Webinar: The Evolution of Subjectivity

Recording of the Webinar Now Available for Purchase.

Friday, September 21, 2018

The Evolution of Subjectivity:
A Kinetic-Kinesthetic Progression

A 75 minute webinar with Ruella Frank

LOCATION
You will receive the link to the webinar upon payment and registration.

TIME
Friday,
1:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Savings Time)

FEE
$35

This workshop is open to All

For further information and to register email
[email protected]

About the workshop:

This 75 minute interactive WEBINAR will explore the progressions of a developing subjectivity from kinetic-kinesthetic processes during fetal life, where the organism is in a state of “oneness” with its environment, to the newborn child, who begins the gradual process of differentiating “me” from “not me” in the first year.

Special emphasis will be given to the functional similarity of this vital experiential shift in relation to the subtle yet profound existential experiences emerging within adult therapy. Attention also will be given to the kinetic-kinesthetic processes in session, which clarify the experience of subjectivity for both the patient and therapist.

This WEBINAR presents my latest thinking in terms of a more complete understanding of the processes of development – how we come to be and maintain who we are in relation – from a Gestalt theoretical perspective and our Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy approach.

This is an interactive webinar:
During the seminar, participants will be able to send written questions that all of us will see. I will respond to as many questions and comments as possible, allowing time for dialogue among us.

I hope you will be as interested as I am in this new form of our coming together. It is an experiment and we will see how it emerges!

July 23-29, 2018

Moving Towards the Edge:
An Advanced International Event in Gestalt Therapy

Now in English and Spanish

with Ruella Frank, Jean-Marie Robine, & Michael Vincent Miller

LOCATION
Hotel Silken Indautxu
Plaza del Bombero Etxaniz,
s/n, 48010
Bilbao, BI, Spain
Map

TIMES
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, & Sunday,
9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Thursday the 26th will be free.

FEE
Participation to the workshop : 1200 € (including lunches & pauses)
Early bird : registration before Jan. 31th, 2018 : 1050 €
Latecomers : (registration after May 20th) : 1350 €
If cancellation happens before 2018 May 20, 100 € will be kept for administrative charges.
50% of your registration fees after this date.
Payment by bank transfer (see registration form)

For more information visit:
Institute Français de Gestalt-Thérapie
or contact IFGT by phone: +335 57 58 29 70, or e-mail: [email protected]

*Registration is closed*

Accomodations:
Bedrooms in Hotel Silken (not included in registration) :
individual 83 € • Double 93 € / night (breakfast included)
Limited number of rooms in Hotel Silken to be booked directly to the hotel before May 15
You may also prefer another kind of accommodation (other hotels, B&B, etc.)!
Meals (Lunches) : 6 days included in registration
Dinners not included. Let’s enjoy dinners or tapas in the city!
www.hotels-silken.com

About the workshop:

This six-day program, a collaboration among Michael Vincent Miller, Ruella Frank and Jean-Marie Robine, three international trainers and theorists, is intended for experienced practitioners as well as trainers of
Gestalt therapy.

The emphasis is on expanding possibilities and exploring new horizons in our work. Foundational concepts of Gestalt therapy, such as contacting, contact-boundary, theory of self, etc., will be scrutinized and given new shape.

Some of our concerns to be taken up: The phenomenology of movement in early development and therapy; anxiety, depression, and trauma from a temporal point of view; the central place of form in the aesthetics of health and pathology; reflexivity–the moving I and the feeling Me–in the theory of self.

Each half-day, one of the presenters will open the topic and the other two join in to contribute to a further illumination of the theme, and arrive at an integration of our various perspectives. There also will be ample time for experiments, small group discussion, and therapy demonstrations to ground this new material in participants’ experience.

The workshop is open to experienced practitioners, supervisors, and trainers in gestalt therapy.
Number of participants limited to 75.
This seminar will be in English and will be translated into Spanish.

For further information: email us at
somaticstudies.com

April 28-29, 2018

Embodied Intersubjectivity: A Developmental and Movement Oriented Approach to Psychotherapy

with Ruella Frank

LOCATION
Alviks Medborgarhus (Alviks Community House)
Room: Brommasalen (2nd floor)
Gustavslundsvägen 168 A
167 51 Bromma

Closest Subway: Alvik

Map

TIMES
Saturday and Sunday, 9:30 am – 4:30 p.m.

FEE
$400 (€370) (3600 SEK)

For further information and to register email
[email protected]

About the workshop:

In this 2-day workshop, Dr Ruella Frank will explore the intricate relational moves of embodied intersubjectivity that form a basis of communication, initially between parent and baby but then throughout life.

