Bodynamic is a precise and practical approach to working with the body to make verbal psychotherapy more efficient and effective. This somatic therapy enables the practitioner to make precise interventions related to the developmental origins of your clients’ current problems. Bodynamic International offers a diversity of training programs. Currently there exist five basic types of training.
Workshops
Workshops are a great way to experience aspects of the Bodynamic system without making a longer commitment to a training program. Many different workshops have been offered over time and many new ones are constantly created. Typically lasting 1-5 days there are no prerequisites to taking these. Workshops have had the following subject matters:
- Archetypes
- Centering, Boundaries & grounding
- Boundaries vs. Limits
- Dance between Mutual connection & Dignity
- Work with your own greatness
- Spirituality
Foundation
The Foundation Training is the one-year basic training of Bodynamic System. During the basic training you will learn the character structures, the character positions as well as the basic meanings to understand contact and communication as it is presented through the system (mutual connection, dignity, boundaries, centering and grounding).
The structured description of the different phases of development during childhood, which include a central developmental issue and their connection with the different developing defense mechanisms, provide a comprehension frame of human expression. Through the education you will strengthen your abilities, so that you are present and precise in your professional work.
The Foundation Training applies to people who work with other people as: psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, teachers, doctors, advisers, physiotherapists, alternative healers etc. or to people that wish to improve their interpersonal relationships. The Foundation Training is an open education circle, which helps you to enhance or improve your skills, while, at the same time, it provides you the possibility to continue to the 3-year Practitioner Training.
Practitioner
This is a three year training program to be a professional certified Bodynamic Body Psychotherapist. This training is already being integrated and used also in other forms of psychotherapy, all kinds of bodywork, social work, business consulting and mental health and care professionals who want to expand their knowledge and precision by learning the muscles coding system.
This training has being qualified in Denmark through Reflektor, a company that evaluates and analyzes the professional standards in the public and private sector to assure and create better quality for the health sector and holds the standards that are required by EABP (European Association of Body Psychotherapy). Prerequisite to participate in Bodynamic’s Practitioner Training is to have finished Bodynamic’s Foundation Training.
Shock Trauma
Our P.T.S.D. Training consists of two parts. The first part (PTSD I) is the personal process of healing your own P.T.S.D. in 3 modules. The second (PTSD II) is the Training in healing P.T.S.D of others also in 3 modules. The Shock Trauma training is available to anyone and there no prerequisites.
Personal process of healing your P.T.S.D (PTSD I) – Our experience has taught us that when someone hasn’t worked with his own PTSD, they get too much into their own process during the course and they do not gain everything the training has to offer. So therefore we added a three module course in which you get the chance to work first with your own PTSD. During these modules the focus will be on each persons process. This adds invaluable experience and gives us the client’s point of view. This will deepen and strengthen your ability to connect and your empathy in treatments will emerge more naturally. The first stage is also addressed to non professionals who want to start the process of healing their own PTSD.
Training in Shock Trauma and healing P.T.S.D. (PTSD II) – During the second stage of PTSD II you will learn, amongst other things, how to recognize the symptoms of P.T.S.D. and the life-changing decisions which are connected with trauma, how to heal it and how to include the body in a direct and natural way, using methods like body sensing and understanding reflex movement patterns. The Shock Training applies to people who work with other people as: psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, teachers, doctors, advisers, physiotherapists, alternative healers etc. Completing PTSD I is a prerequisite for PTSD II.
Specialist Classes
Specialist Classes consist of training in the following areas:
- Full Bodymap (prerequisite: first 2 years of practitioner completed, and exams passed)
- Reorienting Birth for professionals (no prerequisite)
Training Testimonials
Training Paths
Training can be accomplished in a few different ways, depending on the interest of the individual. Training can also be done in stages based on time available. Shock Trauma training and Workshops can be done concurrently with Foundation, Practitioner & Specialist Classes.
