This class is the culmination of the year-long training program at PMTI. It may also be taken on its own by others who have completed their training program elsewhere.
Read more about the Certification Training Program at PMTI here.
Guided by the questions you bring, we’ll review and/or inspire growth in four areas of Trager practice: Attitude and Communication, Mentastics, Tablework, and Professional Conduct. Time will be spent developing both honesty and compassion in self-assessment through receiving and giving focused sessions, and through speaking and writing about the work. You’ll work individually and in small groups to address issues that have come up for you in your practice, and support you in making your practice more effective, joyful and rewarding. You’ll find ways of letting go of old habits and embedding new ones, especially in relation to body use, client relationships and professional outreach.
The phrase ‘Building a more satisfying practice” can be understood in the context of Milton’s recommendation that our success and satisfaction in the work is entirely dependent on our self-development. When we practice each day for our own self-development, then self-development builds our professional Practice organically.
For me the word “practice” refers simultaneously to a lot of layers in our work:
our personal practice of Mentastics for daily self-care and for on-going self-development
our professional practice of Mentastics in the context of sessions...as a way of assessing clients’ needs, engaging them in their own inner inquiry, offering prescriptions for regularly dosed somatic explorations in the service of shifting patterns in the unconscious mind, helping them retrieve more of the wounded and wonderful parts of themselves, etc.
our professional development in all the hand/body/mind skills of somatic movement and touch that make our work so effective and efficient in meeting our clients where they are and helping their body’s tone find a better balance so it carries less and less discomfort, more and more pleasure
our personal and professional practices of self-regulation and somatic presence that make our very way of being more potent and that invite us into the state Milton called Hook-up
our practice of a way of being that attracts a satisfying variety and number of clients…attracting more by who we are more than what we do
The amount of time we spend in each of these layers will depend on who shows up, and what they ask for. I will be sending out a questionnaire a few weeks in advance so I can have some idea of what might be a good way to begin. Then we will chart the course together from there. So, ask for what you want! :-)