Inviting Self-Touch with Clients
Explore the how-to’s for deepening sessions using the body as a powerful and present tool. Be guided in using your own body as a “touch point” in sessions.
If you already paid for this course at usabp.org or you are a USABP Member, email [email protected] for the 100% off discount code.
Wisdom
“One simple touch starts a ripple effect in the entire body. We are not just touching a head, arm or leg, we are touching and making contact with the whole person – body, mind and soul. Every cell recognizes this moment; it becomes the first step in healing.”
The International Association of Rubenfeld Synergists, in a USABP Spotlight Series Event, presents an exploration into using self touch when working with clients.
Explore the how-to’s for deepening sessions using the body as a powerful and present tool. Be guided in using your own body as a “touch point” in sessions.
This webinar offers you real-time experience and exploration using the body and its somatic language in sessions. Get inside the experience! Learn both sides/feel both sides of the experience in this session.
This course comes with:
- Video that includes theory and experiential
- Download of the powerpoint
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No CEs will be available for this home study course.
Course Costs
- USABP Members do not have to pay the $45 dollar course fee listed on this site.
- This Course is available for $45 to non-members.
Live Event Registrant Information
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- Non-members who paid for the live version of this home study course (at USABP.org) do not have to pay the $45 dollar course fee listed on this site.
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Workshop Description
In this experiential webinar, practitioners will be invited to explore the use of self-touch in sessions. We will begin with the practitioner’s presence and how our own presence creates more space and congruency for exploration. Each step of this webinar will invite self-exploration, presence, and real-time awareness. As we move through the information, you will be able to experience what you will then be able to share in sessions with clients.
Whether you have incorporated self-touch in your practice with clients already, or are newly exploring this addition to therapy, you will gain new skills and awareness. You will be given powerful and implementable techniques to take back to your own practice or use within your personal meditative practice.
Main Points of Workshop
1. The science behind touch in sessions
2. Enhancing the feedback loop
3. Establishing the practitioner’s presence
4. The power of the palm
5. Exploring through use of Self
6. Deepening the session through verbal explorations
7. Exploring through somatic metaphors
Learning Objectives
Participants will learn to:
● Deepen their bodymind connection as a resource in sessions
● Introduce clients to the power in their own palm
● Use self-touch with clients in session
● Deepen the session somatically through self-touch
● Enhance bodymind connection of both client & practitioner
Agenda
- Welcome, USABP Messaging, Etc. (5 min)
- Introduce Topic and Speakers (2 min)
- Short Interview with Presenters - talking about our inspiration to share this immersive work with other practitioners now. (8 min)
- The Presentation (90 min)
- Q&A (10 min)
- Wrap up - upcoming trainings, resources (5 min)
- USABP Closing (2 min)
Presenter Information
Mary Petschen is a Rubenfeld Synergist in Wayzata, Minnesota.
She has a thriving practice focusing on the bodymind connection’s power to deepen self-awareness and healing. She studied for three years at the Rubenfeld Synergy Institute.
Mary has presented at international conferences on the ethics of touch and presence, assisted in certification trainings, and has served as an advisor to both students and therapists.
She has presented on the importance of bodymind techniques to trauma-focused specialists and taught workshops focusing on the power-of and the how-to’s of bodymind connection for eight years in the Twin Cities.
Mary is currently the Director of the Minnesota Rubenfeld Synergy Training Institute and creates daily content as a social media influencer dedicated to normalizing and simplifying bodymind connection for everyone @InSearch.of.Self
Bibliography
- The Listening Hand, Ilana Rubenfeld
- The Handbook of Body Psychotherapy & Somatic Psychology, Marlock & Weiss
- Getting In Touch, Christine Caldwell
- Touching, Ashley Montagu
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Your Instructor
Mary Petschen is a Rubenfeld Synergist in Wayzata, Minnesota.
She has a thriving practice focusing on the bodymind connection’s power to deepen self-awareness and healing. She studied for three years at the Rubenfeld Synergy Institute.
Mary has presented at international conferences on the ethics of touch and presence, assisted in certification trainings, and has served as an advisor to both students and therapists.
She has presented on the importance of bodymind techniques to trauma-focused specialists and taught workshops focusing on the power-of and the how-to’s of bodymind connection for eight years in the Twin Cities.
Mary is currently the Director of the Minnesota Rubenfeld Synergy Training Institute and creates daily content as a social media influencer dedicated to normalizing and simplifying bodymind connection for everyone @InSearch.of.Self
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These live and home study webinars are for Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs. Counselors, Somatic Practitioners, Body Workers, and other Health Professionals.
They often include demonstrations, video and slide presentations, experiential exercises, Q & A discussions, insights from attendees, presenter shares about their personal journey and inspirations, and much more.
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Satisfactory Completion
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Participants must have paid the tuition fees, logged in and out each day, attended the entire webinar, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate. Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates will be available following course completion. This includes passing the quiz.
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