Specialized Certificate in Process Work Approaches to Somatic Psychology: Courses

Introduction to a Process-Oriented Paradigm and Somatic Psychology
STARTING SOON 10am-5pm; Thursday & Friday, June 22 & 23
10am-1pm; Saturday, June 24; Two & half day class
Tuition: $195; w/ SP Certificate: $220; w/ SP Certificate SBGI units: $250
(1.5 quarter units)
This course introduces the basic concepts in Process Work approaches to somatic psychology: understanding the central idea of the dreaming process as the flow of experience in oneself and in the environment, including following and facilitating “nature’s” unfolding; recognizing identified problems and disturbances as enfolded and potentially creative developments; the self-organizing nature of change and process in individuals, relationships, groups and organizations; and the skills and metaskills (the feeling attitudes, values and beliefs that shape our interventions) necessary for facilitating change processes.
JOE GOODBREAD, Ph.D.

Introduction to Process Work Applied to Bodywork
STARTING SOON 2-5pm; Saturday, June 24
10am-5pm; Sunday & Monday, June 25 & 26; Two & half day class
Tuition: $195; w/ SP Certificate: $220; w/ SP Certificate SBGI units: $250
(1.5 quarter units)
Process-oriented bodywork offers unique methods of unfolding body experiences through signal awareness, touch, deep bodywork and other methods of amplification, in order to access their deeper meaning and mythic potential. Process-oriented bodywork forms the foundation for working with symptoms, illness, comatose-like states and patterns of physical symptoms that occur in societies and cultures. During
the course we will be developing a toolkit of techniques and methods in order to work with body experiences.
INGRID ROSE, Ph.D.

RESCHEDULED Relationship Processes and Somatic Experience
10am-5pm; Thursday & Friday, Oct. 26 & 27
10am-1pm; Saturday, Oct. 28; Two & half day class
Tuition: $195; w/ SP Certificate: $220; w/ SP Certificate SBGI units: $250
(1.5 quarter units)
Most current medical and somatic psychology approaches deal with the body from an individual perspective. A process approach adds a relationship, familial, and systemic level to the individual embodied experience. It recognizes individual and sociocultural responsibilities and causes, and seeks to unfold the meanings on all levels. The individual subjective process is addressed in its dreamlike dimension for the person as well as for his or her environment and larger community.

RESCHEDULED Worldwork Concepts in Somatic Psychology
2-5pm; Saturday, Oct. 28
10am-5pm; Sunday & Monday, Oct. 29 & 30; Two & half day class
Tuition: $195; w/ SP Certificate: $220; w/ SP Certificate SBGI units: $250
(1.5 quarter units)
While working with an ill person we enter a larger medical field. The concept of medical facilitation addresses the need to assist an individual in processing all aspects of her/his health process. Worldwork, a groundbreaking approach to group work, offers a comprehensive theoretical and clinical approach to addressing systemic and community aspects of a person’s embodied experience. This class introduces the theory and practice of group dynamics relevant to somatic psychology. It focuses on facilitating roles and polarization, rank and power, cultural and communication differences, and marginalization.

RESCHEDULED Movement Work Applied to Somatic Psychology
TBA; Two & half day class
Tuition: $195; w/ SP Certificate: $220; w/ SP Certificate SBGI units: $250
(1.5 quarter units)
Movement is one of the most effective ways of unfolding emerging experience that is part of a person’s wholeness but with which they do not yet identify. The way that a person moves, especially their autonomous movement, and how they experience their movement, can hold the seeds of immediate process or mythic life patterns. In Process Work, movement work has shown itself as one of the keystones of unfolding
experience since it is one of the more difficult experiences for the more conscious or primary self to control. After unfolding movement experience and bringing it back into the person’s life, we will find the process and pattern in other channels. In this way it can become integrated into the everyday identity and experience.

RESCHEDULED Unfolding the Meaning of Altered States that are Associated with Somatic Experiences
TBA; Two & half day class
Tuition: $195; w/ SP Certificate: $220; w/ SP Certificate SBGI units: $250
(1.5 quarter units)
Body experiences bring with them many altered or confused states. The person affected with illness as well as her/his caregivers and family members often feel uncomfortable with these unconventional states of mind. From a Process Work perspective, symptoms and their altered states are an opportunity for developing lucidity and awareness. These are intrinsic to any healing process whether physical, psychological or spiritual.

Lava Rock Dreambody Clinic
Sunday, Sept. 3 through Wednesday, Sept. 6 in Yachats, OR; Four day seminar
Tuition: $415; w/ SP Certificate: $440; w/ SP Certificate SBGI units: $500
(3 quarter units)
The Lava Rock Clinic is a yearly seminar in which Process
Work with symptoms, naturopathic and allopathic medicine, and the healing power of the community is integrated in a holistic model. Participants affected with illness and learners co-create an environment in which the depth of experiences in illness, as well as their meanings for the individual and the community can be discovered. This four-day clinic gives participants the unique opportunity to learn the details of Process Work’s clinical approach to physical symptoms. They will be able to learn its application in a variety of clinical situations (e.g. chronic pain, cancer, neurological and movement disorders, cardiac disorder).
AMY & ARNY MINDELL & ELLEN & MAX SCHUPBACH, Ph.Ds

Case Studies and Applications of the Process-oriented Approach to Somatic Psychology (3 quarter units)
TBA 2007

Clinical Practice and Applications of the Process-oriented Approach to Somatic Psychology(3 quarter units)
TBA 2007