“Bodymind Healing in Psychotherapy: Towards an Integral Comprehensive Energy Psychology”
Energy psychology is at a key turning point in relation to the field of traditional psychology (Feinstein, 2009; Pignotti & Thyer 2009). This workshop clears a pathway for presenting energy psychology in a way that answers some of the overarching concerns of the wider field of psychology. You’ll learn how to present a comprehensive energy psychology in a way that more clearly embeds energy psychology within the context of a wider and exapnded field of psychology (Mayer, 2009).
This pre-conference workshop, Bodymind Healing in Psychotherapy: Towards an Integral, Comprehensive Energy Psychology, will be part of the ACEP conference’s new Qigong track. Here you’ll learn about the energy psychology method, Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy, which changes the origin myth of EP to include Qigong, Gendlin’s Focusing, symbolic process work; and it shows how traditional psychotherapy contains EP. BMHP changes the origin myth of traditional psych to include energy psych.
In the workshop you’ll:
• Learn specific methods to apply this form of EP in your practice as a therapist or in your life.
• Hear case examples of how to apply this approach to cases of hypertension, chronic pain, insomnia, trauma, .
• Experience Qigong movements for many of common issues, and learn how extract the essence of Qigong so that you can use it in sessions even without Qigong movements.
• See how at moments of “felt shift” in psychotherapy, naturally arising Qigong movements occur; and how you can help patients to anchor these movements to enhance a new life stance.
• Witness a demonstration with someone from the group so you can get a better sense of how to apply this to your work with healing others or yourself.
| P r e s e n t a t i o n C o n t e n t O u t l i n e
Presentation Title: “Bodymind Healing in Psychotherapy: Towards an Integral Comprehensive Energy Psychology” |
| First session (90 minutes): Towards an Integral, Comprehensive Energy Psychology {90 minutes}
Psychology {90 minutes} A. A new origin myth for psychotherapy {20’} B. Energy psychology is embedded in traditional approaches to psychotherapy: Psychodynamic, Jungian, Gendlin’s focusing, etc {20’} C. Using bodymind healing methods in psychotherapy: Carpal tunnel syndrome and anxiety case illustrations {50’} |
| Second session (90 minutes): Integrating Qigong into Behavioral Healthcare and Psychotherapy {90 Minutes}
A. Demonstration of Qigong movements as a complementary treatment for behavioral health: relaxation, energizing, limbering joints, hypertension, balance and prevention of falls in the elderly somatic complaints, chronic diseases, reversing sympathetic nervous system fight/flight for trauma etc.{30’} B. Case illustrations: Hypertension, chronic pain, trauma {30’} C. What Qigong gives psychotherapy {30’) B. |
| Third session (90 minutes):An Integral Approach to Using the Essence of Qigong in Psychotherapy Without Using Qigong Movements {90 Minutes}
A. The Age-old Roots of Energy Psychology in Cross-cultural Traditions {30’} B. What Creates Change in Psychotherapy? {10’} C. Psychotherapy as Changing your Life Stance, Transmuting internalizations with body-based psychotherapy, Case Examples: Social phobia, sexual trauma. {30’} D. Knowledge of Qigong/ Tai Chi stances enhances awareness of somatic changes at moments of “felt shift” (Gendlin,1978) in psychotherapy, and enhances anchoring of these new life stances. Case illustration: Abusive parent. {20’ |
| Fourth session (90 minutes):Demonstration, Research and Ethics {90 Minutes}
A. Demonstration of Bodymind Healing in Psychotherapy-with Audience member {30’} B. Questions re application of BMHP {20’} C. Research & Ethics {20’} D. Summary and Final Questions {20’} |