The Body as Resource:
Using Posture and Self-Touch to Integrate Parts
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ABOUT THIS MASTER CLASS
This webinar explores the benefits, risks, and considerations of developing a more upright posture as a resource with trauma survivors, with the goal of promoting well-being without overriding parts of the self represented by a more slumped posture. The use of mindfulness is illustrated throughout a videoed therapy session vignette, and several interventions are demonstrated: grounding and self-touch, contrasting upright with slumped stances, drawing on the therapeutic relationship, and creating homework. This vignette illustrates how to enable an upright posture while supporting integration and communication between parts.
ABOUT YOUR TEACHERS
Dr. Pat Ogden
Pat Ogden, PhD, (she/her), is a pioneer in somatic psychology, the creator of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy method, and founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (sensorimotor.org). Dr. Ogden is a clinician, consultant, international lecturer and the first author of two groundbreaking books in somatic psychology: Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (2015). Her third book, The Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Context, advocates for an anti-racist perspective in psychotherapy practice. Her current interests include couple therapy, child and family therapy, social justice, diversity, inclusion, consciousness, and the philosophical/spiritual principles that underlie her work.
Jacquie Compton
Jacquie Compton, RP, RCAT (she, her, hers) identifies as a bi-racial black woman. She was born in Toronto but spent her formative years growing up on the island of St. Lucia. She is a registered psychotherapist, art therapist, teacher, supervisor, consultant, and poet.
Jacquie is currently a faculty member and clinical supervisor at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute, where she teaches courses on trauma-informed practice, embodiment, anti-racism, anti-oppressive practice and cultural humility in art therapy.
With over 15 years of clinical experience, she continues developing a trauma-focused, decolonizing practice incorporating art-based and body-based approaches. Jacquie has worked in the field of trauma and the Violence Against Women Sector in Toronto at not-for-profit organizations as manager and director of clinical counselling services. She began her work in the Caribbean with women and children that had experienced violence. In her roles, she has led and supported frontline staff, provided supervision and consultation to agencies, and provided innovative programming development in trauma work and education on vicarious trauma and anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices.
Jacquie is in private practice in Toronto, with a focus on trauma, intergenerational trauma, and racialized trauma. Jacquie provides supervision and consultation to art and somatic therapists and consultation to not-for-profit organizations and agencies.
Her approach is deeply rooted in anti-oppressive, anti-racist, decolonizing, feminist, and trauma-informed practices. Jacquie believes in the embodiment of practices beyond the therapeutic relationship and welcomes others to experience the beauty of being in a relationship with themselves and the world around them. Jacquie began training in sensorimotor psychotherapy in 2013 and is a certified sensorimotor psychotherapist. For Jacquie the SP principles have transformed her way of being and moving in the world and enjoys supporting others in leaning into to the gifts of SP. Jacquie thinks that play and creativity is a vital source of wisdom and helps one navigate understanding and learning about ourselves and our world in a deeply integrated way.