Biodynamic Conference

Centre for Biodynamic Psychotherapy

Conference • Saturday 31 October

3rd Biodynamic Body-Psychotherapy Conference

Contemporary Views of Biodynamic Body-Psychotherapy

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Pre-conference event • Friday 30 October

Gerda Boyesen – a video recording The Principles of the Biodynamic Work

‘I go to my temple…’

A video recorded by Ursa Deniflee and Daniel Gvirtzman in 1986

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Post conference workshop • Sunday 1 November

"The Primary Couple Personality" Gabriel Shiraz

The third Biodynamic conference explores aspects of contemporary psychotherapeutic practice from a biodynamic perspective and also examines biodynamic psychotherapy within current psychotherapeutic thought and neuroscience

Conference Speakers Ebba Boyesen Essence and Expansion of Biodynamic Psychology Dr Elya Steinberg MD Voodoo Death, Neuroscience and Biodynamic Psychology Guy Smith From Identity to Id-entity: Biodynamic Psychotherapy as Soft Tissue Feminism Shlomit Eliashar The Implications of Attuned Parental Presence on Child Development and Adult Life (A Biodynamic Body Psychotherapy Perspective) Carlien van Heel The Diaphragm Is The Gateway To The Unconscious Gabriele Gad The Eyes, the Windows of the Soul Gabriel Shiraz The Therapeutic Process of Melting the Armour of a Couple With The Aim Of Reconnecting the Couple To Their 'Primary Couple Personality' Anat Ben-Israel Biodynamic Psychotherapy and Spirituality Siegfried Bach Biodynamic and Mind

Pre-conference event • Friday 30 October

Gerda Boyesen a video recording

The Principles of the Biodynamic Work ‘I go to my temple…’

A video recorded by Ursa Deniflee and Daniel Gvirtzman in 1986

We will have the opportunity to watch a video of Gerda Boyesen talking in concise and

engaging ways about the Biodynamic work; it was recorded in 1986. The screening will

be paused for a panel discussion facilitated by Ursula Deniflee. Panel members:

Ebba Boyesen

Michelle Quoilin

Clover Southwell

Carlien van Heel

Hartmut Wuebbeler

After the screening we will invite small group discussions followed by a feedback

session. This CPD encourages reflections on a historical teaching document of the

founder of Biodynamic Psychotherapy. How does Gerda’s message impact on us now

– personally and professionally?

Please note that this video has been produced on a home movie camera 28 years ago. This is a CPD event uniquely suited for the community of Biodynamic psychotherapists and students, but we welcome interested parties.

The Principles of the Biodynamic Work ‘I go to my temple…’ Film Friday 30 October • 6.00 pm - 9.30 pm • £25

Highgate Library Civic & Cultural Centre, Croftdown Road, London N19 5DJ

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Friday 30 October



Conference presentations:

Ebba Boyesen Essence and Expansion of Biodynamic Psychology

Dr Elya Steinberg MD Voodoo Death, Neuroscience and Biodynamic Psychology Freezing and momentary paralysis is a normal adaptive reaction to a scary situation. We hear an unexpected loud voice from somewhere near us and we stop, freezing to enable ourselves to assess the situation. We assess, think and choose the best adaptive response, shake ourselves, shake our body and mind out of the freezing state and move into a chosen action - back to the flow of life. But what happens if the scary situation does not stop, such as in times of war or a household in which physical punishment is permitted? What happens if, after we have assessed the situation, we come to the safe conclusion that it is better not to move? What happens to us if we are like a little child in a scary situation created by somebody close to us, like our caregiver, a care giver who is dangerous because they can abuse us physically, sexually or emotionally? What happens to us if the dangerous situation is that our needs are not attended to as they should be by our caregiver, and we are left in a pool of painful feelings, isolated instead of having somebody to support us and relieve our pain? For example, somebody to come to us when we scream when we feel alone in our cradle? What if we are born into the cradle of evilness and there is no good reaction that we can find to undertake other than paralyse ourselves and wait, hoping against hope, for a better time in the future when it will be safe to move and join the flow of life again. Sometime freezing our selves, cutting ourselves off mentally, dissociating ourselves from experiencing pain and terror, is the most adaptive reaction we can choose. However, if we stay in this situation for a very long time we may not be able to shake ourselves afterwards and we can't shake our body and mind out of the frozen state anymore. We may even die, as could happen in a voodoo death. Sometime we can't shake ourselves and once again join the flow of life without having another sympathetic person with us who can show us the way to bring ourselves back to life. Our mind in such a state is oftentimes unavailable. Talking does not registered in our frozen brain. Then the only way to access us is through our body. We need to learn again, body to body, beyond the boundaries of the spoken language, how to trust the fundamental flow of interaction with another person who is a caring and sympathetic human being. In this presentation I will tell the story of a client who believed that he descended towards his voodoo death and how I worked with him and supported him in re-engaging with the flow of life. The story will be presented as the the subjective phenomenology of the psychotherapist and will enriched by findings from contemporary science and Biodynamic theory.

