Psycho-Physical Therapy (PPT)
October 24, 2009
Note special time: 2:30-4:30
Presenter: Bill Bowen
The Creation and Use of Somatic Based Resources in Psychotherapy
Resources are those things, actions, and qualities that we draw upon for support in times of need and also on a daily basis to facilitate optimal functioning. They help us deal effectively with the variable situations that life presents to us. When resources are inadequate one’s ability to transform & heal become restricted.
This lecture will explore body based resources (somatic resources) and their practical usefulness in psychotherapy. The physical, emotional, and psychological aspects of one’s experience are interactive and mutually influential. Change on a physical level affects one’s mental and emotional functioning. Change on a psychological level affects the body. Sustained change becomes possible for a client when new options (resources) become available that offer alternatives to older and more limiting physical and psychological patterns. A therapist’s ability to identify and work with a client’s existing and missing somatic resources, as well as psychological and emotional experiences, is an important part of successful therapy.
Bill Bowen, MFA, LMT, is the founder of Psycho-Physical Therapy and a Master practitioner in the field of Somatic Psychology. His background combines an immersion in the life of the human body with a clinical practice informed by multiple trainings in Somatic Psychotherapies and Body Work . He is trained in Rolfing and Rolfing Movement work, Hakomi Body Centered Psychotherapy, Bodynamic Analysis, Somatic Experiencing, Biovalent Manual Therapy and numerous other somatic and psychological disciplines.
His unique therapeutic method has evolved out of his 35 years of experience working with the creative process, body therapy, somatic psychology, and spirituality. The active integration of the physical and psychological has been the continuing focus of his work. He has been a trainer in the Hakomi method and was co-founder, with Pat Ogden, of the Hakomi Integrative Somatics. Bill has taught at colleges in both Europe and the United States and is currently on the faculty of the Somatic Psychology program at JFK University. He maintains a body psychotherapy practice in Portland, Oregon.
For more information about PPT, visit www.psychophysicaltherapy.com