A 6-month experiential course
This course is part of a professional training on FOT at the living edge of experience.
The training’s 2 courses can be taken independently or in combination.
They explore the same experiential process through different clinical emphases. If you take both, you will revisit the same underlying process from a different clinical angle, allowing the learning to deepen and integrate over time.
This course explores the experiential process through a relational and embodied lens. It focuses specifically on how the bodily felt sense emerges in the context of interaction and how to work with the physicality of our relational patterns.
This course pays particular attention to develop your capacity to:
- understand how embodied experience is underlying psychological experience
- practice different ways to work with embodied experience even when the client is not in touch with their body
- discover how an embodied and relational approach enhances confidence and creativity in therapy
This page describes what is specific to this course
See the curriculum of this course.
Practical info: Dates | Pricing | How to apply |
To find out more about the experiential approach that is common to both courses, see Focusing-oriented therapy at the living edge of experience
Curriculum
1. Embodied relationality
Conceptual learning: The physicality of felt experience, Reichian character styles, Polyvagal Theory, neuroception, and felt sense.
Clinical skills: Paying attention to the biological energy that emerges from interaction. Inhabiting the polyvagal self-states.
2. Two modes of attention: Focused and unfocused attention
Conceptual learning: Iain McGilchrist work on the Divided Brain.
Clinical skills: Inhabiting the state of focused attention, and the state of unfocused attention.
3. Embodied object relations
Conceptual learning: The layers that affect “direct” felt experience
Clinical skills: Literally “touching” the relational implicit (a protocol to direct the client’s attention away from purely conceptual and onto embodied experience).
4. The felt sense
Conceptual learning: A grounded perspective on the felt-sense based on neuroscience and pragmatic experience.
Clinical skills: An embodied & relational approach to the felt sense based on noticing the underlying forces.
5. Seeing embodied patterns
Conceptual learning: How the embodied patterns become visible.
Clinical skills: Recognize and embody patterns to help clients see them in a way that fosters change.
6. Embodied & relational allows you to be more creative
Conceptual learning: The safety and depth of an embodied & relational approach allows you to be more spontaneous and creative.
Clinical skills: Exploring spontaneous creativity while monitoring safety through the felt sense.
Dates
Six sessions, starting October 8, 2026:
– Second Thursday of the month (10/8/26, 11/12/26, 12/10/26, 1/14/27, 2/11/27, and 3/11/27)
– At a time convenient for people in many time zones (12 noon to 2:30 pm New York time).
Pricing
The cost of this course is US $850, payable by September 17, 2026.
Payment via Zelle or wire transfer. Payment via credit card also accepted, with a 4% bank fee.
Some scholarships are available based on financial needs.Some scholarships are available based on financial needs.
To find out more about the experiential approach that is common to both courses, see Focusing-oriented therapy at the living edge of experience
Apply here to join the next cohort
If this training speaks to the way you want to practice therapy, the next step is to apply.
The application is short (a few sentences, not an essay).
It helps ensure:
– that the course is a good fit for you
– that the cohort supports meaningful learning for everyone
Please use the Therapy Training Application form.