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PROGRAM

Friday, May 11th, 2018

Group 1– 11:00 to 13:00

1- Creative Writing, a resource for Biosynthesis

Ana Caeiro

In this workshop we will rediscover our creativity and include writing as an additional tool to

use in our practice. More than a form of expression, writing can be used as a way to reach our

client and it can be used by him as a resource. Initially, we’ll make a theoretical framework in

Sounding and Facing, without forgetting the other fields in the Biosynthesis diagram. It will be

important also to review the concepts of writing and creativity and what involves this method

of expression. Writing can be a resource that can be expanded and used by our client as a

therapeutic form, however, it’s fundamental to understand the best methods of approach.

Finally there will take place an experiential work where it will be possible to use a creative

writing exercise, adapted to the practice in the Body Psychotherapy in Biosynthesis.

Languages: English and Portuguese

2- Workshops for men in context of Biosynthesis: what can Biosynthesis offer in men self

development

Martin Hoffman & Stanislav Háša

Self-development workshops for men are more and more popular. We would like to introduce

how to support men in the context of biosynthesis work - on body-mind level. We want to

share our experiences also by photographs and audiovisual presentations.

Languages: English

3- The Language of Lines

Andrea Hanzlova

The workshop connects visual art expression with Biosynthesis issues. Through lines and

drawing, we will experience feeling and movement of the horizontal and vertical grounding.

Aspects of polarity can bring for us new space, views or feelings. The space on the paper will

let us feel the space and our impulses for our own expression. The workshop would like to

invite you into the possibility of play, and enjoyment of movement, with visual creativity.

Languages: English

4- Resonance and Intensive Encounters: Approach between the Biosynthesis and the

philosophy of Espinoza and Deleuze

Thiago Freitas & Rodolpho Melo

The quantity of comings and goings experienced in life begins in the womb, where the circles

meet, open up and create intersections permeated of interferences and resonances of which

the being becomes. David Boadella has been developing a therapeutic approach of

Biosynthesis in which resonance is one of the important concepts used by him. This term

refers to the encounter of two or more oscillatory systems, or vibratory systems where their

frequencies coincide resulting in a connection. In light of Biosynthesis, resonance is a sort of

non-verbal communication, an encounter of connection and alignment in a real way, free of

interference, between the essence of the therapist and the essence of the patient. It is a

relation of harmony between essences that promotes life. Bearing this in mind, I propose a co-

relation between resonance and Biosynthesis, and the concepts of good and bad encounters,

extensive and intensive encounters and resonance in the philosophy of Espinoza and Deleuze.

Espinoza, a seventeenth-century philosopher, calls “affectus”, that is, “affection” a continuous

variation, in the form of augment and decrease of one’s power of acting and existing. Going

deep into Spinoza and Deleuze’s philosophy, the affections are like be-comings that sometimes

weaken us and sometimes strengthen us. In the first aspect, we can say it was a bad encounter

(sadness); in the second, a good encounter (joy). Reflecting on the encounter between the

bodies, in Deleuze, the resonance is an intensive trigger, in between the thinking intensity

reaches things that you did not think to have the capacity of thinking (or of feeling in an

encounter, or of doing in the act), it is an effervescence which occurs in you, a vibration.

Thinking of an ethical philosophy and the clinical practice of Biosynthesis, since the therapeutic

setting through group practices, the workshop is going to be theoretical-experimental.

Languages: Portuguese and Spanish

5- The metamorphosis of being, from chrysalis to butterfly

Roxana Castiglioni, Irene Lozano

The workshop will be a sample of the work we are doing with adolescents in our clinical

sessions. We will begin with a brief introduction of the basic characteristics of adolescence and

its different phases, bridging with Biosynthesis. We will discuss important issues in the

development of the adolescent's self as: differentiation and mirror with parents, living space

and limits. Then move on to different experiential exercises that serve as practical resources

for anyone who works with young people of these ages.

Languages: English and Spanish

6- EXPLORING COMPLEMENTARITIES: A look at Beauport's Multiple Intelligences model,

from Biosynthesis. A space of experimentation.

