LISTENING BEING: a body-centered day retreat for practitioners to enhance your therapeutic presence
Deepen Your Therapeutic Presence Through Active Listening and Body-Centered Awareness
About Listening Being:
Listening Being is a body-centered day retreat designed to enhance your therapeutic presence, spark your genuine and creative therapeutic voice, and deepen fulfillment in your therapeutic relationships. Learn how to be more somatically literate in session, take better care of yourself in your therapeutic relationships, and hold space more gracefully and effectively with clients. Listening Being helps you connect with and enrich your unique approach to being with your clients, nourishing the much needed gifts you bring to the world. The retreat/workshop experience is intimate, exploratory, liberating, playful, healing and expansive.
Practice Outcomes:
Increase comfort with somatic approaches to active listening and immediacy in clinical practice
Increase feelings of permission and play in your practice
Learn about the tenants of cranial sacral therapy, polarity therapy, the Feldenkrais method and spontaneous movement
Gain direct experience with intersubjectivity, the therapeutic third, and transcendent function
Deepened understanding of relational intimacy, power dynamics, gender issues
Increase insights about safety, boundaries, and psychological comfort with clients and in the clinical space
Catalyze personal process and remove blocks to therapeutic connection
Who is Listening Being for?
You are looking to take your practice to the next level.
You want to deepen therapeutic intimacy in you practice.
You want to be more in your body in session.
You want to be more comfortable speaking directly and safely from your present experience with clients.
You want to connect with like-minded practitioners.
Listening Being is for therapists, counselors, psychotherapists, social workers, psychologists, coaches, healers, somatic practitioners, and body workers.
A Transformative Day of Learning and Connection
Join us for a revitalizing day of learning, practice, and community. You'll leave this workshop with a toolkit of practical skills to enhance your clinical presence and a deeper sense of connection to your own embodied wisdom. Space is limited, so reserve your spot today.
Date: Sunday, quarterly
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Location: 1920s bungalow in South Pasadena
Investment: $225
Refreshments and vegetarian lunch provided
Register: Contact to set up an intake call
About the Facilitator:
I have over thirty years of experience with dance and movement practices and fifteen years experience with somatic and body-centered therapies. I am the founder and director emeritus of homeLA, a nomadic performance organization that supports the creation of new site responsive dance in residential space since 2013. Currently, I run Living Psychotherapy, a depth and body-centered psychotherapy practice in Pasadena, CA and serve as adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute. For Listening Being I draw from depth and person-centered psychotherapy, experimental and site-responsive dance research, the Feldenkrais method, cranial sacral therapy, psychostructural balancing, respiratory philosophy, gender diverse perspectives, active imagination, and ecological psychotherapy.
