Embodiment: Embodied field study

Key details

Dates | Thursday 11 June, 6:30pm-8:30pm

Where | Elie, 27 Royal Parade, Parkville

Facilitators | Anna Evans and Awombda Codd

Cost | VAGP members: $45; VAGP non-members: $55

Join VAGP

About this session

This is the third of a series of three workshops offered under the EEEP banner. These sessions are designed for emerging and practising therapists interested in emerging somatic experience as a resource for the therapeutic dyad.

Based on one of Gestalt’s roots of psychodrama, the embodied field study models a way of working with the phenomenology of the body as it is embedded in the situation. Working as a group, we will be deepening the awareness of the intersubjective experience of the field and how we make contact with each other from various positions.

This showcases how much information can be accessed using the body. By generating more awareness, a new possible experience often becomes evident, emerging from the field. Marguerita Spagnuolo-Lobb says, “As Gestalt psychotherapists, we do not aim to solve individual needs but to co-create a new experience of contact that makes spontaneous movement possible.”

This final EEEP seminar invites participants to engage directly with the living field, trusting embodied awareness as a primary source of meaning, contact, and transformation.

What will participants learn?

Experiential exercises, discussion, and reflection will develop participants’ abilities to:

• trust the liveliness of contact
• work with multiple positions and perspectives within the intersubjective field
• use bodily awareness as a primary source of clinical information
• build confidence in accessing spontaneous movement
• work phenomenologically with the emergent field conditions.

Explore the other sessions in this series

Accessing the creativity of the right brain

Exploring the somatic underpinnings of reaching and grasping