Online Bodynamic Foundation Training
Creating your destiny is a powerful and important part of our life journey . We often find ourselves in a space which is split between what we desire and what we already have. How would it be for you if you could get to know yourself in a way that gives you clarity about your strong and useful sides as well as clarity about your missing parts. What more could you undertake if you chose to add new resources that you are missing and what could you do with this new expanded possibility?
In this brave journey of exploration of the self, a clear look in the mirror will be required. You will embark on a new adventure of self discovery. This can help tremendously if you want to reach your dreams and potential and also help others to reach theirs.
In this foundation training you will be taught a new way to look at yourself and others and your old assumptions will be challenged. If you truly want to help your clients, having a clear vision of yourself and others is necessary for your progress and success. It might feel like visiting another planet and yet it’s so familiar at the same time. You will encounter that the values are the same; mutual connection and dignity, yet you will learn new ways to express them, navigate them and understand them.
We hope you will join us on this amazing road to your destiny and you will grasp many new tools to be your own Jedi!
This training is for professionals that work with people:
- Therapist
- Doctors
- Physiotherapists
- Yoga teachers
- Dance teachers
- Trainers
- Sales people
- Psychiatrists
- Osteopaths
- Naturopaths
- Social workers
- Cranio-sacral specialists
- Pedagogues
- Teachers
- And of course parents!
This Bodynamic foundation training is for everyone who wants to optimally use their body and everyone who wants to understand and read the psychology behind the body. If you have questions whether this training is for you, send us an email to: info@bodynamic.gr
What are we going to cover in this training?
During these 21 days of training divided into 7 modules, we will deliver lectures about fundamental psychological and physiological development and how these two interconnect together. This very unique combination will give you information about the formation of the character and its various defence systems. You will come to learn how your character affects your body and why your physiological body looks the way that it does. You will learn the reasons behind your unique preferences and biases, and we will explore what has been helpful to you in those leanings and what obstacles they can also create in your life.
Furthermore, you will familiarize yourself with different Bodynamic techniques which will teach you how to support a person in changing their behaviour. These techniques can be applied to people of all ages, including children. Additionally, you will become more proficient in reading the physiological body and how to interpret this information in psychological terms by identifying areas of a person’s strength and areas that need more care. This knowledge will provide you with new perspectives on how to act and help you determine what would be most beneficial in the contact with others. Lastly, but not the least, you will familiarize yourself with the short version of the Bodyknot, a technique we teach for keeping dignity and mutual connection when in difficult situations with others and oneself. It’s a very helpful tool used for conflict resolution and building an observing ego.
Why should I take Bodynamic training?
Bodynamic system has been around for 40 years already and has been focused from the beginning on researching and understanding the body and its connection to psychology and development. It is one of the very first schools to integrate the body, the brain and human behaviour all together. This system offers the most comprehensive tools and techniques for deepening the understanding of oneself and others. It is also very distinctive as it’s been designed to make psychological progress “measurable”. This offers a whole new level of practicality to the users of this material whether it’s applied in a field of work or in one’s personal life.
Bodynamic core values
Bodynamic core values are Dignity and Mutual Connection. These are present throughout the whole program and at all levels; throughout the material that is taught, through the group experience and teacher-student relationship.
Relevant information:
If you want to get certificate of foundation training, what is also a necessary prerequisite to enter the Bodynamic Practitioner training.
Then at the end of the foundation training you will get a test with 100 question (yes-no). Of those you need to have 70 answers correct.
You are allowed to miss out max 20% of the total of training days.
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.
Development of Character Structures
The focus is on the development of character structures by addressing specific needs and challenges in individual phases of development of all human beings (existence, autonomy, etc.). Here, Bodynamic has developed a unique differentiated model of character structures through a 25-years of empirical study. It describes the child development in 7 phases from the 2nd trimester in utero to the 13th year of life.
