Foundational, Intermediate and Advanced Certificate Program Available in 6, 10, or 14 Courses.

Courses may be taken individually or in any order

With the current lens of psychotherapeutic thinking and theory so actively focused on neuroscience the significance of the heart is often overshadowed or lost. This course will address the question, “How can an individual deepen into life and relationship through the potency of the heart?” and “How can a therapist utilize this central role of the heart in deepening the therapeutic process?”

In this course we will explore physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual manifestations of heart. We will sense into and connect with the heart. We will explore the energy of the heart through deep perception. We will explore tracking, assessing, and engaging heart at all stages of the personal and therapeutic process. We make use of the qualities of awareness, connection, compassion, kindness, gratitude, and acceptance. Therapeutic interventions utilizing the heart will be studied and practiced.

Bill Bowen, MFA, LMT, is founder of Psycho-Physical Therapy. This unique therapeutic method has evolved from his 40 years of experience working with the creative process, body therapy, somatic psychology and spirituality. The active integration of the physical and psychological has been the continuing focus of his work. Central to this work is the exploration of the mind/body interface, the building of psycho-physical resources, and the establishment of centering presence. Bill is trained in a wide range of psychotherapy and body therapy modalities. He has been a trainer in the Hakomi method and was a co-founder, with Pat Ogden, of the Hakomi Somatics Institute. Bill is currently on the faculty of the Somatic Psychology program at John F. Kennedy University in California.

March 11 To Mar 16, 2012 • A Lifetime of Relationships and Connections: A Practical Workshop for Understanding Neuroscience and Attachment in Relational Healing, Faculty: Marti Glenn, PhD.

Also, neuroscience teaches us that there are parts of us that can’t be reached with language. These new sciences are calling for advanced directions in how we think about relationship and psychotherapy. This course offers practical applications of current advances in brain research, attachment theory, and clinical practice. Using these principles within the context of relational somatic psychology, participants will focus on their own early attachment issues. Experiencing new pathways through lecture, discussion and individual and group somatic explorations, participants will readily begin to understand and embody neuroscience and attachment patterns and how to apply them to clinical practice and personal life.  

This workshop is for individuals wanting to strengthen their relationships in light of the most recent research insights and for clinicians seeking personal and professional applications. 

Marti Glenn, PhD, founding President of Santa Barbara Graduate Institute offering the first graduate degrees in Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and the first doctoral degrees in Somatic Psychology. Marti has been a pioneering psychotherapist for over 25 years as well as a professor of counseling psychology working with attachment, early development and trauma. Her present research interest is in the neuroscience of attachment and psychotherapy. She produced a documentary, “Trauma, Brain and Relationship: Helping Children Heal,” available free for viewing at the website, www.TraumaResources.org.  

Furthermore, the more subtle aspect of this completion lies in the ability to elicit the content that holds pertinent implicit memory, without stimulating undue defensive responses.  We will be working with interactive trauma patterns, attending to key biological markers, underlying attachment styles as nervous system agendas (including incomplete programs of fight, flight and freeze), and supporting organismic trends toward self-organization. With the recognition and activation of organismic intelligence the spontaneous re-integrative function of mind and body are restored. 

We will focus on the quality of relational engagement from the standpoint of shepherding nervous system phase transition and organismic self-organization. Relevant research in brain science, systems theory, and interpersonal theories of clinical intervention will be reviewed, with demonstrations (both live and video) and practice opportunities. Practitioners informed by mindfulness practice are especially invited.

This program is part of the Embodied Psychology Association Certificate Program in Mindful, Relational Somatic Psychology. See special programs section at back of catalogue.

Steven Hoskinson, MA (Psychology), MAT (Theology) is Senior Instructor, Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute consults and trains professionals internationally. He is trained in mind-body traditions, clinical psychology, theology, aikido, and has a long-standing practice of mindfulness meditation.  His work integrates major perspectives including: Biological-Evolutionary, Psychodynamic, Developmental, Cognitive-Behavioral and Complex Systems approaches within a mindfulness framework. He teaches nervous system functioning in terms of non-linear dynamics, understanding principles of systemic self-organization.

August 26 to 31, 2012 • Relational Mindfulness – A Path To Intimacy And Reducing The Inner Barriers To Love, Faculty: Rob Fisher, MA. & Dyrian Benz, PsyD.