Deep Bodywork 2-year Advanced Training  
-  with specialisation in Psychotherapeutic Postural Integration

September 2009 to October 2011

The course consists of seven training blocks per year, 33 days in year 1 and 38 days in year 2 (altogether 532 in-class training hours), starting September 2009 in London

This two year course is an Advanced Training in Deep Bodywork - specialisation in Psychotherapeutic Postural Integration. It combines intensive personal experience with theoretical and practical training.

The course is for people who want to become more skillful at working deeply with the bodymind, both 1-year Foundation in Deep Bodywork and develops that with a thorough 2-year Training in process-oriented bodywork and bodypsychotherapeutic techniques. This course can be a powerful supplementary training in how to work deeply with bodymind for practitioners of other bodywork/therapy modalities and for practitioners of other forms of psychotherapy, wishing to enhance and extend their current practice.

In this Advanced Training in Deep Bodywork we continue the combination and interrelation of experiential, theoretical and practical material, which allows knowledge and understanding to be gained through these three channels, and thus be integrated much deeper. After successful completion of the 2-year Advanced Training in Deep Bodywork, participants wishing to become practitioners may continue in two different ways:

For participants wishing to become Deep Bodywork Practitioners (and/or Certified Postural Integrators), there is the possibility to enter 1-year Certification Phase after completion of this 2-year Advanced Training, working with clients under supervision and taking part in professional support & development weekends.

For participants wishing to become Deep Bodywork Bodypsychotherapists (and/or Psychotherapeutic Postural Integrators), there is also the possibility to enter a 2-year Certification Phase, working with clients under supervision and taking part in professional support & development weekends.
                                               
Curricula of the 2-year Deep Bodywork Advanced Training – Specialisation in Psychotherapeutic Postural Integration:
 
YEAR 1: PROCESS-ORIENTED BODYWORK AND BODYPSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC APPROACHES INTEGRATED WITH CONTACT OF THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURES

1. The Energetic Cycle 2: the development of energetic patterns & segments
2. Emotional & Energetic Processes 2 - increasing self-reflection & separation of inner aspects; deepening the interpersonal processes; developing emotional competence
3. Transference & Countertransference 2 – how defensive & creative processes influence the therapeutic relationship; interrelatedness & interdependence
4. Deep Touch: BodyFocus 1-7 Psychotherapeutic Postural Integration
5. Anatomy for Deep Postural Bodywork in a bodypsychotherapeutic context; Body Awareness; Movement Awareness; Bodyreading
6. Contact and touch– refining awareness & increasing competence in verbal & non-verbal communication; limits of verbal & touch communication
7. Developmental models & theories of character, personality and Self 1: patterns of development; origins of disturbances; protective & defensive processes
8. Supervision of the work with fellow students

YEAR 2: INCREASING EXPERIENCE & COMPETENCE, REFINING PRACTICE

1. Energetic Cycle 3: playing with the energetic wave, fine-tuning, imagework & creativity; increasing self-regulative processes
2. Transference, countertransference & working at the boundary; uncertainty; containment & holding; transparency & openness in core contact
3. Deep Touch 2 - BodyFocus 1-10 Psychotherapeutic Postural Integration
4. Models, methods and techniques of working with the body-mind; ethics of touch; touch competence
5. Time & the therapeutic process; steps in sessions; phases in the psychotherapeutic process; short-term, longer term and open-ended contracts; psychotherapeutic journeys; goals & outcomes
6. On working with clients: diagnostic techniques, assessment, evaluation, selection; boundaries, contracts, issues; setting up in practice
7. Developmental models & theories of character, personality and Self 2: attachment & the embodied self; splits in bodymind integrity; social and cultural context of bodily reality; frames of reference and their anchoring
8. Supervision of the work with fellow students & with the first training clients if appropriate.

Dates, Location and Costs
The course consists of seven training blocks per year, 33 days in year 1 and 38 days in year 2 (altogether 532 in-class training hours), starting in September 2009. The dates are:

Advanced Year 1
            Sep 25-29 '09 (Fri-Tues)
            Nov 27-Dec 1 '09 (Fri-Tues)
            Feb 12-15 '10 (Fri-Mon)
            Apr 2-6 ‘10 (Fri-Tues) (Easter)
            May 28-Jun 1 '10 (Fri-Tues) (BH)
            July 16-19 '10 (Fri-Mon)
            Sep 10-14 '10 (Fri-Tues) (all provisional dates)

Advanced Year 2
            Nov 26-1 Dec '10 (Fri-Wed)
            Feb 11-15 Feb '11 (Fri-Tues) 
            Apr 22-27 '11 (Fri-Wed) (Easter)
            May 27-31 '11 (Fri-Tues) (BH)
            July 15-19 '11 (Fri-Tues)
            Aug 26-31 '11 (Fri-Wed) (BH)
            Oct 28-1 Nov '11 (Fri-Tues) (all provisional
            dates)

Tuition fees for the Deep Bodywork Advanced Training are £1645 for Year 1 and £1795 for Year 2. A deposit of £295 is required to secure a place, the rest is payable in instalments: cheques to be made payable to 'Silke Ziehl'. There are some bursaries available. 

NB: You can also request or download the full Deep Bodywork Trainings Brochure (1520kb), which will give you information on all the Deep Bodywork trainings and both Certification Courses possible after completion of the Deep Bodywork 2-year Advanced Training.

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