Nieves Batista

Elaine de Beauport, Ph.D. in Education, was a studious of human beings and their many

capacities. As a teacher, she observed how children could reduce the use of their abilities and

resources to be recognized and accepted by their reference figures. From there, Beauport

studied the Paul McLean's theory of Triune Brain and Roger Sperry's investigation of the right

hemisphere. From these research, she developed her Multiple Intelligences model.

The Beauport model is related to Biosynthesis, in several aspects; among them, in the

understanding of our nature and our evolution capacity, as resources of life for our well-being.

This workshop is an opportunity to experience a series of dynamics developed by Beauport

from the Multiple Intelligences model, which allow us to find ways of reconnecting with our

personal capacities and resources.

In the workshop we will give a general look at the theory of Multiple Intelligences, we will

experience some therapeutic resources and especially reflect on what circumstances may be

useful for us and our clients.

Languages: Spanish and English

Symposium 1 – 15:00 to 17:00

Hope Trauma: the human being as co-author of the construction and destruction in the world.

Where does hope lie in a better world with the global political, economical and social crisis,

and also the consequences of the planet's destruction that we are facing? In which ways does

the collective trauma contribute for the individual trauma, and how does this influence the

construction/destruction of the world? A trauma victim will easily become a perpetrator and

cause trauma. Can we expect that a world of victims and perpetrators may become a better

world? Do we have to bring awareness to the trauma in order to de-traumatize hope and

believe in change? Is it possible to be in survival mode and build a better world at the same

time, or do we have to heal our traumatized parts first to build it from our heart and from our

core?

Languages: English, Portuguese, English

Group 2– 17:30 to 19:30

7- The Hidden Images of Souls

Iva Ouhrabková

The workshop introduces the original set of cards designed especially for the therapeutic work

by means of the biosynthetic method.

Through visual perceptions and emotional connection to chosen cards participants observe

their bodily sensations and follow them in physical expressions. Subsequent work with each

physical expression in various ways, modalities and polarities.

The chosen way of working with the cards connects both art-therapeutic and bodily work in a

playful gentle way. Participants may find an access not only to their hidden feelings, but also to

the vital energy of the body and creativity.

Languages: English

8- The poetics of the human exile: dialogs between the clinical experience, the literature

and the cinema

José Alberto Cotta

The human exile is one of the main sufferings feelings expressed by the patients of the

contemporary clinical experience. To help them with the destination of the hardship originated

from such experience is one of the main challenges of the psychotherapists.

The same disquiet with this theme appears in art, in culture. The destination of the suffering

from the human exile shows up in many ways, specially, in the art field. Art facilitates the

destination of the horror experienced by the human exile condition, allowing an encounter

with the other human being in which is possible to modulate the experience of exile. Art

permits, also, a new homeland, exactly because art crosses borders.

As examples of my hiphotesis, I shall present clinical vignettes and I will relate them with

literature, specially the one of the Hungarian writer Imre Kertész (1929-2016), 2002 Literature

Nobel Prize, as well as I shall exhibit scenes of the documentary “Imre Kertész e a poética do

desterro humano” (Imre Kertész and the poetics of the human exile), a movie which argument

was written and directed by me.


9- A somatic view of the couple relationship

Noemi Casabón

When a couple comes for consultation, they are usually going through some difficult transition,

which can make their relationship worn out or at a blocking point.

A review of the somatic aspects in the phases of love and its distortions with the motor fields

can help us take a look and approach a therapeutic intervention. Accompany the two people

and the system to restore the flow of giving and receiving. Providing a possibility / HOPE to live

love in a pulsating and rhythmic way.


10- Playfulness in Biosynthesis

Patrícia Querido

Playing is much more than just passing the time!

Playing is indispensable and vital for human development.

Playing is essential for children, but also for young people and adults!

Playing can be a tool used in sessions of children and young people, but also in consultations

with adults, as in other areas of intervention.

We can pretend, play, sing, dance, meditate, draw, run, jump, breathe, feel the emotions ...

Let's remember, learn, smile, laugh, dream, live, play ...

Let's go!?

