SBGI: Transformational Journeys through Your Psyche and Body: Internal Family Systems Therapy and Somatic Resourcing

At Esalen Institute in Big Sur June 26-July 1, 2011
Jay Earley, Bonnie Weiss, JoAnna Chartrand-Benz

Our psychological issues show up as a multitude of conflicting inner voices and tensions in our bodies. In this workshop, we will work with Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) to explore our subpersonalities, befriend them, and heal them. We will integrate this with Somatic Resourcing to transform those bodily patterns that are inhibiting our full embodiment. This combined process allows you to bring love to all aspects of yourself and heal your mind and body, leading to aliveness and fluid living.

IFS recognizes that our psyches are made up of different parts, sometimes called subpersonalities, such as the inner critic, the abandoned child, the pleaser, or the angry protector. Some of them carry pain from childhood and some protect us from experiencing this pain. These parts are often locked in chronic combat with one other, creating bodily tension and illness. We each have a spiritual center, which IFS calls the Self, which is compassionate, understanding, and grounded. Through IFS you can learn to stay in Self and develop a loving, trusting relationship with each of your parts. This allows you to access the childhood memories behind their pain, and heal those parts, allowing your body to release and come alive.

Through experiential exercises, you will be able to enter your inner world, access your true Self, reconnect with your strength and joy, reclaim excluded parts of your body and mind, and transform them into valuable resources for your growth.

This course is part of The Santa Barbara Graduate Institute Certificate Program in Relational Somatic Psychology. The Certificate Program is inspired by the SBGI somatic psychology postgraduate academic curriculum and consists of a rotating series of practice-oriented and academically-sound Relational Somatic Psychology courses.   To register CLICK HERE.

CEUs available for psychologists, MFTs, LCSWs, nurses.