Overview:

Training consist of four modules spaced roughly two months apart. The first module is 5 days long and the remaining three are 4 days each. The first module provides an introduction to Bodynamic Psychology and covers the first two character structures. The second module covers the 3rd and 4th character structures. The third module covers the 5th and 6th character structures. The fourth and final module covers the 7th character structure and the series of abilities (centering, grounding, support) as they integrate across all character structures.

There are two levels of training offered by Mind Body Resourcing:

Practice Subgroup Session

Healing Developmental Disruptions

This 17 day training is suitable for professionals who work with people. Students will achieve a greater knowledge of the interaction between psychological, social, emotional, and sensory development. Previous training’s have included somatic psychologists, counselling therapists, physicians, teachers, chiropractors, physical therapists, massage therapists, coaches and business personnel seeking a  deeper understanding of healthy human development and its application to people’s lives.

Integration Module
In line with our current emphasis on helping trainees to immediately bring Bodynamics into their own practice, we are offering several shorter training’s (4 days) that will aid this process. Advanced training’s will focus on specific abilities like grounding, centering, support and self-support, connectedness, cognitive skills, and others. In Bodynamics these are called ego functions. (See Body Encyclopedia.), These training’s will also include demonstration sessions, supervised practice session, case studies, and more. Training’s can also be designed to meet the specific needs of a group. Requirements: All previous trainees who have completed the 17-Day training in any city are eligible for the Integration Module.

CEU credits can be received for these training’s.

Graduate academic credit can be received for the Resolving Developmental Disruptions training from:
Meridian University (www.MeridianUniversity.edu)

Bodynamic Training
Healing Developmental Disruptions

“Bodynamic Somatic Developmental Psychology is probably the most body-oriented and comprehensive developmental psychology and character structure model there is. Therefore, I highly recommend the Bodynamic foundation level training as a must to all those who are serious about being a body-oriented therapist.”
Raja Selvam, PhD, Senior Trainer, Somatic Experiencing

Bodynamics is a body centered developmental psychology. It is based on twenty years of empirical research on the developmental origins of client’s current problems. The model of Seven Developmental Stages is a detailed description of how developmental experience is encoded in both mind and body. It includes the characteristics, themes, muscles, and therapy issues for each stage. This gives access to great specificity in therapeutic interventions.

You will learn the interpersonal and developmental origins of current problems, allowing you to pinpoint the context of therapeutic issues and how they are held in the body. Then, by inviting your client to use specific muscles, you can create a defined container in which their process is more likely to move towards completion. This precision in your interventions will enable change to happen more quickly for your clients.

Since attachment states of mind are predominantly formed in the first three developmental stages, using the Bodynamics model will sensitize you to the themes around which both relationships and psychological development take place. Working with our Affirmative Relational Messages, and some muscles of these stages to develop new resources, will greatly facilitate your ability to deepen working relationships with your clients. This will foster the healing of attachment disruptions.

“The Bodynamic model of Seven Developmental Stages is the most sensible, comprehensive, easily applicable, and accessible personality theory that I have ever encountered. I draw from this incredibly valuable framework every day. In my opinion, it would be hard to find a better training in developmental psychology anywhere.”
Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW, Author, The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment.

Resourcing – A New Vision of Therapy:
The discovery that overwhelming emotional stress leads to emotional and muscular resignation has created a paradigm shift in somatic therapy. It allows us to build resources by using specific muscles to teach or awaken skills related to the issues being worked on verbally. Resourcing is a sophisticated and powerful way to help your clients build structure. It is particularly helpful for those clients whom you feel are missing basic skills at work, in relationships, or in manifesting life goals.