Dates: Spring session: March 16, April 27, May 18, 2025 Fall session: September 14, October 26, November 9, 2025. Register for each session separately.
Times: Sundays, 12:00 - 3:15 PM Eastern / 1:00 - 4:15 PM Atlantic / 9:00 AM - 12:15 PM Pacific
Platform: Live Online via Zoom
CEs: 9 CE credits per session offered through the Massachusetts NASW. LMHCs can apply to the MaMHCA after completing the course.
Leaders: Each workshop is co-led by advanced CBTs (Certified Bioenergetic Therapists) and faculty members of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis.
This course provides an introduction to the techniques and theory of contemporary Bioenergetic Analysis – a somatic/psychodynamic approach to psychotherapy. Each session will include didactic and experiential learning. Taught in a small group format, the course offers time for participants to explore their personal responses to the topics and to connect with the group members. Adela Gorodzinsky, RP, M.Ed, CCC, CBT (Central CA) will lead the group at all sessions. Each meeting will feature a different bioenergetic therapist/trainer focusing on specific topics.
Session 1: March 16, 2025
Grounding: Connecting Body & Mind (including a brief overview of Bioenergetic Analysis)
Led by Susan Kanor, MA, CBT, IIBA faculty member from New Hampshire
Bioenergetic Analysis is the first psychotherapy school with a foundational emphasis on physical grounding for healing and trauma recovery. Bioenergetic grounding exercises and theory have evolved with new understandings of attachment theory and trauma. Learn physical and relational grounding skills to connect body and mind for living a vital embodied life.
Session 2: April 27, 2025
Boundaries: Skills for Healthy Relationships
Led by Vincentia Schroeter, Ph.D., CBT, IIBA faculty member from Southern CA
We are born to be ourselves and, at the same time, be socialized with other humans, animals and our environment. However, many times we would like to say “No” but fear being rejected or disliked. Bioenergetic therapy focuses on linking verbal and non-verbal boundary communications. In this workshop we will define boundaries, offer an opportunity to practice them physically, and glimpse what honoring our ‘True Self’ feels like in our bodies.
Session 3: May 18, 2025
Breathing: Tools to Release Tension and Reduce Anxiety
Led by Laurie Ure, LICSW, CBT, IIBA faculty member from Massachusetts
Bioenergetic therapy focuses on opening unconscious breathing patterns for increased aliveness and health. Tight muscles block feelings and contribute to anxiety. Freeing up those tensions increases the movement of energy/emotion in the body, allowing the person to breathe more freely, which reduces anxiety. This can be life changing.
Session 1: September 14, 2025
The Motion of Emotions
Led by Terry Hunt, EdD, CBT, Local trainer from Massachusetts.
For many of us emotions are unpleasant and feared so we suppress them. Emotions can get stuck and manifest into states such as anxiety, frustration and depression. In Bioenergetics we see emotion as the energetic signpost directing us to a deeper knowing of ourselves. We understand that resistance to feeling emotion increases suffering. In this workshop we will explore how to move the energy and experience the benevolence of fluid emotions, increase our emotional repertoire, and ground our knowing of what emotions truly are.
Session 2: October 26, 2025
A Body/Mind Journey From Depression to Vitality
Led by Leslie Ann Costello, PhD, CBT, Local trainer from New Brunswick, CA.
Bioenergetic therapy offers an integrated body/mind/spirit/emotional/relational approach to mental health issues including depression. The workshop will describe bioenergetic techniques and methods, along with providing an overview of the bioenergetic perspective on underlying factors contributing to chronic depression. In the workshop will explore vitality as an aim of therapy.
Session 3: November 9, 2025
Character Structure – Reading Developmental Trauma in the Body
Led by Homayoun Shahri, MA, LMFT, CBT, Local trainer from Southern CA.
Our bodies and behavior reflect our early experiences in a similar manner that a cross section of a tree reflects its age and a lot more. There are over all ways of looking and being that we have from the best and the worst of what we experienced as children. In bioenergetics we call this Character. We will learn about this in an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion.
$325 USD for early registration (if paid in full by March 1, 2025 for the spring session or before September 1 for the fall session).
Regular fee: $425 USD (applies after March 1, 2025 for the spring session or before September 1 for the fall session).
Fees can be paid by sending a check written to MSBA and sent to: PO Box 79026, Belmont MA 02479, or via Venmo to: mass-bioenergetics or by Paypal/credit card to: [email protected].
Fee includes 9 CE credits.
Some partial scholarships available based on financial need. For inquiries send an email to Susan Kanor at [email protected].
Cancellation policy: For spring series cancellations before March 1 fees refunded minus $25 administrative fee. No refunds after March 1. For fall series, cancellations before September 1 fees refunded minus $25 administrative fee. No refunds after September 1.
