Companionship and Connection: Reparing the Cycle of Life for a Thriving World
 

Speaker:  Darcia NARVAEZ  

Position: PhD in Educational Psychology
Country: USA

Humans are born highly immature with much to develop neurobiologically after birth. To accommodate a needy offspring, humans evolved a nest that matches up with the maturational schedule of the child, providing the buffering needed to optimize development. Each human self-organizes around experience, especially in early life when neurobiological systems are establishing their parameters and thresholds. However, industrialized nations have degraded the nest, so much so that illbeing is spreading around the world. Baselines have shifted for child raising, what is considered normal child and adult behaviour promoting cultures that perpetuate suboptimal development. I discuss what humans need to flourish and how to repair damaged selves and communities.

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Connecting Authentically with Ourselves and Others - Expressing the Emotional Truth

Speaker: Vita HEINRICH-CLAUER  

 
Position: IIBA Faculty
Country: Germany

In times where there is more body-styling and body-shaping than sensing and feeling the body – or just being our body - we are challenged to encounter the narcissistic style of contact. In Bioenergetic Analysis we are offering energetic work within a relational frame that is based on somatic resonance and analytic understanding. Working with the voice and sounds can give access to what we call “true body-self”. The resonant voice reflects, even more than the speaking voice, something about our current internal state and our current mood, as well as about deeper levels of our selves. There is an idiosyncrasy of bioenergetic work with the voice in contrast to therapeutic approaches that work solely with the body. On the way to authenticity we are definitely asked to deal with our negative introjects, energizing them, giving them a motoric and vocal expression.

Life force: Source of Self-Regulation, Love and Connection

Speaker: Guy TONELLA  

 
Position: IIBA Faculty
Country: France

Lowen had faith in the "life force", in its intelligence, and in the boundless potential of the human organism, and he set out some of the resources essential to its regulation and the regulation of one’s self.

Working with the "life force" is at the core of the bioenergetic therapeutic process since vitality is blocked by characterological defenses, disorganized by PTSD, and exhausted by the loss of love and attachment. This blocking disturbs memories enshrined in the depth of our cells and it disturbs our plunging into connection with nature and the universe.

We bioenergetic therapists are “ferrymen” between the atom and the spirit, “ferrymen” between nature and culture, “ferrymen” between individual homeostasis and ecological homeostasis, “ferrymen” between the grounding in the earth and the oceanic feelings of the soul.

If our own bioenergetic therapy has been able to germinate these different levels of consciousness with/in us, then we will pass them on to our patients. We will transmit bonds of attachment that unite us both to humanity and to nature: the nature of these links is sensori-emotional and they are intrinsically intelligent and deeply regulating.

Panel Discussion - Next steps for a modern Bioenergetic Analysis from this 25th IIBA International Conference

Panelists:

Louise Fréchette  , Eulina Ribeiro  , Pedro Ribeira Da Silva  

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