BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//79.170.40.162//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:INTEGRA CPD X-WR-CALDESC:Next-Generation Training &\; Development for Counsellors &a mp\; Psychotherapists X-FROM-URL:https://integra-cpd.co.uk X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 RDATE:20241027T020000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240331T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-12202@integra-cpd.co.uk DTSTAMP:20240328T232813Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-GB:All Counsellors &\; Psychotherapists\,One-off CPD Events\,Workshop Groups (10 +) CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:
Through including b ody-oriented ways of working into the talking therapies\, we can learn to work with many of these symptoms more directly\, more deeply and more effe ctively (and recognise other situations where the hope of curing illness t hrough psychology is an unreasonable idealisation).
\nWith some il lnesses - like hypertension\, chest and heart problems\, digestive illness es\, symptoms of the immune system - it is scientifically established that emotional stress contributes to their origin. With many other psychosomat ic problems\, like all kinds of pain\, tinnitus\, insomnia\, chronic fatig ue and many other unexplained symptoms\, it is known that the intensity of the suffering can be ameliorated through psychological therapy that addre sses the regulation and expression of emotion and de-stresses the mind.
\nStress is the catchall phrase that supposedly explains the influence of our psychological body-emotion-mind state on illness. However\, what i s less well understood\, is how our bodymind does not just respond to stre sses in our current situation and lifestyle\, but carries accumulated stre ss from the past\, reaching all the way back to childhood. A holistic and bio-social-psychological understanding of stress needs to include lifelong patterns of the bodymind including developmental injury and trauma (what Wilhelm Reich originally called character structures).
\nSometimes c lients bring psychosomatic illness as a presenting issue to the therapy\, sometimes these symptoms actually evolve in direct response to the unfoldi ng therapeutic process\, and the therapist gets implicated in them\, e.g. “After last session I had a headache for three days!”
\nDirect links to body sensations and symptoms as well as body image come up as part of our work in sessions every day\, in so many ways: tangible pains\, tension s\, trembling and shaking\, breathing difficulties (hyperventilation\, ast hma)\, the physical side of unbearable feelings like panic\, rage\, dread or terror. There are obvious somatic aspects to presenting issues such as eating disorders or addictions. And then there are the psychological impli cations of actual\, sometimes terminal\, illnesses and psychosomatic sympt oms and dis-ease.
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How do we work with these issu es and symptoms in psychotherapy? What ways are available to us for includ ing the client’s ‘felt sense’\, their embodied self states\, their body aw areness and sensations\, their physiological experience in the interaction ?
\nThis workshop will give you a framework for thinking a bout the role of the body as it is relevant in your own style of therapeut ic work\, based upon the different ways in which clients as well as therap ists relate to ‘the symptom’. Throughout the workshop\, we will use rolepl ay of actual issues and dilemmas brought up by your clients. We will also identify and practice ways in which you can explore the emotional function and 'meaning' of your client's physical symptom or illness.
\nDrawi ng on a wide range of humanistic and psychoanalytic approaches (including Body Psychotherapy\, Process-oriented Psychology\, various schools of psyc hoanalysis and Jungian perspectives) as well as the holistic paradigm unde rpinning most complementary therapies\, we will weave together an interdis ciplinary bodymind approach which is applicable within the therapeutic rel ationship as we know it in counselling and psychotherapy.
\n\n< p>Michael has been working with the psychological and bodymind connection of illness and psychosomatic symptoms for many years. In the 1990s he init iated a project called 'Soul in Illness'\, offering an integrative psychot herapeutic perspective\, drawing on the wisdom which the different therape utic approaches have accumulated regarding illness\, both in terms of theo retical understanding and practical ways of working. He has run CPD worksh ops for therapists on ‘Working with Illness’ many times\, and has develope d a relational and embodied way of engaging with the client’s bodymind. In 2005 he presented for the first time his model of ‘8 ways of relating to the symptom’\, which addresses the client’s own relationship to their symp tom\, as well as giving an overview of the different stances taken by the therapist in the various therapeutic approaches that correspond to each of the ways of relating to the symptom. These eight ways of relating to the symptom\, including the corresponding theoretical understandings as well a s methods and techniques for intervention\, will form the underlying frame work for this workshop.\n\n
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