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Therapeutic work with clients - body to body - can resonate in deep and positive ways we don’t always recognise.
What we do recognise however, is that many of us go to IIBA conferences to renew loving connections with our bioenergetic colleagues.
We take part in the search for authentic insights and we learn new therapeutic interventions that help us heal old wounds.
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How is it that Bioenergetic Analysis can provide the riches revealed by the words love, authenticity, connection and healing?
Alexander Lowen defined and wrote about these riches in his many books.
Many other colleagues developed his work by integrating it with the new knowledge from affective neuroscience and attachment theory.
Today, innovative theories from social psychology add to the picture.
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Our challenge to-day is to bring this theory into our practice by deepening our understanding of the ‘two person’ relational psychotherapy that is to-day’s Bioenergetic Analysis.
We need to better understand that what takes place, out of consciousness and at the energetic and relational level, can form the most potent source of a client’s change.
After all, when a mother resonates body to body with her baby’s emotions, the baby’s brain begins its long developmental journey towards the formation of an authentic and social sense of self. The powerful body-to-body connection of sexuality sustains this formation from young adulthood to old age.
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Perhaps at this conference we will want to affirm that both somatic communication and authentic loving connection help us pass on the best of human nature to others.
And it might just be, that this is not only good for humankind in general, it represents its very best hope for survival and healing, in this sadly disconnected yet profoundly interconnected world.
