Pre-Congress Workshop 5 12 October (10:00 – 13:30 and 15:00 – 18:30)

The touching search for the deepest embodied Self
Self-experiential Bioenergetic Analysis in a group setting

A grounded body is one that is energetically rooted in the deepest layers of one’s Self. Awareness of this rooted connection and access to the deepest Self, which contains the beautiful essence of the person, can function as a healing resource in psychotherapy. This tender core is regularly enclosed in armored tissue and is often separated from our conscious Bodymind. This separation can be the reason for energetic breakdowns, depressive crises and /or the feeling of being overwhelmed, even after many years of psychotherapy. The underlying problem is often a matter of traumatic experiences very early in life, it needs to be understood, termed and explained first at a cognitive level.

Bioenergetic Analysis is an analytic- relational form of body- psychotherapy, developed by Alexander Lowen, based upon the unity of body and mind. The therapeutic goal is vibrant health – aliveness, pleasure, joy and love.

This workshop will convey basic bioenergetic principles like grounding, vibration, breathing, charge- discharge, containment. Through individual work in front of the group I will furthermore demonstrate how to invite deeper parts of the Self to be touched again. Therefore I first need to create a resonating space between me and the client and “read” the body. Later a wide range of bodily interventions, from tender touch to powerful hands on interventions can be applied in a compassionate and helpful way.

In the beginning of the workshop a group-body will be formed by and with the participants. It functions symbolically as a supportive mother and provides a safe frame for deep individual work through the attentiveness, emotional involvement and feedback from the participants to the particular client.

Olaf Trapp

Olaf Trapp
Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie,
Certified Bioenergetic Analyst (CBT), TRE® Practitioner,

Address: Vor dem Berge 10, 37269 Eschwege, Germany
Phone: 0049- 05651 339889
e-mail: olaf_trapp@gmx.de
webpage: www.psychopraxis-balance.de

After studying pedagogic and sports I was searching for meaning, travelling through Asia and Australia, studying TCM and oriental philosophy. I found a sense for my live and developed the desire to touch people in a therapeutic way and to use my hands for this purpose. I started to work with the body more than 30 years ago with massage. Induced by own personal problems and a job in a psychiatric hospital, I discovered the interrelation between body and soul, which was the start of a lifelong, troublesome journey of personal development and growth. I was an acupressure teacher for 15 years, today I am a Certified Bioenergetic Analyst (CBT), training analyst and supervisor, from 2007 – 2016 member of the board of directors at the North German Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis NIBA and since 2011 I am the President of the European Federation for Bioenergetic Analysis (EFBA-P).

I am working freelance in private practice since 1999, leading self experiential workshops in different countries and present Bioenergetic Analysis at international conferences.

My professional therapeutic focus is: Working with early disturbed clients, which need bodily contact for their own growing process, in collaboration with clients exploring the emotional background of physical diseases, shock and trauma, partnership and sexuality.