The Center for Moving Studies promotes a relational- and movement oriented approach to psychotherapy, personal- and professional development.
The Center for Moving Studies provides trainings, psychotherapy and supervision. Both online and in person.
STOCKHOLM
This workshop introduces a phenomenological and developmental approach to integrating body and movement in psychotherapy. Participants will explore how movement plays a central role for shaping experience, throughout life. Movement dynamics emerging between therapist and client 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 expressions. Although these forms of interaction are present from birth, they often remain elusive and overlooked.
Helena Kallner, PhD, is a UKCP-accredited psychotherapist and 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 across Europe. Based in Stockholm, she maintains 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, which explores the often-overlooked wisdom of the lived body in a culture that prioritises abstract, quantifiable knowledge. Helena draws on Aristotle’s concept of phronesis – the ability to act wisely and appropriately in specific situations – to explore how movement and bodily knowing cultivate practical wisdom.