Languages: Portuguese and English

11- Bond and Contact

Valdo Almeida

This work was motivated by the desire to raise questions about the formation of the bond in

the body's psychotherapeutic relationship, while at the same time being able to look carefully

at ways and means of establishing this intended link in this therapeutic relationship, in a mode

of progressive functioning of this professional-client connection, for a better development of a

clinical psychotherapeutic process.

The exercise has as basic principle to touch the other by speaking each one's name, in

different ways and tonalities, one in front of the other, leaving them free to approach, using

the look or what arises between the pair. The emotion that can be generated, installs itself

from the childhood memories and memories of the familiar environment, with the parents, of

how they were treated. We can see how important it is to be touched, affectively, to create a

bond of trust in relationships established there, in childhood. We understand, in fact, that

everyone wants to be respected in their condition, with zeal, attention, care and presence.


12- Living your anatomy

Maria Inés Gomez

An inner work to express soul and emotion in the anatomy and physiology of your body.

Knowing the physiological and anatomical characteristics through a dialogue with our organs

helps us to recover the internal resources present in our biological essence.

The experience of living your anatomy, perceiving the organs and viscera in charge of

performing the main vital processes of our body, both sensorial and emotional, can result in an

important impact on our conscience.

If we give ourselves the space to feel and listen to our organs, they give us the possibility to

recognize attitudes and emotions that are present and belong to us, which are not always

aware, but can help our consciousness as a resource.

Accepting the functions of our internal organs as they are is a gateway to recover our

organismic wisdom. We know that the organs function naturally as an integrated whole, and

our natural and biological essence always tends to complete itself and to live in health.

This work is the invitation to an emotional and intimate journey to our inner physiology so that

our conscience plays an important part in the natural process towards health.


Symposium 2– 19:30 to 21:30

The impact of the virtual world in the body and in relationships

How can we distinguish between the resources and possibilities of interference and the

toxicity in the Human Being contact of the virtual context, social media and similar channels.

Affect and effect on the individual person, peers and groups.

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

Saturday, May 12th, 2018

Group 3– 9:00 to 11:00

13- Quantum vision of the therapeutic bond and the its vital importance in the process and

in psychosomatics and epigenetics

Maria del Mar Cegarra

We need to know every dimension of our being. This is something very ambitious and difficult.

To know ones’ own natural laws, exceptions, healthy pulsation with the one and the other. We

can, in that way awaken hidden the forces of healing within ourselves, which are wise and

extremely repairing.

We shall navigate in the process of the disease like a path, building bridges and providing tools

to work from the cell until the individual in the world. This is also applicable to the

psychotherapist.


14- The Therapist as a body-guard of Hope

Alena Vecerova Prochazkova, Jan Audrlicky

Clients suffering from chronic mental illness with attacks and relapses in many cases lose trust

in their ability to live a satisfactory personal and social life and they resign and give up. Little

techniques based on the principles of biosynthesis renew sense of self, turning attention to the

client's resources and essence. The psychiatrist is the one who initially bears the trust in

client´s essence and in the process literally in his own body and awaken curiosity and desire of

the client to further work on himself.

Languages: English

15- Financial Intelligence. Relationship between our finances and our emotions.

Montse Baró

The engine of Prosperity is inside.

Financial Intelligence (FI) is the sound management of personal finances that not only involves

accounts and numbers, but is closely linked to emotional factors.

We need trust beyond basic notions, and above all, we need to have the ability to know what

happens to us emotionally regarding money, and how we take charge of it.

It is vital to have a good coexistence between the spiritual world and the material world as this

makes us more realistic.

Someone who "only" focuses on a material sphere can make money, but will lack aspects such

as heart, soul, purpose and love in his creations.

Likewise, a person who concentrates "only" on a spiritual level, thinking the material world is

not important, can show love and good resolutions, but many of his good intentions will not be

materialized because he does not have the economic resources to do so ; Much of his mission

will remain unfinished.


