Working with the Body in Mind

The messages we send before we even open our mouths are the ones that clients respond to most directly and most powerfully. Becoming more aware of these messages means becoming more aware our physical carriage: the timbre, pace, and pitch of our voice; the speed of our gestures; the engagement of our facial expressions; the ebb and flow of our breathing; and more.

Awareness of these typically-unconscious aspects of our physical presence allows us to experiment with them, to gain greater and greater skill with them, and to recruit them as powerful allies in our work.

In addition, the body is an extraordinarily sensitive “register” of subtle events in the field. Attending to our own physical responses gives us a great deal of information about what’s happening in our environment and offers insight into a client’s reality that is unavailable through direct questioning.

This workshop will allow participants to understand and work with their embodied presence in new ways and to track their moment-to- moment physical awareness with growing precision. Using these foundations, participants will begin to build fundamental body-oriented observation and intervention skills.

Benefits

Participants will:

• Gain insight into their own embodied presence.
  
  
• Experience and practice new techniques to support their
  own embodied experience and awareness.
  
  
• Develop a wider range of options in using their physical
  presence to heighten their impact.
  
  
• Develop deeper access to relevant information in the field.
  
  
• Start to build body-oriented intervention skills for heightened
  impact.
  

Participants

This workshop is designed for consultants, coaches, and therapists who are
interested in learning more about their embodied presence, for themselves and
their clients. It also may be of interest to those working in other fields who want to achieve a heightened sense of their own embodied presence.

Continuing Education

Coaches: This program is International Coach Federation (ICF) certified for 19.25 core competency hours. Please see the Continuing Education page for full details.

This program has been approved for 17 Social Work Continuing Education hours for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR. Collaborative of NASW and the Boston College and Simmons Schools of Social Work Authorization Number D60207-6.

GISC is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychotherapists (APA, CE) for all programs we offer. GISC maintains responsibility for all programs and their content.