Worcester Therapeutic Training Network
High quality psychology & psychotherapy training
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Worcester Therapeutic Training Network
High quality psychology & psychotherapy training
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Michael Soth Michael Soth is an Integral-Relational Body Psychotherapist, Trainer and Supervisor. For many years he has been Training Director at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy in London. Inheriting concepts, values and ways of working from both psychoanalytic and humanistic traditions, he is interested in the therapeutic relationship as a bodymind process between two people who are both wounded and whole. His chapter on 'Embodied Countertransference' was published in the book 'New Dimensions in Body Psychotherapy' (Totton). Details of his other work can be found on Michael's website - www.soth.co.uk
The Master Class
'The client's body/mind in counselling & psychotherapy - perceiving and understanding non-verbal process'
This master class is an opportunity to deepen your practice by extending your theoretical understanding as well as your sensitivity and perception of non-verbal communication in the therapeutic relationship. As a variety of authorities (Schore, Stern, Damasio) have suggested, 21st century therapy relies on right-brain-to-right-brain attunement and therapeutic attention to subtle, subliminal messages. Whatever your approach and technique, your perception and understanding of the client's subjective reality and the dynamic between the two of you depends on this neglected area of communication. This does not mean changing your way of working at all. Even when your work relies exclusively on verbal techniques and interaction, detailed attention to the body and its messages (the client's and your own) will deepen your work and make it more effective. But what theories and tools can help us 'read' and interpret non-verbal signals and body language? This training day will be a combination of theoretical input on the client's body/mind process and experiential role play (including practice sessions) focusing on the perception of non-verbal communication. Therapeutic key concepts from across the various approaches (empathy, quality of relationship, transference, ego-states etc) can be grounded in body/mind processes and thus become more tangible and accessible for reflection and supervision. But it is particularly in the perception of the client's developmental wounds and habitual patterns of self-protection that non-verbal communication can make the biggest difference. The second half of the day will, therefore, be dedicated to the theoretical and practical tools which allow practitioners to apprehend the client's characterological wounds as they manifest between client and counsellor.
Specific themes we might address: * Right-Brain to Right-Brain attunement - How to contact and trust our own 'energetic perception' (amoeba perception) * Three kinds of contact in the therapeutic relationship * The levels of Mind/Body process: A simple distinction of observable mind/body processes. * The client's channels of perception and representation (NLP) - extending perception beyond the content of verbal inspection. * The vasomotoric/Gestalt cycle: How to perceive incomplete cycles of contact/expression. * Steps of character formation: How to perceive habitual patterns on a physical, embodied level.
10am to 4.30pm Tuesday 1st April 2008 Registration at 9.30am at St. Mary’s School, Battenhall, Worcester Attendance fee £80 (£65 early bird booking before 1st January 2008) includes buffet lunch and all refreshments
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