For more information on any upcoming event, please email Jennifer directly at: jennifer@jenniferjenniferbury.com
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation” ~Plato
“Embodied Exploration: Discovery through Movement, Sound, & Imagery“
In-person workshops meeting in San Francisco every quarter starting April 2024
In collaboration with movement artist and educator Felicitas Fischer
Where: Joe Goode Annex, 401 Alabama Street, San Francisco CA
Dates: April 13th, June 22nd, November 10th, 12-2pm. Drop-ins welcome!
More information and registration here!
We welcome all bodies (18+), no prior movement or dance experience needed, just a desire to move and be met!
These workshops offer a safe, non-competitive, and creative space to uncover the innate wisdom of your body in connection to others. Each workshop begins with a somatic centering and light warm-up before diving into guided movement explorations that include sensory awareness, self reflection, and discussion of our co-created discoveries. The movement experiments are designed to illuminate our preferred patterns and root us in our bodies as vital, living-feeling beings in dynamic relationship with the world. Each workshop has a specific area of exploration and is also shaped by the inherent needs and themes that exist in the here and now, allowing the group’s interests to come through in structure and focus during our time together.
This is the first of 3 workshops which will be offered during 2024: April 13th, June 22nd, November 10th. Each one is open to drop-ins and returning movers.
~ This class draws from principles rooted in Bartenieff Fundamentals, Laban Movement Analysis, Authentic Movement, and Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™ (DSP).
“An Exploration of DSP™: Let’s Get Physical; Let us hear our bodies talk”
2-Day online workshop through the Gestalt Training institute of Philadelphia (GTIP)
In collaboration with Gestalt therapist Karen Ginsburg LCSW, LMT
Where: Online
Dates: March 23 & 24, 2024
Sat and Sun 10am-4pm ET (includes 1-hour break for lunch)
Price: $350.00, discounts for students & GTIP members
Continuing Education: this workshop offers 10 CEs
Registration & information on discounts on GTIP’s website here
Let’s Get Physical offers an experiential exploration of key concepts in Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™, a relational and movement based approach to therapy created by Dr. Ruella Frank. This workshop provides a space in which to gently and playfully pay attention to our senses, which are the foundation of our experience. Noticing the myriad gestures, smells, sights, sounds, tastes around us, and within us, returns us to the immediacy of what is happening now. By paying attention to ourselves in this way, habits can be re-inhabited and new pathways of being, relating, and practicing therapy can emerge.
The trainers bring many years of practice working online using techniques they have developed for conveying the felt experience of contact within the virtual medium. They will draw primarily from Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™, as well as from their rich backgrounds as performers, movement therapists and psychotherapists. The workshop will offer presentation of theory, large and small group movement explorations, processing and demo sessions.
Let’s Get Physical is a playground to fine tune your instrument and to enter more deeply into our unique experience of being alive. It is for anyone who wants to discover more spontaneous and satisfying interactions: patient/therapist, coach/client, partner/partner, employer/employee, parent/child, teacher/student.
We welcome all bodies and abilities, no movement experience is required.
“Perception Through Interaction”
2-hour in-person presentation and interactive workshop at the annual conference of the German Association for Gestalt Therapy (DVG): “Mit Körper, Leib und Seele – Konzepte und Methoden der Gestalttherapie”
Where: Göttingen, Germany
Date: May 10-12, 2024
Register through DVG here
“Making Meaning in Motion: An Intro to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™”
3-Day in-person workshop for the The Institute of Family Therapy (SLOGES)
Assisted by Gestalt psychotherapist David Dagg-Murry
Where: Vija Vaja, Dolenjska Cesta 43, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dates: May 17-19, 2024
Friday 9:00-13:00
Saturday 9:30-16:30
Sunday 9:30-13:00
Price: €270, for SLOGES Members €250
Register on SLOGES website here or email Jana Persic at info@sloges.si for help in English
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL!
This introduction to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™ (DSP) explores the early infant movement patterns which form the relational base for how we interact as adults, both in therapeutic settings and everyday life. As we continue to develop and learn new ways of moving through the world, this essential foundation of how we communicate remains. These subverbal interactions form the basis of our lived experience, shaping how we respond to others as well as how they respond to us. When we feel how we are creating our narrative in the moment we have the possibility to change the narrative.
Heightening awareness of the client’s tactile-kinetic-kinesthetic experiences can create an environment from which the client can take relational support. Over time this relational practice helps restore a bodily knowing, assisting the client to orient clearly and to maneuver freely through the world.
This interactive training combines theoretical and experiential learning, in the form of lecture, discussion and movement-based experiments. Practitioners from all training modalities are welcome to integrate this approach into their existing area of expertise – whether working in-person or online.
As seen in Gestalt News & Notes
„The relationship of the living person to the world is …a strange dance that projects the living person into the body of the world and the world into the body of the living person.”
~ (Emanuele Coccia)
“Inside Outside: Moving into Awareness Together“
2-Day in-person workshop in collaboration with nature dialog companion Beate Zeller trained in NatureDialogueApproach.
Where: Munich, Germany
Day 1/Saturday, May 25: at Bewegungsraum, Heßstr. 45, 80798 Munich
Day 2/Saturday, May 26: at U-Bahn Alte Heide, Northern Part English Garden, Munich
Dates: May 25 & 26, 2024, 2 to 6 pm CET
Price: 210€ (Early bird price 180€ until April 2nd, 2024)
This workshop is open to everybody! 18+
Instruction in English and German
To register, fill out form below.
