Cultivating bodily knowing

Join our on-line workshop series

This seminar series explores how bodily knowing can be understood, developed, and integrated into professional and therapeutic practice. Through theory, reflection, and movement-based experiments, you will have the opportunity to discover the moving-feeling-sensing body as a source of knowing. 

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You will 

• Be introduced to a framework for attending to what is expressed and experienced beyond words within the therapeutic relationship

• Practice bodily awareness and experience how bodily and practical knowing can be cultivated and applied in professional practice

• Meet colleagues and build community with others who share your interest in embodied and relational practice

• Develop skills and gain inspiration for integrating body and movement in your work, including online settings.

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Language

Presentations of theory and cases will be done in English. 

 

Modules

1. The Art of Wondering. 

In this opening session, participants cultivate curiosity, presence and responsiveness, drawing on the aesthetic and philosophical roots of Gestalt therapy. These foundational capacities help us navigate the unpredictable as each moment unfolds, see the familiar with fresh eyes and stay grounded in the space of not-knowing, where new possibilities can emerge. This session will set the ground for deepening bodily awareness in the sessions that follow.

 

2. Discovering the Intelligence of the Moving–Feeling–Sensing Body.

Building on an attitude of wonder, this session invites participants to explore how movement forms the foundation of lived experience. Through guided practice we bring felt experience to the foreground, attending to subtle movement interactions that shape how we are affected by and respond to situations. Cultivating awareness of these dynamics provides insights into relational processes and the way meaning emerges between therapist and client.

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3. Moving from Sensing to Knowing:

Understanding the Forming of Forms with heightened awareness of bodily experience, we now explore how our sense of self and the world develops through ongoing movement dialogues, already from the outset of life.

Participants will gain a felt understanding of the reflexive, co-created nature of contacting – how we shape and are shaped by one another in every meeting. This session illuminates the processes through which agency arises, and how personal, social and cultural contexts influence relational patterns.

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4. Attending to the Wisdom of the Habit Body

Expanding our understanding of relational patterns and their bodily roots, we examine how habitual responses are formed and maintained. Participants explore how past experiences and anticipated futures manifests in the present through our moving-feeling-sensing body.

Applying a developmental and somatic lens, we uncover how habitual patterns serve relational functions and reveal enduring relational and existential themes.

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5. Navigating Challenge and Support

In the final session, we integrate insights from previous workshops. We will examine the often-tacit processes involved in creating holding of the therapeutic and professional space and inquire into this as a form of bodily knowing. In structured small-group sessions, participants will have the opportunity to practice their skills in working therapeutically with movement-based interventions.

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All sessions have this format

• Introduction and a check-in; Activities designed to foster bodily awareness.

• Presentation of Today’s Theme: Theory will be explored through movement experiments, both in the large group and in small groups supported by a structured framework.

• Large Group Discussion & Questions

• Breaks: There will be either one longer break or two shorter breaks

• Closure: Reflection connected to the day’s theme and personal learning

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Target group

For all who want to learn more about "the living body" and how people meet beyond words in therapy and coaching.

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