Developing Self-Regulation through the Somatic Dialogue | USABP Spotlight Event
Dieter Rehberg, MA, BA, MSMT/E
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Description
The participants will discover the main keystone of PME, the ‘Somatic Dialogue’ and its requirements, principles, and processes. The workshop's first part will explore three core disciplines of PME: ‘Somatic Movement’, ‘Anatomical Embodiment’, and ‘Somatic Coaching’. In the second part, participants will be guided through advanced practices such as ‘Cellular Breathing’, ‘Cellular Gravitation’, and ‘Cellular Self-Regulation’. These techniques are designed to cultivate a profound and deep sense of bodily awareness and promote helpful and healing overall Self-Regulation
About Different Bodies: Deconstructing Normality
A revolution is underway in how we think about human variation. It has the potential to transform the social and political landscape, sweeping away walls and fences that stop so many people from fully participating. Psychotherapy should be in the vanguard of this revolution, but it isn’t,’ writes Nick Totton in this bold analysis of human difference. His aim is to challenge and also help the reader who self-defines as ‘normal’– be they talking therapist, body therapist, client or anyone else – to interrogate their own normality, and hopefully to relinquish the word and all the privileges it brings. It is time, he writes, ‘to dismantle that identity, pull down that statue, abandon that high plinth and rest on the solid ground of difference’. Then, he argues, psychotherapy practitioners may be in a position to learn from their clients how best to work with them.
The book addresses differences of bodily capacity, gender and lifestyle differences, differences of skin colour and neuro differences. It also tackles differences between the human and non-human beings who inhabit the Earth. Totton’s call is for recognition that we share this planet, and that creating standards of ‘normality’ leads to exclusion as well as inclusion, with all the psychological and other harms that brings.
- Helpful and healing development through mindful and compassionate sensing and moving
- Quality of Perception as defined by Buddhist Psychology
- The Law of Action and the Sensory-Motor Loop
- Physiological Unwinding into Expressive Movement
- The Relationship of the Basic Mental Needs with Cellular Self-Regulation
- Constructivist Learning and Healing through Open-Ended Process
- the somatic and experiential process of self-regulation
- emotional regulation through physiological self-regulation
- the possibility of philosophical and spiritual realizations through physiological self-regulation
- Basic theory of PME / the somatic Dialogue / physiological self-regulation
- Prerequisites and framework conditions of physiological self-regulation
Your Instructor
Dieter Rehberg is Psychological Counselor (LSB), Master of Somatic Movement Therapy and Education(ISMETA), Somatic Dance Educator , Massage Therapist and Performance Artist. Rehberg is Trager-Practitioner and certified in Idiolektics and has extensive experience and knowledge in Release Technique, Contact Improvisation, Creative Dance, Alexander Technique and Body-Mind Centering. He developed his method integrating these different dance, bodywork and counseling techniques from his 35 years of professional experience as somatic therapist and performance artist combining it with his insights into buddhist theory and practice. He is the director of the "Institut und Akademie für Physio-Mentale Entwicklung" and founder of THE SOMATIC TRAINING. Rehberg holds a Bachelor of Arts from the European Dance Development Center / NL, the Trauma Certificate from Laurier University / CAN and a Master of Arts in Somatic Studies from Middlesex University / UK. For 25 years he worked in his private practice in Vienna / Austria and teaches nationally, internationally and online.