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“Whether a partner, parent, teacher, boss, beloved friend, or coworker really beholds you, really steps into your visceral frame of reference and stays with you there, that sensory experience of sharing honest intimacy can wash over and feel empowering, nourishing ,uplifting, encouraging, liberating.” Karen Roller (2023)
This experiential presentation will focus on the somatics of beholding when working with young people. What enhances and what interrupts our capacity to really allow ourselves and our clients to be seen, to see and to accept their and our visceral experience. Developing skills of observation, along with having a greater awareness of one’s own embodiment, allows the practitioner to be more connected and present with young people, and supports them to see and feel more than the presenting issue. It also enables the practitioner to manage their own window of tolerance and self-contact, and issues of transference and countertransference. Slowing down the process creates space for the young person’s curiosity about their own process and how this impacts their relationships, enabling them to tune into their experience and to bring powerful self awareness- to feel beheld.
PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 1 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Somatic Skills with Young People (2.04 MB) | 20 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Narelle McKenzie is the Director and a Senior trainer of the Australian Radix Body Centered Training Centre and the Radix Institute, North America, which offers a three-year training program in Radix Body Centered Psychotherapy. She is a registered psychologist with over forty years' experience working in private practice with adults, adolescents, families, couples and groups. She has a Masters in developmental psychology and extensive experience and training in psychotherapy and psychology. As part of her private consultancy Narelle has led experiential and training workshops on Embodied Psychotherapy throughout Australia, the USA and the UK. She is a Clinical Member of the Australian Psychotherapy and Counselling Association (PACFA) Register, a PACFA accredited psychotherapy supervisor, an accredited supervisor for Psychology, a member of the United States Association of Body Psychotherapists as well as a member of Peer Review Committee for the International Journal of Body Psychotherapy.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Narelle McKenzie has employment relationships with the Australian Radix Body Centered Training Centre and the Radix Institute. She receives royalties as a published author. Narelle McKenzie receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Narelle McKenzie is a member of the Australian Radix Body Centered Psychotherapy Association, the United States Body Psychotherapy Association, the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc, and the Radix Institute, USA.
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