Training in Bioenergetic Analysis consists of two phases: pre-clinical and clinical. Individuals are encouraged to progress through the program at their own rate. The process of completing these two phases generally takes four to six years. Training is generally taught over eight to ten training weekends during the year with six hours of training each day. Training is both experiential and didactic in mode. While the specifics of each training program vary slightly for each society, all training in Bioenergetic Analysis is affiliated with and conducted under the direct supervision of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis. The bioenergetic professional training program leads to certification as a bioenergetic psychotherapist.

Many local societies have ongoing training programs. Please contact them for information.

THE SAN DIEGO BIOENERGETIC INSTITUTE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
Certification Program:
Bioenergetics is a specialization in relational, affective, somatic psychotherapy, taught as a comprehensive post-graduate study program for master and doctoral-level clinicians and physicians. Using a primarily experiential format, this four-year program integrates psychodynamic psychotherapy with a relational body perspective.
SDIBA follows the curriculum set by the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis. This four year curriculum consists of nine weekend trainings per year, yearly attendance at a California based conference or retreat, individual psychotherapy with a Certified Bioenergetic therapist, and supervision leading to certification.

The program teaches students:
How the body both records the dynamic process which underlies personality and maintains one's way of being in the world.

How to distinguish between shock trauma and developmental trauma and the treatment implications thereof.

How childhood wounds can lead to the formation of inflexible and restrictive relational patterns and how these patterns are reflected in the form and motility of the body.

How therapists can facilitate empathic relationships within which the client can explore different patterns of relating.

How to use various physical and cognitive interventions that encourage the client to alter and expand his/her relationship patterns.

How to deepen awareness of the therapist's own relational patterns and how these patterns effect interactions with clients.

MICHIGAN SOCIETY for BIOENERGETIC ANALYSIS
Offers a Two Year Pre-Clinical Training Program
For Professional Therapists
Beginning October 2008 Bioenergetic analysis is a psychodynamic therapy that combines work with the body and the mind to help reduce psychological problems.

This program offers a deeper understanding of the therapeutic process in your personal work and/or your professional work with clients.

The training benefits all therapists and healers committed to wellness, wholeness, and self-actualization.

The Michigan Society for Bioenergetic Analysis is an accredited teaching facility and affiliate of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis (IIBA).

The next training program begins in October 2008. Training classes are conducted at the Michigan Society for Bioenergetic Analysis located at 2791 Walton, Rochester Hills.

For further information, please call 248-988-0534