Training Workshops are offered in 2 or 3-day formats
In the middle of the cosmos,
Inside heaven and earth,
There is one treasure hidden in the body.
– Zen Koan
Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing
Workshop Description
Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing (MBSEP) is a mindful, body-centered approach to activating intrinsic emotional processing in the brain. The processing is activated and maintained by the client’s and the therapist’s mindful, Felt-Sense Attention upon the client’s somatic experience. The client’s emotional processing is enabled, focused, and supported through the attuned relational connection between the therapist and the client. A focus on tender, compassionate awareness creates a special quality of attention which helps to activate the healing process. MBSEP is a practical, useful method for initiating and promoting essential emotional processing. It can easily be incorporated into any therapeutic modality.
MBSEP is based upon the interaction between focused attention and internal experience: Where attention goes, energy gathers; where energy goes, experience unfolds. The mindful attentional focus of Felt-Sense Attention originates in, and is regulated by, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Felt-Sense Attention focuses awareness on the body’s somatic, sensory experience. It serves to activate right-hemisphere limbic processes related to emotional memory, body awareness, attunement, and affective experience.
Training workshop Objectives:
- Learn the psychodynamic and neurobiological foundations of MBSEP
- Develop the skills for focusing and supporting Felt Sense Attention
- Apply the elements of attuned relationship with clients
- Learn the somatic markers of emotional processing
- Apply the principles of mindfulness to emotional processing
- Supporting the witnessing function
- Learn how to support the client’s unfolding emotional processing
- Using MBSEP for strengthening client resources
- Support integration of right-brain with left-brain processing
- Incorporate MBSEP into the flow of your therapeutic approach
Outline of the MBSEP training
DAY 1
- Experiential introduction to MBSEP
- Basic Neurobiology of MBSEP
- Right-hemisphere vs. left-hemisphere functions in the healing process
- Attachment & Attunement: supporting the client to allow deep emotional processing
- Mindfulness & Felt Sense Attention
- Mindfulness in emotional processing
- Practicum in MBSEP
- Questions & discussion
DAY 2
- Resourcing with MBSEP, practicum
- Practicum in MBSEP
- Questions & discussion
- Titrating the level of stimulation in MBSEP
- Supporting the client’s unfolding emotional processing
- Integrating right-hemisphere and left-hemisphere processing
- MBSEP practicum, discussion
- Incorporating MBSEP into the therapeutic flow
For information on dates and locations of MBSEP trainings for Heath Care Practitioners, contact: The Evolution Group, Inc.’s Training Coordinator, at: [email protected] or visiting our Professional Development Page for upcoming training opportunities.
Testimonials
“For the first time in my life I have the ability to feel at peace. To just to be able to experience peace and feel the absence of that perpetual undercurrent of anxiety is a miraculous gift.
I appreciate the holistic quality of this work. Your approach meshes so well with my spiritual beliefs and practice. Thank you so much for providing this amazing service!”
Laura
“Robert is a very skilled in MBSEP, presenting this information from a high level of research and experience.”
Brenda
“Great, masterful practitioner!”
William
“Robert is passionate about his material and very caring. It’s easy to follow with him leading.”
Victoria
“Dr. Weisz was very present. His heart and passion were easily felt and experienced.”
Lillian
“Dr. Weisz was exceptionally articulate in his description of MBSEP, in its demonstration, and in the description of the experiential work. Very well informed and able to share that information in a simple but profound way.”
Joanna
“Dr. Weisz is highly skilled and very engaging with the group. He translates his knowledge in a very skillful manner.”
Patrick