tenderly touching our attachment experiences: deepening...
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Tenderly Touching Our Attachment Experiences:
Deepening Understanding and Supporting Personal Healing
a 3-day workshop/retreat for those with
a body-based practice and those wishing to incorporate body awareness into their therapeutic work
with Bonnie Badenoch and Coease Scott
September 25-‐27, 2014
Our earliest attachments are deeply embedded in our bodies – our muscles, belly, heart, and nervous system as well as the brain in our head. Whenever we enter into relationship with each other, our own earliest relational experiences
awaken in our bodies, coloring our way of being with the people who come to us.
Understanding the role of attachment in our work and taking the additional step of touching into our own early experience can help us
• notice when we feel drawn to rescue, save, or fix to alleviate emotional pain. • increase our capacity to support and allow rather than lead or direct. • become aware when vulnerable parts of ourselves and our clients emerge. • expand our trust in and reliance upon the wisdom of the body. • discover and begin to heal our own attachment wounds. • explore the 7 streams of essential nourishment as doorways to healing. • develop ways of being and speaking that can support healing the torn attachments of those who honestly and vulnerably come to us seeking healing.
• begin to cultivate a reservoir of stillness as the foundation of practice.
Based on their combined 55 years of experience, Bonnie and Coease offer contemplative practices, listening partnerships, relational work with sand and miniatures, non-‐dominant hand drawing, and hands-‐on experiences (fully clothed) to provide the nourishing soil in which deep understanding and
personal healing can unfold.
Bonnie Badenoch - author, therapist, educator, mentor – is co-founder of the nonprofit agency, Nurturing the Heart with the Brain in Mind in Portland, Oregon. Her work as a therapist has focused on helping trauma survivors and those with significant attachment wounds reshape their neural landscapes to support lives of meaning and resilience. She takes particular joy in offering longer-term immersion experiences for therapists, people with a body-based practice, and interested others at her home in the Pacific Northwest, sensing that these experiences foster personal transformation through embodiment of the principles of interpersonal neurobiology. Bonnie’s ongoing embodied exploration with Coease of the possible cross-pollination between the quiet space of hands-on work and early attachment experience has led to the creation of these retreats.
Coease Scott is a Doctor of Chiropractic and a Registered Craniosacral Therapist with advanced study in nutrition, digestion, bio-detoxification, and energy medicine. Coease is known for his depth of presence as well as his ability to use his hands to reflect and support the resources and rhythms for self-healing inherent in each person’s body. Craniosacral Therapy has become a foundation for his practice because he has found it to be the gentlest, most respectful and effective method of treatment. He has also developed a deep respect for the powerful influence that stress, the deeper mind (particularly the patterns developed in early childhood), and food can have on our level of energy, mood, and digestion.
The Particulars
Setting: a private home and garden in Vancouver, WA, 15 minutes from Portland International Airport Dates and Times: September 25-‐27, 2014, 8:30 – 5:00
Space limited to 12 participants
Cost: $700 with a $50 discount if paid in full by August 1, 2014 To hold your place – a $100 non-‐refundable deposit sent to
13108 SE Forest St, Vancouver, WA 98683 Cost includes: Tuition, Art Supplies, Breakfasts and Lunches. Dinners and lodging on your own.
For more information and questions: Contact Bonnie Badenoch, [email protected] or Coease Scott, [email protected]
To register: Contact Bonnie Badenoch, [email protected]
“Feel the motions of tenderness around you, the buoyancy.” Rumi
At the heart of his work, deep respect for the wisdom of the embodied and relational brain; dedicated to the development of stillness in relationship as the foundation for transformation; providing support for true nourishment of all the streams of life.
Devoted to cultivating presence in the midst of a busy world; dedicated to supporting warm attachments as the gateway to a healthy and meaningful life; committed to being with those in the helping professions to provide a healing environment for their inner worlds.