Topics covered

• The primary distortions of identity and the adaptations of the encapsulated Body-Self
• Body-oriented interventions and relational (self-) touch to work simultaneously “Bottom-up” with implicit procedural behavior, posture and movement, and “Top-down” with thoughts, beliefs and trauma-based identifications
• Deepening the NARM approach of being heart-centered, genuinely interested and developing containing skills when providing relational touch
  • When, based on what intention and in what context do we touch? When and in what context not?
  • How do we explore and work with the somatic equivalents of identifications and the associated emotions like anger, grief, shame and fear (numbness, tension, collapse, high arousal, autonomic disorganization, etc.)?
  • How do we work when clients have difficulty accessing their bodies or develop symptoms when they reconnect to them?

• Intention and touch
  • Touch: an exploratory interaction and sensory dialogue
  • Touch and adult consciousness (passive, receptive, regressive or actively engaged)
  • Qualities of touch to stabilize dysregulated emotional patterns: when containing, when offering space?
  • When supporting stability, confrontation, working through, integration?
  • Addressing different systems in the body with touch: muscles, connective tissue, joints, organs, central nervous system and brain

• Life Force and self-organization
  • Matrix of health, homeostasis, containment and coherence
  • Supporting healing and integration through conscious reconnection to the life force

• Specifics of the relational matrix when providing touch
  • (Subjective, somatic) resonance, transference and countertransference dynamics
  • Physical proximity – boundaries, sensuality and sexuality

• Working with earliest adaptations to developmental trauma
  • Deepening understanding of Connection and Attunement Survival Styles
• “Feeling safe and connected”
  • Neuroception, interoception, proprioception and the implicit/procedural memory (“implicit relational knowing”)
• Refining NARM-Language 

Target Group

Certified NARM Therapists

Requirements for Certification

Participation in both modules. Additionally, 4 hours of supervision (individual and group) and 4 hours of personal teaching therapy with NARM-Touch accredited therapists (not included in the training price).

Dates

Modul 1: October 26 – October 30, 2026
Modul 2: February 10 – February 14, 2027

Cost

€ 1950,-

Location

Fletcher Erica Berg en Dal

Molenbosweg 17
6571 BA Berg en Da

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