Trainings

Our Training Orientation

 The Reparation of Early Attachment Trauma

Advances in the neurosciences have incited a radical shift in relational trauma resolution understanding and practice. This paradigm recognises the interconnectivity of the body, brain, and the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in the resolution of relational trauma and calls for embodied therapists to carefully integrate right and left brain practices and processes rather than more traditionally oriented, and principally cognitive or left hemispheric approaches to clinical work.

Bringing the Body into Practice trainings have a relational/interpersonal psychodynamic and somatic lens that is informed by emergent neuroscience, attachment theory, relational and interpersonal psychoanalytic practice, trauma studies, embodiment practices and rests upon the understanding of the interconnectivity of the web of life and the awareness of the importance of social context. This starting point offers a depth and nuanced understanding of how the body and psyche are impacted by relationships, circumstances, events, and experiences throughout the lifespan as well as how the body and psyche are touched neurophysiologically and psychologically by events beyond the individual life experience.

The body is the story teller of one’s life.

Bringing the Body into Practice, as an orientation, understands the body as historian of one’s life and the holder of the legacies of historical, transgenerational, relational, early attachment and socially perpetuated traumas. We also understand the body as a site of living knowledge. In working to bring greater self and co-regulation of the ANS and affect management system, a deeper embodiment and connection to nature and the web of life becomes possible. By accessing embodied ways of knowing and processing through the right hemisphere this orientation enables deeply nuanced, internal reorganisation and integration of human experience. Through relational processing a deeper understanding and repair of attachment patterns is possible and opens up new possibilities of connection and living.

By Bringing the Body into Practice, the relationally and somatically oriented therapist offers ways to shift patterns of neurophysiology that underpin interpersonal relational patterns and emotional, mental, spiritual, and behavioural states and ways of being, that impede healthy functioning. By Bringing the Body into Practice, we utilise bodily ways of knowing to guide processes of relationship with the self and between the therapist, the client(s), the community, and the earth.

Theoretical Foundations

BBP trainings weave three parallel foundational threads: attachment theory and practice application, somatic psychotherapeutic and right hemispheric principles and practices, and interpersonal, relational psychodynamic practice, into an embodied orientation for the healing of relational trauma – insecure attachment. BBP trainings draw from clinical understandings and application of attachment theory, research and application, particularly gleanings from the Adult Attachment Interview; relational practice from an embodied interpersonal and relational psychoanalytic orientation; emergent research from the neuroscience community; embodiment practices; current understandings from trauma studies; earth-based wisdoms; and somatic psychotherapeutic principles and practices. Emerging, yet significantly departing, from the lineages of Somatic Experiencing and Somatic Transformation, Bringing the Body into Practice trainings and workshops offer the next generation of somatic practice.

Educational Orientation

Bringing the Body workshops and trainings offer immersive, educational experiences that provide self and clinical evolution. As educators, our goal is to foster safe, supportive educational communities that expand clinical skills and expertise in order to better support our communities and the world. Our pedagogical approach is praxis oriented and dually focused with an intention to link academic research with clinical practice application that integrates therapist embodiment for personal/professional development.

Training Methodology

Bringing the Body into Practice trainings explore the theoretical and conceptual understandings of diverse interdisciplinary knowledges and weave an embodied understanding for clinical practice through didactic presentation, demonstrations, experiential exercises, and practice sessions where participants will have opportunities to put the material into practice in a supportive learning environment. Additionally, process questions expand one’s reflexivity and critical awareness of self as embodied therapist. BBP trainings are rigorous in both academic and experiential learning and range from brief introductions to on-going training programs which offer opportunity for integration of material into one’s practice.
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