Year One Classes

In the first year of training, each of the 5 modules focuses on one of the 5 character structures.

Character structure is a map of defensive patterns of behavior, thought, muscular holding and emotional expression that an individual develops in response to unmet childhood needs. These defenses present both psychologically and physically as chronic holding patterns in the body, and are an essential diagnostic tool for Core Energetics Practitioners.

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Topics include:

Body as an Instrument

The Leaving Defense

The Core Model of The Personality:  Mask,  Lower Self,  Higher Self

Images: How we Unconsciously Recreate the Past in the Present

The Merging Defense

Real and False Needs

The Sado-Masochistic Dynamic

The Enduring Defense

Boundaries

The Narcissistic Injury

The Aggressive Defense

Leadership

How We Eroticize Our Wounds: The Power of Sexual Fantasy

The Rigid Pattern

The Spiritual Significance of Sexuality

Year Two Classes

In year two of the training, Trainees are introduced to body-oriented techniques such as grounding, charge and discharge, body reading and practitioner skills.  They will continue to learn theoretical and embodied knowledge of Mask, Lower Self, Higher self, as they begin to practice working with each other in practitioner/client dyads.

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Topics include:

Step One: Penetrating the Mask

Step Two: Releasing and Transforming the Lower Self

Step Three: Accessing and Aligning with the Higher Self

The Mind/Body Connection

The Principles of Energy Economy

Touch and Soft Techniques

What the Body Reveals

Ego Function and Their Relationship to the Core

The Psychotherapeutic Journey: Between Practitioner and Client

Round Robin: Client Roleplay and Live Supervision

Practice Building: A Human Design Perspective

Ethics

The Individualized Life Plan and Human Design

Pride, Self-Will, Fear

Reason, Will, Emotion

Year Three Classes

In the third year of training, Trainees are asked to work with one client and offer a minimum of 20 therapy hours. Trainees who are already mental health professionals trained in other psychotherapeutic modalities, may start introducing Core Energetics principles in their work with clients. Trainees will need to complete 12 individual supervision sessions with an approved Core Energetics practitioner.

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Topics include:

Working With Resistance

The Developmental Movements that Integrate the Body

Live Supervision

Transference & Countertransference

Assessment and Therapeutic Planning

Working with the Breath

Segmental Armoring

The Therapeutic Stance: Being a Sacred Mirror

Letting Go of Stories

Year Four Classes

In Year 4, Trainees are required to form a peer group. A peer group meets between modules four times a year.

This is a group where Trainees can find support and safety to explore, and expand through challenging themselves and each other to take risks.

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Topics include:

Spiritual Emergency and Borderline

Working with Groups

Working with Couples

Working with Sexuality

Advanced Techniques