Embodied-Relational Therapy (ERT)
Integrating Embodiment, Relationship and Social Justice
15-16 February 2025 – Exeter, Devon
Allison Priestman & Stephen Tame
Supporting you to explore working relationally
with the embodied experience of being alive
What is Embodied-Relational Therapy? How do we work simultaneously – with our client’s embodiment, with our own, and with the relationship that arises between us?
How do we work with social inequality in embodied, relational ways?
Embodied-Relational Therapy training and practice has been developing for the past 25 years. Initiated by Nick Totton, it has been developed by the ERT training team, and all the clients, trainees and supervisees who meet it.
More recently, Stephen Tame and Allison Priestman have been integrating working more directly with embodied oppression, power and privilege in ERT.
On this experiential workshop, we will:
• Have a deep dive into ERT
• Support you to work with the embodied relationship between yourself and your client(s), to get mobile, breathing, sensing, and feeling – working directly as bodies in a therapeutic space together.
• Invite you to pay compassionate and curious attention to the embodied experiences of power, privilege, and oppression – exploring the reality that therapy has political and social dimensions.
• We encourage risk taking, within the safely held container of the workshop, to find the edges of your own process and related work – to experiment with new, embodied ways of working with clients.
This workshop is suitable for anyone working one to one in a therapeutic setting i.e. psychotherapists, counsellors, coaching practitioners, body/physical/massage/yoga therapists, homeopaths etc.
It is also a good taster for the Embodied-Relational Therapy Training starting in June 2025.
Cost: £240 – £120 Sliding scale -Please pay as much as you can afford, to help us keep workshops accessible for those on low income.
Venue: Exeter Community Centre, Exeter, Devon
Places will be limited to 14.
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