Psychodramatic Bodywork®

This method combines two forms of psychotherapy: psychodrama and bodywork. In psychodrama, blocked spontaneity from earlier trauma is freed and reintegrated through dramatic action methods. Bodywork involves Safe Touch to help individuals connect with the messages that are held in the body as pain, numbness, and/or illness.

Psychodrama is . . .

. . . a form of psychotherapy in which blocked spontaneity from earlier traumas is unblocked and reintegrated through dramatic action methods.

Bodywork is . . .

. . . a form of healing that involves touching numb, tense, or painful areas in a safe manner. This process often directs us to unexpressed emotions that can be expressed, resulting in a freeing of body energy flow.

In these workshops, we work with a team of skilled assistants who perform skits to explain the theory, as well as provide support for all group members. The environment is relaxed and highly conducive to learning.

Introductory Level Workshop

The Introductory Level (3 full days) workshop focuses on:

• Understanding, witnessing, and experiencing the emotional release of anger, sadness, and fear.
• Providing facilitated opportunities to experience the release of each emotion safely.
• Witnessing the full range of anger, sadness, and fear; from barely expressed to fully released.
• Learning where the body holds each of these emotions when they are unexpressed.
• Learning and practicing guidelines for Safe Touch.
• Increasing one’s comfort level in the use of Safe Touch.
• Experiencing the integration of emotional release and bodywork within the structure of psychodrama.
• Learning and practicing the 6 aspects of closure theory.

Deep personal healing does occur because it’s an experiential workshop, but this is not a therapy group. Members will need significant support at various times during and after the workshop to complete and integrate what is begun in the workshops.

Intermediate Level Workshop

The Intermediate Level (4 full days) workshop focuses on:

• The 3 styles of blocking anger, sadness, and fear.
• Identifying the meridians in the body that relate to each blocking style.
• Relating the blocking styles to various life traumas and the healing process.
• Four basic headache patterns and how to work with them.
• Introducing basic psychodrama skills: role-playing, interviewing in roles, role reversal, and doubling.

Deep personal healing does occur because it’s an experiential workshop, but this is not a therapy group. Members will need significant support at various times during and after the workshop to complete and integrate what is begun in the workshops.

Advanced Level Workshop

The Advanced Level Training (20 full days over multiple years) focuses on:

• Practice and integration of the methods and information learned in earlier trainings
• Personal growth through exploration of participants’ issues and blocks to practice skills learned in previous trainings
• Competency facilitating releases and grounding techniques

Trusting our intuition is the foundation of the Advanced Level training. Students are encouraged at all times to draw from this source. They develop a heightened awareness of their own intuitive abilities through this process. Because the training is about entering fully into our bodies, and our bodies are where trauma is stored, it is a requirement of this level of training to have the container of outside on-going therapy in order to complete and support the deep transformational work that can take place.

Personal healing does occur because it is an experiential training, but this is not a personal therapy group. Participants are responsible for the care of their own “wounded self” during and after the training.

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