International Advanced training for Postural and energetic Integration Practitioners
 October 29th - November 2nd 2012
and
5-9 of April 2013
in - Belgium (Namur)
with
Dirk Marivoet with Raffaele Cascone

Recently we received a number of questions about whether we could offer an advanced Postural Integration Training. We now have the possibility to structure this. It will be a great opportunity to refresh, deepen and familiarize yourself with new and advanced teachings in Postural and Energetic Integration.

These teaching units will give you new impulses in your practice and encourage you to actualize your personal and therapeutic potential and improve the integration into any aspects of your personal or professional lives. We offer these two teaching units only to advanced trainees and graduates.

Extending and Deepening Your Knowledge and Skills

   As an experienced practitioner, devoted to helping your clients change in every part of themselves -- in their bodies, feelings and thoughts -- you know the power of working directly with the body. Whether you use deep tissue work, movement awareness, breathwork or other body-oriented methods in your work as a therapist, you know that to be an effective therapist you need to call on all your knowledge and experience.    This post-graduate training course will help you extend and deepen your understanding and skills by reviewing the most effective methods for transforming bodymind to date and show you when each approach is relevant and how it can be applied. It will also introduce you to ways of taking your clients through their most stubborn and subtle blocks to new levels of harmony and joy.

Advanced Centering for the Individual

   When you have worked to open your and your clients bodyminds (whether with Postural Integration or Energetic Integration) and you and them begin to feel more flexible and expressive, you may be even more aware that there still remain deep inner, protected core issues, where we hold our deepest fears and frustrations. The release of these core patterns of holding is central to the overall function of the bodymind. ICPIT’s Advanced Training as it was developed originally by Jack Painter, Ph.D., is supported by recent insights from the neurosciences

Working With Stubborn Defenses

   In order to touch the armored core, we need to recognize how the body organizes its defenses, how it forms character – patterns of restricted breath, muscular contraction, habitual movement, as well as incomplete emotion and thought. To handle the shocks and traumas, all the continuing demands of our lives, we use characteristic attitudes and habits to try to hold ourselves together, to hold on to what we can, to hold ourselves up, hold ourselves deep inside or hold ourselves back. While working with our breath and touching the deepest layers of our tissue, Advanced PsychoCorporal Practitioners help their clients learn where and how their persistent character armor defends the core.

Touching the Core

   In the deep work with the core the advanced practitioner follows the basic segments or "diaphragms of body balance": the fontanelles along the cranium, the floor and ceiling of the mouth, the thoracic inlet and first rib, the breathing diaphragm, the pelvis and pelvic floor, the knee and ankle articulations. When these "diaphragms" are released, they begin to shift spontaneously and rhythmically and freely interact with one another, creating warmth and well-being throughout the body.       Some of the deepest work with the core includes release of the core-tissues of the pelvis, which holds many of our strongest feelings and attitudes. Working with the structures of the core the advanced student learns to open layers of tissue and feelings, and simultaneously with psychotherapeutic methods helping the client clear away old frustrations, and to connect with others at the deep, intimate level of love and joy.

Finding Harmony & Integration

    Using the advanced somatic methods you will learn in this training, you will learn new ways of helping your clients release their deepest armoring. Yet with the release of these very old habits and attitudes, they also need help finding a new center, help in integrating new-found change into their lives. By coordinating tissue, breath and feeling with special somatic strategies, you as practitioner help clients more fully integrate major dimensions of the self, such as the active-passive and masculine-feminine. Advanced practitioners learn powerful skills to help a power hungry top of the body cooperate with a hesitant bottom; right and left to function as a team; front and back to move harmoniously with each other by interacting skillfully with the core. With the discovery of a new, inner center, energy can then radiate outwardly and inwardly, flowing in waves through all the body diaphragms from bottom to top and in a socially engaged manner.

Practical
Entry Criteria: Practitioners in PI, EI and PHI with one year of experience.
Where: Belgium: 30 km from Charleroi airport (RyanAir) and 70 km from Brussels National Airport.
La Ferme de Vevy Wéron "Centre de stages et de ressourcements" - Vevy Wéron, 15 B-5100 Wépion (Namur) - Web: www.vevyweron.be
Cost: 1500 euros Prices do not include room and board

Staff

Trainers: Dirk Marivoet has a background in physical therapy and psychomotor therapy, which he practiced and taught at Leuven University for 11 years. He currently has more than 25 years of experience as a bodypsycho-therapist. He is an advanced trainer in Postural and Energetic Integration as well as a senior teacher and supervisor in Core-Energetics. He maintains a private praxis in Ghent (B), is the founder and director of The Institute for Bodymind Integration (IBI) and general secretary of the International Council of PsychoCorporal Integration Trainers (ICPIT). Dirk also has a special interest in primary mythological themes and was trained amongst others as a sweat lodge leader in the Lakota tradition by A. F. Lame Deer and in the firewalking ritual by Peggy Dylan. The depth of the experiences in this domain and the profound impact of this axis on his work with clients has motivated him to contribute to the deeper understanding of Bodymind Integration as a research fellow at Ghent University where he investigates the interaction of brainstem, limbic and cortical components in motor control and behaviour regulation.

Dr. Rafaelle Cascone, State registered psychologist, systemic and family psychotherapist. Director of research, H. Laborit Institute of Psychobiology, Institute for systemic and family psychotherapy, Center for Systemic Integration and Postural Integration, Quantum Psychobiology Laboratory Commitee for promotion, research, training and validation in complementary medicine and health sciences.
view interview of Rafaelle Cascone with Nora Bateson (daughter of Gregory Bateson)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsGtTeVEAI&feature=share

For more information and inscription: contact Dirk Marivoet
at
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