Role of Developmental Trauma
Development trauma plays a decisive role in the development and creation of these structures. The term was introduced and used by Lisbeth Marcher even before it became popular by Bessel van der Kolk, one of the leading American psychiatrists in the field of trauma and its effects.
Loss of Self
Developmental trauma emerges when a child experiences massive and persistent rejection, neglect, etc. through the parents, in the context of the central needs of a development phase. This means that the child may not develop central aspects of his or her own self or may end up abandoning them altogether.
Body Ego
The child experiences in its early childhood in relationship to its external world above, all about his body (bodyego) and its movement. In addition to physical milestones such as crawling, sitting, standing and walking, the child must learn a variety of movement patterns.
Character Types and Positions
In this training you will learn how the child moves through individual phases by developing motor skills and the voluntary use of muscles and muscle tone reacts to specific external developmental challenges. Correspondingly, body and character structures are formed that are divided into either a more hypotonic (early) or a hypertonic (late) type, each requiring a different therapeutic approach.
These create a characteristic body posture and a corresponding expression, mimicry, etc. As part of the training curriculum we explore the ability to recognize and “read” these embodied character structures. This allows you to step into the age-specific “resonance” of your client and to integrate these respective resources optimally into the healing process.
In addition, this training provides you with a variety of specific body exercises and techniques, as well as the knowledge, more precisely, more effectively and efficiently, with the traumatization of your clients.
Practical information
Dates 2022
Module 1. February 18-20 with Ditte and Hadi
Module 2. April. 15-17 with Ditte and Hadi
Module 3. May 13-15 with Kristina V Marcher and co teacher Carlo Le Sage
Module 4. July 8-10 with Ditte and Hadi
Module 5. September 16-18 with Kristina V Marcher and co teacher Carlo Le Sage
Module 6. October 14-16 with Ditte and Hadi
Module 7. November 25-27 with Ditte and Hadi
Location: wherever you chose to have your Zoom connection; Time Zone: 10.00-18.00 (CET)
21 days total
Guest teacher and Founder: Lisbeth Marcher – present once
Language: English
Price: 2300,- EUR
Early Bird price: (valid until payment before 30th of November 2021 ) 1999,- EUR
Payment: send email to: info@bodynamic.gr and then you will receive payment information.
Requirements:
- Age: over 18 years old
- Short description about: – your profession and motivation to join
- Signing a contract that you will get send by e-mail
- Working internet connection, with any of the following: pc, laptop, tablet, mobile phone that can connect your camera and microphone.
Zoom information:
We have newest gear to provide very clear vision and sound experience using Zoom. Different camera angles as well as sensitive microphones will help to get an amazing zoom training.
The teachers are very experienced in this way of teaching since they have done Zoon workshops, trainings, webinars since the starts of Corona Pandemic in April 2020.
For joining sent email to: info@bodynamic.gr
Trainers: Meet three generations of the Bodynamic Legacy
Ditte Marcher
Born in 1959. Daughter of the founder of Bodynamic, Lisbeth Marcher. She is a member of Bodynamic since 1994. She did the full Analytic training that she finished in 1995 and choose to be trained to be a teacher in Bodynamic. She is a therapist and supervisor. She is one of the creators of Bodynamic’s shock approach. She influenced Bodynamic deeply with the concepts of Dignity, Me and the different layers of feelings.
She has been teaching in foundation trainings since 1995 and has been a senior teacher in practitioner trainings since 2003. She has been teaching Bodynamic’s trainings in US, Canada, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Japan, Greece, Netherlands, Denmark and Brazil. She was the CEO of Bodynamic International from 2008 to 2019. She is a member of EABP and she was a chairman in the EABP forum committee.
She also has and still doing a variety of workshops and business consulting. From 1986-1992 she was working in war zones with children in crisis, mainly in Palestine, Lebanon and Israel. From 1994-1998 she was working as a consultant for the police in Denmark and Sweden for cases of young criminals. In the same period she was trainer for the teachers of AMU centers that upgrade education of unemployed workers. She was also one of the main teachers in a two-year program, teaching young adults how to be project leaders. In 1999 she was doing workshops in Seattle and Vancouver for police and fire departments for better handling communication during crisis. She has done conflict resolution and support in many crisis areas. She has been a volunteer in different projects in Africa, South America, ex-Yugoslavia and Denmark.