This workshop focuses on using movement to strengthen our connection to each other and the natural world. By learning to listen with our whole body we will be reintroduced to the sensuous experience of being alive. Through simple movement experiments we can rediscover our own vitality as moving-feeling-beings and the integral role we play as part of this dazzling world.
We will be inside for the first day and outside in nature for the second day. Starting inside allows us to slow down to notice the subtle, familiar movements which connect us to each other. Movement-based experiments in pairs and as a group provide the opportunity to attend to how we’re co-creating our perceptions through our gestures and actions. Recognizing this ongoing dialogue invites us to experiment with new ways of responding and moving in relationship to each other and our shared world. Both inside and outside, we will take time to assimilate our experiences and express our discoveries, so we can learn from each other as we go.
This workshop is for everyone interested in increasing their sensory awareness overall, to better know ourselves and feel closer to each other. These principles are applicable in a variety of settings and modalities, including psychotherapy, bodywork and somatic/movement therapies, relationships with loved ones and work colleagues, as well as life’s daily interactions.
No movement experience required, just a desire to move and be met!
Register for “Inside Outside” workshop here:
Individual sessions in Munich, May 27-31, 2024:
Jennifer is offering individual, in-person sessions while in Munich. Please email her directly (in German or English) to schedule.
“Meeting Before Knowing”
4-hour Pre-conference workshop with Gestalt therapist and Somatic Educator Miguel Islas at the 2024 IAAGT’s Biennial Conference: Re-Imagining and Co-Creating
Where: Veracruz, Mexico
Dates: September 17-22, 2024
Registration information to come on IAAGT’s website
“Come To Your Senses”
2-hour interactive workshop at the 2024 IAAGT’s Biennial Conference: Re-Imagining and Co-Creating
Where: Veracruz, Mexico
Dates: September 17-22, 2024
Registration information to come on IAAGT’s website
“A DSP™ Perspective on the Practical Application of an Aesthetic Approach within a Therapeutic Model”
Assisted and translated by Gestalt therapist & somatic educator Miguel Islas
Where: Center for Relational Kinetics, Mexico City, Mexico
Dates: Saturday, September 28th, 10am-2pm & 4-8pm
Registration information to come!
This day-long workshop will focus on the practical application of Developmental Somatic Psychology™ within the therapeutic setting. Through attention to our aesthetic experience we can become aware of qualities and movements which shape how we experience ourselves and others. Attending to these immediate responses as they emerge between us, allows us to address long held perceptions of self and the world in the moment. In this way it is possible to re-shape deeply held stances and traumas with the compassionate attention of another feeling, sensing human.
This interactive workshop will include guided movement exercises, self-reflection and discussion, theory presentations, interactive practice exercises, and a demonstration session. These elements are designed for practitioners of all modalities to learn the practical application of this phenomenological and aesthetic approach within a therapeutic model.
* DSP is a phenomenological and movement-oriented approach within a contemporary gestalt therapy framework created by Ruella Frank Ph.D.
“Meeting the Challenges of the Future by Returning to Kinesthetic Resonance: A Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™ Perspective”
3-hour workshop at the 4th Conference presented by the Organization for Humanistic Psychotherapy (AGHPT): “Psychotherapy for the Challenges of the Future”
Where: Goethe University, Frankfurt Germany
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID! New date TBA in 2024
2023
“Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™ (DSP): Developing Kinesthetic knowing”
2-day Online workshop presented by The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland (GIC):
This stand-alone training is also a prerequisite for the “Introduction to DSP™” online workshop series starting in 2024
Where: Online
When: February 24-262023, and again on December 2nd & 3rd, 2023
Continuing Education: this workshop offers both (CE): 10 and (ICF CCE): 10
Register through GIC’s website here. Registration closes November 24th, 2023!
The moving dynamic of relationship is simultaneously being shaped by our past perceptions even as we re-shape those perceptions in the present moment. By recognizing and staying with our existing sensory and kinesthetic experience within this dynamic, we create the opportunity for our client to discover new ways of contacting. Sensitivity to this kinesthetic resonance allows us to recognize the existing narrative and shape a different one together in the moment. Over time, layering of these new experiences can affect profound change.
Attention will be given to experiential learning through relational movement-based experiments, as well as grounding these experiences in DSP™ theory and its Gestalt foundation. This workshop focuses on recognizing the inner wisdom which emerges in the spaces around words, and specifically how to discover this knowing within the relational model.
This workshop is for anyone who wants to better understand themselves in relationship: patient/therapist, partner/partner, employer/employee, parent/child, teacher/student – and how to discover more spontaneous and free exchanges, whether in-person or online.
This is an online workshop via Zoom, not a process group, and requires both video and audio participation in order to attend to sensory information, a key aspect of DSP.
“Introduction to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™️”
For the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) Church Street Integral Counseling Center
Online training on the application of DSP theory to Gestalt clinical practice Online
(July 2020 & 2023)
“Kinesthetic knowing in the therapeutic relationship (DSP™)”
Online workshop presented by The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland (GIC)
(Feb 2023) 12 CEU’s
“Kinesthetic knowing in the therapeutic relationship (DSP™)”
Online workshop presented by The Gestalt Training Institute of Philadelphia (GTIP)
(Feb 2023) 12 CEU’s
“The Expressive Power of Movement”
1-hour in-person and online presentation as part of ODC’s Month for Dancers’ Health
ODC’s B. Way Theater, San Francisco, CA
(Jan 2023)