Recent advances in somatic and integral psychotherapy and neurobiology, along with the integration of Eastern wisdom traditions and Gestalt mind-body therapies into modern psychological practice, have revolutionized current thinking about the resolution of trauma, painful patterns of thought and destructive emotions. A new approach is emerging which views symptoms of suffering as the body’s wisdom pathways for creating communication between the unconscious and the aware self for promoting somatic re-learning, healing, and transformation.

This cutting-edge program provides a rare opportunity for sustained education in Gestalt-Somatic psychology. It will be taught by psychotherapist Ronald Alexander, a clinical trainer who leads professional trainings and clinical supervision groups in Gestalt therapy, Somatics and Ericksonian integrated modalities throughout the world and is an expert in Mindfulness meditation and Buddhist psychology.

The training will include direct experience, clinical demonstrations, and practicum theory. It will use the modalities of Gestalt therapy, Somatic body-centered psychotherapy and relational dialogical approaches emphasizing mindfulness-based practices for accessing the somatic “core-self” to develop clinical skills and deepen the participant’s own healing process. Special emphasis will be placed on the treatment of trauma and psychosomatic disorders within the relational field with Gestalt, Ericksonian and Somatic approaches, which are highly effective techniques that understand the importance of the symptom as a pathway to inner healing.

Learning Objectives:

• Clinical skills to help practitioners become more creative and resourceful when treating body symptoms, trauma, pain, and mood and somatic disorders
• Learning how to navigate complex issues, transference and counter transference that arise in the relational dialogue and the inter-subjective field.
• Framing, reframing, and de-framing old patterns and core beliefs to generate innovative learning’s for creating new neural pathways for brain-mind reeducation and brain plasticity.
• Somatic styles for accessing and regulating flow state healing, peak performance and positive psychology for promoting optimal states of creativity and wellness.
• Gestalt-Relational process work, field theory, dialogue, experiment and the contact boundary disturbances, their function and purpose in integrating the body-mind.
• Learning how to use the symptom to access the unconscious and its healing inner resources with mindfulness and metaphors.
• Learn methods to access core creativity, open mind, and the peak flow states