Depression is often characterised by a sense of stuckness, heaviness and feeling empty with a ‘lack of’ running through every aspect of life. Lack of energy, motivation, joy, peace, connection. Accompanying this there is often ‘too much of’ within the mind – rumination, self-criticism, worrying and perpetuating feelings of helplessness.
Talking through depression often only gets us so far. With the ‘symptoms’ occurring within the body, a body-based approach can enhance the internal shift from stuckness to flowing.
Research shows how breath work and somatic interventions can help to free up energy, move it through the body and bring an internal experience of compassion and fulfilment.
In this workshop we’ll explore how depression manifests in the body through posture, gesture, sensation and the breath and how working with these aspects of a person can offer new opportunities to your client. The techniques you’ll learn are simple & safe and you’ll be ready to bring them straight into your practice.
This is an experiential workshop where the learning is by doing so you too can experience the benefits of breath work and somatic interventions.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Understand how depression manifests in body and mind
- Explore how depression impacts the breath
- Learn a range of breath practices and somatic interventions to bring into your client work today!
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Therapists and anyone with an interest in trauma, the body and the breath
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- To add breadth to your trauma-informed client work.
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.