The movement repertoire that develops in the first year of life is a language that conveys our most pressing desires, intentions and emotions. These expressive movements, acquired in the company of significant others, go on to become the tacit core of adult behaviour in everyday experience and, of course, in the psychotherapy relationship too.

It is on the details of this somatic expression of affect and relational intent that we will focus during the workshop, developing our understanding of the meaning and emotional significance of these somatic communications and skills in applying those insights to the therapy work.

May 19-21, 2017

Introduction to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy

LOCATION
Sullivant Hall, third floor
The Ohio State University
1813 N. High St.
Columbus, Ohio 43210
Map

TIMES
Friday 5:30 am – 8:30 pm, Saturday 9:30 am – 5:00 pm, Sunday 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

FEE
$350

For more information and registration visit:
www.davidrdagglpcc.com
or contact David R. Dagg-Murry, 614-568-3244, e-mail: [email protected]

About the workshop:

The movement repertoire that develops in the first year of life is a language in itself that conveys desires, intentions and emotions. This early life in motion serves as the root of ongoing nonverbal interaction and later verbal expression. These expressive movements acquired in the company of significant others, become the tacit core of adult behavior in everyday experience.

Ruella Frank will explore the intricate relational moves of embodied intersubjectivity between parent and baby and it’s functional similarity to experiences unfolding within the patient-therapist relationship — with children, couples and individual adults. Put into practice, her work can expand and reorient the practitioner’s perception of human movement, enabling patient and psychotherapist together to make surprising discoveries about their interactions.

The workshop is open to psychologists, social workers, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, infant educators, as well as movement therapists/educators who wish to better understand the relationship between psychological experience and physical expression.

For further information: email us at
somaticstudies.com

January 26-27, 2019

The Genesis of Intergenerational Trauma:
A Somatic and Developmental Perspective

with Ruella Frank

LOCATION
The Feldenkrais Institute
134 West 26th Street
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001
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TIMES
Saturday and Sunday 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

FEE
$300

CEUs Available

For further information and to register email
[email protected]

About the workshop:

According to the traditional perspective on the development of trauma in the first years of a baby’s life, the parent initiates what is thought to become a habitual traumatic reaction in the child.

Consequently, the baby reacts to the parent in ways that are rigid and repetitive. This understanding of developmental trauma, however, does not take into consideration the relational dynamics that are part and parcel of any organizing experience. Observing baby and parent interactions from a relational and contextual perspective and through micro-movements, it can be seen how the baby’s behaviors can powerfully impact their parents and can generate the threat of re-traumatizing for them.

This two day workshop will center on the interaction patterns of both baby and parent that over time create traumatic attaching and the passage of intergenerational trauma. We will also explore how these early patterns influence the unfolding patient and psychotherapist relationship in the here-and-now.

February 24-25, 2017

Embodied Intersubjectivity: A Developmental and Movement Oriented Approach to Psychotherapy

LOCATION
Cecil Sharp House
2 Regent’s Park Rd,
London NW1 7AY
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TIMES
Friday 9:30am – 5:00pm
Saturday 9:30am – 4:00pm

FEE
Early bird: £290 (until 30 October 2016)
Self-funded: £330 (from 31 October 2016)
Organisationally-funded: £400 (at any time)

To register online: Click Here

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About the workshop:

In this 2-day workshop, Dr Ruella Frank will explore the intricate relational moves of embodied intersubjectivity that form a basis of communication, initially between parent and baby but then throughout life.

The movement repertoire that develops in the first year of life is a language that conveys our most pressing desires, intentions and emotions. These expressive movements, acquired in the company of significant others, go on to become the tacit core of adult behaviour in everyday experience and, of course, in the psychotherapy relationship too.

It is on the details of this somatic expression of affect and relational intent that we will focus during the workshop, developing our understanding of the meaning and emotional significance of these somatic communications and skills in applying those insights to the therapy work.

The workshop is open to psychologists, social workers, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, infant educators, as well as movement therapists/educators who wish to better understand the relationship between psychological experience and physical expression.

For further information: email us at
somaticstudies.com

Pushing: The experience of separating from and including the other.

January 21-22, 2017

Introduction to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy

LOCATION
The Feldenkrais Institute
134 West 26th Street
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001
Map

TIMES
Saturday and Sunday 9:30am – 5:00pm

FEE
$300

To register:
Please make your check payable to
Ruella Frank, Ph.D., and send it to:
124 West 93rd St., #2C
New York, NY 10025

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About the workshop:

Ongoing nonverbal interactions with our primary caregivers during the first year of life set a relational foundation that is apparent both in the everyday life of the adult and in psychotherapy. Even though our adult postural attitudes, gestures, gait and breathing patterns have changed over time, the foundations established in our first year remain readily observable and available. Attending to these patterns within psychotherapy is especially powerful.

