Workshops

Centering – Boundaries – Grounding

The responsiveness that the therapist observes by palpating a particular muscle offers information about the client’s patterns of Ego Functions – and at the same time information about the Character Structures and the respective stage of development in childhood. Combining those two layers of information offers valuable new cognitive understanding relevant to the therapeutic process, while working with the muscles in question – either by hand or through movement – helps bring to the surface the psychological content of the particular muscle, and a host of correspondences to specific Character Structures and Ego Functions.

Come and get a sense of Bodynamic. How by using your body you can increase your psychological capacity.

Boundaries vs. Limits

After many years in working with clients and teaching people in workshops and trainings to body psychotherapy, I have realized how many people use phrases such as, “you inviolate my boundaries”, “I can’t keep my boundaries”, “people do not respect my boundaries” or “no one sees my boundaries”. But what most people are speaking about is not their boundaries, it is their ability or lack of ability to understand or handle or being aware of, their limits. Your lack of ability to handle your inner limit will give you the illusion of being inviolated in your boundaries even if it has nothing to do with your boundaries in itself. In my experience that’s why people can work with different boundaries issues for years without making any radical change, except using their boundaries for disconnecting instead of keeping the connection.

The boundaries define our physical and personal space and a physical violation of them puts us in fear, where neither dignity nor connection has a place. On the other hand the limits have to do with our energy management, the ability to manage our energy when someone else is triggering different layers of feelings and sensations in our body and how well we can contain or manage these different inner states of being. When we realize our limits we can pause, put a stop or we can bodily activate muscles that supports us, so that our ability to stay connected without falling in the illusion that someone is attacking our dignity or the right to our space, increases tremendously.

In this two days will be a bodily experimental workshop where we will work with the two principles, limits and boundaries. You will get a clear inner sensation and knowledge of your boundaries and your limits. You will gain awareness and strengthen your resources. You will come to realize how important it is to be able to distinguish the difference between boundaries and limits in order to get a more successful life.

Dance between Mutual Connection & Dignity

The core belief of the Bodynamic System is that the human being is a social being motivated by a deep drive towards contact and connection with others, without losing pride and dignity, seeking what Lisbeth Marcher has termed as Mutual Connection.

Just like I can maintain or break Mutual Connection, I can either maintain my individual Dignity or relinquish it. To maintain my individual Dignity in an interaction with others, I must respect my own self so that my way of being, my feelings and my actions are consistent with my authentic self – my actual needs, impulses, preferences, wishes and views.

A person would choose to preserve Connection at the expense of Dignity – to remain in contact with a person or a situation that he/she really can’t tolerate, because in that instance losing Connection is too frightening while losing his/her individual Dignity is more preferable of two undesirable choices. And conversely, every person has at some point withdrawn from contact that was too challenging in order to be able to preserve his/her individual Dignity. This explains yet another extreme of the human condition that we often witness: No mutual Connection but a lot of individual Dignity in utter loneliness.