Becoming a Body Poet Certification Training

Becoming a Body Poet Certification Training
18th March – 13th May, 2021

9 Zoom meetings, Thursdays March 18, 25 April 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 and May 6 & 13 18:00 – 19.30 GMT

Complete the enrolment form at www.seaschoolofembodiment.com/body-poem

Tuition is £1,320 early bird price is £1140 when you pay in full or in part before 31st January.

There are a maximum of 24 places available.

What is Body Poem?
Created by Katie Sarra, Body Poem is a revolutionary therapeutic tool designed to illuminate unknown and unspoken parts of the self via spontaneously emerging poetry.
This is a powerful modality to add to your professional practice, co-creating transformational shifts in a way that is truly client-centred.

Our body’s poems often bring insight, revelation and epiphany in moments of deep connection, care and tenderness.

Body Poem (and its twin Dream Poem) is a revolutionary tool illuminating unknown and unspoken parts of the self from spontaneously emerging poetry honouring and trusting the self-organizing intelligence inherent in every human being. It is a skilled synthesis of Body Focusing, Clean Language, and Dream Form and has two roles, the Dreamer and the Dream Scribe.

The Dreamer feels into their body’s communications and the Dream Scribes and trusts their attuned intuition reading aloud the Dreamer’s Body Poem informed with understandings about emotions, defences to emotions, and what supports integration, acceptance, and kindness.

A Body Poem session lasts between 5 minutes and 1 hour and can be used in longer sessions as the framework for listening and integrating the communications from a person’s story or body. It unfolds as a guided meditation where clients are invited to notice what sensations are alive in their bodies. The structure of Body Poem is used to bring these emerging sensations into expression. The intimate revelations shared form the basis of a spontaneous poem, transcribed to create an original piece of art that embodies the witnessed experience. A Body Poem can be combined seamlessly with any healing or therapeutic modality that involves holding space for others in an open-hearted way.

“I am in awe of this practice and the way it is able to introduce us to and integrate the different parts of our deepest truths. I recently introduced Body Poem to a client I’ve been working with for four years. He said the session was in his top four we’ve done together that he’s felt the greatest shifts from!” Cat.

The Body Poem experience can never be predicted. It is the structure that holds and contains emergent communications and this can take us as the Dream Scribe to the very precipice of presence and with our edges repeating back what has perhaps felt to be unspeakable before.

An alchemical experience integrating censored and exiled parts of the self into poetry that updates and enriches identity with new meaning supporting kindness and acceptance.

The act of reading back and repeating sentences and words during a Body Poem is very much like being the conductor of a chorus of voices and requires attunement to listen to all voices, discovering harmony and a fine-tuned moment to end the poem.

I have endless pleasure in holding space for this way of being as it takes me to the edge and into presence each time which is timeless, a place where patience is timeless acceptance.

The advanced parts of the training will support you to understand and learn how to manage and self-regulate aspects of ourselves who have experienced terror and grief. I envisage these skills being very necessary for the coming months.

I hope you will be as excited as I am to see these teachings presented and expanded upon with deeper explorations and insights available and opportunity to feel really confident as a Body Poet.

This profound and simple process supports win-win harmonious decision making with a new awareness of our hidden drivers.

Who is the Certification training for?

If you support people listening to themselves, this training is for you.

This Body Poet Certification Program will equip you with the skills to integrate Body Poem into your practice, bringing more creativity and playfulness to your sessions and supporting you to trust your spontaneity and intuition as a practitioner.

The Becoming a Body Poet Certification Training is available for:

– Practitioners who have had some training in body focusing or Body Poem (for example from the trainings listed below)

– Practitioners trained in counselling, psychotherapy, coaching

– Bodywork professionals working therapeutically

– I can see it being used by hospital staff and GPs where there is little time to get to the roots of a person’s distress and for them to be heard. It could be used on helplines as the process seamlessly works on the phone, on Zoom or in person. There is a group Body Poem process that we experience together every Zoom call which is being applied to group work in many different contexts including mainstream and Shamanic groups to support every voice being heard and belonging.

Here are some of the past and current trainings where Body Poem has been taught as part of the curriculum:

– The 2019 Paths of Transformation teacher training together with John Hawken
– The Wheel of Consent Practitioner Training 2018-2019 with Betty Martin’s School of Consent
– Sea School of Embodiment Trauma Training for Bodywork Professionals with Katie Sarra & Caffyn Jesse
– The UK & Ireland Certificate in Sexological Bodywork
– The Canadian Somatic Sex Educator training
– Sea School of Embodiment Foundations in Body Poem Training, April 2020

How to enrol for the certification training:

Complete the enrolment form at www.seaschoolofembodiment.com/body-poem

Tuition is £1,320

Early Bird Price is £1140 when you pay in full or in part before 31st January.

There are a maximum of 24 places available.

This certification training will be about fine-tuning your confidence with your intuition with eliciting and conducting the dance between sea and shore and how to be with parts out at sea and how to be with shame on the beach and … when is the moment to end. This is where the Dream Scribe becomes a Body Poet with these intuitive decisions.
Body Poem supports the metamorphosis of a prawn becoming a Turtle!

I’ve experienced many times in my life being transparent prawn, either hidden and safe but lonely out at sea or an exposed prawn frightened and with shame on the beach.

As we move between the sea and the beach together in the Body Poem structure inviting “What kind of sensation are you noticing? and what’s that like to notice? and if this could speak and had a voice what might it be saying?” we are learning the emotional fluency of a turtle.

