An ongoing, broad-spectrum integrative group This semi-closed group has been running for several years now, with new participants joining the 'pool' of members as places become available. Led by one of the most experienced integrative trainers in the UK, this group will provide an ideal relational container for your ongoing development as a therapist. By [...]
Experiential weekend for everybody interested in breathwork, including counsellors and psychotherapists from across all the approaches: Saturday & Sunday: 19 & 20 September 2020 (Exeter) Download detailed leaflet Introduction There are a multitude of techniques instructing us how to breathe correctly, derived from a multitude of traditions, Eastern and Western. Many of these instructions are [...]
CPD weekend counsellors and psychotherapists from across all the approaches Bank Holiday Sunday & Monday: 26 & 27 May 2019 (Exeter) Download detailed leaflet The significance of the breath for any kind of psychotherapy which does not exclude the body In recent attempts to include the body in psychotherapy, partly inspired by modern neuroscience, the [...]
This 1-day CPD workshop, organised by the Wimbledon Guild, is open to all counsellors and psychotherapists from across the approaches and modalities. “It almost looks like analysis [therapy] were the third of those impossible professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two, much older established, are the bringing up of children and [...]
Experiential weekend for everybody interested in breathwork, including counsellors and psychotherapists from across all the approaches: Bank Holiday Saturday & Sunday: 9 & 10 May 2020 (Exeter) Workshop postponed until 19 & 20 Sep. 2020 - join our 3-hour online Zoom meeting (9 May) In place of the workshop, I am offering a Zoom Meeting [...]
Whilst psychotherapy integration has been one of the most necessary, creative and productive developments in our field over the last 20 years, 'integrative' is in danger of becoming another meaningless sound-bite. What does our integration include, and what doesn't it? What holds it together? How broad and deep is the integration we are pursuing and [...]
This is the second of two separate CPD days on this topic - this second day will deepen and develop the learning from the first day on 1 November 2015, extending it from the perception and understanding of enactments into how to work with them. This second day can nevertheless be taken independently, as we [...]
This is the first of two separate CPD days on this topic - the second day will take place on 21 Feb. 2016 This is a workshop I have been running repeatedly over recent years, in different places, for different audiences, for therapists from across the approaches and modalities. It introduces the underestimated complexities and [...]
To join the CPD training group for the whole year, consisting of 4 weekends, contact Jamie McDowell on 07899 980561.
A 1-day event with Morit Heitzler A morning presentation followed by lunch break and then a workshop: "Working with embodied boundaries"
An Evening at Reading Therapies Group with Morit Heitzler One of the most excruciating aspects of trauma is the invasion or collapse of boundaries, not just in the moment of trauma, but as lasting damage. Traumatised clients usually bring to therapy an ongoing background feeling of threat: both to physical and emotional survival and to [...]
3-hours small supervision groups on Saturdays in Oxford - with Morit Heitzler In your practice, have you been confronted with clients who are … - bursting into tears during treatment - phoning you between sessions - seeking an intimate relationship or friendship with you - terminating resentfully, or … - taking a long time to [...]
The Past and Future of Body Psychotherapy As one of the editors of the (soon to be published) Handbook of Body Psychotherapy (which is being translated and re-edited from the German, and includes contributions from more than 80 Body Psychotherapists, many of them the elders of the discipline), Michael has a good overview of the [...]
for Chiron-trained Body Psychotherapists
Conference keynote at 1st National Conference: Israel Association for Body Psychotherapy "Is there anybody home?" by Morit Heitzler 23 Oct - 24 Oct 2014 Tel Aviv In this keynote, Morit will discuss the past, present and future developments of the Body Psychotherapy field, and its research, practice and application in mental health worldwide.
An integrative bodymind approach to developmental theory A practical & experiential CPD course for counsellors, psychotherapists, helping professionals & complementary therapists Module 2: 14 - 16 November 2014 - Vilnius Also available during the weekend: individual supervision with Morit The origins of repetitive patterns Our clients bring to us limiting, self –defeating and destructive patterns [...]
Clients who experienced sadistic dynamics - whether they were on the victim or the perpetrator end of the spectrum - bring into the therapeutic space many shadow aspect of the human psyche. Cruelty, domination, humiliations, manipulation, aggression are only a few of the emotions that will be expressed and often manifest in the therapeutic relationship [...]
