Body Cues in Group Psychotherapy

Come join us in-person for our Fall CE! Presented by Gus Kaufman 4 CEs approved for Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists About this training:

Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP) therapy, the approach taught in this workshop, recognizes that 'we see the world through the lens of our history.' In group therapy that 'old map' emerges in our perceptions of ourselves and others and our interactions with them. Tools will be shared to help clients recognize these, and create a 'new map,' new embodied possibilities, guided by the therapist(s). Seeing these dysfunctional patterns as they arise, and helping clients develop, practice and imprint new, more fulfilling patterns will be taught and demonstrated. The workshop will be didactic and experiential.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand how unmet needs and defenses show up in the body.

2. Help client tune in to these signals.

3. Learn to follow body cues into symbolic action and interaction.

4. Be able to help clients move from denial and somatization to acknowledgement of loss and trauma and then to healing and growth. 

About Gus:

Gus Kaufman, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, sees couples, individuals and groups and trains and supervises therapists in Atlanta. He has worked for many years with issues of trauma, gender, abuse and social change.

Gus has lectured and taught around the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia. As a senior trainer (since the late 1970’s) in Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor therapy, a powerful, gentle, body-based method of emotional re-education and healing (www.pbsp.com) he

has worked with youth in the Utah correctional system and at the DeSisto School (for acting out adolescents) in MA, teaching body-based group work focusing on unmet developmental needs and trauma. Most recently he has co-led with Bessel Van der Kolk

and Licia Sky at Esalen Institute in California.

A lover of nature and people, Gus has co-founded five non-profit organizations and published many chapters and articles on abuse, healing via body-based interventions, sexual orientation, and other topics. For those who are interested in networking and connecting more, we'll also head over to Politan Row for lunch after the training. You are responsible for your own lunch.