During this workshop, participants learn how their relational styles originated through affective/movement patterns within the infant/caregiver dyad. Through movement, participants will explore these intrinsic yet unaware primary patterns which are part of present experiences and influence daily life. We then apply this understanding to the here-and-now of the client/therapist dyad

The workshop is open to psychologists, social workers, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, infant educators, as well as movement therapists/educators who wish to better understand the relationship between psychological experience and physical expression.

For further information: email us at
somaticstudies.com

July 10-13, 2017

Self in Motion:
A Radical Phenomenological Approach to Gestalt Theory
(Conducted in English and Spanish)

with Ruella Frank

The workshop is co-organized by
Center for Somatic Studies, and
Centro de Terapia y Psicología

LOCATION
The First Presbyterian Church
12 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011
The Parlor Room
fpcnyc.org
Map

TIMES
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 9:30 am – 4:30 p.m.

FEE
$970 (€900)

For more information and registration, please contact:
Centro de Terapia y Psicología:
[email protected]
+34 (91) 416 52 70

About the workshop:

As a phenomenological methodology, Gestalt Therapy is concerned with an understanding of how we live the situation we are living: how to analyze, describe and know it.
In this training, participants will learn the basic principles of Gestalt Therapy Theory by investigating the dynamics of movement.
In breaking down movement process to its most basic elements, we will explore ideas of Self, Creative Adjusting, Contacting, Modalities of Contacting, etc. That is, by focusing on MOVING– tactility (touch), kinesthesia (the feel of ourselves moving), and kinetics (movement itself), we will learn the essentials of how we experience ourselves with an other.
Special attention will be given to the emergence of fundamental movements in the first year of life and their constitutive participation in the moment-to-moment experiences throughout life: a developmental perspective

10-13 Julio, 2017

Self en Movimiento:
Un Enfoque Radicalmente
Fenomenológico de la Teoría Gestáltica

con Ruella Frank

El taller está organizado conjuntamente por
Center for Somatic Studies, y
Centro de Terapia y Psicología

LUGAR DE CELEBRACIÓN
The First Presbyterian Church
12 West 12th Street
Nueva York, NY 10011
Mapa

Para más información e inscripciones dirigirse a:

CTP:
[email protected]
+34 (91) 416 52 70 (de 5 a 8 de la tarde)

Sobre el taller:

Como una metodología fenomenológica, la Terapia Gestalt se ocupa de comprender cómo vivimos la situación que estamos viviendo: cómo la analizamos, la describimos y la conocemos.
En este curso, los participantes van a aprender los principios básicos de la teoría de la Terapia Gestalt investigando la dinámica del movimiento.
Fragmentando el proceso del movimiento en sus elementos más básicos, vamos a explorar los conceptos del self, del ajuste creativo, el proceso-decontacto, las modalidades del contactar, etc. Esto es, centrándonos en el MOVIMIENTO: el tacto (tocar), la cinestesia (la sensación de nosotros mismos en movimiento) y la cinética (el movimiento en sí mismo), vamos a aprender cómo nos experimentamos a nosotros mismos con un otro.
Se va a dar una atención especial al surgir de los movimientos fundamentales en el primer año de la vida y su participación constitutiva en las experiencias momento-a-momento a través de la vida: una perspectiva del desarrollo.

June 14-16, 2016

Flesh and Bones of the Situation

with Ruella Frank and Jean-Marie Robine
The workshop is co-organized by
KGU – Kiev Gestalt University, and
UICGT – Ukrainian Institute for Contemporary Gestalt Therapy

LOCATION
Kiev, Ukraine
St. Lutheran 6 B, Office 36
Kiev Gestalt University

For more information and registration, please contact:

KGU:
email
+38 (044) 230 94 47
+38 (044) 229 43 08
KGU Workshop Page

UICGT:
email
+38 (067) 105 08 36
+38 (095) 534 07 95
UICGT Workshop Page

About the workshop:

During this experiential, experimental and theoretical workshop, we will explore the core concepts of Gestalt therapy and unify them with those of somatic development.

We will demonstrate how fundamental movements are inextricably linked to contacting as primary experience, and how kinesthetic resonance contributes to the “id of situation” and underlies intentionality.

Through mini-lecture, experiment, experiential demonstration and discussion, we will involve ourselves in action-research to enhance our fundamental comprehension and deepen our daily practice.

Download the Workshop Flyer here, or by clicking either of the images below. Both images link to the full two page PDF file: