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
Some workshops are now available online live, and can be participated in from anywhere in the world! See the top of Global Training Schedule below.
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)
- Full Bodymap Education (prerequisite: first 2 years of practitioner completed, and exams passed)
- Supervision Education ( (prerequisite: first 2 years of practitioner completed, and exams passed and having clients in Bodynamic therapy)
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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 Live Online Training |
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| Online | Foundation | English | August 12 – 16, 2020 November 11 – 15, 2020 March 3 – 7, 2021 June 30 – July 4, 2021 |
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| Online | Free Webinar: Ditte interviews founder Lisbeth | English | September 21, 2020 | |
| Online | Second Bodynamic International Conference | Russian | October 3 – 4, 2020 | |
| Online | Destructive Shame vs Good Shame | English | October 9, 10 & 11, 2020 | |
| Online | Workshop: Working with our Greatness | English | October 31, 2020 | Registration coming soon |
| International Master Classes |
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| Copenhagen, Denmark | Full Bodymap Education – new dates | English/ German | 11 – 14. February 2021 22-25, April 2021 2-5. September 2021 12-16 October 2021 (exam) |
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| Rotterdam, Netherlands | Supervision Education, new dates | English | 10-14. November 2021 12 – 16. January 2022 2 – 6. March 2022 7-11. September 2022 |
 Brazil |
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| Rio de Janerio | Practitioner 13 x 6 days (wrong dates at link to Brazil calendar) |
English with 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 | Healing Developmental Disruptions | English | March 12 – 16, 2020 Oct 2 – 5, 2020 Dec 4 – 7, 2020 Jan 22 – 25, 2021 |
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| Edmonton | Practitioner | English | Feb 17, 2021 – Feb 11, 2024 |
 Denmark |
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| Hørsholm 2019/20 Full |
Foundation 1B – 4 x 5 days | Danish | Nov 27 – Dec 1, 2019 Feb 5 – 9, 2020 Sep 23 – 27, 2020 Dec 4 – 8, 2020 |
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| Hørsholm Start 2020 |
Foundation 4 x 5 days | Danish | Oct. 2 -6 2020, Dec. 9 – 13, 2020 Feb. 24 – 28 2021, April 28 – Mai 2, 2021 |
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| Hørsholm New |
Practitioner | Danish | Oct 6, 2021 to April 6, 2025 | |
| Hørsholm New |
Shok Trauma | Danish | Feb 3 – 7, 2021 April 14 – 18, 2021 Aug 25 -29, 2021 Dec 1 – 5, 2021 Feb 23 – 27, 2022 April 27 . Mai 1, 2022 |
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| Hørsholm – Full | Shok Trauma | Danish | Oct 16 – 20, 2019 Jan 22 – 26, 2020 Sep 2 – 6, 2020 Dec 2 – 6, 2020 Jan 20 – 31, 2021 April 14 – 18, 2021 |
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| Hørsholm | Full Bodymap | English + German translation | Febr. 11-14 2021 April. 22-25 2021 Sep. 2-5 2021 Oct. 12-16 2021 (exam) |
 Germany |
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| Cologne, Weimar & Munich | Evening Intro | German | Multiple Dates See More Info -> |
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| Munich | Foundation | Jul 16 – 19, 2020 Oct 15 – 18, 2020 Jan 21 – 24, 2021 April 1 – 4, 2021 June 17 – 20, 2021 Aug 26 – 29, 2021 |
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| Cologne | Foundation | English with German translation |
Sep 17-20, 2020
Dec 17 – 20, 2020
Feb 11 -14, 2021
April 8 -11, 2021
June 10 – 13, 2021
Sep 23 -26, 2021
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| Cologne | Practitioner | English with translation into German | Feb 19, 2020 – Feb 11, 2023 |
 Greece |
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 Netherlands |
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| Rotterdam Full |
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 | Workshop: Developmental Trauma with Ditte | English | Nov 18 – 22, 2020 |
 Poland |
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| Wroclaw | Foundation | English with translation into Polish | Sep 22-27, 2020 Dec 8-13, 2020 March 2 – 7, 2021 |
 Portugal |
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| Lisbon Startet |
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 |
| Lisbon | Foundation 3 x 6 days |
English with translation into Portuguese | Start: Oct. 27- Nov. 1, 2020, February 16-21, 2021 and June 22-27, 2021 | Contact Mar at [email protected] for more info |
| Lisbon | Shock Trauma education 6 x 5 days |
English with translation into Portuguese | Start: January 20-24, 2021, ends January 12-16, 2022 | Contact Mar at [email protected] for more info |
 Russia |
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| Moscow | Intro & Attatchment Workshop with Lisbeth Marcher | English with translation into Russian | June 19 – 21, 2020 |
 Spain |
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| Madrid | Foundation postponed |
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| Amalurra | Spirituality Workshop | English | May 12 – 16, 2021 |
 Ukraine |
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| Kiev | Foundation | Russian | Nov, 2019 – Jun, 2020 | E-mail Inna at: [email protected] for more info |
| 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 1 | Russian | Starts in October, 2020 | E-mail Inna at: [email protected] for more info |
| Ternopil | Foundation | Ukrainian | March 25-29, 2020; June 10-14, 2020; September 9-13,2020; November 4-8, 2020 | E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] for more info |
| Kiev/ Postponed | Reorienting Birth | English + Russian | 1st course: 17 – 21.06.2020
2nd course: 14 – 18.10.2020 |
E-mail Inna at: [email protected] for more info |
 United Kingdom |
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| London | Workshop: Narcissism with Michael Rupp | English | Oct 3 – 4, 2020 |
 United States of America |
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| Los Angeles, CA | Healing Developmental Disruptions | English | Feb 4 – 8, 2021 March 26 – 29, 2021 May 28 – 31, 2021 July 23 – 26, 2021 Sept 24 – 27, 2021 |