Movement, Mindfulness, and the Expressive Arts in Somatic Psychotherapy

Catalog description

This experiential course is grounded in somatic therapies’ principles and practices, and will provide the student experience in integrating these practices with verbal psychotherapy. This course will draw from the field of expressive arts therapies, from mindfulness practices and from somatic psychotherapy practices. This course includes: the use of movement, music, art and journaling in therapy, with a focus on present-moment and body-centered experience; directed mindfulness; and experience with Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, and Dance/Movement Therapy. The course will be experiential and will focus on practical application, as the student learns to integrate somatic tools in the here-and now context of therapy, and engage client collaboration with somatic and expressive intervention. The course builds upon, and expands, the student’s previous clinical training, and the theoretical information offered in additional somatic courses.