Training / practitioner certification
Certification · Live Online
Live International Online Practitioner Training
2025–2027
February 12, 2025 – November 21, 2027
This is a training to become a professional certified Bodynamic Body Psychotherapist — already being integrated and used in other forms of psychotherapy, all kinds of bodywork, social work, business consulting, mental health and care professions, by people who want to expand their knowledge and precision by learning the muscle coding system.
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
What You Will Work With in Your Own Body
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
Exams and Written Assignments
- Module 11: Psychomotoric Exam
- Module 14: Test analyzing Exam & Therapy Aquarium Exam
- 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)
Schedule
1st Year
Module 1Feb 12 – 16, 2025 · Ditte Marcher
- Bodynamics’ vision on humans and theory and affiliations.
- Bodynamics history
- Walking through Bodynamics most important work models.
- Bodyknot
- Basic exercises on learning how to be oneself as a therapist with clients:
- 1: centering
- 2: mirroring
- 3: active sensing
- Forming study groups
Module 2Apr 9 – 13, 2025 · Ditte Marcher
- Life forms.
- Life styles and life history. Students tell their life-story according to given scheme.
Module 3Jul 2 – 6, 2025 · Ditte Marcher
- Process Module
- Basic Anatomy
- Basic test & hands on
- Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
- Ego Function 2: Positioning
- How to combine character structure and ego functions
Module 4Oct 1 – 5, 2025 · Ditte Marcher
- How to do Bodynamic Therapy
- Transference and Counter Transference
- Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
- Ego Function 3: Centering
- Bodymap Reading Introduction
Module 5Dec 3 – 7, 2025 · Ditte Marcher
- Hand in Life Story Paper
- Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
- Ego Function 4: Boundaries
- Ego Function 8: Energy Management
- Supervised therapy training and demo session
- Bodymap reading
- Self evaluation
2nd Year
Module 6Feb 4 – 8, 2026 · Ditte Marcher
- Group Process
- Ethics
- Contract Work
Module 7Apr 15 – 19, 2026 · Ditte Marcher
- Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
- Ego Function 5: Grounding and Reality Testing
- Ego Function 1: Connectedness
- Mirroring and imitating
- Bodymap reading
- Aquarium
Module 8Jun 17 – 21, 2026 · Ditte Marcher
- Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
- Ego Function 6: Social Balance
- Ego Function 9: Self Assertion
- Bodymap reading – Test Training
- Aquarium
Module 9Sep 9 – 13, 2026 · Ditte Marcher
- Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
- Ego Function 7: Cognitive Skills
- Ego Function 10: Patterns of interpersonal skills
- Therapy training and demo-therapy
Module 10Nov 25 – 29, 2026 · Ditte Marcher
- Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
- Ego Function 11: Gender Skills
- Integration of Ego-Functions, Ego Aspects and Character Structures
- Bodymap Analysis
3rd Year
Module 11Feb 17 – 21, 2027 · Ditte Marcher
- Exam in Psychomotor Anatomy
- Hands on
Module 12Apr 21 – 25, 2027 · Ditte Marcher
- Psycho pathology and evidence-based research
- Puberty
- Negotiation Exercise
- Bodyknot & F8
- Therapy training w. supervision
- Aquarium
Module 13Jun 16 – 20, 2027 · Ditte Marcher
- Analyzing Bodynamaps
- Therapy training with supervision
- Aquarium
Module 14Sep 22 – 26, 2027 · Ditte Marcher & Censor
- Aquarium – Therapy Exam
- Test reading/ Analyzing Exam
Module 15Nov 17 – 21, 2027 · Ditte Marcher
- Finishing tasks and evaluation
Quick Facts
- Format
- Live Online (Zoom)
- Duration
- 3 years · 75 days
- Class hours
- 10am – 6pm CET
- Language
- English
- Prerequisite
- Bodynamic Foundation Training
This cohort began in February 2025 and is closed to new students. Contact Yorgos with any questions about it, or see the 2027–2029 training for the next intake.