5th - 7th April 2025 in Seattle, Washington, USA
Alexander Technique - Special 3 Day Intensive for Psychotherapists and Healthcare Professionals
Martin Warner
Alexander Technique - Special 3 Day Intensive for psychotherapists and Healthcare Professionals
Dates: 5,6,7th April 2025
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
This is an immersive 3-day experience in the work of FM Alexander. This workshop is designed specifically for DBR Psychotherapists and Healthcare professionals interested in elevating and deepening their own professional and personal process and who appreciate this interconnectedness and their capacity to attune to the client's own healing process. Central to the workshop is a through exploration of the highly specialized AT Interweaves which Martin has created for the DBR process in order to dismantle and deconstruct bracing during moments of shock, armouring against affect and armouring against core pain.
What to expect over the 3 days
Gain a detailed, experiential-based understanding of the principles of FM Alexander's work.
Explore the profound implications of these principles for clinicians and their clients.
Cultivate skills in both observation and self-observation.
A thorough exploration of the highly specialized AT Interweaves designed for the DBR process.
Training in self-analysis to enhance clinical practice.
Participate in a workshop environment that fosters deep individual and group transformation.
Experience how this heightened field serves as a catalyst for change.
Engage in triad to understand how personalized and historically based movement behaviours communicate with the client's nervous system.
Recognize these behaviours as intervening variables that interfere with the therapeutic alliance.
Discover how the absence of these interfering behaviours can lead to profound changes in how therapists and colleagues experience themselves.
Observe how the quality of the relational field is constructively amplified.
Learn how applying FM Alexander's principles consistently moves participants towards a state of being rather than doing.
Identify how unrecognized interferences in thought and movement contribute to clinician fatigue and reduced energy.
Explore how these interferences often operate as identifications in response to the client's material, sapping energy and obscuring the clinical process.
Recognize how these interferences can unintentionally skew clinical outcomes and hinder therapeutic progress.
What to expect over the 3 days
A detailed and experiential-based understanding of the work of FM Alexander, the principles of which it is comprised, and their profound implications for clinicians and their clients. A primary focus of the workshop is to cultivate both observation and self-observation skills, leading to the training of self-analysis. We will be looking at in depth the highly specialized AT Interweaves for the DBR process and understand their origins and outgrowth from the work of FM Alexander. During the workshop, a heightened observational field is created. This acts as a catalyst for profound individual and group transformation. We will be working in the triads and understanding how personalized and historically based movement behaviours are communicated to client's nervous system and act as unrecognised and unconsidered intervening variables that grossly interfere with the therapeutic alliance on all levels. It can be astonishing how both therapist and colleague experience themselves in the absence of these impositions and how the quality of the relational field is constructively amplified. As a result of consistently applying the principles of Mr. Alexander's work, participants move towards being and away from doing. The unrecognised interferences both in thought and movement contribute to a marked reduction in the clinician's energy, which is experienced as fatigue at the end of the day. The interferences are often operating as identifications in response to the client's material. These moments of identification are comprised of both "psycho" and "physical," which sap the practitioner's energy and often obscure the clinical process and unwittingly skew clinical outcomes.
One of the benefits for the practitioner is an elimination or reduction in such interferences in that it results in a reclaiming of the practitioner's energy and a tangible increase in energy quotients experienced at the end of any working day. What normally marks and indicates the end of a day is a diminishment of energy, which often manifests over time as fatigue and, in the extreme, burnout.
One of the benefits for the client is they often experience the practitioner as being more fully attuned to their own process and such, more receptive to whatever therapeutic modality is being employed, and subsequently, outcomes are enhanced. Participants will experience a growing recognition of the reality of a psycho-physical unity as opposed to an erroneous mind and body division or split. Namely, a duality. The muscular system is continually being employed to wall off emotions and affects. As participants move through the 3-day process, they will often experience a resurfacing of their own suppressed and repressed unconscious content. The act of suppression and repression again is energetically costly and will result in a felt or unfelt diminishment of their life force. Participants will experience an increased capacity for joy, creativity, and fun. As often, when negative/protective affect is suppressed, positive/life-enhancing affect, joy, and creative centres of the brain are also compromised. Particular attention is given throughout the workshop to the importance of the head-body relationship in humans. The neurological signaling, which is operative as a constant in this relationship and that shows up as a variety of observable movement behaviours, impacts global moment-by-moment functioning and consciousness, predominantly in a negative direction. A marked and substantial change in the relationship between the head and body of participants leads to a constructive alteration of perception, time, sense of self, other and the world. The collective experience of the group begins to alter, and the group starts functioning at a deeper level. The combined "seeings" and "perceptions" of each other from an altered perspective contribute highly to the dimension of ongoing transformation.
We are grateful to Cheri Yadon for presenting us with this opportunity and invitation for change.
Past Workshops
Northumberland
29th, 30th and 31st of March 2023
This 3-day Workshop was highly successful, with all participants going through profound changes in their inner lives, which were clearly mirrored in the visible changes in their outer shaping of themselves. Some participants attended all three days, others attended one or two days. A great deal of fun was had by all and everyone has already signed up for our next workshop on the 26th, 27th, and 28th of July 2023.
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