October 4-6, 2025
An Exploration of the Intersubjective Field of Healing:
Deepening Connection and Expanding Clinical Success Beyond Technique
All bodywork and somatic therapies—such as Rolfing® Structural Integration, Craniosacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, Trigger Point Therapy, and Massage—offer effective techniques for addressing pain and human suffering. Yet recent research reveals that the therapeutic relationship between practitioner and client plays a more significant role in clinical outcomes than technique alone.
This therapeutic relationship is shaped by the emotional bond between practitioner and client and the regulation of shared feelings. Exploring this “feeling of what is happening” can deepen your practice and create profound healing experiences.
In this 3-day training, we’ll draw upon the principles of Pre and Perinatal Development, Somatic Experiencing®, and Somatic Psychology. You’ll learn to refine your presence, pace your interventions, and develop skills to facilitate greater mind-body integration in your clinical work.
What You Will Learn:
- How to navigate the intersubjective field during sessions.
- Skills to identify and track autonomic and central nervous system responses.
- Methods to work with transference and countertransference dynamics to prevent clinician burnout.
- Techniques for staying present with psycho-emotional issues in yourself and your clients.
Past Workshops
Healing the Trauma Body: Reconnecting with Wholeness and Resilience
We have all been traumatized, some more than others. Trauma is not special…it’s part of the lived experience and is at the heart of most human suffering. Traumatized persons have lost their ability to navigate life’s stressors in a flexible and fluid manner. Instead, they oscillate between feelings of helplessness and hyperactivity. In this workshop you will learn how to identify and track neurophysiological responses in your clients while providing a “road map” for them to move through the immobilizing effects of trauma.
Origins and the Emergence of Self
Through the Looking Glass: Perspectives on Systems, Trauma and Resilience
Explore the origins of interpersonal neurobiology through a theoretical and experiential perspective. Looking through the lens of embryology, pre & perinatal psychology, attachment theory, and somatic psychology we will examine the underpinnings of embodiment. Body-centered exercises and movement rooted in Aikido will support us in exploring resonance, attunement, and the capacity to play, as well as differentiating somatic transference/countertransference, projective identification, and clinical intuition.Healing the Trauma Body
This presentation weaves together the perspectives of Somatic Experiencing®, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and Shamanism in providing a working model for Rolfing’s potency in resolving trauma. Learn to identify traumatic symptoms, facilitate the release of trauma, and care for self and other during this mythic journey.
Living Boundary – Awakening the Body’s Wisdom
All wounding in relationship happens as the result of a breach or intrusion into one’s personal boundary space leading to predator/prey behavior. In essence, sense of self and inner knowing has been lost. This experiential workshop provides skills for developing healthy boundaries and increasing awareness of the subtle interplay between mind, body, and other.
Trauma Resolution: Psycho-neurobiological and Shamanic Approaches to Healing Trauma
The effects of trauma are far-reaching: chronic pain, anxiety, dissociation, mental confusion, and emotional dysregulation. Most importantly, coherence between mind, brain, and body is disrupted leading to one’s inability to function from instinct and connect with the witness. The relational field of practitioner/client can facilitate a reconnection to wholeness through the right use of presence, resonance, and attunement. This workshop will explore the science and art of healing trauma. Participants will learn theoretical and practical skills to resolve traumatic symptoms and retrieve lost parts of the Self.
Trauma and the Body
A Somatic Approach to Healing Trauma
The focus of this workshop is learning to resolve states of hyper and hypo-arousal. The effects of trauma are far-reaching: chronic pain, anxiety, dissociation, mental confusion, and emotional dysregulation. Most importantly, coherence between mind, brain, and body is disrupted leading to one’s inability to function from instinct and connect with the witness.