About:

The training at Seattle School of Body-Psychotherapy combines the somatic approach of Core Energetics with trauma theory, neurobiology, and work with the heart as well as the natural elements of the world.

Beyond healing and training healers, we have a strong social justice focus and create the possibility for decolonizing our conditioning and opening a new way of perceiving and moving through the world.

Discounts:

Register now for our new cohort. We provide discounts for people of color.

5% off year one class one for early enrollment. We would be happy to welcome you to join us.

When & Where

Nestled within a large Medicinal Herb Garden on land that was near the village Too-HOO-beed and belongs to the Too-Oh -Beh-Dhabsh extended family, of the Duwamish tribe, classes meet at Body-Psychotherapy of Seattle in North Seattle.

We will convene:

three times a year for
five days at a time
for three years

Additional electives will be offered on select weekends during the three-year time period.

In order to enter the program you must be willing to commit to a minimum of one current year.

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Contact: Aylee Welch, LICSW
(206) 910-9766
www.bodypsychotherapyschool.com

Seattle School of Body-Psychotherapy offers a three-year training program which can be taken for both personal transformation and professional development. With the understanding that pure life force emanates from the Core of every being and always remains intact, we study how to track the blocks that obscure it over time and through the life cycle. We learn clinical techniques to free the expansive life energy in order to use it on behalf of our life, our interpersonal experiences, and to reconnect with our joy. We also include work explorations in heart perception and the imaginal realm. These help us to develop relationship with the greater world around us, de-centering and adding perspective to our role as humans on the planet. The result is as spiritual as it is psychological, creating opening for ourselves those with whom we work. We seek to find our own unique offering and bring it into community.

SSBP welcomes all adult learners and appreciates that students bring a wealth of helpful experience to their body-psychotherapy studies. Students of SSBP include both licensed and student psychotherapists wanting to specialize and go deeper in their practice and in their personal presence as well as people from many other fields and life paths. A practitioner skills tract that teaches basic assessment, listening and intervention skills along with ethics and more, is available for those without a mental health background.

Nestled in a medicinal herb garden in North Seattle, the main classes meet in- person for 5 days three times a year for three years. The Practitioner’s Skills Class includes 12 Friday session (on-line) meeting over years 1 & 2.

Main Class Topics include: 
~ Nervous System Regulation ~ Neurobiology ~ Energy & Consciousness in Somatic Praxis ~ Developmental Psychology, Character Structure and its Application in the 21st Century ~ Segments of the Body and Their Impact in Perception & Life Patterns ~ Leading Process Groups ~ Interpersonal Work in the Group Setting ~ Working From Within the Imaginal Realm and Its Affect On Neuroplasticity ~ Trauma & it’s Treatment ~ Transference & Counter-Transference in Body-Therapy ~ Working with Dreams and Imagery ~ Working With Our Internal “Parts” ~ Ceremony for Health and Healing ~ Movement to Impact Body Structure ~ Referencing From the Self ~ Tracking Energy ~ The Body’s Cycle Of Learning ~ Developing Heart Perception ~ The Yes and the No ~

This list is not all-inclusive; there may be other topics covered and some of these may be offered as electives and not as part of the core curriculum.

Seattle School of Body-Psychotherapy was founded by Aylee Welch, LICSW and is in the process of expanding it’s leadership. Aylee has been working with people in therapeutic environments and teaching and leading groups and workshops since 1989. She has been certified in and practicing Core Energetics and Core Soma since 2006. She is an Independent Clinical Social Worker licensed in Washington, California and Oregon. She is also a Master Herbalist and Ceremonialist.

For more information or to contact us go to www.bodypsychotherapyschool.com