16- Biosynthesis Supervision Peer Group: an integrative process for therapists from

different backgrounds

Iris Schocken, Denise Wainberg, Michal Rosenfelder, Gilit Rom, Libit Givoni

Biosynthesis routinely attracts therapists from various therapeutic backgrounds. However,

when those therapists complete their training, they face the challenge of integrating their

former knowledge with biosynthesis and applying it to their work. We suggest that a peer

supervision group consisting of therapists from different backgrounds provides an excellent

way to explore these issues and challenges. Such a group provides a safe ground for exploring

differences and similarities among the professionally diverse members while transitioning

between a Biosynthesis student and an experienced therapist. In particular, the diverse peer

group that we have formed included “body-focused” therapists (a reflexologist and a massage

therapist) and “verbal-focused” therapists (social workers and psychologist).

The need to face and deal with our differences gave each member an opportunity to discover

her unique qualities while developing her identity as a biosynthesis therapist. Further, we also

found that the most difficult moments ended up being the most growth producing for each

one of us, as well as for the group as a whole.

We believe that our experience can benefit many biosynthesis therapists who are struggling

with the process of developing their newly integrated professional identity. The proposed

workshop combines our integrated knowledge based on our individual journeys within the

group and our developmental process as a group. The workshop includes theoretical

background as well as experiential work to facilitate learning.

Languages: English

17- Meetings the Family Myths Across the Life Fields

Cristina Coltro & Regina Alonso

From generation to generation beliefs and family experiences are transmitted and

systematized creating thinking and behavioral patterns which will influentiate the way the

individual deals with emotions. This system of patterns transmission becomes the family

myths, defining the family structure and the important circumstances in the life of each person

involved. The contents of these myths act most of all on an unconscious way supported by the

family loyalty, secrets and by the secret couple’s contract, affecting the individual both in a

constructive and harmful way. Our life history is inserted in myths and the significant aspects

of them can be brought to consciousness.

With this workshop, we aim to access those meaningful memories by using the body as tool, as

well as the available resources within the different dimensions of the life fields, to transform

them into conscious matter for the present moment of the participant’s life.


18- The quest for hope

Tal Hakim & Galit Sevilla

We all have inner parts of our essence which we are not yet able to fulfill. They can exist within

us as unfulfilled heart desires. These heart desires are our hope for a better life, which contain

a healing quality.

In this workshop we will go on a quest for our hope, connect with its essence, expand it , and

transform it into a healing resource. We will create an external map of the inner experience in

order to get clarity and create space for this resource. This is an opportunity to ventilate and

re-connect to our vitality and energy of life.

Languages: English

David Boadella & Silvia Boadella Workshop – 11:30 to 13:30

Embodiment of hope in the life fields of Biosynthesis

In this speech, we look at how the source within each person can integrate the resources. This

relates to a spectrum of healing from four major levels: connection to the body, contact to one

self and to others, context of meaning and coherence of expression. These aspects are

illustrated with a case-study showing how Biosynthesis therapy works in practice.

Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese

Group 4– 15:00 to 17:00

19- Conversations with Andean Wisdom

Alejandro Olea

The purpose of this workshop is to think about the similarities between the Andean cosmology

of the chaman healers and the models developed in biosynthesis therapy, such as the

accompaniment of the healer in order to help the patient to go "beyond", and the challenge to

let oneself be "inhabited by the spirit", both central aspects in these approaches to the healing

process. Though this work, participants will be able to experience different forms of working

with Andean shamanism through biosynthesis.


20- From Fear To Love – Seeds of Hope. The Poly Vagal Theory as a path for loving and

compassionate relationships

Iris Argeband & Nomi Furst

We will look at The Poly Vagal Theory and its connection with David Boadella teachings in

Biosynthesis and references to polarity, playfulness and resources .

We will share the significance of the para sympathetic system and in particularly the vagus

nerve in self regulation ,communication , emotional expression and resilience during stressful

times.

We will explore ways to apply the vagus brake and connect to the essence and observing what

qualities of the heart , feelings , impulses and new insights are now available and beneficial for

our relationships with ourselves and others .

Languages: English

21- Re-feel and reborn: work with mothers and children after a difficult birth

María Beltrán Ortega

The intervention is about the research carried out with a group of mothers and babies during

the first 12 extrauterine months of the child. All of them shared a cesarean and a significantly

traumatic experience in their birthing process.

The work consisted in exploring the perinatal matrices through movement, gaze, breathing,

feelings contained in the uterus, contact and bonding (both between the mother-infant dyad

and between the participants of the group). Respectfully repaired the interrupted movement

and accompanied an extrauterine pregnancy that could integrate the wounds and "give birth"

to a new birth.


