Workshops: Oslo, Norway

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Our Partner in Norway
  • Norsk Gestaltinstitutt AS
  • Akersveien 26
  • 0177 Oslo
  • Norway
  • +47 22 59 16 50
  • gestalt.no

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MARCH 2011
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Ruella Frank working with Hedvig in September of 2008 in Oslo, Norway
Oslo 2008: Infant behaviors and their relation to adult psychotherapy treatment

The Center for Somatic Studies and the Norsk Gestaltinstitutt in Oslo are working together to provide workshops in Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy, the work of Ruella Frank, Ph.D., for those English speaking clinicians wishing to enhance their therapy practice through an understanding of somatic and developmental processes.

If you’re interested in participating in a future workshop to be held in Oslo, then please sign up to receive the Center’s email notifications by filling out the form in the right hand column.

The workshops offered in March of 2011 are:

March 12, 2011

Advanced Supervision for Graduates of DSP

 

March 14 - 16, 2011

Postgraduate Workshop: Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy

 

March 17 - 18, 2011

Open Workshop: Discovering Embodied History

 

Fees and Registrition Information to be announced.

Workshop Details:

1. One day supervision group

For those who have attended and been certified in the two-year Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy training program.

Please email Ruella Frank to schedule your supervision

2. Postgraduate workshop: Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy:

Details to come.

3. Open workshop: Discovering Embodied History

Our present postural patterns take shape as early as the first year of life and are constructed through ongoing nonverbal dialogues with our early caregivers. Although these patterns evolve through time, fundamental elements remain with us and continue to shape and be shaped in adult experience. Our postural patterns, then, reveal embodied history as it is elicited and emerges within the present

This two-day workshop will focus on reaching functions of the infant in the first year of life and their relationship to adult functioning. For both the therapist and client, the observation and experience of reaching patterns are a vital method for exploring the relational field.

Registration

For further details and questions about the workshops: email Norsk Gestaltinstitutt AS or go to www.gestalt.no

Mom and Infant - Hands

Future workshops include:

Video Microanalysis of transactional movement processes within parent and baby psychotherapy:

In the first year of life, babies and their parents co-create a basic movement vocabulary that underlies the developing styles of contacting for both. Such subtle yet powerful movements define the boundaries between one and another and communicate what each partner wants and needs. When gestures within the relational field are poorly formed or misunderstood routinely, interruptions in contacting occur.

In this two-day workshop, we demonstrate how video microanalysis as a tool in baby/parent psychotherapy teaches parents to become more aware of the obvious, but often unnoticed world of nonverbal behaviors. Using video, we also show that working with movement pattern of both parent and child can shift the relational dilemma that brought the family to therapy. It will be evident how video microanalysis brings about rapid changes in the emerging relationship.

All workshops are open to psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, infant educators, physical therapists, mental health counselors from a variety of backgrounds, as well as movement therapists/educators who wish to better understand the relationship between psychological experience and physical expression.

For further information: email us at somaticstudies.com

The workshops in September of 2009 were:

September 3-4, 2009

Introductory Workshop: Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy

 

September 6-7, 2009

Follow-Up Workshop: Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy