Columbus, OH 9/23. 10/16. 11/11
This experiential seminar series will focus on body awareness and empowerment tools that therapists can use for themselves and teach to their clients. Emotions are physical events in the body, and heightening body awareness allows greater clarity about feelings. Therapists will be able to utilize a broader range of information about their clients by learning to notice the body underpinnings of emotions in more detail. Clients will find it easier to become aware of and understand what their feelings are by learning how to notice their bodies.
Empowerment begins with overcoming the distress response. When people are stressed, threatened or hurt, they contract or collapse their posture, breathing, and attention. This is the fight/flight/freeze/collapse pattern. It is experienced as fear, anger, shock, defeat, resignation, or dissociation. When the contraction/collapse persists in the body, that is the trauma state.
The opposite of and antidote to the physical state of smallness is a state of relaxed muscles, soft breathing, stable posture, expansive attention and kindness. This is experienced as calm alertness and compassionate power. Therapists can use this psychophysical stability as away of being with their clients’ pain without taking it on themselves and burning out. Clients can use this psychophysical stability as a foundation for confronting painful feelings and for work in such areas as stress management, anger management, trauma recovery, assertiveness, and self-protection.
The workshop will be structured around simple, easy-to-learn and easy-to-teach modules. The modules can be used and taught without touching the client—which is of concern to psychotherapists.
“Paul is a great teacher who is able to translate the empowerment I work to achieve with my clients verbally, emotionally and with metaphor into an actual felt body expe-rience of awareness, self-protection and personal power.” Howard Fradkin, Ph.D. Psychologist. Affirmations Center for Psychotherapy and Growth.
“Paul is truly a master at teaching others how to embody and harmoniously experience their own power and compas-sion. The depth, clarity, and wisdom of his work are a rare find. The depth of the experience I had in Paul's workshop was simply too extraordinary for me to convey in words – the kind of thing one has to experience for oneself.” Patty Shepard, Clinical Social Worker
WHEN: 9 AM – 5 PM, Sept 23, Oct 16, Nov 11
WHERE: Columbus Center for Movement Studies
3003 Silver Drive, Columbus, OH 43224
Near North Broadway & freeway 71.
COST: $245 for the whole series
REGISTRATION: By September 10, send a check made out to Paul Linden to Columbus Center for Movement Studies. Include your address, phone number, and e-mail address.
MORE INFORMATION: 614-263-1111
PaulLinden@aol.com
www.being-in-movement.com