Training in Bioenergetic Analysis consists of two phases: pre-clinical and clinical. Individuals are encouraged to progress through the program at their own rate. The process of completing these two phases generally takes four to six years. Training is generally taught over eight to ten training weekends during the year with six hours of training each day. Training is both experiential and didactic in mode. While the specifics of each training program vary slightly for each society, all training in Bioenergetic Analysis is affiliated with and conducted under the direct supervision of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis. The bioenergetic professional training program leads to certification as a bioenergetic psychotherapist.

Many local societies have ongoing training programs. Please contact them for information.

Announcing the formation of the 5th Bioenergetic Training Group in Massachusetts

We are pleased to announce the formation of a Massachusetts Training Group in Bioenergetic Analysis. The training is sponsored by the MA Society of Bioenergetic Analysis, under the auspices of the International Institute of Bioenergetic Analysis (IIBA), and will begin in December, 2010, in Somerville, MA. Trainees will meet for 5 three-day weekends per year for four years.

Trainees are asked to sign up for one year at a time.

While learning to be a bioenergetic therapist is the primary teaching of the program, we offer a focus on personal growth as well, especially in the first two years. The teaching is both didactic and experiential. While in the training group, as part of the requirement for certification, trainees are expected to partake in their own bioenergetic therapy.

The material covered in the first year is based on the writing of Wilhelm Reich, Al Lowen and Phil Helfaer. Character, trauma, early childhood wounding, grounding, breathing, energetic blocks, and sexuality will all be taught and experienced from from a body-mind, and an energetic point of view. Trainees will be asked to read and to discuss relevant theoretical material.

The teachers for the group meetings during the first year will be Dr. Phil Helfaer, PhD, Dr. Peter Fernald, PhD, and Susan Kanor, MA. In future years of this training group, we will bring in other international faculty members to our teaching staff.

The tentative schedule of the weekends is:
December 3-5, 2010, February 4-6, 2011, April 7-9, 2011, and May 6-8, 2011.
The fee is $2500 for the first academic year. Some partial scholarships are available, based on need. To apply for the training program, Year I, please fill out the attached application with a $25 application fee.

Mail your check and application to:
MSBA, 11 Hickory Street, Gloucester, MA 01930.

We look forward to hearing from you, and will respond promptly to your application.

The Massachusetts Society for Bioenergetic Analysis
617-876-3652
For more information contact: susankanor@gmail.com
www.massbioenergetics.org

THE SAN DIEGO BIOENERGETIC INSTITUTE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
Certification Program:
Bioenergetics is a specialization in relational, affective, somatic psychotherapy, taught as a comprehensive post-graduate study program for master and doctoral-level clinicians and physicians. Using a primarily experiential format, this four-year program integrates psychodynamic psychotherapy with a relational body perspective.
SDIBA follows the curriculum set by the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis. This four year curriculum consists of nine weekend trainings per year, yearly attendance at a California based conference or retreat, individual psychotherapy with a Certified Bioenergetic therapist, and supervision leading to certification.

The program teaches students:
How the body both records the dynamic process which underlies personality and maintains one's way of being in the world.

How to distinguish between shock trauma and developmental trauma and the treatment implications thereof.

How childhood wounds can lead to the formation of inflexible and restrictive relational patterns and how these patterns are reflected in the form and motility of the body.

How therapists can facilitate empathic relationships within which the client can explore different patterns of relating.

How to use various physical and cognitive interventions that encourage the client to alter and expand his/her relationship patterns.

How to deepen awareness of the therapist's own relational patterns and how these patterns effect interactions with clients.

To contact a local society about their training program click here.

MICHIGAN SOCIETY for BIOENERGETIC ANALYSIS
Offers a Two Year Pre-Clinical Training Program
For Professional Therapists
Beginning October 2008 Bioenergetic analysis is a psychodynamic therapy that combines work with the body and the mind to help reduce psychological problems.

This program offers a deeper understanding of the therapeutic process in your personal work and/or your professional work with clients.

The training benefits all therapists and healers committed to wellness, wholeness, and self-actualization.

The Michigan Society for Bioenergetic Analysis is an accredited teaching facility and affiliate of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis (IIBA).

The next training program begins in October 2008. Training classes are conducted at the Michigan Society for Bioenergetic Analysis located at 2791 Walton, Rochester Hills.

For further information, please call 248-988-0534