Scientific research shows that our bodies are capable of directly perceiving, impacting, and regulating each other (in other words resonating with each other). Body psychotherapists are especially situated to develop and exploit this innate ability that all of us have to increase outcomes in therapy. In this interactive webinar, Raja Selvam will first define the phenomenon of resonance and then present on types and sources of resonance, the scientific and other evidence for resonance, differences between transference, counter-transference, and resonance, ways of developing and utilizing the capacity for resonance in therapists as well as clients to improve clinical outcomes, especially in working with stress, trauma, emotion, and attachment.

Learning objectives:

1. An overview of the scientific evidence on somatic resonance.
2. An overview of different types of resonance possible in a therapeutic setting
3. Differences between transference, counter-transference, and resonance
4. Four clinical strategies for improving outcomes in body psychotherapy through developing the capacity for resonance
5. Ways in which resonance can be particularly helpful in working with stress, trauma, emotion, or attachment

Raja Selvam

Raja Selvam, PhD is a senior trainer in Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing (SE) professional trauma trainings and the developer of the Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) approach, an advanced training for experienced clinicians with the goal of improving clinical outcomes through greater embodiment of all aspects of experience and all levels of the psyche in the physical body. He teaches in as many as twenty countries in Asia, Europe, North and South Americas, and the Middle East.

www.integralsomaticpsychology.com.

In our experience, there are certain core Universal themes that do not arise out of life experience but instead organize our whole way of experiencing life. Out of these core lenses, our fundamental motivations and ways of paying attention arise.

We believe that these Core Lenses also arise out of trauma. In this case, however, the trauma is at a Soul and not material Level. The trauma arises out of the experience of embodiment itself and our inability to handle, on one level, the movement from being Unity to being Dual.

As with all trauma, there arises associated Core Fears and limiting negative beliefs we have about ourselves. Most mystical religious traditions, and even American Psychiatry, says that there are nine such core limiting beliefs. Our personalities therefore are, in part, obsessive compulsive identities that served to protect us from having to experience these Core Fears and Associated negative limiting beliefs about ourselves

Learning Objectives: In this webinar, we will…

And participants will be able to:

1. Describe how our fundamental Core Fears arise out of a trauma.

2. Identify 9 core fears.

3. Identify a process for mastering and healing the core fears.