Introductory Certificate in Embodied Counselling
Overview
Effective practitioners need to engage the full lived body, including emotional aspects, for real change to happen. We need simple, effective practices that develop embodied awareness and capacities to fully show up and pay attention at increasingly subtle levels, for both practitioners and clients to live more choiceful, connected and vibrant lives.
The Introductory Certificate in Embodied Counselling is an introduction to somatic psychology and bodymind therapy for holistic, somatic, and spiritual practitioners, including massage therapists, kahuna bodyworkers, sex workers, somatic sex educators, and yoga teachers. It is also useful for counsellors, psychotherapists and other psyc practitioners who want to learn to work more somatically.
The course provides practitioners with practice in effective embodied skills, a broad understanding of psychotherapeutic theory leading to the development of body-based approaches, and practice in conducting embodied counselling sessions.
Building on what you do well, the course develops your capacity to work with the emotional and psychological content that arises during bodywork sessions. You will develop greater confidence to work with your clients’ emotional and psychological selves, expanding and developing your skill set in this direction, and enhancing your capacity to articulate the complex systems in process for human beings, as you further grow in embodied awareness.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the course students will have:
- Engaged in regular self-practice of body awareness exercises
- Created practices that support increased awareness in the body
- Studied the development of somatic psychology and bodymind therapy
- Studied and developed qualities that support practitioners in working effectively with clients
- Practiced embodied counselling skills
- Studied the connection of the body’s systems and consciousness
- Developed basic skills for working with strong emotion and trauma
- Practised embodied counselling sessions
- Grown in embodiment to feel more connected and vibrantly alive
Dates for 2021
Distance Learning
February 10 to April 21, 2021. The distance learning intensive is April 12 to April 21.
Prices
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The full course description goes into detail on the content of the program, including curriculum, methodology and content. Please email info@instituteofsomaticsexology.com for a copy.
Course Dates for Australasia
Module 1
Embodied research and practice
As this training has an in person componenet, the next one will be scheduled once COVID19 allows
Module 2
The intensive in Brisbane
The distance learning option is still available
Course Fees for Australasia
Early Bird
$2100
Includes GST.
Full Price
$2400
Includes GST. Students who have completed a certificate training with the Institute of Somatic Sexology within the last 2 years receive a $150 discount on the course fee.
Course Dates for Europe
Module 1
Embodied research and practice
As this training has an in person componenet, the next one will be scheduled once COVID19 allows
Module 2
The intensive in Berlin
The distance learning option is still available
Course Fees for Europe
Early Bird Price
€ 1250
Full Price
€ 1500
ISS Student Discount
€ 100
Discount for people who have completed a certificate training with ISS within the last 2 years
Deposit
€ 200
The non-refundable deposit secures your place on the training
Course Dates for Distance Learning 2021
Module 1
Embodied Research and Practice
February 10 to April 12, 2021
Module 2
Intensive
April 12 to April 21, 2021
Course Fees for Distance Learning 2021
Early Bird Price
$1900 Australian Dollars
The early bird price is available for full payment by December 7, 2020
Full price
$2100 Australian Dollars
Payment must be made by February 9, 2021