Training

Embodied Awareness, Attachment Wounds, and Healing Shapes: An Experiential Training Using Psychomotor Psychotherapy

Mariah Rooney

June 26 - 28 2026

Priser

Date and time:

Arrival: June 26, 15:00

Departure: June 28, 14:00

Course fee*:

NOK 5600,-

*Meals and acccomodation not incl.

Accomodation and meals:

2 nights, per person, all meals included.

From 1800,- to 3400,-

Want to join?

The training is open to those who have already attended the workshop. If you wish to join, please let us know in your application.

Following the immersive retreat, this two-day professional training invites psychotherapists, counselors, and somatic practitioners to deepen their clinical application of Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP) principles and related somatic psychotherapy techniques.

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 PBSP concepts such as basic needs, shape and countershape, the creation of “good inner objects,” and the symbolic fulfillment of unmet developmental needs—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 PBSP principles in adaptive, expansive, and culturally responsive ways that honor the full context of each client’s lived experience.

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 PBSP methods with sensitivity to race, culture, gender, sexuality, class, and historical trauma, cultivating greater flexibility and presence in their clinical practice.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

Understand core concepts of PBSP: Articulate foundational principles including basic needs, shape, countershape, and symbolic attachment needs.
Facilitate shape and countershape interventions: Experience and guide structured exercises that offer reparative responses to unmet developmental needs.
Recognize and contextualize attachment wounds: Identify how early attachment patterns manifest somatically and psychically, and understand how cultural and systemic factors intersect with these dynamics.
Identify somatic expressions of attachment and identity: Recognize how the body communicates relational and identity-based wounds through posture, tone, and movement.
Apply PBSP and other somatic techniques with cultural responsiveness: Integrate interventions into diverse therapeutic contexts, adapting methods to align with clients’ cultural frameworks, values, and resources.
Practice a liberatory clinical Stance: Reflect on power, positionality, and collective dimensions of trauma to foster healing relationships rooted in dignity, agency, and choice.