Turtles are equally at home swimming with feelings in the sea and reflecting with identity updates on the beach. We can transform implicit memory from inside of us into the physical symbolical laying down of eggs in explicit memory to hatch out new ways of being from safe foundations connected with the earth of the planet.

Course structure:

During this CERTIFICATION process, we will reflect in discursive meditations and dive deeper into understandings from the questions that are arising from this profound practice.

There are the rolling waves in and out of the shore with nine modules and nine Body Poem Community calls spaced every week to give space and time to focus, reflect and practice in-between the community calls with teaching slide shows, videos, reading, practice sessions and supervision for reflecting on your learning edges and fluency as a Body Poet.

9 community Zoom calls paced weekly

Each call includes guided meditations, explanatory discourses, Group and paired practice in break out rooms.

Each week you will receive beautifully presented audiovisual slide shows of the teachings illuminating the origins of Body Poem and the depths of each aspect of its alchemy with guided practice.

Q&As and home practices to guide you step-by-step through the Body Poem practice.Your questions added to a live Q&A document with reflections and answers updated weekly to support integrating Body Poem into your current practice so everyone learns from and with each other collectively.

Replay recordings of our live sessions, with downloads, plus visual workbooks to expand upon the material explored.

The THURSDAY Community Zoom calls are a poetic beginning to each week

18th March – 13th May, 2021

9 Zoom meetings, Thursdays March 18, 25 April 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 and May 6 & 13 18:00 – 19.30 GMT

Upon completion of all requirements, you will receive your certificate as a Body Poet.

Completion of the training and Supervision

There is additionally a post-certification mentorship program and group supervision available for integrating Body Poem into your practice.
9 modules of lessons and practice

Each week you will receive a web page lesson presentation housing the audio-video slide show with that week’s teaching, your practice and research homework.

For each module you will write up you reflections of 300 words or less on a private shared forum and I will individually respond to them.

Community support

Our private learning forum supports connection, houses our reflections and provides a place to post questions.

The Community “Biome” Body Poem Zoom calls will support a sense of cohesion and acceptance of all our voices from inside and from each other’s insides being held in one voice. It represents a radical shift from individualistic hedonism into altruistic collective compassion that I am seeing globally now where win-lose is no longer a viable option. More than ever we are being called to listen inside as we stay inside!
Training Content:

Becoming a Body Poet and living your life’s poem!

The Certification in Body Poem course content to support you discovering your unique Body and Dream Poem fluency of expression as a Body Poet.

The following weeks will explore and illuminate understandings with practice with:

“Dream Form” origins in Playback Theatre

Applications of Dream Poem, our waking, and sleeping dreams.

Live Dream Poem and Body Poem practice in break out rooms

Safe practice working with altered states of consciousness

Applying the wheel of consent to Body Poem

Guided meditations to enhance interoceptive and exteroceptive awareness

Body Focusing – Our “Felt Sense” theory and practice

Exploring identity and belonging using Body Poem

“Clean Language” theory and practice

Evolutionary “hidden drivers”; the Emotional Command systems. Understanding how these impulses and instincts that are part of each of us express themselves learning about root motivations along with hormonal, nervous system alchemical responses.

The origins of shame

Explicit and Implicit memory and the roles of symbols and metaphors in memory

Emotional defence mechanisms in response to failures of duty of CARE.

Integrating projections and integrating the hologram.

Emotional and Erotic fluency – what does this mean?

We will explore together more about our emotions, and the meanings we ascribe to them using symbols.

We will apply affective neuroscience perspectives that can support understanding the interface between our physical and mental life as humans and the relationship between our biochemical inner worlds and biome collectives connecting with the collective biome of the planet.

Understanding our “felt sense” from the neurotransmitters in the enteric and cardiac nervous systems with an introduction to the twelve Cranial nerves.

Understanding Poly-vagal theory applied to the sea and the beach Body Poem metaphor.

The difference between Body Poem as first aid and first aid in a Body Poem. How to support a person when updates to identity and reality activate the PANIC, FEAR and RAGE emotional command systems and the corresponding nervous system responses.

Understanding neuroplasticity and integration. Understanding the mechanics of integration in the three main neural networks of connecting white matter tracts of integration and how they relate to grey matter cortical structures.

Understanding some functions of different parts of the brain and how they relate with each other in a self-organising intelligence.

Understanding how Body Poem supports us to tap into our inherent morality for win-win harmony as human beings.

Learning about implicit and explicit memory when it is painful and easy to remember. Working with parts that are encapsulated in implicit memory.

Learning what supports our deepest kindness and intelligent attunement when holding space with the different parts expressing themselves.

Body Poem and Eros: the self organising intelligence of nature.

Applications of Body Poem with individuals and groups in Embodiment practices, Body Work, Therapy, and Coaching sessions, life situations, relationships, and using Body Poem as part of daily practice to understand ourselves better.

Using group Body Poem for uniting communities, bringing fragmented attention together, supporting group shared focus, supporting rites of passage, life changes, updates to identity, expansion of consciousness, collective consciousness, and belonging. More experiences and application ideas for the Zoom Biome Body Poem where we are all in our differentiated parts as one.

Post-Training support

Our home on MIghty Networks is a great place to stay connected and share experiences and your unique service offerings using Body Poem.

Supervision

I am available for group supervision in your transition between Dream Scribe and Body Poet, understanding our rhythms, timings, choices, resonances in our voice attuned with our gut and heart’s felt sense and the dynamics of why and how it supports integration, acceptance, and belonging.

There is a natural ending to expression, a place of calm stillness when it has all landed and been heard… and then the next impulse rhythms out into song again! – Katie Sarra