Price: Free as part of purchasing one of the Body Focused Schema Therapy with Janis Briedis workshops. Enrol in a workshop prior to securing your Zoom session.
Trainer
Overview
Two-hour introductory Zoom seminars with Janis Briedis.
Workshop outcomes
Viewing schemas and modes through a somatic prism – top-down vs bottom-up approaches of working
Latest developments in working with the body in the field of psychotherapy and its relevance to schema therapy
Principles of working with the body safely – Window of Tolerance (Siegel, 1999), dual awareness (Rothschild, 2000) and therapist’s awareness of own somatic patterns
Building somatic mode awareness – tracking the body sensations, movements and impulses via directed mindfulness (Ogden et al 2006)
Where to start? Structure for working with the body – ‘dancing with the core organizers’ (Briedis et al., 2020)
Creating internal safety with the use of somatic resourcing
Resonance and co-regulation: relational aspects of somatic attunement in the therapeutic relationship
Managing too little or too much feeling in the body including dissociation and overwhelmed Child Modes
Somatic interventions for anger
Compassionate somatic work with coping and critic modes
Enhancing limited parenting of Child Modes using a somatic focus
Facilitating development of an embodied Healthy Adult mode