Guy Smith From Identity to Id-entity: Biodynamic Psychotherapy as Soft Tissue Feminism

In this paper, I argue that biodynamic psychotherapy methods can bring about the kind of psychophysical-social change called for by feminists, LGBT activists and post-colonialists. Biodynamic methods, with their emphasis on the softly powerful, facilitate transformational shifts in the deepest reaches and furthest stretches of a person-in-their-environment, that take us beyond ‘man/woman’, ‘man/animal’, ‘subject/object’, ‘mind/body’, ‘work/play’ and ‘higher/lower’ dualisms. The presentation draws on biodynamic methodologies, feminist literature, LGBT literature, child development research, embodied cognition research, and most importantly subjective experience to substantiate its thesis. Shlomit Eliashar The Implications of Attuned Parental Presence on Child Development and Adult Life (A Biodynamic Body Psychotherapy Perspective)

Attuned parental presence and attuned touch play a pivotal role in early child development, and has significant implications in adult life. Yet, most of us did not experience such presence. Developing this quality of being attuned to the baby/clients can prove a huge challenge for parents and health professionals alike. Child development starts in the uterus before birth, and continues throughout our lives, shaping us as adults. Hence, more awareness to this simple yet essential concept of attuned parental presence can make a huge difference and can shed more light not only on babies' development but also on how we understand our adult clients. This informative presentation will be focused on attuned presence and how it might feel to be a baby in the first weeks of life. Core principles of child development, neuro-science and Biodynamic Body Psychotherapy will be presented and ways of integrating these insights to inform your work with children or adult clients will be explored. The workshop is suitable for counsellors and psychotherapists of all modalities, complementary therapists, health and social care workers, teachers, parents, nannies and the general public who has an interest in people's welfare. Parents may find this information motivating and supporting in their demanding and rewarding role. "Working with adult clients, I feel and hear the children they have all been. I feel and hear their longing for an attuned parental presence and a touch that also touches the soul. Is it unavoidable to become adults carrying painful wounds stemming from a lack of such parental presence? What if the parent is made aware of the importance of attuned touch at the right time?" Eliashar. S, (2015), Somatic Psychotherapy Today. Further reading in this article published in Somatic Psychotherapy Today, 2015, volume 5, number 1: http://www.nancyeichhorn.com/therapeutic-insights-into-infant-massage/ Carlien van Heel The Diaphragm Is The Gateway To The Unconscious

What did Gerda Boyesen mean with this statement? What is the role of the diaphragm in psychotherapy? I will first look at the structure of the diaphragm and its function in our body and particularly its relationship to breathing. I will then link this to its role in repressing and allowing emotions and explore how we work with diaphragm tensions and breathing defences in Biodynamic psychotherapy.

Gabriele Gad The Eyes, the Windows of the Soul

Our eyes have worked for us so many years and all we do is take them for granted. With glasses and contact lenses we force them to see. In this workshop we will experience various exercises by William Bates, Martin Sussman and Harry Benjamin; ways to protect our eyes, give them attention and help them to improve. We will focus on our eyes in a Biodynamic way, exploring subjects such as: "How to relax on your computer" "Biodynamic eye and face massage" "How and why to use pinhole glasses" Gabriel Shiraz The Therapeutic Process of Melting the Armour of a Couple With The Aim Of Reconnecting the Couple To Their 'Primary Couple Personality'

In this talk I will present an approach to couple therapy, using the basic principles of Biodynamic Psychotherapy. Wilhelm Reich and Gerda Boyesen defined 2 basic concepts that relate to intra-psychic process, the armour, the primary personality and the secondary personality. In the talk we will explore those concepts and how we can use them psycho-therapeutically for the couples. I will use clinical example to demonstrate our ability to re-connect to our 'primary couple personality'. Anat Ben-Israel Biodynamic Psychotherapy and Spirituality

