Reclaiming Wholeness: Ukrainian Veterans and the Somatic Revolution of Healing By Hadi Bahlawan-Marcher, Kristina Vasiljevaite Marcher & Dominic Mathias Ukraine: When the Model Met the Moment In 2015, in response to a rising mental health crisis among Ukrainian veterans, Bodynamic partnered with Pobratymy and local leaders. Under the guidance of Ditte Marcher (a global expert in veteran trauma), four full training cohorts launched.This wasn’t therapy. It was co-education, a horizontal exchange and an invitation to [...]

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.

 Developmental trauma from a bodynamic perspective By Ditte Marcher and Lene Wisbom, March 2020, ©Bodynamic International ApStranslated into English by Tina Janken Tage                                                                  In Bodynamic we differentiate between open and closed coding’s, developmental trauma, PTSD and Complex PTSD.All these elements can be seen in a BODYMAP. This article will explain how developmental traumas can be seen in a Bodymap and how they show up in certain EGO-functions.In open coding behavior, you become conscious of your [...]

Since the mid-80s, the Bodynamic System has developed new ways to work with trauma and stress-related conditions by incorporating the body in a very concrete, physical manner. In this article we describe how we work with the Ego split that is caused by shock.