Cultivating Bodily Knowing
An Introduction to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy
September 20–21, 2025
Stockholm, Sweden
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This workshop introduces a phenomenological and developmental approach to integrating body and movement in psychotherapy. Participants will explore how movement plays a central role in shaping experience throughout life.
The movement dynamics emerging between therapist and client can reveal crucial relational and existential themes, offering valuable insights into the therapeutic process.
We will explore how needs, feelings, and desires are communicated through gestures, posture, vocal tone, and other forms of bodily expression. Although present from birth, these interactions often remain elusive and overlooked.
Through guided movement experiments—combined with theoretical frameworks—participants will practice bringing these experiences into the foreground, developing their ability to attend to their bodily knowing.
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Helena Kallner, PhD is a UKCP-accredited psychotherapist and an EAGT-accredited Gestalt psychotherapist. She is a senior teacher and supervisor of Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™ (DSP), a method developed by Ruella Frank.
Helena regularly teaches workshops and training programs in this approach throughout Europe. Based in Stockholm, she runs a private practice working with individuals and couples—both in person and online. She is a Full Member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy.
This workshop integrates findings from Helena’s PhD thesis, Forming Form: How Movement Shapes Psychotherapists’ Practical Knowledge. Her work explores the often-overlooked wisdom of the lived body in a culture that prioritises abstract, quantifiable knowledge. Drawing on Aristotle’s concept of phronesis—the ability to act wisely and appropriately in specific situations—Helena explores how movement and bodily knowing cultivate practical wisdom in therapeutic practice.
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Time & Place
Dates: September 20–21, 2025
Time: 9:30–17:00 both days
Venue: ccap, Körsbärsvägen 9, 114 23 Stockholm
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Fee & Registration
Fee: 3000 SEK (including VAT)
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