Name: Knowing through Movement (Developmental Somatic Therapy)
Start: 2024-11-30T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-12-01T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Artis Centrum Hotels

Knowing through Movement (Developmental Somatic Therapy)

"Knowing through Movement" - Somatic Developmental Therapy by Ruella Frank with Helena Kallner from Stockholm.
We are inviting you to a 2 days body psychotherapy workshop, which takes place in Vilnius on November 30th-December 1st.
This workshop will explore a somatic and developmental approach to working with body and movement in psychotherapy.
Working as a psychotherapist requires the ability to evaluate how to act in relation to the uniqueness of each situation. In gestalt therapy we refer to this knowing as the aesthetic criterion, that which is felt and sensed in the unfolding dynamic of the therapeutic encounter. Sometimes this knowledge is called tacit or silent knowledge, as it can be difficult to articulate and becomes evident primarily through action. It is not really silent, but we can be unfamiliar with recognizing and listening to its expressions.
When aspects of knowing that reside in lived bodily experiences are not articulated and valued as real knowledge, there is a risk that they become silenced. When this happens, rather than being recognized as a core element of professional wisdom, these aspects are referred to as vague, mysterious and as if unreliable.
In this experiential workshop we will explore movement and kinesthetic resonance as an essential foundation of knowing. We will inquire into that which we know before we know it, and attend to how emerging body-to-body dynamics between therapists and clients reveal existential themes, and inform therapeutic interventions.
The approach to gestalt that will be presented is inspired and informed by the theory developed by Ruella Frank: Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™.
Helena Kallner, MA, MSc, UKCP registered psychotherapist, practices gestalt psychotherapy in Stockholm. She is a full member of the New York Institute for Gestalt therapy, and a senior teacher and supervisor of Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™. She recently submitted her PhD thesis in psychotherapy. The title of her thesis is: Forming form. How movement shapes psychotherapists’ practical knowledge.
The workshop fee 320 euro.
November 30th from 9:00 to 17:00.
December 1st from 9:00 to 17:00.
Workshop is conduced in English with translation into Lithuanian language if needed.
Registration with 120 euro prepayment at Rita Mackonienė, [email protected]
+370 652 42144.