Live International Online
Practitioner Training  2023-2025

Starting January 25, 2023

This is a training to become 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, mental health and care professionals who want to expand their knowledge and precision by learning the muscles coding system.

Bodynamic International has spent the last two years creating the possibility of hosting a worldwide online Practitioner in Zoom. We will use the best 3-D anatomy cross-platform application that we will customize to our Ego functions. All the participants will have access to this cross-platform application to study for our training. Our studio now has 5 cameras for all the viewing angles that will be needed and a professional console and our Zoom is broadcasting at 1080p analysis. Our recordings will be safely available for the participants in Vimeo platform for privacy and convenience.

Topics covered in the Practitioner training:

  • In depth coverage of all 11 Ego Functions and their sub functions

  • Further deepening of the 21 developmental positions and 7 character structures + Perinatal and Adolescence and Puberty

  • The 5 Ego Aspects and how to work with them

  • The Full Bodyknot and how it facilitates building an Observing Ego

  • Learn to read and analyze the whole Bodymap

    • Identify resources
    • Identify Trauma
    • Formulate a therapy plan
  • The F8 model on Group Dynamics ( the 8 group functions are similar to ego functions)

  • The jukebox layer model of macro to micro issues in society

  • Conflict resolution & negotiation

  • How to do Bodynamic therapy

  • Trans-marginal effects – flipping to extremes under stress

  • Basics in how to touch and sense hypo, and hyper muscles

  • Demo sessions by instructors

  • Practice sessions done in triads

  • Intro to Ditte’s Bodyreading. Learn how to interpret holding patterns, gait, twists and asymmetries in body posture.

  • Learn how to use Body reading in therapy

  • Learn basic understanding around Developmental Trauma, Shock trauma and PTSD/ Complex PTDS

  • Adolescence and puberty as a developmental stage – core decisions, prefrontal cortex conscious identity formation

  • Personal life history and environmental/societal impacts on development

  • Psychopathology from a Bodynamic perspective – Narcissism and Borderline Personality Disorder

  • Lisbeth’s famous Energy Exercises: ex. center line breathing

  • “Hands On” – Bodynamic massage techniques

During this 3-year Bodynamic’s Practitioner training you will be taught and experience through bodywork the way we function in our ego skills through our body and which muscles in our body are:

  • supporting us in our ability to hold our position
  • stand our ground
  • stay connected
  • develop our cognitive abilities
  • having the ability to step forward with our personality
  • be able to built up and master our energy
  • hold our space
  • sense our gender and bring it forward
  • being able to sense our self-worth, self-esteem and self-confidence and to live from it
  • keep the social balance in contact with others
  • develop the ability to create contact

All these skills are not developed through the mind into the body, but through our body into the mind. We grasp before we understand.

In our development we meet the external world through our senses and our emotions and by mirroring adult people around us and we do that through movement. This is called the “Body Ego” in Bodynamic. While we develop our cognitive skills, our muscles grow with neurofeedback from our experiences.  So depending on our experiences we create a deep coding system in our muscle tissues that can lead to closed or open coding.

In the practitioner training we are teaching functional anatomy combined with the ego functions. We will explore the information of the different psychological and anatomical functions for 125 muscles. All the muscles are supporting specific anatomic functions and are directly connected to our psychological abilities. For example without erector spinae we would not be able to stand as a human being and in the psychological aspect it is a muscle that supports our ability to hold our position in this world. It does the same function both anatomically and psychologically.

Through the ways we are met in our life we learn to defend our dignity and our mutual connection by fighting or giving up, in the hope that we can preserve as much contact as possible and lose our self as little as possible. Also, most of the times, in a family there are ego skills that are never taught to the young members. This creates a unique mosaic in our body of hyper, hypo and neutral response muscles.  In the training you will learn to read full bodymaps. This will give you the ability to meet your clients with more precision and support the specific areas of your clients ego function that needs to be developed, strengthened or become more flexible.

Among other things you will also be taught and experience group dynamics, techniques of conflict resolution, skills of active hearing and mechanisms of creative dialogue

Trainers

Ditte Marcher

Primary Trainer

Kalliopi Zorzou

Primary Trainer

Oleh Hukovskyy

Primary Trainer

Hadi Marcher

Assistant Trainer

Lisbeth Marcher

Guest Trainer

To learn more about the Trainers please visit the About section on our website.

Practitioner Training Outline

5 x 5 day modules a year for 3 years
Total = 75 days

Classes are from 10am – 6pm CET every day.

1st Year

2nd Year

3rd Year

Additional Training Details:

Exams:

Module 11: Psychomotoric Exam

Module 14: Test analyzing Exam & Therapy Aquarium Exam

Written Assignments:

End of 1st year: Life Story paper

End of 3rd year: Own Therapy Story (300 Euros)

Before 2 years after Module 15: Client Thesis (400 Euros + 2 x supervision fee for oral exam)

Registration & Payment Details:

Contact Yorgos at info@bodynamic.gr to register for the training or any general questions.

Financial details:

An application must be submitted in order to be accepted into the program. Upon acceptance of your application you have two weeks to pay a non-refundable admission fee of 500€ to reserve your seat in the program.

Payment Options:

1st option: One-time payment before October 15. 2022 9.000€ admission fee included

2nd option: Early Bird Yearly payments price 3.170€ per year, if paid before October 15 2022,23,24 (plus admission fee)

3rd option: Yearly payments with normal price 3.500€ per year (plus admission fee)

4th option: Monthly payments: 335€ per month in 36 installments, starting December 2022 plus admission fee 500€ paid before 15 October 2022.

The full length Syllabus/Study Outline can be accessed here: https://www.bodynamic.com/training/syllabus/

The requirements for becoming a certified Bodynamic Therapist upon completion of Practitioner training program can be found here: https://www.bodynamic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Bodynamic-therapist-2022.pdf