Average Time taken to complete training levels:
- Foundation is typically 18 days over the course of 1 year
- Practitioner is 75 days over the course of 3 years
- Completing both Specialist Classes is ~28 days
- Shock Trauma is 30 days over the course of about 1.5 years
Traditional International Path
*Note: The Training path for North America (Canada & United States) differs slightly. While Healing Developmental Disruptions is similar in scope and length to a Foundation training, the content differs slightly. While Healing Developmental Disruptions teaches the use of some muscles and Foundation does not, it misses out on other aspects. Missing aspects are included in the North American Practitioner Training. For more information on Healing Developmental Disruptions please visit bodynamicsusa.com
become a
Bodynamic Practitioner
by completing:
- Foundation Training
- Practitioner Training
become a
Bodynamic Analyst
by completing:
- Foundation Training
- Practitioner Training
- Shock Trauma Training – I & II
- Specialist Classes
- Full Bodymap
- Reorienting Birth for professionals
become a
Bodynamic Trainer
by completing:
- see details in link below for
- how to become a Assistant
- how to become a Supervisor
- how to become a Trainer of various courses
Global Training Schedule
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 Brazil |
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| Rio de Janerio | Practitioner 13 x 6 days (wrong dates at link to Brazil calendar) |
English wish translation into Portuguese |
June 6 – 11 2019 (1/13) Oct. 10 – 15 2019 (2/13) March 19 – 24 2020 (3/13) May 28 – June 2 2020 (4/13) Sep. 24 – 29 2020 (5/13) March 11 – 16 2021 (6/13) June 10 – 15 2021 (7/13) Oct. 7 – 12 2021 (8/13) March 17 – 22 2022 (9/13) June 2 a 7 2022 (10/13) Sep. 29 – Oct. 4 2022 (11/13) March 16 – 21 2023 (12/13) June 15 – 20 2023 (13/13 |
 Canada |
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| Edmonton | Introduction Evenings | English | Sept 9, 2019 Sept 30, 2019 |
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| Edmonton | Healing Developmental Disruptions | English | Nov 7 – 11, 2019 Jan 24 – 27, 2020 Apr 3 – 6, 2020 Jul 10 – 13, 2020 |
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| Edmonton | Practitioner | English | Starting Nov, 2020 Dates to be finalized |
more info coming soon |
 Denmark |
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| Hørsholm 2019/20 New |
Foundation 1B – 4 x 5 days | Danish | Nov 27 – Dec 3, 2019 Feb 5 – 9, 2020 May 6 – 10, 2020 Sep 23 – 27, 2020 |
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| Hørsholm Started – Full |
Foundation 1B – 4 x 5 days | Danish | Jan. 16 – 20 2019, Feb. 20 -24 2019, Mai 22 – 26, 2019 Sep. 4 – 8 2019 |
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| Hørsholm New |
Practitioner | Danish | Oct 30, 2019 – Oct 30, 2022 |
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| Hørsholm Started – Full |
Shock Trauma | Danish |
Oct 17 -21, 2018
Jan 23 – 27, 2019
Mar 27 – 31, 2019
Jun 19 – 23, 2019
Aug 21 -25, 2019
Nov 6 – 10, 2019
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| Hørsholm – New | Shock Trauma | Danish |
Oct 16 – 20, 2019.