In this presentation I will share my thoughts, observations, experiences and understandings, which demonstrate the importance of a spiritual dimension for the therapist and client alike in Biodynamic Psychotherapy and especially in this era and why this is so. In these times where the natural sciences are explaining more and more of "How" physiology, psychology and neurology intertwine, the mechanistic approach to life can be strong. Questions like: Are we more then the sum total of our history and our biology? Does the body with its brain have a purpose beyond just existence? In somatic therapies in general and in Biodynamic Psychotherapy in particular, we often speak of a Body-Mind connection, we seldom if at all, speak of a Body-Spirit or Body-Mind-Spirit connection and yet within the name of our profession we continually affirm it with the word Psyche. The term "Psychotherapy" can be translated, if one wishes to "Healing of the Spirit of the Soul or of Breath". Isn't it interesting that we prefer and maybe even feel more comfortable with the term "Mind" then the term "Spirit"? From Wikipedia - "The term psychotherapy is derived from Ancient Greek psyche (ψυχή meaning "breath; spirit; soul") and therapeia (θεραπεία"healing; medical treatment")". There is a dimension within the human experience that our shying away from may do a disservice to the therapist, student or client in our modality. The spiritual aspect is not the exclusive domain of religions or the Primary personality. It is larger, it encompasses phrases and concepts Gerda Boyesen created like: Trust the life force The client is always right Total acceptance Only the client knows The client can never fail a method Making friends with the resistance "The Heart " and "The Median Line" (two additional stages Boyesen observed in the psychosexual development). We are in a paradigm shift, where traditional structures which guided humanity are losing strength, while in parts of the world aggression is on the rise. People are at a loss and fear is on the rise. Personal one on one

contact is not encouraged as it was before the digital era. What is missing? What moves, inspires and motivates us beyond day to day survival? What makes human crave connection and physical contact? Why are we drawn to create art and to enjoy beauty? The answers may point us to the permanent and the ephemeral, to what five senses can not interact with directly, yet we experience and embody the effect in wholeness of the body and our being. It may direct us to a state of wholeness, of gratitude and at times to profound yearning to reconnect to those states. It may remind that one's life is not fading away like a clear and strong colored rainbow does in time but that one is an unfading rainbow at all times. Does Biodynamic Psychotherapy and massage offer what may be missing? Siegfried Bach Biodynamic and Mind part 2 Information to follow

3rd Biodynamic Body Psychotherapy Conference


Saturday 31 October • 10.00 am - 6.00 pm £50 includes buffet lunch

Highgate Library Civic & Cultural Centre, Croftdown Road, London N19 5DJ

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Post conference workshop • Sunday 1 November

"The Primary Couple Personality" Gabriel Shiraz

A workshop for psychotherapists, whether they are working with couples or want to develop and expand their therapeutic abilities by becoming a couple therapist. In this one-day workshop, we will explore and experience couple therapy in-depth. We will look into the complexity of the therapy - having three people in the room, each with their own narrative, patterns of thought, behavior, body and breath. We will explore what happens to the dyadic encounter when patterns meet and form a shared pattern. Initially we will look at the primary personality of each individual, then the formation of the 'primary couple personality'. We will also observe the formation of the 'secondary couple personality', which comes with load-life obligations, difficulties, transitioning to having a family and children, crises and routine. We will experience body-mind exercises, which will help us as therapists, to help couples in developing their own awareness towards themselves and their partners; to support couples to develop intimate, empowered, and empathetic communication, and to reconnect with their individual and their 'primary couple personality'. Working with couples over the last decade, I've seen how the Biodynamic concepts, such as primary personality, armour, flow, etc., also relate to couples, and how those concepts develop in a fascinating complexity in any relationship. In my work as a Biodynamic Body-psychotherapist, I see the importance of the Biodynamic approach, when working with couples. It enables the free flow of energy, sexuality,and emotions in the relationship. It helps to melt the couple armour that was built, due to load-life, in the process of re-connection to the individual 'primary personality' and the 'primary couple personality'.

