Second cycle
Basic training in psychotherapy
Teaching takes place over 2 years within a specific group
Second cycle
Basic training in psychotherapy
Teaching takes place over 2 years within a specific group
This is a concrete cycle in which the student becomes a therapist, systematically acquiring the fundamental knowledge of Biodynamic Psychology in order to become a body-psychotherapist.
It develops therapeutic action. It is often during this cycle that students begin their professional practice.
Structure of the second cycle
Teaching takes place over 2 years within a specific group that is renewed each year by 1/2 section.
This cycle is made up of 12 3-day weekends, 2 4-day winter courses, and 2 7-day summer courses (a total of 58 days).
Winter and summer courses must be residential, to enable all 2nd and 3rd cycle students to meet in the same place (creating a collegial professional network). For weekends, the possibility of staying on site free of charge is included in the course and is strongly recommended.
These cycles are available in Paris, Lyon and Montpellier.
Clinical practice
In addition to internships, students organize a therapeutic chain among themselves, to give and receive regular sessions (weekly recommended), in order to put into practice the techniques they have learned. Supervision of this work during internships provides a concrete understanding of the teaching and its dynamics.
From the second year onwards, students have the opportunity to take part in the Practical School to deliver biodynamic treatments in a professional setting in the presence of a supervisor.
Study program
Establish contact, acquire tools and understand therapeutic dynamics.
Initially, the emphasis is on the body and its reactions, the inner feeling of self and other. The body rarely lies, allowing the student to hone his or her intuition through constant feedback from the other's body. The learning process then moves on to understanding the results of the work and making therapeutic choices.
- presence and therapeutic listening
- developing self-regulation
- biodynamic massage techniques
- energy release techniques
- working with and on breathing
- biodynamic vegetotherapy
- positive regression work
- image work and guided daydreaming
- reparenting techniques
- therapeutic presence
- orientations: emotional, vital, organic.
-distance and empathy
- energy monitoring
Tools and techniques
Two main areas are particularly well developed:
biodynamic massages :
- basic touch
- membrane massage
- periosteum massage
- aura techniques
- distribution
- self-regulating massages
- stethoscope massages
- breathing massage
- lifting
vegetotherapy
- internal stimulus
- amplification
- emotional expression
- somatic compromise
- psycho-emotional loops
- body memory
Major psychological theories
- theory of psycho-peristalsis
- the different stages of psycho-sexual development
- theory and analysis of transference
- G. Boyesen, W. Reich, C.G. Jung, S. Freud, G. Bateson...
Written work
A written report on the course is to be produced in turn.
Students also take it in turns to lead a round-table discussion on the correlations between Biodynamics and the readings of the month, and to write a paper on this work.
At the end of each year, a mini-memoir is required.
Trainers
Discover the School's international and French-speaking team
Certification
At the end of the second cycle, a Certificate is awarded to those who have completed the entire course. Completion of the second cycle entitles the holder to attend the School's first-cycle modules or therapy groups led by therapists trained by the School.
Conditions for enrolment in the second cycle
- have completed at least 4 1st cycle modules (or equivalent)
- fill in the questionnaire
- write a cover letter containing your personal and professional curriculum, as well as your reasons for undertaking this training program.
- pass a probationary interview with one of the instructors in charge. If necessary, one or more additional modules may be required for refresher training.
If accepted, the applicant must :
- make a written commitment for the full duration of the cycle, i.e. 58 days over two years.
- pay for the course in full or in instalments.
- undergo personal therapy throughout the course.
- come regularly to supervise customers.