Jan 22 – 26, 2020
Mar 11 – 15, 2020
May 6 – 10, 2020
Sep 2 – 6, 2020
Dec 2 – 6, 2020
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| Hørsholm | Full Bodymap | Danish only |
Sep. 26-29, 2019
Nov. 14-17 2019 Jan. 9-12 2020 April 23-26 2020 (exam) |
 Germany |
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| Cologne, Weimar & Munich | Evening Intro | German | Multiple Dates See More Info -> |
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| Munich | Practitioner Started |
English with translation into German | May 11, 2017 – Apr 26, 2020 | |
| Munich | Foundation | Nov 22 – 25, 2018 Feb 7 – 10, 2019 May 2 – 5, 2019 Jul 18 – 21, 2019 Sept 19 – 22, 2019 Nov 28 – Dec 1, 2019 |
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| Cologne | Foundation | English with German translation |
Jun 7 – 10, 2019
Aug 15 – 18, 2019
Oct 17 -20, 2019
Jan 16 -19, 2020
Mar 23 – 26, 2020
May 14 -17, 2020
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| Cologne | Practitioner | English with translation into German | Feb 19, 2020 – Feb 11, 2023 | |
| Munich | Full Bodymap | English with translation into German | June 24-27, 2020 Oct. 21-24, 2020 Dec. 9-12, 2020 Feb. 11-14, 2021 (exam) |
 Greece |
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 Netherlands |
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| Rotterdam | Shock Trauma | English | 20-24 Nov 2019 22-26 Jan 2020 4-8 Mar2020 3-7 June 2020 16-20 Sept 2020 11-15 Nov 2020 |
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| Rotterdam | Reorienting Birth | English | 3-7 Jul, 2019 1-3 Nov, 2019 |
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| Rotterdam | Foundation | English | 18-22 Nov, 2020 10-14 Feb, 2021 14-18 Apr, 2021 16-20 Jun, 2021 |
 Poland |
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| Wroclaw | Workshop: Attachment | English with translation into Polish | Jun 1 – 2, 2019 | |
| Practitioner | English with translation into Polish | Starts May 29, 2019 to Nov 27, 2022 |
 Portugal |
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| Lisbon | Foundation | English with translation into Portuguese | Nov 20 – 25, 2018 Jan 8 -13, 2019 Apr 30 – May 5, 2019 |
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| Lisbon | Practitioner 5 x 5 days a year for 3 years | English with translation into Portuguese | Start Nov 13 – 17, 2019, ends in Sep. 11, 2022 | Contact Mar at [email protected] for more info |
 Spain |
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| Madrid | Foundation | English with translation into Spanish | Jan 29 – Feb 3, 2019 April 9 – 14, 2019 July 2 – 7, 2019 |
 Ukraine |
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| Kiev | Practitioner | English with translation into Russian |
Dec 9, 2018 – May 30, 2021 | E-mail Inna at: [email protected] for more info |
| Kiev | Shock Trauma – PTSD 2 | English with translation into Russian |
Jan 23 – 27, 2019 May 29 – Jun 2, 2019 Nov 11 – 15, 2019 |
E-mail Inna at: [email protected] for more info |
| Kiev | Full Bodymap | English with translation into Russian/Ukrainian |
Sep. 18-22 2019 Nov. 20-24, 2019 Feb. 11-14 2020 (exam) |
 United Kingdom |
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| London | Workshop: Managing Stress with Ditte Marcher | English | November 13-15, 2019 | |
| London | Foundation | English | Jan 8 – 12, 2020 March 18 -22, 2020 August 12 – 16, 2020 October 21 – 25, 2020 |
 United States of America |
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| San Francisco, CA | Shock Trauma 2 | English | Dec 4 – 8, 2019 Feb 12 – 16, 2020 Aug 19 – 23, 2020 |
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| Boston, MA | Healing Developmental Disruptions | English | Jul 18 – 22, 2019 Oct 4 – 7, 2019 Jan 10 – 13, 2020 Mar 20 – 23, 2020 |
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| Los Angeles, CA | Healing Developmental Disruptions | English | Jun 25 – 29, 2020 Sept 11-14, 2020 Dec 4 – 7, 2020 Feb 19 – 22, 2021 |
Local Training Event Organizers:
Please contact the following individuals for more information in regards to training in respective regions.
- Brasil – Andrea Miranda [email protected]
- Canada – James Nicholas [email protected]
- Denmark – Lene Wisbom [email protected]
- Germany – Michael Rupp [email protected]
- Netherlands – Kristina Vasiljevaite [email protected]
- Hong Kong – Karen Wong [email protected]
- Poland – Marta Ułaszewska-Żuk [email protected]
- Portugal and Spain – Marlene Barroso [email protected]
- Ukraine – Inna Gavryliuk [email protected]
- United Kingdom – Prahlad Galbiati [email protected]
- United States – James Nicholas [email protected]
Interested in organizing a Bodynamic Training in your country? Please contact Lene Wisbom at: [email protected]