Somatic Body Mapping

Your bodily felt senses matter.

Your body matters.

Your feelings matter.

What is it?

Somatic Body Mapping Intensive (SBMI) is a holistic embodied process for individuals who are interested in engage in their body, movement, and creativity. SBM is a safe, respectful, and gently paced journey that encourages you to engage with your body sensations, creatively marking and speaking. It is a space to slow down and attend to inner sensations in your body.

You will be creating a body-size map, using various art and organic materials that assist you to express yourself. It is explorative, experiential, playful, and sometimes risk-taking.You require no experience or skills in artmaking and movements. It is about you experiencing and expressing rather than creating a 'nice piece of artwork'.

SBM is offered on a one-to-one basis or in groups.

Who is this for?

Individuals can use SBM as a therapeutic journey within a set of the timeframe.

Helping professionals can use this space for their personal and professional development.

Researchers can use a map to process their research journey and/or mitigate secondary traumatisation.

Features

Why Somatic?

This type of body mapping is not just 'marking' or colouring what exists or is 'you think' in your body. This comes from the cognitive level. On contrary, Somatic Body Mapping is strongly based on your somatic bodily experience. What you experience in your body is a central focus in this journey.

The purpose of making a map is not to create a nice piece of artwork. If so, that is a body map, but not a somatic body map!

Personal Development

Somatic Body Mapping is a personal embodied journey. We will explore the birth history, childhood, adulthood, parenthood in relation to the body creatively.

SBM is useful for meeting your body in a safe and gentle way. This method is useful for those who are struggling with their body images, changes in their identities, and trauma.

The space is slow-paced and nonjudgemental by the therapist, so that self-reflection can happen safely.

Collective Circle

In a Somatic Body Mapping group (intensive), we gather as a circle of womxn / men. We have a choice of sharing, and listen, witness, and echo other participants' experiences. The space becomes more collective and conscious by the others' presence.

The space allows the participants to be heard and seen and ultimately cohesive.

Inclusive Environment

This CPD is offered for people of all abilities, ages, races, and backgrounds while facilitated in a gender-exclusive or gender-inclusive environment.

The reason for exclusion is that the process involves physical proximity, gender-specific experience (eg, the change of the body through pregnancy, menopause), potential trauma, violence, and gender identity. Intensives are offered separately for womxn (cis, trans, and non-binary).

Offering

Professional Development
(group / individuals)

2 Full days + a 2-hour reflective practice

(A total of 14 hour- CPD)

offered or on a one-to-one basis

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Individual Sessions

You may like to explore your journey through SBM instead of committing to individual therapy.

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Professional Development

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 a 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 to become an SBM practitioner but to strengthen your clinical skills.

MOVING CIRCLE