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Christine Caldwell, Ph.D., LPC, ADTR – Founder and former director of the Somatic Counseling Psychology Department at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She lectures and trains internationally, and has authored two books: Getting Our Bodies Back, and Getting In Touch. She offers trainings in somatic psychotherapy (the Moving Cycle), with specializations in addictions, play, movement sequencing, therapist training, scientific inquiry, and birth and death.

Rae Johnson, Ph.D., RSMT, RSW, is Chair of the Somatic Psychology Program at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, former Director of the Body Psychotherapy Program in the Somatic Counseling Psychology Department at Naropa University, and founding Coordinator of the Student Crisis Response Programs at the University of Toronto.  She has a particular interest in somatic approaches to interdisciplinary research.

November 2008: See: Printable PDF transcript

Stuart Black has been Director of the New York Institute of Core Energetics since 1989. He is the author of: A Way of Life: Core Energetics, and A Way of Life With Another: Relationships. He is an instructor in the international training classes and has been leading groups for over 25 years. Stuart has been a teacher of the Pathwork in Mexico and in Phoenicia, NY, where he was both a member of the Board of Directors and spiritual leader of the Pathwork Studies program. He has been an instructor to both faculty and students of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. Currently he is teaching master classes to the faculty in the New York training.

October 2008. See printable PDF transcript

Ron Kurtz is the originator of the Hakomi Method of Body-Centered Psychotherapy and the method of Mindfulness Based, Assisted Self Study. He is a preeminent influence in progressive psychotherapy. Author or co-author of influential books, published in several Western languages (Body-Centered Psychotherapy, The Body Reveals, and Grace Unfolding) and three books in Japanese.

Ron has led hundreds of trainings and workshops around the world over the last quarter of a century. At present he is leading trainings and workshops in the Ashland, OR, Olympia, WA, and Bozeman, MT. He does workshops in several countries around the world.

Ron is the recipient of the USABP’s 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award.

September 2008. See printable PDF transcript. See other conversation with Ron Kurtz.

Journey of the Heart was the first book to lay out the path of conscious relationship. Toward a Psychology of Awakening has been widely praised as a fresh and eminently practical integration of the wisdom of East and West. His most recent book, Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart, is the winner of the Books for a Better Life Award.

Published August 2008. See: Printable PDF transcript

Brian Gleason, LCSW, and Marcia Gleason, LCSW are the co-founders of “Exceptional Marriage,” an experience-based methodology for working with committed relationships.

Both trained with with relationship expert Dr. John Gray as well as in Core Energetics. Brian is now a senior faculty member of the N.Y. Institute of Core Energetics. Brian wrote a book on transpersonal psychology – Mortal Spirit. Brian and Marcia wrote Going All the Way, The Heart and Soul of the Exceptional Marriage.

July 2008. See printable PDF transcript

Frances Sommer Anderson, PhD, a psychologist and psychoanalyst in New York City, specializes in treating musculoskeletal  pain and other mindbody disorders.  She teaches psychotherapists, yoga teachers, physical therapists, and other bodyworkers about pain, trauma, and the patient-therapist relationship.  Her teaching appointments include Faculty, National Institute for the Psychotherapies Training Institute and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (part-time), NYU Medical School. She is Editor of Bodies in Treatment:  The Unspoken Dimension (2007, The Analytic Press/Taylor & Francis Group) and Co-Editor with Lewis Aron, Relational Perspectives on the Body (1998, The Analytic Press).

June 2008. See printable PDF transcript. See other conversation with Frances Sommer Anderson. 

Laura-Hope Steckler, Ph.D., C.R.S., R.S.M.T. is a Clinical psychologist, body-psychotherapist, somatic movement therapist and dancer.  Her body psychotherapy modality is the Rubenfeld Synergy Method®.   American born and trained, she now lives and works in the UK.  She works in a chronic pain service in the National Health Service and sees clients privately.

May 2008. See printable PDF transcript

Ron Kurtz is the originator of the Hakomi Method of Body-Centered Psychotherapy and the method of Mindfulness Based, Assisted Self Study. He is a preeminent influence in progressive psychotherapy. Author or co-author of influential books, published in several Western languages (Body-Centered Psychotherapy, The Body Reveals, and Grace Unfolding) and three books in Japanese.

Ron has led hundreds of trainings and workshops around the world over the last quarter of a century. At present he is leading trainings and workshops in the Ashland, Oregon, Olympia, Washington, and Bozeman, Montana. He does workshops in several countries around the world.

Ron is the recipient of USABP’s 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Published April 2008. See: Printable PDF transcript. See other conversation with Ron Kurtz.

Stanley Keleman is the founder of Formative Psychology, an approach that views life as an organising and formative process.  The Spring 2007 issue of The USA Body Psychotherapy Journal was devoted to Stanley Keleman’s work and its practical applications in psychotherapy, medicine, neurobiology, acupuncture, organizational development, literature, poetry, and personal growth.  Stanley Keleman is based in Berkeley, CA, where he directs the Center for Energetic Studies.

March 2008. See printable PDF transcript. See other conversation with Stanley Keleman.

Ellen Gayda is the founder of BodyWord®, a creative body psychotherapy.  Ellen has an extensive background in the holistic healing arts, Gestalt, and Zen training and various massage and energy therapies.  BodyWord® helps clients translate somatic emotional awareness into an embodied language of meaning.

February 2008. See printable PDF transcript