22- Motherhood: the bond that transforms

Tânia Gorducho

From the moment a woman becomes pregnant, whether this pregnancy has been planned or

not, the new Being takes shape in her mind and becomes a permanent presence in her life.

Everything is idealized: from every single curve of her baby's body, passing through the new

family dynamics, to what kind of mother she will be. However, reality rarely corresponds what

was first imagined and often difficulties begin in the puerperal or postpartum period, making

the new mother feeling that she is in a skin that does not belong to her.

There are many and different reasons that influence the transformation of a woman into a

mother: the way pregnancy and childbirth have developed, been felt and experienced; the

social and family context at the moment; the expectations involved; her own history (the child

she was, the parents she had, the environment in which she developed herself, ...). That is

what makes motherhood such an unique experience for each woman.

In this workshop, following the principles and approach of Biosynthesis, we will:

demystify social prejudices that often make it difficult for mothers to connect with

their babies;

address the theme of the emotional fusion between mother and baby , that is present

in the first months of life, as an opportunity for transformation;

share techniques that help develop new family dynamics.


23- Visiting Hope through Magical Thinking

José Faia

Hope and Magical Thinking are two interconnected ways of experiencing trust. Probably, the

first steps towards hope happen when the child feels the space between his mother and

him/herself. That potential space, where fantasy and reality, me and not-me, be and not-be

coexist without contradiction. This initiation of playing is associated with the experience of

trust in the mother figure, representing a sense of an inviting and safe interpersonal field

where spontaneous playfulness and connection to others happen. This might well be the

beginning of Magical Thinking.

Hope is the wisdom that takes us to the path of acceptance and transcendence despite the

absurd we also experience in life. That wisdom connects us with the mystery and magic of our

existence that cannot be measured empirically and that are outside the confines of the

rational world. Magical Thinking opens up a gate into the unknown, when it is time to

surrender and let go. I believe Magical Thinking can play a therapeutically valid role, which

enables us to experience hope, faith, love, joy, grace, peace… by coping with all the shades of

human experience.

Languages: English

24- Hope in the emotioned body

Paz Cardín

The body is touched and moved by real and deep contact with another human being where it

can deposit and receive deep feelings of love. Deep encounters connect us with the hope in a

contact that satisfies and gives meaning to ones life. The experience of deep contact is crucial

from the beginning of life on in the fisiological and psychoemotional development of the

human being. To be able to touch and be touched by other human being fills the inner space

with hope. The capacity to create meaningful contacts with other human beings helps built a

higher level of autonomy and confidence in one self and in the world. In the clinical setting the

possibilities of encounter between therapist and client are crucial for the transformation of

trauma into trust. In the first part of the seminar we will recall the personal moments of deep

emotion in the contact with others and hope. We will do body work in connection with breath

and movement as the basic forms of feeling allowing to emerge what its possible in the

interpersonal field. We will also promote new possibilities of encounter.


Group 5– 17:30 to 19:30

25- Symbolic Schemes in Biosynthesis: a Somatic Translation of Concepts

Tatiana Neves

The theoretical content in Biosynthesis can be worked through mental schemes bringing them

to the soma (body). Throughout these years as a Body Psychotherapist several mental / visual

representations of the fundamental concepts of Biosynthesis came alive to me allied to the

structure of Neurosciences.

On a symbolic and pedagogical journey, we will explore these concepts through schemes that

we can incorporate and observe in the body.

This workshop proposes not only the visualization of the Biosynthesis Basic Foundations from

an ecological and contemporary perspective, but also the possibility of experiencing them in

the physical field.


