Two-year Modular Advanced Body Psychotherapy Training
Next Training June 2025
Welcome,
This is an introduction to the 16th training in Embodied-Relational Therapy, beginning in June 2025, at the meeting place of relational, body, process, and social justice psychotherapy.
We are specifically aiming this training to appeal and be accessible to a wide range of practitioners, particularly those from marginalised communities, who are currently underrepresented in this field of work. We are particularly interested in working with those from BIPOC, LGBTQ+, neuro divergent, and disabled communities – those practitioners from minoritised groups who wish to train in an embodied and relational approach.
We are also particularly interested in hearing from practitioners who might like to join the training, then join us on the Training for Trainers module to start to co-create a new diverse ERT Training Collective, particularly practitioners from minoritised communities. We believe that the current narrow base of lived experience of the training team, and of the field more generally, needs to widen, to meet the needs of trainees, and clients of trainees.
We also want to take some action towards redressing the simple injustice of the extra barriers faced by skilled and experienced practitioners from minoritised communities who wish to work as trainers in the field.
The Approach of the Training
ERT is an experiential, residential based post-qualification training, which focuses on the trainee’s own work on their embodied relating with self and other, now and in the past, before encouraging them to apply this with their clients.
The theme of relationality runs through the whole course; listening to our own feelings and responses as a key part of how we work both in the training and with clients, witnessing how we are moved around and impacted by our clients, yet remaining able to reflect on our working relationships...
We work with connection, movement and stillness, proximity and distance, breath and tension, touch and body sensation, spontaneity, psychotherapy theory, wild therapy, and the impossibly complex & impossibly simple task of being human alongside other humans.
At the core of Embodied-Relational Therapy is the study of our embodied relating to self, other and environment. We will explore how our embodiment is shaped by this meeting with the other?
We seek to keep awake to rank, power, privilege and oppression – being curious and courageous about the intersections between our own experiences of oppression and privilege, and how they meet with our clients’ experiences of oppression and privilege...
ERT Training Process
We attract participants looking for a robust training in working with embodiment and relationship, and we are passionate about supporting you to become more deeply the therapist you already are. ERT encourages spontaneity, creativity, and deep trust of your own inherent competence, and of your clients and their unfolding process.
We will nurture a collective learning community of trainees, enabling a depth of trust and learning. We particularly welcome applicants from marginalised communities. Explorations will be collaborative - building trust so that complex issues and vulnerable experiences can be explored.
Practicalities
The first year comprises of five 4-night residentials – Thursday evening till Monday lunchtime.
Dates:
12-16 June 2025
11-15 September 2025
13-17 November 2025
15-19 January 2026
12-16 March 2026
ERT Trainers: The first year training facilitators will be Allison Priestman and Stephen Tame – the current ERT training team. We hope to include training sessions in the second year from ERTA members with specialist areas of interest.
Venue: Eden Rise Retreat Venue – beautifully converted barns in rural Devon, close to mainline rail connection. Have a look at their website here: Eden Rise Retreat Venue
Course Cost:
For year one of the training the fee is offered on a sliding scale: £5000 to £3000 for the full year one course.
(The second year will cost a similar amount)
If this is unaffordable for you, then please contact us – we are keen to make the course accessible.
The fee will be based on your ability to pay.
Please contact Stephen for a conversation about your payment for the training. We are committed to making the course as affordable as is possible.
To watch a video of Allison and Stephen speaking in depth about Embodied-Relational Therapy and this year’s training – click here
For more information, Including the application documents please look on the Embodied-Relational Therapy website
