The Three Character Positions - Early, Late and Healthy:
Each of us has a core imprint of ecperience at each of these seven stages. Marcher divides character into three positions, "Early", "Late", and "Healthy". In the Early position, the imprint is dominated by experiences that have led to a resigned stance to the world within that developmental stage. In the Late position. the imprint is dominated by experience that lead to an over-controlled stance toward the world. In the Healthy position, the imprint has been one that encourages the basic need or task.

By determining what position a client occupies in each of the seven stages, we develop a powerful map that reveals overall patterns of resignation, rigidities and health. The fullness of this map gives depth, clarity, precision, direction and richness to the therapy process.

The Foundation Training will give an overview of each of the seven character types; what happens within each stage developmentally, what experiences lead to the formation of Early, Late and Healthy character positions, and basic clinical approaches for each character.

Resourcing: A New Vision of Therapy:

The discovery that muscles respond to overwhelming stress by becoming resigned (called hypo-responsive in Bodynamic Analysis) has created a paradigm shift in somatic psychology. It changes the fundamental way that we understand and work with character structure issues. Prior to the discovery of hypo-response, the basic model of body approaches had to do with muscular armor or tension. This lead to techniques that tended to break down structure, useful for some clients but missing crucial elements of therapy for others.

"Resourcing" is used in the case of resignation of the body. Resourcing constitutes an important shift in how we think about clinical issues and a set of techniques that awaken skills in the client by activating psychomotor processes that were given up or were never developed. Resourcing is a sophisticated and powerful method of building ego structure that help clients kindle their own developmental forces that can move them toward health. This is particularly helpful for people who feel they miss basic skills in work, relationships, and in manifesting life goals.

Somatic Aspects of Ego Development: In the Foundation Training, participants will learn the basic principles of resourcing and in particular, how to identify missing ego function and how to work with ego building techniques.

The material covered will include:

• Boundary Formation
• Containment
• Stress Management
• Cognitive Grasp
• Centering
• Grounding
• Contact Abilities