26- Psychosomatic Mindfullness: the body and his memory

Valentina Rossi

On the basis of recent scientific evidence on Mindfulness and Neuroscience, will be placed

emphasis on the importance of the integrated development of different dimensions of

consciousness (bodily, emotional, mental, social and ecological) in order to become active and

creative agents in this global society. We will talk about Three Brains theory (McLean, 1960,

1972) and current neuroscientific research on human evolution (A.Damasio, G.Edelman,

J.Panksepp), making reference to the biosynthesis approach and the importance of the new

global paradigm. The mindfulness practice is as an experience of the unity of our self, in which

one feels self-conscious in a spontaneous and natural way, where there is no separation

between the head and the body, where everything breathes freely and without effort. We will

experience how, through mindfulness, it is possible to generate an attitude of no-control,

through the observation of our breath, our body, our emotions and thoughts, as pleasant or

unpleasant as they may be, as well as the reduction of judgments and the fears that underlie

control and inhibition. In the practice I’ll propose some techniques of Psychosomatic

Mindfulness, clinically effective that allow to develop a greater awareness of the physical and

emotional blocks. We will experience the body consciousness and his energetic sensations,

evidencing the importance of undoing physical and energetic blocks to achieve a more global,

integrated and free consciousness, also reducing symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression.

We will use our consciousness to work from within, to perceive the energetic aspect of the

physical movements and the subtle perceptions that arrive at the body, leaving aside the

rational mind and contacting with the intuitive, sensible, feminine mind. Through a dynamic

exploration of the body, we’ll go deeper in bringing our attention and breathing throughout

the body, developing more awareness of certain tensions that are and of which sometimes we

do not realize. At the end of the Mindfulness experience, will be used drawing as a

psychosomatic tool of graphic expression of the energies-sensations and emotions

experienced throughout the practice.


27- Biosynthetic Dance. Structured session of free movement based on Biosynthesis

constructs

Elisabetta D’Agata

The objective of this workshop is the presentation of a creative and structured work of

biosynthetic dance.

Biosynthetic dance is a type of free expression based on movement, which origins from

Biosynthesis main themes (Grounding, Centring, Bounding, Holding, etc.) and its most

important contributions (Postures of Soul, the four Elements, muscle tone, polarities, Butoh

dance, Authentic Movement, etc.).

This workshop proposes a working method and the experience of a biosynthetic dance session.

Resources such as proposals of movement and music are shared. The proposals come also

from the artistic world: poetry, dance, sensory theater, painting, etc.


28- Creating New Landscapes - Providing Transformation

Ana Silvia Paula

To provide transformations in the Client’s story through the creation of images from the

subconscious to the conscious and from the conscious to the subconscious.

Opening the window of opportunity. Let’s look at the new, consolidation of images that will

be constructed little by little in the direction of progression.

Like a pendulum we will look at the internal landscape where we can meet trauma.

And take the round of progress toward a new possibility of resources and images.

Creating a safe place leading to confidence a feeling of being protected and having

consistency.

When the trauma implies being frozen or paralysis, the pendulum swings in an

organic rhythm of inate contraction and expansion. This means that we can

Liberate ourselves from trauma and change our way. For David Boadella, creating new

landscape is constructing new memories that bring natural restorative transformation for our

continued existence.


29- Restoring Hope in Diabetic Care

Ernessa Bergman

A diabetic is a person first and then a person with a disease

When confronting a chronic illness, hope is usually its first casualty and the first aspiration that

needs to be restored. I have been working for the past couple of years as a Biosynthesis

Psychotherapist in a Diabetes Clinic with Dr. Glandt a specialist in Diabetology and a nurse and

nutritionists. I have seen dozens of Diabetes patients. Dr Glandt explains to her patients that

they need to deal with their emotions as well as the diet and their medical plan if they want to

get well. This gives me a privileged role in the clinic where the patient is inspired to respect

and acknowledge the emotional side of the treatment. I also have a personal relationship with

Diabetes that goes back 20 years.

My son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes when he was 4. Knowing the roller coaster ride of

living with Diabetes has been a resource for me as a Psychotherapist and helping others the

shock of having a potentially chronic disease forces one to face patterns in our behavior and

emotional traits that we prefer to hide. The facing of the disease is one of the first steps we

take in the clinic.

It is very important to me as a parent and a therapist to not allow Diabetes to overwhelm and

have a negative impact on one’s overall health, but have overall health and well-being have a

productive impact on diabetes care. Being diagnosed with diabetes can be an opportunity to

take greater responsibility for our actions and our life style and make the changes that support

mental emotional health.

