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.
Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy emphasises the moving, feeling, sensing body as the foundation for all experience. The training explores how subtle movement interactions reveal relational and existential themes. Participants learn to recognize and work with movement patterns that develop early in life – within relational, social, and cultural contexts – and that continue to shape how we meet others and make meaning today.
Grounded in bodily experience, the training offers a comprehensive framework for diagnosis, formulation, and intervention, integrating phenomenological, dialogic, developmental and field-sensitive perspectives. Experiential learning lies at the heart of the program: theory is explored and integrated through movement experiments that help participants deepen awareness of their own bodily experience and attend to the movements of the field – the relational dynamics unfolding between therapist and client.
Created by Ruella Frank, Ph.D, this approach draws inspiration from clinical phenomenology, developmental psychology, movement theory, and somatic education, and is centred within contemporary Gestalt therapy. Psychotherapists from all training modalities are welcome to discover how this approach can be integrated into clinical practice.
Helena Kallner, Ph.D, is a UKCP and EAGT accredited Gestalt psychotherapist, and a senior teacher and supervisor of Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™. She teaches workshops and training programs internationally and maintains a private practice in Stockholm. Helena is a full member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, the founding institute of Gestalt therapy. Drawing on findings from her doctoral research, which explores psychotherapists’ practical and bodily knowing, this training invites a re-discovery of the body as a vital source of ethical and creative knowing.
Thursday–Saturday: 09:30–17:00
Sunday: 09:30–13:30
Module 1: March 18–21, 2027
Module 2: June 17–20, 2027
Module 3: September 16–19, 2027
Module 4: December 2–5, 2027
Module 5: March 23–26, 2028
4000 EUR (including 25% VAT)
