Cultivating the Container:
Guiding Foundations and Ethos of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
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ABOUT THIS MASTER CLASS
“The body always leads us home . . . if we can simply learn to trust sensation and stay with it long enough for it to reveal appropriate action, movement, insight, or feeling.”
— DR. PAT OGDEN
The body is the foundation of all our experiences and is the place of transformation. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy welcomes and values the wisdom of the body as the landscape for therapeutic change. In this experiential and engaging session, we will lean into the guiding foundations and principles of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and the wise therapeutic maps and structures that have been informed and emerge from these principles. We will learn and deepen understanding of how to nourish a therapeutic container in SP that sets the groundwork for embodied transformative healing.
ABOUT YOUR TEACHERS
Dr. Pat Ogden
Pat Ogden, PhD is a pioneer in somatic psychology, the creator of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy method, and founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. 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 (she/they) RP, RCAT, is a psychotherapist, educator, clinical consultant and poet. She is an art therapist, a certified advanced practitioner in sensorimotor psychotherapy, and an SPI-approved clinical consultant.
Jacquie is a faculty member and clinical supervisor at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute, where she teaches courses on trauma-informed practice, embodiment, anti-oppressive practice and cultural humility in art therapy. She is also a trainer with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute.
With over 16 years of clinical experience, she continues developing a trauma-focused, decolonizing practice incorporating art-based and somatic-based approaches. 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, others and the world around them with and through the wisdom of body.