You will find up-to-date details of the various workshops and trainings I’m offering this year and beyond, on the Embodied-Relational Therapy website: https://erthworks.co.uk/events/
I will mention a couple of the events coming up later this year:
Judith Salling-Ash and I are offering body psychotherapy weekend groups drawing on these two strands of Reichian growth work. The weekends will take place in 2023: July, September, December here in Bovey Tracey
These are therapeutic rather than training weekends, recent feedback:
“I think the weekend has marked a turning point in my search for ‘self’ and opened new horizons and unforeseen possibilities.”
– Find out more at:https://erthworks.co.uk/events/
– I am currently co-leading the two year modular post-qualification Embodied-Relational Therapy training – which started in June 2022, offered by Allison Priestman and myself, here in Devon, more information here
You may be interested in joining us on the residential workshop with the Radix Institute: Radix Experiential Workshop, Aug 30th -Sept 3rd in the New Forest. https://radix.org/workshops/
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Feedback from previous workshops:
“I most appreciated the way you facilitated our experiential learning, giving us felt, lived experience of the benefit of being embodied and in relationship.
I’ve never felt so close to a group of people so quickly and I know this is because you encouraged us and allowed us to meet with our bodymindspirit, and not just our words. Thank you!”
“I would recommend this course for so many whether you want to be part of a group, facilitating a group or for any person interested in people and the ability to work deeply with another and other.”
“I felt very inspired & feel that ERT has already helped me join up some dots for many of the other trainings I have attended and been working at synergising- a feeling of home-coming!”
“I enjoyed the experiential nature of the weekend & felt it gave me a genuine taste for the work”
“Overall, I found this workshop a positively profound experience”
“I got a real insight into shifts that could happen with this approach for me and my client”
One of the things I appreciated most about the weekend was the invitation to develop my own practice through the training, to explore relationships to the material starting from what I already do. It felt nurturing and encouraging to have the space to do so.
“I came away with an encouraged, exciting feeling of how my training in counselling/psychotherapy can complement my practise. I enjoyed every moment. A big Thank you”
“I loved the training day….I felt I was in very good hands with an experienced and highly skilled practitioner. Great watching you work. I enjoyed the relaxed teaching style and the encouragement to try things out and not worry about making mistakes.”
“I really enjoyed the demonstration session as it brought the days learning together. I liked that the day was very experiential with plenty of opportunities to try new ideas out.”
“I very much appreciated your calm, warm and engaging manner and style of training.”
“I really valued the relaxed and respectful atmosphere which, for me, encouraged and allowed the more spontaneous and creative (and destructive!) parts of me to be felt and be expressed.”
“I feel newly inspired about the value, and potential, of two people in a room exploring how they come into contact. Thank you!”
“Very enjoyable and enriching day, thank you Stephen”
“It felt like there was a lot of permission and support”
“It felt very safe to try new things”
“Thank you for a very enlightening day which will certainly enhance my practice”
“Thank you so much! I have a better understanding of embodied-counter-transference and how to use it more skillfully in my work with clients…”
“The day was enjoyable & incredibly valuable…”
“I have learnt so much today that I can use with future clients”
A wide range of Embodied-Relational Therapy workshops and trainings can be found on our website: www.erthworks.co.uk
One or two of Stephen’s previous workshops:
Embodied-Relational Therapy meets Radix weekend
Stephen Tame & Judith Salling-Ash, Bovey Tracey, February 2020
Working with Body Process – day workshop
Stephen Tame, Dartington, February 2020
Embodied-Relational Therapy Training weekend
Stephen Tame & Jayne Johnson, Hebden Bridge, October 2019
Group Facilitation Training
An 8 day training with Jayne Johnson – Devon, winter 2018-2019 and Hebden Bridge, winter 2019-2020
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Wild Therapy year long Training
Allison Priestman and Stephen Tame – 2019-2020
“My clients are human animals, interdependent with the plants, animals, soil, bacteria and other non-human beings around them. They yearn for connection with nature, they grieve the loss of other-than-human life.”
Wild Therapy – bringing therapy into the wild, and the wild into therapy
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January 2018 – the Hearthside Room – Devon
Movement in the Therapy room
Supporting you to introduce and develop your use of movement, proximity, gesture and impulse into work with clients
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January 2018 – the Hearthside Room – Devon
Making Mistakes in the Therapy Room
Embracing the richness of mistakes, and engaging with the physiological story of our response to mistakes in client work.
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November 2017 – the Hearthside Room – Devon
Breathwork in Counselling and psychotherapy
Learn how to deepen your use of breathwork in client sessions
February 2018 – United Medical and Dental College, Karachi, Pakistan:
Breathing as Resource – Breathing as Exploration
with Stephen Tame and Clare Raido
This workshop brings together two experienced practitioners exploring how we can consciously use breath to contain and protect ourselves, and also use it to explore, transform and release.
Relational Body Psychotherapy – an ERT Approach
with Jayne Johnson and Stephen Tame
Imposter Syndrome
with Stephen Tame and Shehla Alvi
Working with Body Process
Heartwood Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Training
Dartington, Devon, Saturday 21st January 2017
We have always known in our guts – that feelings, thoughts, stories and wounds are held in minds and bodies together – that body movements, sensations, impulses and posture have meaning, power and resonance.
This workshop is a chance to start to explore how we can work with this knowledge – how we can support our clients to use body sensations and experiences as vehicles for growth and healing. The workshop will combine experiential exercises with theoretical input.
Making Mistakes in the Therapy Room
St Barnabas House Counselling & Therapy Centre, September 2015
Although we aim to treat our clients with respect, empathy and clarity, we’re going to get things wrong sometimes:
We might misunderstand a client, say something clumsy, our attention will wander, we forget their name or appointment time, we push their buttons inadvertently, overstep the mark…
With the best will in the world, there are many ways things can go pear shaped.
In this experiential workshop, we will explore how to:
-Make fewer and smaller mistakes in the first place
-Feel more relaxed and comfortable about the mistakes we will make as practitioners
-Make some sense of why we make mistakes
-Handle our mistakes gracefully and openly
-Actively use the mistakes we make to deepen the therapeutic work, and to help our clients move forward
We will use individual & pair work, with group theory and discussion, to learn and to integrate our experiences.
My aim is to create a safe and stimulating learning environment. No prior knowledge or experience is assumed.
Embodied-Relational Therapy
Jayne Johnson, Stephen Tame
November 7th-8th 2015, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire
Feedback from Jayne and Stephen’s recent training event: “I mean, for me, it is up there, top five of ALL the workshops, residentials, course modules, teaching events I have participated since… ever.”
Listening to my Body Telling my Client’s Story
Embodied Counter-Transference
One to One Project
Kings Lynn – 8th November 2014
How can we use our own embodiment as a resource for our client work?
How can we make sense and creative use of our intense and uncomfortable responses to our clients? This workshop aims to offer an experiential opportunity and a theoretical model to explore how we can utilize our embodied counter-transference.
When working with clients, we will often experience unusual and strange responses in our own bodies, which can be difficult to notice, make sense of, and use therapeutically. Our bodies can literally pick up unconscious material from our clients. This workshop, led by an experienced body psychotherapist, is a chance to explore these kinds of experiences, and to develop tools and techniques for accessing our embodied counter-transference, and projective identification, as a powerful resource for our work.