Relational Living Body Psychotherapy
www.thelivingbody.net
Two ONLINE training weekends with Julianne Appel-Opper
On 24.-26. Oct 2025 and 9.-11. Jan 2026
Mainly process oriented, the aim is to provide a deepening of bodily and interbodily processes in a small learning group of 10-18 participants. We will focus on how living bodies speak in their bodily rhythms: breathing, moving, and embodied traumatic gestalten. We will explore own embodiment, the correlated embodied field between therapist and client and how to work within body-to-body-communication. For more information and to book your place, please email Julianne at: julianne.ao@web.de.
These two weekends are for qualified psychotherapists who have already worked with
own clients for a minimum of 3 years.
The cost is 670 Euro for both weekends.
Both workshop start on Friday at 3-6.30pm CET, Saturday 10am-4.30pm CET and Sunday 10am-4pm CET
Within a cocreated embodied field two living bodies communicate with each other as rhythms and melodies of moving and being moved. Gestures, tiny movements, looks, a still shoulder speak of embodied stories about what this person has experienced, how this living body has been treated, cared for, handled, looked at, ignored, threatened, and soothed. Atmospheres of bodily being-with, echoes of the other and the rhythms of contacting imprint bodily. The breathing rhythms of the lung conveys what this person has inhaled from others and what the living body expects from another.
Julianne offers new ways of understanding of and working within this body-to-body-communication in a relational and field-oriented way. Her way of working is theoretically underpinned in Dialogical Gestalt Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalytic thinking and is well situated within research fields of attachment, developmental psychology, and neuroscience. Using her experience of many years of clinical practice and teaching, Julianne offers a safe and respectful place for exercises, experiential process, live supervision, live demonstrations, small group work together with theory input, a worksheet for each weekend and a handout.
Julianne Appel-Opper, psychologist, psychotherapist, supervisor and international trainer has worked over 35 years, for 9 years in the UK and is now in private practice in Berlin. She has developed an approach to Relational body work within an Integrative Gestalt and Relational Psychoanalytic frame which she has taught, presented internationally and written about in numerous publications including different Confer programs (www.confer.uk.com): Recently she presented at an online panel at the White Institute/Wilhelm Reich Center in New York. Since 2001 she has worked internationally as a visiting tutor at several psychotherapy institutes. From 2004-2015 she was visiting tutor/viva examiner for the Integrative Department at Metanoia, London.
Julianne is an Editorial Board Member of the European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy, an accredited member of the Berlin Chamber for Psychotherapy, a member of the IAAGT, International Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy, IARPP, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and a founding member of IG-FEST, International Gestalt Therapy Study Group on Field-Emergent Self and Therapy. Diploma Psychology, Clinical Psychologist, Registered Psychological Psychodynamic Psychotherapist in Germany, Accredited Integrative Gestalt Psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, MUKAHPP, Supervisor, University of Birmingham, U.K.
Her website is: www.thelivingbody.net