Learn and practice skills for working safely with unfolding sensory and grounded information present in body symptoms.

This 3-credit point unit introduces students to grounded, skills-based Process Oriented approaches for working somatically and with the unconscious. Body symptoms and dreams are viewed as symbolic doors to uncover unconscious meaning in holistic counselling and psychotherapy. Students will learn and practice skills for working safely with unfolding sensory and grounded information present in body symptoms in this unit. These are essential skills for working with trauma and psychosomatic presentations.​

Students will also be introduced to Arnold Mindell’s concept of the dreambody and its evolution and will develop skills to unfold the message within dreams and body experiences with clients. Students will learn to differentiate between primary and secondary information in body work and dreams to enhance client awareness. Students will also deepen self-knowledge through experiential exercises embedded in timetabled and untimetabled study.