Psychodrama Structures is a modality that I have studied with Bessel van der Kolk and Licia Sky since 2016, and more recently with Gus Kaufman and Jim Amundsen, senior Pesso-Boyden trainers.
Featured in Chapter 18 of The Body Keeps the Score, Psychodrama Structures are a dynamic and interactive group process where we re-create the tableau of your childhood in three-dimensional space - your family-of-origin - so that we can resolve it by creating new, deeply satiating memories that are somaticized with the help of group members.
This work is based upon Pesso-Boyden Psychomotor Systems and it has evolved to incorporate parts work (when applicable) and complex trauma and grief.
I love this work because, for the right person at the right point in time in their journey, it gets fast results. It's like doing ten years of therapy in an hour.
In essence, you are getting a new attachment template.
Why Ketamine?
Ketamine permits a softening of defenses and promotes character flexibility and a potential to discover new possibilities through imagination, creativity and play.
Psychodrama Structures are a highly collaborative, deeply experiential, profoundly transformative and innovative approach to healing relationship patterns, where we re-create the tableau of our childhoods in order to step into the deep longings and hidden wounds of our inner child...and then re-imagine new possibilities that get somatically imprinted into our attachment templates: somatic symbolic re-parenting.
In combining these two powerful and transformative modalities, there is a synergistic effect that results in accelerated healing.
This modality is perfect for someone who already has the support of a coach or therapist or supportive community, and is wanting to do the deep, deep work of addressing their family-of-origin issues.
In this work, we get lots of adultified children who were raised in homes where there is substance abuse and addiction, folks who were raised in abusive homes, adultified children of refugees and immigrants, those raised by traumatized and/or traumatizing parents, and others who have experienced pervasive emotional neglect.
This intergenerational trauma work is not for the faint-hearted
and you will get lots of support.
My own experience is that residential workshops hold more potency. We all live under one roof at a retreat center. Having experienced many different workshops, the most potent containers are where we live together and share space with each other outside of the work itself. Eat together, laugh together, share rooms. It's intense work, and much of the healing also occurs during meal time conversations, and the transformations become somaticized as we explore new attachment templates with each other through the simplicity of just being together.
That said, I am aware that when folks have a significant trauma history, and/or are neurodivergent, the need for quiet time increases and becomes a basic need. Please discuss this with me.
Sometimes our stuff is too big for just one other person to hold with us - and so this is where a group process can be so incredibly helpful to our healing journey.
I typically come with two assistants, and workshop participants typically are known to me, because they've studied with me in various capacities or are colleagues of mine.
You also get two post-retreat group integration calls (optional), to help the shifts that you got during the retreat to land more fully.
If you are interested in participating in a Psychodrama Structures workshop with Ketamine, please complete the form linked below so that I can get a better idea of what you would like to get out of the workshop and help to determine if this type of work will be the right path for you at this time.
Please know that the only person who will read your application is Linda.
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