Introduction To Body Psychotherapy
Nick Totton, Allison Priestman
Leeds, January 26th-27th 2008 Ł110

This weekend acts as a good taster for the year long ERT course.
IAn opportunity to learn about an area of therapy attracting new attention at the moment - but which has been around since psychotherapy began. Body psychotherapy rounds out and balances the verbal emphasis of ordinary therapeutic work; it reminds us that the head is part of a body, and that the embodied nature of our existence is crucial to both our difficulties and our possibilities. It stresses the role of embodied relationship in therapy and bodywork.

We will be exploring several ways of thinking and feeling through the body, both with and without touch. The central paradigm will be ERT, but much of the work can be applied to a wide range of models. As well as learning new skills and attitudes, you can expect a powerful personal experience. No one will be expected to do anything they don't want to do, and emotional release will be held in a safe setting.

The workshop is aimed both at psychotherapists and counsellors who want to bring the body into their work, and at body workers who want to explore the psychological side. It is also for anyone interested in discovering more about themselves through body-oriented sessions.

Introduction To Embodied-Relational Therapy
Nick Totton, Allison Priestman
Leeds, November 3-4, Ł110

A mix of work on personal issues with learning new, useable skills. This would be an excellent taster for the next one year training in ERT, which integrates body psychotherapy, psychodynamic therapy, process approaches, and spirituality.

As human beings, we are integrated body-mind spirit; on the whole, we find this condition hard to manage. Our nature seeks to express itself freely, while at the same time protecting itself in conditions often of great difficulty. This double task of expression and protection makes us often subject to
contradictory pulls, and offering double messages about what we feel, want and need. Through a relationship which is challenging but supportive
and non-invasive, it is possible to disentangle
our doubleness and allow our process to unfold -
which is what has been trying to happen all along.