This is a 4-day workshop, when the training starts, and an opportunity to get a real taste as it is open to all. It allows you to get a deeper introduction and decide whether you want to continue the training or not.

Seminar 1 is health and resource oriented providing many tools to use already in your practice. Emphasis is placed on preparation of the practitioner, creating safety and negotiating appropriate contact and much more. This training is recognized by many associations in Quebec, Canada and in North America. (BCTA/NA). Welcome to bilingual students.  We have manuals in English and homework can be done in English or French.

 Content:

• History and evolution of the work
• Building a safe therapeutic relationship
• Resources and developing the felt sense
• The practice of presence
• Dynamic Stillness
• Orienting to health
• Establishing a wide perceptual field
• Practitioner neutral
• Practitioner fulcrums
• Intro to the relational field
• Beginning practitioner verbal skills
• Exploring touch history, nurturing touch/toxic touch
• The ritual of contact
• The Breath of Life, Primary Respiration and Biodynamic principles
• Anatomy and physiology of Primary Respiratory mechanism
• Palpation and perception; general listening contacts, Pieta and feet

Educational objectives of seminar one – You will be able to:

• Recognize your own state of activation or settling
• Understand what you bring to the table in relation to contact
• Negotiate boundaries in the therapeutic relationship
• Access the principle of resource for self-regulation
• Practice different listening positions
• Settle into stillness