The Primary Couple Personality Gabriel Shiraz

Sunday 1 November • 11.00 am - 6.00 pm • £50

Venue: HNCC, 25 Bertram Street, London N19 5DQ

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Conference Speakers: Siegfried Bach, born 1953, Biodynamic Psychotherapist and Trainer, works as a Clinical Psychologist in Germany. He trained in the first regular biodynamic training group in the “Centre for Bioenergy” starting 1977. Ten years later he became a trainer in the “Gerda Boyesen International Institute”. From 1995 onwards he supported Gerda Boyesen’s “Academy for Biodynamic Psychology” and the training of her final decade in the German “Institut für Biodynamik”. In 2005 he finished his university Diploma in Psychology with a thesis about vagal reactivity under controlled affective states using the ECG of the heart. His clinical career started in 2009 in the rehabilitation of orthopaedic and cardiac patients. He now works with chronic pain conditions in a multi-modal medical frame in the Klinikum Westfalen, Dortmund. Anat Ben-Israel is a Biodynamic Body-Psychotherapist and teacher trained by Garda Boyesen as well as Clover Southwell, Mary Molloy, Ebba Boyesen, Mouna-Lisa Boyesen among others. Received her diploma in Biodynamic Body-Psychotherapy in 1988 from the International Institute of Garda Boyesen, London. Anat has been teaching Biodynamic Body-Psychotherapy and Massage including Deep Draining and in private practice for more then 28 years. She taught for the institute in London and Germany and at her school in the USA and Israel. She has a private practice in California and Washington state where she lives. For 27 years she is engaged in spiritual practice and studies. For more info. Go to my website: www.biodynamictherapy.net Ursula Deniflee is an integrative psychotherapist, supervisor and Biodynamic massage therapist. She studied with Gerda Boyesen in London in the 80ties and holds an MA in psychoanalytic studies. Over the years she has developed many interests; she published articles on contemporary art, organised events and art exhibitions, and practises Astrology. She held diverse posts as a trainer and supervisor in the UK and Ireland. Currently she is especially interested in working with people in their later years. Ursula maintains her private practise in Central London. Shlomit Eliashar is a UKCP registered Biodynamic Body-Psychotherapist with an interest in relational approach. I am a qualified school teacher (B.Ed.), a trainer and workshop facilitator, working at Mind and in private practice in North London and Hertfordshire and was a course coordinator at LSBP. I draw on my experience of other therapeutic modalities such as brief therapy, mindfulness, neuroscience, breath and energy work to create a unique embodied approach. As a mother of two and a qualified Baby Massage teacher, I am passionate about attuned presence and touch and believe it has a strong implication on adult life. Gabriele Gad dipl. psych, psychotherapist, spiritual healer and jazz musician came to London in 1981. She trained with psychologist Gerda Boyesen for six years in Munich and London. Gabriele has held various workshops about Energy in Balance, Biodynamic Massage, Keeping Your Sacrum More Sacred and Vocal Expression at the Body Mind Spirit Festival in London, Rudolf Steiner House and the Bonnington Centre where she lives in a housing-coop where people know and cherish each other. She also wrote two books about therapy and a fairytale about her sons and their childhood. For the last 30 years Gabriele has been running a private practice in South London. Gabriele sees the music, where people listen to her, as a balance to her therapy work where she listens to her clients. Michele Quoilin qualified in Belgium as a Teacher. She has been active and involved in the human potential movement and psychotherapy from the early 1970’s. She worked as a Teacher in a school committed to the Person Centred Approach of Carl Rogers in the 1970’s in Belgium and moved to London in 1976. She experienced various psychotherapeutic methods before settling for the Biodynamic approach. She qualified in Biodynamic Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Gerda Boyesen Centre in London in 1984 and became a Trainer and Supervisor with Gerda Boyesen and other Institutes in UK and Europe for almost 30 years. Michele maintains her private practice in North London and Guildford. Gabriel Shiraz is 50 years old, married with four children, two boys and two girls. Upon his return from studying Biodynamic psychotherapy with the late Garda Boyesen in London in the 90’s, for the past 18 years, Gabriel Shiraz is practicing as Biodynamic Body-psychotherapist. He is a trainer, lecturer, supervisor and psychotherapist for individuals, couples, therapists and groups. In 2001-2008,he had

