental trauma and its relevance to healing.
- Identify the therapist’s countertransference and use it to assess and form accurate interventions.
- Offer a new way of relating as a relational intervention for each character.
- Describe how to work with clients’ defenses that block them from receiving nourishment.
- Describe how to apply safe touch for character armoring.
- 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.
Address
Relational Somatic Healing
2915 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley CA, 94703
Email Us
relationalsomatichealing@gmail.com
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