She is the co-author of the book “Resources in coping with shock” with Merete Holm Brantbjerg and the article “Psychophysical Approaches to working with PTSD and the Ego” with Lene Wisbom in 2014.
She has attended many various conferences and she has made a presentation of Bodynamic’s trauma experience in European trauma conference in Edinburg, a presentation in EABP conference in Athens 2004, in the International Scientific Committee (for Psycho-Corporal Psychotherapy) São Paulo 2005, in the conference for Shock and Trauma in Netherlands 2010, at EABP conference in Athens in 2016 around the Veteran Projects – Work With Traumatized Soldiers and at The Body Psychotherapy conference in Krakow, Poland 2017. She also has done presentations in various college and universities in US, Greece, Canada, Poland, Brasil and Ukraine.
Hadi Adam Bahlawan Marcher
Hadi is the third generation, after his mother Ditte Marcher and grandmother, the founder of Bodynamic, Lisbeth Marcher that is actively part of the system. He has been the CEO of Bodynamic International since May 2019. He is working to make this system more known and applied all over the world. It is his dream that Bodynamic methods will be used in different areas of life.
Hadi’s career started with a pedagogue’s position in an integrational kindergarten. Later on he expanded his work towards working with adolescents. He has worked with the ‘Red Cross’ organization in refugee camps, using his Bodynamic skills. Part of his responsibility was to take care of the refugee unaccompanied children and adolescents and refugees that had history of being tortured.
For 4 years H. Marcher has worked with people on the Autism Spectrum, using Bodynamic methods and received tremendous results. These people differ in their extend on how well they are adapted to life. One of the outcomes of his work was that Hadi was asked to teach other pedagogues how he works with people that have Autism in different institutions in Denmark.
He has also worked with patients that suffer from personality disorders like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and PTSD as well as with people that suffer from eating disorders and sexual abuse using the Bodynamic approach. Within the Bodynamic International organization Hadi has been an assistant trainer and co-teacher in ‘Shock and Trauma Training’ of Bodynamic, in Brazil, Ukraine, Denmark and Greece. As well as promoting and participating in Bodypsychotherapy conventions in Europe.
H. Marcher gets his energy by using all his Bodynamic skills in his daily life, in his relationship with his family and friends. He is tremendously fond of doing yoga and spending time in the nature and playing football. Spirituality has a big place in Hadi’s life, as well as keeping on the desire to constantly rebuilding more knowledge around the different traditions from all over the world. He loves his work and the learning will never stop.
Lisbeth Marcher
She is the founder of the Bodynamic System and of Bodynamic International in collaboration with various colleagues. She is the former director of the Bodynamic System, while now she is the international supervisor for all educational issues.Lisbeth Marcher is the former president of EABP.
She has presented her work and taught in many countries and at many conferences, since the 1970′s. One of her main contributions to the Bodynamic System is the recognition of the hyporesponsive reaction in peoples’ way of being, and how this behavior is represented in the muscles in the body as hyporesponsive muscles in opposition to the normally accepted armour reaction – hyperresponsive muscles. She developed this recognition into a Bodymap and a Characterstructure system, that could be taught to people.During the late 1980′s she was part of developing the Bodynamic approach to resolving shock-trauma – and developing new resources – which is now a separate training from the Foundation (20-24 days) and the Practitioner training.
Many articles about the system have been published, most often by her colleagues – but with her participation in formulating the theory. She has been working on finishing a book about the system for many years – and has been fighting with her dyslexia to make it happen – and now finally published, The Body Encycloedia.
Today Lisbeth is part of the Bodynamic international teaching team, and travels to Greece, Brazil, Germany, Holland and Denmark.
