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I stared to learn about Bodynamic when I was a child. My grandmother, Lisbeth developed the system and my mother was teaching it.  A lot of the work was about how to heal after various types of trauma. I used the system and its methods and understanding a lot, consciously to make myself better in different areas. Unconsciously it was used by my parents and grandparents to heal my personal traumas as a child, as I had a serious health issue. I remember clearly how often Lisbeth would remind me to put focus on my center. I thought it was very irritating. She would often say: “sense your center, sense your center”.

2022-09-02T21:28:13+00:00September 2nd, 2022|General Psychology|

Self-Support Manual & Exercises for Crisis work (in English & Ukrainian)

The process of returning to civilian life might begin with the decision to end the service or to go home - in case of a volunteer battalion. However, while the body returns home, our mind might take a long time to integrate the experiences of war and to learn how to live at peace with ourselves and people around us. This process is often complex and manifests itself as insomnia, impulsiveness, excessive aggression, loss of interest in the profession (or other familiar activities) that the person engaged in before the war, depression, and lack of enjoyment in life.

2022-05-10T22:16:18+00:00March 4th, 2022|Trauma|

Building up Hope – Webinar

Bodynamic is offering a Free Webinar in these Corona times. If you are feeling down or feel like you have lost hope, this webinar is for you. Hope can create miracles. Hope can decide who lives and who dies. Hope can support you in choosing life instead of the fear of death. Hope is contagious – the best virus in the world. You can do what you want, if you want what you [...]

2021-04-05T10:17:38+00:00April 28th, 2020|General Psychology|

It Takes Courage to Stay in the Shy Moments

It Takes Courage to Stay in the Shy Moments By Hadi Bahlawan Marcher  and Lene Wisbom A man enters a party with many new people. To join in and as an attempt to connect with these unfamiliar people he makes a joke. Everyone stares at him, no one laughs. The joke falls flat because it was loaded with harsh humour and this party was not the best place to share [...]

2021-04-05T10:15:24+00:00June 16th, 2018|General Psychology|

Bodymap Testing & Interpretation

A central hypothesis in Bodynamic Analysis concerns the time period in which individual muscles come under voluntary control. There is observed to be a critical time period in which they acquire an imprint. This imprint is not simply about physical strength or kinesthetic ability. It concerns the psychological content or issue associated with the activity or function of this muscle. Thus the muscle encodes or "remembers" what happened in the emotional/ psychological environment in the time period in which it came under conscious control. 

2020-12-30T18:47:17+00:00February 14th, 2018|Bodymap|

Individuation, Mutual Connection, and the Body’s Resources

Because of new research into child development, the developmental perspective has captured the attention of the therapeutic community for the last fifteen years, and it is transforming the way therapy is being carried out. Most schools of body psychotherapy have also been deeply impacted by this shift, but most have had to rely on theories that address primarily psychological development to inform their work. In this interview, I discuss the formation of a truly somatically based theory of human development with its founder, Lisbeth Marcher.

2017-11-13T21:40:02+00:00November 13th, 2017|General Psychology|

Overcoming Shock Trauma and PTSD – Bodynamic for Ukrainian Veterans

Overcoming Shock Trauma and PTSD Bodynamics Training for the Ukrainian veterans is aimed at the post traumatic growth of the combat operations participants and is based on the “equal to equal” principle. The training is created by Ditte Marcher, Director of Bodynamics International, and is based on the 30 years of experience working in the war zones. The training was first carried out in Denmark for the Danish veterans in 2013-2014, and the veteran organization VaKa was established as the result. The first training in Ukraine was taught by Ditte Marcher and the Ukrainian assistants in 2015 based on the contract and the request of the Healing War Scars organization.

2021-06-07T15:22:45+00:00November 5th, 2017|Clinical Research Studies|

The Bodynamic Psychotherapy System’s Approach to “Rebirthing” – a Re-orienting Birth Model

A family brought in their 8-month-old infant. The problem was, the family’s daily commute (1 hour to work and 1 hour back again) meant that the baby sat in her car seat, crying more or less loudly for two hours every day. The crying became too much for the parents, so they came for help. Our intake interview revealed that the safety belt diagonally crossed the baby’s body, thereby touching the baby’s throat. It was also revealed that during the birth process the umbilical cord was around the baby’s neck.

2021-04-05T10:20:42+00:00November 4th, 2017|Reorienting Birth|

Energy Concepts and Body Psychotherapy

When we work with clients or train therapists one of the models we use is - a "Model of energy fields", developed by Lisbeth Marcher. This energy model is especially inspired by Danish spiritual teacher Jes Bertelsen and Lisbeth’s studies of intercultural issues. We use this model to find out how an issue that we are working with interrelates in the greater picture. It is important for us to know which other fields the issue has to be integrated with.

2017-11-02T19:51:14+00:00October 28th, 2017|General Psychology|
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