I help my clients make the connection between their conscious actions and how their

impulsive body reacts. Give support for the emotional repercussions like: trauma, fear, anger,

sadness.

Type 2 Diabetes is often the result of stress and neglect and denial and resistance and anger

and all the feelings that aren’t being acknowledged. Repressed emotions. Upon diagnoses this

avails the person with an opportunity to confront their inner deeper selves.

In this workshop, I will provide some theoretical information about Diabetes and its effect on

the physical and emotional body. I plan to present several case studies which will provide

practical and theoretical ways to work with disease and will offer a practical taste of a Body

Scan which I use in the clinic to help Locating pain fear in body and find the resources which

help people regulate and find better control of this disease.


30- Body Shape: The Transition from an inherited existence to a personal existence

Marilyn Pisante

This is a speech about the bodily aspect of the adaptation every human has to make in his

coexistence with his mother, in the womb, after birth and in early childhood.

At the beginning of our lives, we do not exist as separate entities, but are part of a dyadic

system: ourselves and our mothers. Allan Schore, Stanley Keleman and Rolef Ben-Shahar

emphasize, each in his own way the interconnection between mother and fetus and mother

and infant.

In this coexistence we have to adapt to our mother. We adapt to her feelings, to the way she

exists in the world, the way she perceives the world and the way she relates to us. This is

natural and necessary for survival. So the way we perceive ourselves and the outside world,

our position in the world, and our pattern of relating is intimately connected to her. This

adaptation is not only psychological: it is also physical. Our psychology and biology (our body-

mind), react to external circumstances as one.

I will be concerned with the physical aspect of that adaptation which I will call a “body shape”.

When using this term, I refer, on the one hand to the shape of the physical body, i.e. stature,

and on the other hand to a subtler, not immediately tangible and often unconscious way of

existing in the world. It could be described as an internal depiction of the position a person

holds in the world, or the position he holds with regard to a particular situation.

Stanley Keleman describes the beginning of the formation of a container and at the same time

of a boundary for our sensations (the beginning of a body shape) as the alternation of

excitation and self-inhibiting. David Boadella describes Motoric Fields as biologically existing

patterns of responsiveness in the body, or in other words, a normal tendency of the body to

move and shape itself in a particular way. Whether or not it will succeed in shaping itself

according to the its preexisting pattern will depend on the conditions of early life. Rolef Ben-

Shahar also talks about the way our body shapes itself according to external circumstances:

“We make life shapes through cellular, muscular, neural and structural dynamics, mediating

between inside and outside.” (Ben-Shahar, 2013, p. 160)

In this context, the aim of body psychotherapy would be to help clients identify their

unconscious shapes, and make them conscious participants in the transformation of these

shapes.

Languages: English

Sunday, May 13th, 2018

Group 6– 9:00 to 11:00

31- To move and to be moved - Finding through Movement

Isabel Rolim

Waiting to be moved. Following the body’s lead. Making time and space for the unconscious to

manifest in the movement and stillness of the body. Embodying the flow of the imagination...

regarding impulse.


32- Working with Life Lines. Embodied biography work.

Gabriele Hoppe & Joke Vanderbelt

This vivid narrative is a therapeutic tool where clients with the support of a therapist can work

with body, mind and soul on the most important life steps of a client’s life.

For creating a Life Line we are working with material, object, colors, to create a three

dimensional biography. Every object on the life Line represents possibilities for therapeutic

interventions, working with difficulties and resources.

A rope is put out in the room, flowers, stones, objects and painting material is available for the

client to start with marking her/his birth and the following memories about his/her life. For

every important memory or life step the client puts on the rope objects as a metaphor for that

situation.

We will present in this workshop aspects to work with the Life Line process, both practically

and theoretically.

Languages: English

33- Movements of Power

Paula Lastra Pooley

This workshop aims to awaken the wisdom of the body as a resource, to the purpose of travel

through obstacles with a full potential, and consists of:

1- A theoretical introduction to explain, on one hand, the concept of disrupted

movement of Biosynthesis and, secondly the concept of kriya, in Kundalini Yoga.

The bridge between these concepts leads to the "movements of power".

