For more information on any upcoming event, please email Jennifer directly at: jennifer@jenniferbury.com
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation” ~Plato
Online Somatic Study & Supervision Group: 2026 Fall/Winter series
Each session starts with a brief check in or group movement experiment to stimulate our sensory awareness, followed by a presentation on an aspect of Gestalt and DSP™ theory to focus our time together. Participants share their responses, ask questions, and bring clients for the group to consider. Supervision is offered from the perspective of contact as interaction. Giving our attention to the movement within us, between us, and around us, takes us away from the person’s story and brings us to the immediate interaction happening between us. This allows us to explore our current responses which can illuminate unrecognized feelings and perceptions. Practicing this form of interactive, experiential exploration with each other is particularly helpful in being able to carry this approach into our work, and lives. The group is made up of people from across the world with different backgrounds and training which makes for a dynamic mix of perspectives.
Where: Online
Dates: This series of 4 sessions meets for 90 minutes, on Thursdays 9-10:30 am PT, which is 12noon-1:30pm ET, 6-7:30 pm CET
Price: Cost for the series of 4-meetings is $200 USD or €170 or £150
Registration: 2026 Spring series is now full! Please email Jennifer if you’re interested in participating in the 2026 Fall Series
2026 Fall/Winter Series Dates: Oct 8, Nov 12, Dec 10, Jan 14
GATLA’s 53rd European Summer Residential Training
Teaching the “Somatic Foundation of Gestalt Therapy” as part of GATLA’s Summer residential
Where: Brno, Czech Republic
Dates: July 19-31, 2026
Registration & more Info here
This segment offers participants a taste of Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™ (DSP) as a way to experience Gestalt theory in action. Through movement experiments and theory lectures, we’ll investigate how we form our interactions and how we are formed by them. By attending to the aesthetics of the situation, participants learn how to experiment with their own and their clients’ movements, offering the ground for new, more vital, patterns to emerge.
“Reaching for Wholeness: Introduction to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™ (DSP)”
Interactive in-person workshop as part of The European Association for Body Psychotherapy’s (EABP) 19th annual conference
Where: Cork, Ireland
Dates: September 3-6, 2026
Registration & more Info here
This interactive workshop explores the kinetic-kinesthetic and aesthetic phenomena that guide our interactions and are the foundation of all contact. Kinetic engagement with one’s own body – and the bodies of others – can simultaneously make us aware of our own basic fragility, our interconnectedness, and our power to shape ourselves and our lives.
“Embodied Exploration: Discovery through Movement, Sound, & Imagery“
In-person workshops meeting in San Francisco
In collaboration with movement artist and educator Felicitas Fischer
Where: Joe Goode Annex, 401 Alabama Street, San Francisco CA
Dates: Winter 2026 dates TBA
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 class draws from principles rooted in Bartenieff Fundamentals, Laban Movement Analysis, Authentic Movement, and Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™ (DSP).
Reaching for Wholeness: Introduction to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy (DSP™)*
90 minute online interactive workshop as part of the International Conference of Gestalt Communities PHENOMENA
Where: Online & in-person in Poland
Dates: February 6, 2026, time TBA
Registration & more Info here
“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: 2027, dates TBA
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.
Events from 2024-2025
“Inside Outside : Moving into Awareness Together”
2-Day workshop with Systemic nature dialogue companion Beate Zeller
(Munich, Germany, September 2025)
“Shaping Now and Next: An Introduction to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™“
Presented by The Institute of Family Therapy in collaboration with Sloges, Ljubljana, Slovenia
3-Day in-person workshop in preparation for a 2-year in-person DSP certification training
Assisted by David Dagg-Murphy DAc, PhD, LAc, LPCC-S, LICDC-CS
(Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 2025)
Moving between Knowing and Wonder with Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy
2-hour in-person interactive workshop at the SOMA Festival: an International 4-day festival for Bodypsychotherapy
(Bad Meinberg Germany, September 2025)
“Moving Moments: Finding Ourselves and Each Other”
90-minute online interactive workshop, hosted by The Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles (GTILA)
(March 2025)
“Finding Me with You: Co-Creation & Kinesthetic Knowing”
2-hour online interactive workshop, for members of The Bay Area Gestalt Institute (BAGI)
(April 28, 2025)
“Everything, Everywhere, Every Moment”
90-minute online interactive workshop, hosted by Humans of Gestalt. Part of the first “OpenGestalt conference: an International Experiment in Dialogue”
(October 2024)
This workshop focused on fostering our kinesthesia through movement experiments designed to increase our awareness of how we co-create our experience.
View entire workshop free! Click here to request access to video through Humans of Gestalt
Introduction to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™: Meeting in Motion
3-hour in-person workshop for Gestalt trainees of CIIS’ Counseling Clinics
Church Street Integral Counseling Center, San Francisco CA
(October 2024)
“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”
(Göttingen, Germany. May, 2024)
“Making Meaning in Motion: An Intro to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™”
3-Day in-person workshop for the The Institute of Family Therapy (SLOGES)
(Ljubljana, Slovenia. May 2024)
“Inside Outside: Moving into Awareness Together“
2-Day in-person workshop in collaboration with nature dialog companion Beate Zeller trained in NatureDialogueApproach.
Day 1: at Bewegungsraum, Heßstr. 45, 80798 Munich
Day 2: at U-Bahn Alte Heide, Northern Part English Garden, Munich
(Munich, Germany. May 2024)
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.
“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
(Veracruz, Mexico, September 2024)
This workshop encourages us to dare to move beyond what we have imagined into the novelty of this co-created, wondering moment.
“Come To Your Senses”
2-hour interactive workshop at the 2024 IAAGT’s Biennial Conference: Re-Imagining and Co-Creating
(Veracruz, Mexico. September 2024)
“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”
(2023, Goethe University, Frankfurt Germany)
“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
(March 2024)
Continuing Education: 10 CEs
“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
(February & December, 2023
Continuing Education: this workshop offered both (CE): 10 and (ICF CCE): 10
“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 & 2024)