Pre-Congress Workshop 2 12 October (10:00 – 13:30 and 15:00 – 18:30)

How could you do research in your daily practice of Body Psychotherapy
Cultivating a Somatically-Informed Research Mind

Becoming more “research-oriented” we have to compare our practice of doing Body Psychotherapy with the method of conducting research. In our clinical practice we discover more than once, that we have to deal with experiences which are inter-subjective and created through engagement with the environment. How could we share and compare our tools with others? How could we demonstrate the scientific world what is really clinically relevant?

In this pre-congress workshop we develop an experimental attitude in which we can explore our own existing Research Skills. By exploring the main Principles of Scientific Thinking (Use of Empirical Evidence, Practice of Logical Reasoning, Possessing a Skeptical Attitude) we create an embodied perspective, which is central for a research-oriented Body Psychotherapy.

This Workshop will be the first of several workshops in order to create national research committees. The task of the EABP Science & Research Committee is to give guidelines and support, the SR Symposium will stimulate these Ideas.

Herbert Grassmann, Dr.

Herbert Grassmann, Dr. is a Body Oriented Psychotherapist in his own Praxis. He is also director of the European Association of Somatic Trauma Therapy (EAST), Executive Director of the Institute for Structural Core Therapy (SKT) and founder of SKT – Strukturelle Körpertherapie® and Somatic Memory. In the late ’80s and early ’90s he trained in Structural Integration. He is a Certified Hakomi Practitioner and trained with Pat Ogden and Peter Levine in Trauma Therapy. Author of several articles and the book: Zwei im Einklang (Kreutz-Verlag, 2004). Trainer in several Business Companies and lead presenter throughout the world.

As the current Chair of the EABP Science & Research Committee, the research focus from Dr. Herbert Grassmann is on: development and evaluation of interpersonal neurobiology models and bridging the gap between attachment and dissociation theories in the field of somatically focused model of Trauma Therapy.