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Body Psychotherapy Training Dublin
Body psychotherapy training Dublin: 5-day course in reading and working with the body in psychotherapy. Designed for counsellors and psychotherapists, either qualified or in training, the course runs one Saturday per month from February to June each year.
Details of the next course is found here:
The course has been running since 2012 and is accepted by the two main psychotherapy organisations in Ireland: the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) and the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy (IAHIP), as part of their continuing professional development (CPD) programme for their members.
Psychotherapy organisations in Ireland emphasise the importance of continuous development of their members to keep their skills sharp and up to date and this course provides 30 hours training in this important subject.
Tension of opposites
The course teaches how to hold what a client is saying and what their body is doing and seeing if they match, often they do not. This is what Carl Jung called the ‘tension of opposites’. An example of this is the Irish in restaurants. When the staff ask if the food was good, they often say yes but will ‘vote with their feet’ and their body may not return.
The other side of what people are saying is held, and acted out, by the body. As much as this is unconscious in the client is the work to be done by them. The course teaches how knowing what is happening in the body is the other side of the story and is informative to the therapist in being able to help the client.
Body Psychotherapy Training Dublin
The course offers clear and concise notes on each subject but the vast majority of the course is experiential in nature. Participants work with their own bodies in a series of exercises to show how these principles work in themselves.
Hundreds of counsellors and psychotherapists have attended the training over the years and here is a sample of what they said about it.