The Body Connection Program
For Professionals
About the Program.
Body Connection and your Practice
So many of our clients have had adverse experiences that have caused them to move away from their feelings, their connection with their body and their felt sense of themselves. This occurs across a spectrum from mildly disconnected to completely dissociated, at different times or as triggered by different situations. ​
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Bodies are our major resource, and supporting our clients to reconnect with their body and feelings is one of the most important and effective therapeutic interventions.
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To be able to do this effectively it is very helpful, dare we say essential, that the therapist be connected to their own felt sense of themselves. Our counter-transference includes everything we are feeling in relation to our client in the session and beyond. We are therefore able to recognise resonance with client's states. ​
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Body connection is supportive with symptoms of overwhelm (believing you 'cannot cope with life'), depression (withdrawal from life), anxiety, relationship difficulties, parenting, making boundaries.
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There is lots of reference to mindfullness, being present, being grounded, but much less literature that describes how to achieve these states. This course addresses this gap with practice, hands on exercises, learnt over my 20+ years as a Somatic Psychotherapist. ​
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Deepening, to any extent, our connection with our body and feelings, will nearly always be met with resistance.
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As we journey through the program, practitioners will encounter their own resistance and discover tools to counter it and get on with the process of healing.
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Once we have learned to deal with our own resistance, we are so much more equiped to support resistant clients.
Body Connection & Mental Health
What the program is:
The Body Connection Program is a 8 week program designed to support you in supporting your clients to reconnect to their body and felt sense of self.
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What you're committing to: 20 minutes a day plus an hour tutorial each week
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The program contains:
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Psycho-education
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An phone app containing community platform, course material and exercises
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8 facilitated interactive weekly tutorials, delivered online via zoom, by Jean Gamble
Clients have to “feel it to heal it” but it's not who they are - it is something that happened to them. It is useful if we can avoid identifying with our pain; we want clients to integrate it and let it go to then express, live and move from the truth of who they are.
~ Jean Gamble