The disrupted movement is a natural movement that has been inhibited by the

environment of the person in a repeated way. That movement is, in the long run,

unavailable to respond to different situations presented by life. These movements

doesn’t only represent a concrete action, but an attitude towards life, which is

inhibited. It may be a movement of expansion, of retraction, of setting limits as self-

protection, of attracting what we want for our life, of going towards what we want

decisively, etc. Each person is different and has different inhibitions.

A Kriya is a "complete action" that involves placing all our consciousness and energy to

take a concrete direction. It’s an action where "the seed must germinate". In Kundalini

Yoga a kriya is a series of movements that are designed to obtain a concrete and

complete result. Its effects are individual and well defined. The total effect of a kriya is

greater than the sum of its parts. Kriyas can be repeated for 40 days to make that

series of movements available naturally to the body.

2- An experiential practice, consisting of first, a preparation of the body through

spontaneous movement, accompanied by appropriate music to get grounded, get

energized, wake up the pelvic energy and connect with the heart. Once the body is

ready, we’ll place, in a path on the ground, the things we're dealing with at this

time in a symbolic way. We’ll leave our bodies to explore freely and find the

movement that really wants to do, in front of each obstacle. Once we have each of

the movements, we’ll repeat them in order, in a series, to have our own individual

kriya, that will come from the wisdom of our own body, to face this vital moment.


34- Healing Memories of Our Future

Shuli Sztern

This workshop will explore our unique human ability to transform healing memories of our

past into images of our future An Embodiment of Hope.

"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend.

Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes

again". Robert Jordan / The Wheel of Time.

Time and Memories both share qualities of movement and space - qualities which will be

integrated in our work. We will invite healing images and past memories to flow through time,

using imagination, senses, feelings, emotions, motions, sensations…(Ecto', Mezzo', Endo').

Languages: English

35- Inside and outside the setting:Biosynthesis as a soul transformation resource

Luciana Larangeira

Theme: The social transformative role of the Biosynthesis professional, focused in personal

attitudes congruent with the fundamentals of clinical practice

This workshop aims to help therapists to reconnect themselves with the biospiritual principle

of Biosynthesis. It emphasizes compassion for others, the clear contact and how to use the

developed therapist skills (mainly resonance and recognition of the multi-dimensionality of the

human being) as instruments of social transformation. It happens through the development of

healthier relationships between all creation. The incorporated experience of Biosynthesis helps

to develop behaviors and attitudes of increased care and respect, consonant with social

movements, like environmentalism. This is a political ideology which world view changes from

anthropocentrism to ecocentrism. It aims a healthier relation between the human being and

its natural environment, even in the human relationships. The main objective of this work is to

foment the inclusion of therapeutic attitudes in the everyday life in order to have the daily

experience more coherent with the therapist experience, and therefore contribute for a better

life for everyone. Via a theoretical-experiential method, it will develop: therapist skills, human

potential, recognition of oneself and others, respect to differences and generosity. The

experiments will be focused on strengthening (mainly of grounding, centering, holding and

crawning); bigger contact with the endodermic layer and frontal body; life fields and social

relationships.

Languages: Portuguese and Spanish

36- Self-Regulation, the hope within me

Milagros Carmona

In this workshop self-regulation will be presented as an internal tool that allows us to take care

of our life. Also, self-regulation as a possibility to know and heal ourselves, and to discover our

own power acknowledging the hope within ourselves instead of seeing the hope outside, in

the surrounding world and in other people that know better than us.

First I’ll present the concept of self-regulation regarding its neurobiology, and its relationship

to other key concepts of the body psychotherapy such as the I, the identity, the free will, the

consciousness, boundaries and dependencies.

I’ll also talk about how we can learn to self-regulate our body, mind and emotions in order to

become useful in the co-creation of a more balanced and harmonious society.

In the second part participants will have the opportunity to learn and practice something of

their own self-regulation and experience it in the body.

Languages: Spanish

Symposium 3– 11:30 to 13:30

Body Psychotherapy’s hope in the promotion of health.

Let’s start from our gaze that reunites what has always been united: mind and body. What is

the role of body psychotherapy and of therapists in care, prevention and treatment of

illnesses? How can we become more and more involved in the process of health recovery?

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

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