Visiting Group Leaders:

Sean Doherty has been practising as a body psychotherapist since 1981. He is trained in various forms of bodywork and psychotherapy, including Postural and Energetic Integration, Pesso work, cranial-sacral therapy, osteopathy and massage. He is also a trainer in Reichian Therapy, Energetic Integration, Postural Integration and Integrative Massage. He has chaired various Therapy and Alternative Medicine organisations and is is currently General Secretary of the EABP. His commitment is to find the self-regulating heart of the human process. Here conscious and unconscious knowledge, ancient wisdom and modern neuro-science, instinct and emotion come together and empower us in all aspects of life - work, politics, family and relationships.

Jack Painter Ph.D, is Director of the International Center for Release and Integration® (ICRI) in Mill Valley, USA. Formerly a Professor at the University of Miami, he developed Postural Integration, a method of process-oriented bodywork, in the early seventies. He runs trainings worldwide in Energetic Integration, Postural Integration and in Pelvic-Heart Integration. He is author of several professional books, president of the Southern European University of Integrative Learning, and a member of several other international centres and institutes. He is a father of 3 children.

Niall O'Siochain is a certified trainer in Postural Integration. Since 1978 he has trained extensively in different methods of humanistic psychology and holistic bodywork and has completed further advanced trainers’ trainings in Postural Integration and in Energetic Integration with Jack Painter. For over 20 years he was in an executive management position in industry and ran a private bodywork practice in Munich for several years. Central themes of his approach are furthering self-healing, spiritual growth and the realisation of the true self.

Bernhard Tabur Schlage, born 1961, is a certified trainer in Postural Integration, and has also trained in groupwork, Kinesiology, Craniosacral Movement Therapy, in Feldenkrais and NLP. He has done further study in psychiatric environments. He used to do trainings in the Peace Movement in Germany and abroad. He has worked since 1985 in private practice in Hanover. He has been giving lectures internationally since 1980. Bernhard Schlage is a member of the World Council of Psychotherapy and is licenced to work as a bodyworker in Europe. He has longterm experience in TaiJi and Aikido. Has worked with Michael Barnett for about ten years.