Radically Embodied Compassion Training

​Martial Arts-based Deliberate Practice to entrain therapist courage

​Would you like to enhance your therapist self's compassionate courage, distress tolerance and responsiveness? COME JOIN US!

​This two-day experiential embodied enactive workshop will expose you to martial arts-inspired skills and practices to integrate into your personal practice and bring to bear on your psychotherapeutic work. This will help develop and enhance your distress tolerance and compassionate resilience, so as to stay fully present and emotionally available in (difficult) therapeutic encounters. 

​Through a broad range of martial arts exercises, you shall experience and further develop skills in the following:

• ​How to maintain balance, stability, flexibility and compassionate responsiveness across emotional states;

• ​Develop deep distress tolerance in being with strong (threat-based) emotions;

• ​How to rapidly and fluidly switch between motivational systems to stay affiliatively engaged during moments of high emotional and relational threat;

• ​How to dynamically respond to fears, blocks and resistances to compassion by absorbing, blending with and redirecting energy flow;

• ​Embodying and enacting different forms of therapeutic courage (static and dynamic) in the therapy space;

• ​Working with somatic transference-countertransference from a place of compassionate responsivity rather than threat-based reactivity. 

​Who is this workshop for? 

​The workshop is complimentary to therapist/clinicians from any therapeutic modality who wish to enhance their capacities in therapeutic presence, relational mindfulness, embodied self-regulation, compassionate engagement and action, and rupture-repair work.  

​If you are interested in developing your abilities to remain affiliatively engaged and courageously compassionately responsive under pressure, then this is the workshop for you!