founded and was a director of the Body psychotherapy program in Israel at Reidman College. Currently, he is a senior trainer at the college and he teaches various courses for 15 years. He had supervised and trained about 10 years in hospitals for mental health in Israel. Gabriel is a senior teacher in the field with extensive experience in Israel and Europe. He is a qualified member of the EABP, European Association for body Psychotherapy. He teaches for the third year, couples therapy for trained psychotherapists who want to develop and expand to become couple body- psychotherapists in the field. He runs workshops for couples, with focusing on improving their communication and relationships. He is holding the vision that every experienced Body psychotherapist can progress and expand, to work also with couples. Guy Smith achieved a distinction for his recent MA degree in Gender, Society and Representation (UCL) and is a published writer, including the recent paper ‘Empathy and Other Ways of Not Understanding’ (Think Pieces journal). He has trained extensively in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy and various schools of Body Psychotherapy (including biodynamic and deep draining massage); and, although he currently works without touch, he considers his work biodynamic. Guy is an environmental, post-colonial, feminist, LGBT, bi and ‘bio’ activist. Clover Southwell, is a biodynamic psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer, came to Mona-Lisa Boyesen as a client in 1973, and then studied with Gerda, Ebba and Mona-Lisa Boyesen. She was involved with the building up of the training programme at the Boyesen Centre in Acacia House, Acton. When Gerda closed her centre in 1999, she was one of the five people invited to establish a new biodynamic training centre, and was a director of LSBP until 2008, recently serving one further year. She has a practice in London, as well as enjoying working abroad. Dr Elya Steinberg, MD, is Co-Director of the Centre for Biodynamic Psychotherapy (London School of Biodynamic Psychotherapy). She is a biodynamic psychotherapist, integrating body-psychotherapy, Gerda Boyesen methods and bioenergy with conventional allopathic medicine and complementary medicine. She interweaves alternative and conventional approaches to allow a person to grow as a holistic complex. Carlien van Heel was taken by the Biodynamic work from the moment she met it in 1982. She moved from the Netherlands to London in 1985 to study at the Gerda Boyesen Centre and continued learning from Gerda Boyesen till her death in 2005. Carlien has worked as a Biodynamic psychotherapist in private practice since 1987 and was a member of the LSBP Training Committee and LSBP trainer from 2001-2013. She was a co-director of LSBP between 2010-2013. She gained an MA in Body psychotherapy from the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge in 2014. Carlien has a private practice where she sees clients for Biodynamic psychotherapy and Biodynamic massage in Southgate, North London (N14). She also works as a supervisor. Hartmut Wuebbeler is a UKCP registered Biodynamic Body Psychotherapist & Supervisor working in private practice in Central London. He has a background as a research biologist and studied a range of complementary therapies, training at the Gerda Boyesen Centre in the 90ies. He was a course co-ordinator at LSBP for five years from 2009-2014. He currently serves as the chairman of The Association of Biodynamic Massage Therapists in the UK (ABMT). Hartmut is a body-psychotherapy and Biodynamic Massage trainer as well as an independent workshop facilitator. For a number of years he has been a tutor at the College of Psychic Studies (CPS) in London where he teaches classes and workshops in energy work, psychic development and clairvoyance/mediumship. In 2015 he founded the 'Personal Growth and Professional Development Events' series of regular talks, seminars and workshops



London • 31 October 2015

Ticket: Film Evening £25 • Conference only £50 • Conference & Film £75 • Workshop £50

The Principles of the Biodynamic Work

‘I go to my temple…’ Film Friday 30 October • 6.00 pm - 9.30 pm • £25

Highgate Library Civic & Cultural Centre, Croftdown Road, London N19 5DJ Book Now - Paypal

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3rd Biodynamic Body Psychotherapy Conference Contemporary Views of Biodynamic Body-Psychotherapy

Saturday 31 October • 10.00 am - 6.00 pm • £50 includes buffet lunch Highgate Library Civic & Cultural Centre, Croftdown Road, London N19 5DJ

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The Principles of the Biodynamic Work ‘I go to my temple…’ Film

Friday 30 October • 6.00 pm - 9.30 pm

3rd Biodynamic Body Psychotherapy Conference

Saturday 31 October • 10.00 am - 6.00 pm

Tickets to both events • £75 Highgate Library Civic & Cultural Centre, Croftdown Road, London N19 5DJ

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Post conference workshop The Primary Couple Personality

Gabriel Shiraz Sunday 1 November • 11.00 am - 6.00 pm • £50

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