Professional Development
Somatic Body Mapping is offered for professionals who would like to experience, process, and develop their personal and professional capacity through movement and creativity. This space is unique, sensitive and personal.
Space held for two intensive days in a group offers you an opportunity to slow down our daily and professional routines, being away and meet your body in a nonjudgemental way. We will move, mark, speak and express embodied experiences collectively.
Somatic interventions can be introduced to clients only when you as a practitioner are comfortable with your own body. This CPD is not only for a personal development but I frame this as a professional development space to equip you with practical skills. In this process, I employ the practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy approach, Authentic Movement and dance movement psychotherapy, and the theoretical underpinnings of attachment relationships and an infant's early development.
In a post-SBMI reflective practice (facilitated either in-person or online for 2 hours after the intensive weekend), I offer space for participants to reflect on how they can incorporate newly developed somatic awareness in their practice and strengthen their clinical understanding. You will be provided with readings about SBM and guided to reflect on the process, facilitation, and theories behind the process. Please note the post-SBMI reflective practice is not training you to become an SBM practitioner but to strengthen your clinical skills. This 14-hour CPD is endorsed by PACFA.

Somatic Body Mapping Intensive
+ the Reflective Practice

Dates;
For Womxn (cis, trans and nonbinary)
13th & 14th September 2025 + a 2-hour reflective session
Venue:
Blackwood Catholic Parish, 2, Laffers Road, Belair, 5052, SA
(Please read the reasons why this intensive is offered in a gender-exclusive environment.)
For All Genders
Dates; 21st and 22d November 2025 + a 2-hour reflective session
(Deadline for Registration: 31st October, 2025)
Venue:
Parish Hall of the Anglican Church, 337, Main Road, Coromandel Valley, 5051 SA
Time - 10:00am - 5:00 pm
Fees : $650 (inclusive of art materials, reading materials, resources and refreshments)
Booking Essential: Contact Me or register here
Counsellor, 30s
"I attended this workshop with the intention of learning a lot of tools and techniques to support my client work...And of course I did. But what I didn't expect or prepare for, was the personal discovery I went on over the two days and the journey inwards to better understand myself. I felt guided by skilful, caring and wise facilitator, Mioi"
Testimonials
Psychotherapist, 70s
Clinical Supervisor
"A gently paced self reflective process provided with great sensitivity and care by the facilitator"
Art Therapist, 60s
"Body Mapping provides a beautiful integration of heart, mind, body and soul. The experience helps to inform my own practice."
About
Mioi Forster-Nakayama
I have been creating somatic body maps since I met Annette Schwalbe (Sr. RDMP, Somatic Body Mapping Mentor) in England in 2014. I navigated my grief of my mother's passing, marriage, pregnancies, fears and anxieties through this creative process within the safe space provided by Annette. I joined her mentoring program to learn about this approach in 2018 to become a facilitator. Since then, I have been offering SMB to professionals and individuals under Annette's clinical supervision to safely and ethically practice SBM. I offered the workshops for
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young refugees in the U.K. (2018)
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a group of women in Tokyo (2019)
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Practitioners in Australia (2021onwards)
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PhD Researcher
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Mothers-to-be
Right now, I am developing my somatic body map to mitigate possible secondary traumatisation in my research project.
