TABLE TALKING For BODYWORKERS
The Missing Link in Bodywork
With Jack Blackburn
This hands-on class is for anybody who wants to become more facile in their verbal interactions with clients and learn to use words to deepen and expand the hands-on work they’re already doing. Students learn counseling skills that build carefully on what they are observing visually and feeling through their hands. They are taught how to listen carefully to the client’s verbal descriptions of what occurs inside during the session and how to work with client dissociation, distraction and numbness. During the class, participants practice many forms of verbal interaction and learn how touch-based, body-centered counseling differs from psychotherapy
Also, “active listening” is introduced which is a technique for mirroring the clients words and tissue responses in a way that safely supports their process.
When you take this two day workshop, you will discover how to empower your clients and affirm how much they are involved in their own healing. You will learn how to anchor your experiences and those of your clients in the present moment and how to add your verbal skills with clients onto those areas in which you are already skilled, namely reading and interacting with the language of the body visually and tactilly.
We will explore issues of appropriate boundaries, ethics, transference and counter-transference as they relate to combining verbal interactions with touch therapy.
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