Following the immersive retreat, this two-day professional training invites psychotherapists, counselors, and somatic practitioners to deepen their clinical application of principles and techniques applied throughout the workshop. Through a blend of didactic learning, experiential practice, and demonstrations, participants will explore how attachment wounds and predictive relational templates are expressed and repaired through the body. Building upon the relational and somatic foundations introduced in the retreat, this training translates embodied and communal healing experiences into practical tools for therapeutic and community-based settings.

 

Participants will engage with concepts such as basic needs, shape and countershape, the creation of “good inner objects,” and the symbolic fulfillment of unmet developmental needs (drawn from Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor)—while also critically examining how these needs and their expression are shaped by culture, identity, and systems of power. Together, we will explore how to practice these principles in adaptive, expansive, and culturally responsive ways that honor the full context of each client’s lived experience.

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This approach bridges psychomotor and somatic theory with liberatory and decolonizing perspectives on healing, recognizing that trauma is both personal and collective. Participants will learn how to integrate these methods with sensitivity to race, culture, gender, sexuality, class, and historical trauma, cultivating greater flexibility and presence in their clinical practice.​​​​