In-Depth Trainings
In-depth programs include:
New Monthly Body Tales Depth Training Group
with Body Tales Founder Olivia Corson
Begins October 2010. This will be the sixth year of our in-depth program that meets monthly.
Dates: Begins with a 3-day Full Moon Retreat, October 22–24, at Salamander Camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Fri noon to Sun 6 pm. 5 day-long Saturdays, 10 am–6 pm: Nov 13, Dec 11, Jan 15, Feb 12, and March 12 *
Cost: sliding scale $720–$1,440 ($100 off for anyone enrolled in another BT group). Bottom of the sliding scale does not cover the cost of offering this program; thank you for paying as generously as you are able to. $250 non-refundable deposit will hold your place. Payment in full due by September 10. Payment plans available.
Open to men and women, 9 person maximum, by application.
Previous Body Tales and/or Authentic Movement experience is encouraged.
For those new to the work, private introduction/orienting sessions can be scheduled.
* Alternative plans:
Plan B) If October retreat does not work for you, you can take the spring 3-day retreat April 8–10, 2011, instead.
Plan C) If you are an experienced BTer, and neither retreat works for you, please discuss this alernative with Olivia: signing up for 8 Saturdays Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, March, May, June and July, and skipping the retreats. Cost is the same for any of these 3 enrollment plans: sliding scale: $720–$1,440
The 2010-2011 training will include three particular places of focus:
- Family Architecture: Respecting the old, and nurturing new, more supportive embodied patterns of Family and Intimacy.
- Shield Work: Using image intelligence, drawing and writing, along with BT, we will contact and commune with our protective boundaries—inviting and strengthening our discernment around letting in and receiving what is helpful, wanted and needed.
- Low and Slow–Stillness at the Heart of Contact: Working with conscious touch, and low and slow contact improvisation, we allow and encourage ourselves to feel, express and learn; and we practice receiving helpful information, inner guidance, love and healing.
We will weave support, and build skill and confidence for navigating the places of body and soul that hold our challenges and our treasures, our losses and our liberation. We will wrestle with and learn from issues, events, and patterns which mark us, and call us to respond, heal and create. We will allow our movement, sound and story to help restore our integrity, sanity, and core ability to feel, express and contribute our gifts. Incorporating writing, drawing and focus councils, we will follow inner directives and share our real experiences. There will be longer time frames for individual and group BT pieces, and for in-depth exploration and integration.
More information about Body Tales
Download application in Microsoft Word
CEU's available for MFTs & LCSWs
For more information and registration, contact Olivia 510-532-1020.
ONLINE REGISTRATION AVAILABLE (upon acceptance)
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Body Tales Teacher Training
Offers ways to:
- Develop essential new leadership skills
- Learn Body Tales teaching methods and theory
- Gain practice in teaching and assisting Body Tales classes
- Strengthen your inner teacher and positive self-witness
- Cultivate strategies for self-care and effective sustainable teaching
- Nurture your own style and focus for teaching Body Tales
- Learn to create and maintain sacred space for communication, artistry and healing
- Clear pathways and mend past blocks around teaching and leadership roles
- Set realistic teaching goals and receive guidance in reaching them
- Build a vital network to support you in offering to offer your passion, vision and commitment out to the world
"Body Tales moves me to a new level in my own creative process. It frees my energy and opens me up to express myself more strongly and confidently. The exercises provoke deep investigation and exploration. I feel seen, heard and valued for who I am."
— Steve Adams, artist
Background: Body Tales Teacher Training
We have offered four Body Tales Teacher Training programs since 1996. Past teacher trainings have included comprehensive lectures and discussions on Body Tales form and theory; in-depth experiential Body Tales work; and focus on core relationships to leadership — both internal and external. Participants taught open-to-the-public Body Tales classes and attended classes taught by fellow BT student teachers. Each person received specific instruction, support and individualized feedback about their student teaching.
The program's curriculum was guided and supported by the Body Tales Teacher Training Workbook/Manual; which included detailed components and foundations for teaching Body Tales and worksheets designed for personal inquiry relevant to teaching Body Tales. BTTT participants have gone on to integrate Body Tales into their personal and professional lives.
Body Tales Teacher Certification
The Body Tales Teacher Certification Program began in 2003. It is designed for people who have completed Body Tales Teacher Training and want to continue on to become certified instructors.
This process involves further Body Tales training and apprenticeship, individual meetings with core faculty, and student teaching with observation, supervision and support. Once certified, new teachers become a part of the Body Tales teachers' network, which shares organizational resources and responsibilities including participation in an annual certified teachers retreat.
"Body Tales has helped me weave together the flowing feminine side of myself with the clear practical side. These two aspects — the mystical and the direct — now dance together."
— Judi Williams, holistic skincare salon owner
* Course meets the qualifications for a specific number of hours of continuing education credit for MFT's and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. For information about CEUs, please contact the person listed for the specific course that interests you.
