Festival Of Body Practices In Psychotherapy - Batumi, October 10-13 - Events

2023 Author: Oswald Adamson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-11-27 12:13

On October 10-13, 2019, the Festival of Body Practices in Psychotherapy will take place in the Georgian city of Batumi! It is organized by the Caucasian Association for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy (KATOP)

The languages of the Festival will be English, Georgian and Russian.

In the velvet season on the Black Sea, surrounded by the beautiful Georgian nature, you can participate in master classes and workshops, listen to lectures, do practices, take part in lectures and round tables, live discussions …

Body-based psychotherapy practices promote personal growth, self-development and self-regulation, form healthy relationships with your body, help to relax body blocks and clamps, restore integrity on both the physical and psychological levels …

Anyone can participate. Leaders can be psychologists and psychotherapists who work with the body in line with this or that approach.

How to sign up? [email protected]

Event program

Day 1. October 10, 2019, Thursday

13.00-14.00. Opening of the event.

14.00.-15.30. Lecture. Gerlinda Buchholz (Germany) "Working with the Body in Psychotherapy".

15.45 - 17.15. Master classes:

1. Ketevan Beridze (Georgia) "Body-oriented art therapy"

2. Irina Kachura (Belarus, Ukraine) "How to tell the world about yourself?"

17.30-19.00. Master classes:

1. Anna Sivacheva (Russia) "Olfactotherapy in the work of a body-oriented psychotherapist - the secrets of the limbic system"

2. Ella Mis (Russia) "I choose myself!" - synthesis of internal and external"

19.00-20.30. DINNER: buffet.

20.30-21.30. Concert of Georgian folklore.

Day 2. October 11, Friday

8.00-9.00. Morning body practice. Ekaterina Belyantseva (Russia): yoga.

9.00 - 9.30: BREAKFAST

9.30-11.00. Lecture. Lili Anagnostopoulou (Greece) "Spirituality in biosynthesis".

11.15-12.45. Master classes:

1. Nutsa Verkhviashvili and Diana Nikolaishvili (Georgia) "Working with the body in gestalt"

2. Oleg Andrienko (Russia) “Body as evidence”.

13.00-14.30. Master classes:

1. Natalia Luneva (Slovenia) "Where do unborn children go?"

2. Gulnora Hundley (USA) "Identification of resources in adults with psychological trauma received in childhood."

14.30-16.00. DINNER.

16.00-17.30. Master classes:

1. Vladimir Mokhov (Russia) "The body of the therapist: in what body do we work and live?"

2. Victoria Melikhova-Shinkarenko (Ukraine) “TOP in working with children. How to increase concentration of attention in children”.

17.45-19.15. Master classes:

1. Larisa Parkadze (Georgia) "Technique of Comprehensive Self-Regulation (Transcendental Meditation)".

2. Lilia Rzhevtseva and Alena Vitlas (Russia) "Techniques of paired resolving yoga in the TOP"

19.15-20.15. DINNER.

20.15. Evening event: Olga Galbur (Russia) "Mandala Dance"

Day 3. October 12, Saturday

8.00-9.00. Morning body practice. Ekaterina Belyantseva (Russia): yoga.

9.00-9.30. BREAKFAST.

9.30-11.00. Master class: Gerlinda Buchholz (Germany) "Contact channels and how we use them."

11.15-12.45. Master classes:

1. Irina Solovieva (Russia) "Where does sexuality live?"

2. Olga Semenova (Germany) "Thanatotherapy: restoration of lost contact with life-death pulsation".

13.00-14.30. Master classes:

1. Natalia Minikaeva (Russia) “Working with intense experiences through dynamic meditations

2. Natalia Budyak (Russia) "Taoist practices of Qigong longevity."

14.30-16.00. DINNER.

16.00-17.30. Master Class. Caroline Breckham (Great Britain) "Hakomi-Method".

17.45-19.15. Master classes:

1. Tatiana Skiba (Ukraine) "Psycho-oncology".

2. Oleg Kuryshev (Russia) “Primary fulcrum and dynamic calmness in the space of perception”.

19.15-20.15. DINNER

20.15. Evening event: film screening, discussion.

Day 4. October 13, Sunday

8.00-9.00. Morning body practice. Ekaterina Belyantseva (Russia): yoga.

9.00-9.30. BREAKFAST.

9.30-11.00. Master Class. Caroline Breckham (Great Britain) "M. Feldenkrais System".

11.15-12.45. Master classes:

1. Ekaterina Karpikova (Russia) “Me and Others: Borders in Relationships”.

2. Olga Galbur (Russia) “The Miracle of Gentle Touch”.

13.00-14.30.

1. 1. Round table: presentations and discussions.

2. Master class Elena Logunova (Kazakhstan) ““Why can't they hear us when we speak? Body approach"

14.30-16.00. DINNER.

16.00-17.30. Master Class. Lili Anagnostopoulou (Greece) “6 years of study with Alexander Lowen”.

17.30. closure

20.00. Banquet. Those who wish take part in a banquet at the restaurant.