A term coined by philosopher and psychologist, Eugene Gendlin, the felt sense is widely used in somatic approaches to therapy including sensorimotor psychotherapy, Hakomi, and somatic experiencing.
Felt sense work helps people to identify the nuances that weigh in on their feelings. It allows people to feel the more descriptive qualities associated with an emotion, like “heaviness” ‘fuzziness” or “frozenness” for example. This helps diffuse the intensity of the emotion, making it more tolerable to process.
Felt sense work plays a key role within trauma processing where a client is encouraged to move away from the story and into their present moment experience observing how it unfolds moment by moment. This work helps a client to develop a greater capacity to be with their experience thus increasing their window of tolerance.
We’ll start the workshop by exploring attention and our attention patterns before moving into the body and getting to know the felt sense.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- You’ll come away equipped with ideas and skills to support your client to safely journey into their body
- You’ll develop an understanding of why felt sense work in trauma recovery is key
- You’ll learn about your own attention patterns and how this can support you in your client work
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- For everyone looking to develop their relationship to their body
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- To widen your skill set and develop safe trauma skills
Course Content
Presenter
Kate Williams has been in therapeutic practice since 2009 with a background in counselling in further education. She currently runs a busy private practice, works with NHS clients and enjoys running workshops for onlinevents and staff wellbeing workshops for NHS Hull & Humberside.
Kate is centre manager for the Bedfordshire Centre for Therapeutic Studies where she teaches on the CPCAB L5 in Somatic Trauma Therapy course & L2 Award in Breathwork Coaching as well as the Level 4 in Therapeutic Counselling.
Kate has a passion for bringing the body into her practice supporting clients to release the trauma that is held within their bodies. Kate is know for her relaxed teaching style, experiential somatic practices and skill of bringing theory to life and making it applicable.
