Dear colleagues,
Wishing all our participants, tutors, Friends, and colleagues, hopeful and positive festive gatherings. TAOMI continues to explore ways to support mindfully embodied ways of being present to each other and the planet. May we all make a small difference to our challenging world in the 2023!
Wishing all our participants, tutors, Friends, and colleagues, hopeful and positive festive gatherings. TAOMI continues to explore ways to support mindfully embodied ways of being present to each other and the planet. May we all make a small difference to our challenging world in the 2023!
2022 brought us the challenges that we barely could imagine, but it has also brought us opportunities to develop and strengthen our resilience. We asked our tutors and participants to share their visions, hopes and wishes for the new year:
- Which key themes have emerged from your work in 2022?
- The importance of movement and trusting thаt the body will lead the way.
Where will you focus your professional development in 2023?
Continuing to deepen my knowledge and skills in LBMS – and through teaching with Karen Studd I will definitely learn more. Also to make some time to write up my work and the application of LBMS in psychotherapy. I’ve signed up for a Group Supervision retreat with the aim to invite my supervises to meet every 6 months to share and think about the work.
What are your wishes for TAOMI and the course participants in 2023?
I look forward to keep growing TAOMI – although I am enjoying the slow organic pattern of growth of the Institute. However, we do need to develop our model of on-line webinars and make them more accessible and encourage more conversations around subjects.
I am hoping that we get the Advanced DMT course underway …. and maybe an LBMS in DMT conference in 2024!Susan ScarthDance Movement psychotherapist, CMA, Co-founder and Director of TAOMI - Which key themes have emerged in your work in 2022?
- Mentoring and continuing development of the material. And then mentoring means also finding people who can teach continuing to develop their ability to embody and understand the content, so they can eventually replace me. So mentoring younger people.
- Mastering , what does it mean to somebody to actually be able to be competent. Mastering the material.
- Strengthening community and more writing.
- I'm going to compile some of the blogs which I have done in the past and more information of explicating the material particulary around motif and Space Harmony.
- Stay connected to themselves through their own movement experience, their body experience, but they also stay connected to the larger group, because they are looking more being in community, than just working on themselves, the support of group and the interaction. We are designed synergistically, humans are built to work together in community. Major things that we developed are results of working together.
Karen StuddCertified Movement Analyst (CMA), Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, The Whole Movement - Which key themes have emerged from your work in 2022?
The notion of acceptance has arisen most strongly this year. Working with clients who are managing suicide, and the loss of freedom and health as a result of capture during war has made it ever clearer that such complex grief has many overlapping stages that cannot be forseen or assumed. Whilst accepting each person as they are at any one moment has always been my aim, the challenges of 2022 have taken me deeper into my own humility.
Where will you focus your professional development in 2023?
I will continue to extend my knowledge and practice of Clean Language. I have found the simple yet profound questions immensely useful as a way of working with clients during sessions, both in keeping my own opinions and assumptions out of the picture, and of practising a more meaningful way of listening.
What are your wishes for TAOMI and the course participants in 2023?
I wish TAOMI good luck in reaching those they wish to support, and the course participants an increasing compassion towards the people they work with, through taking more opportunity to be quiet and inwardly focused on themselves in 2023.Tamsin GraingerShiatsu practitioner and educator, : https://www.tamsingrainger.com - Which key themes have emerged from your work in 2022?
Some themes have emerged from myself to continue to work on it:
1. The fact of the time and the diverse ways in which each one cope with that. Here, I would also put rythms in the quotidian life, and how the differences modulate the relationships among us.
2. Self-compassion and self-care have been important themes working with my clients. How to balance the demands and exigences of the environment with the needs of the person.
3. Listening to the body memory, with a care, supportive and attentive way.
Where will you focus your professional development in 2023?
I am developing a personal project regarding training in DMT together with my personal web page so I can present my services in the areas I have an expertise and I think I can collaborate. Also, I am willing to continue to inspire and impulse the research in DMT.
What are your wishes for TAOMI and the course participants in 2023?
I feel that TAOMI is offering a very professional, supportive and loving space for participants (at least in the courses I have participated). I would like this way to do thinks continue and expand offering interesting approaches to different themes. For instance, I think the courses about “Grief and Loss” or “Breath and Touch” were really interesting. Perhaps, I missed more time with the curators (but I understand this is a financial issue) in order to go in deep with the themes.Rosa Maria Rodriguez JimenezDance Movement psychotherapist, researcher. President EADMT - Which key themes have emerged from your work in 2022?
Boundaries. The theme of boundaries, personal, physical and psychological was very present in the past year. Our Latvian Association of Creative Arts Therapy even has organised an educational event on this topic. And in my own practice there is a theme of the boundaries and support that has been important in 2022.
Where will you focus your professional development in 2023?
I would like to explore more some topics that i don’t master fully yet. During LBMS course there are the themes emerged which i would give more attention. I would like to start a therapeutic group in my private practice. Research.. i haven’t done much since i have completed my training, would be nice to look in this direcrtion.
What are your wishes for TAOMI and the course participants in 2023?
Dive, go deeper and explore. With TAOMIDaria Krizska-PopovaDance Movement therapist - Which key themes have emerged from your work in 2022?
The main topics for me were around:- embodied experience as a key to remain resilient and alive;
- theory of polarities: e.g. doual process while grief; being focused on inner state/or outer; strength and weakness etc. - the main points as a base inside endless continuum of variations.
- self-protection, self-care while working with the client: how to remain stable, alive and embodied near the client. I will continue to lead embodied groups for clients, and I really wish to spread DMT principles among verbal therapists around me, to encourage them to rely on body and use thier embodied knowledge in their practice
- attachment theory and it's influences on therapy
- I wish all being alive, breath, keep balance. To be resilient while being vulnerable... As someone said to me "maybe there is a one place where client can learn how to to be alive and not afraid of being vulnerable" ...so don't be afraid of being vulnerable. And let's see how it enriches us.
Tatiana RaimanGestalt psychotherapist, www.raimanpsy.by
Join TAOMI founders - Julia Morozova , Mārtiņš Etkins and Susan Forth , in an online New Year gathering. Put on your ‘glad rags’ and sparkle with us as we dance together, clink our glasses of good cheer, and share our hopes for 2023. We look forward to welcoming you at
7 o’clock CET for the opening dance
here is the link : TAOMI's New Year party
7 o’clock CET for the opening dance
here is the link : TAOMI's New Year party
