Continuing Education
| Working with Posture, Gesture & Movement in Psychotherapy | ||||||||||||||||
CE credit not availble, but course can be audited through SHS. Please call 925-969-3353 to audit. A client’s patterns of posture, gesture and movement reveal important information about personal, relational and cultural influences that condition his or her psycho-physical organization. The ability to track and work with these somatic patterns can serve as a significant therapeutic tool for both assessment and transformation in the psychotherapy process. In this course, participants will learn to identify, assess, and explore posture, gesture, and movement patterns that offer effective access routes into core psychological material. The creation of somatic resources that support psychological and emotional change will be discussed. Teaching modalities include lecture, body reading skills, demonstration and practice. Instructor Biography  Bill Bowen, MFA, LMT, is a body-psychotherapist in practice in Portland, Oregon. For 35 years, his work has focused on the interface between the body and mind in the creative process. He has taught at colleges in both Europe and the United States. Bill is trained in Rolfing and Rolfing Movement work, Hakomi Body Centered Psychotherapy, Bodynamic Analysis, Somatic Experiencing and numerous other somatic and psychological disciplines. He has studied with Ron Kurtz, Peter Levine, Lisbeth Marcher, Pat Ogden and others preeminent members of the field. Trained in biomechanics, connective tissue work, visceral and cranial work and recently in the body therapy work of Frank Lowen, Bill was a founding member of the Northwest Coalition of Body-Psychotherapy and co-founded Hakomi Integrative Somatics with Pat Ogden. Currently, he is creator and director of the Psycho-Physical Therapy Institute.
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