Interviews with Dirk Marivoet on Somatic Perspectives in Psychotherapy

14 July 2020 by Dirk Marivoet

Clicking on the links you are lead to Interviews with Dirk Marivoet on aspects of Bodymind Integration and Body Psychotherapy. In the first interview Dirk speaks about Postural Integration, a primary method of deep holistic bodywork and integrative therapy. It was published in November 2015. See printable PDF-transcription. The interviewer was Serge Prengel.

http://somaticperspectives.com/2015/11/marivoet/

In another interview Dirk and Serge Prengel have a dialogue on Ethics and embodiment for Somatic Perspectives on Psychotherapy was published in May 2017

https://content.blubrry.com/relationalimplicit/RI-Marivoet-Ethics-2017-05.mp3

About the author

Dirk Marivoet psychotherapist in Belgium

Dirk Marivoet, MSc is European certified and accredited psychotherapist (ECP). He’s also a licenced psychomotor therapist and physiotherapist (University of Louvain). He is the founder and director of the International Institute for Bodymind Integration (IBI) and an international teacher in several Body Oriented Psychotherapy Schools and diverse other training programs. Dirk is a certified Trainer and Supervisor for Postural Integration, Energetic Integration, Reichian Bodywork and Pelvic-Heart Integration (Jack Painter, PhD), a Core Energetics Teacher and Supervisor (John Pierrakos, MD). He studied extensively with Al Pesso. His work is “polyvagal and trauma informed”. After more than 35 years of working and teaching in the field of integrative and holistic therapy, he created his own comprehensive synthesis and approach, Core Strokes, which he offers worldwide in the form of professional trainings, workshops and individual sessions. Dirk is a public speaker about these and other topics and chairs the Core Science Foundation. He lives in Ghent (Belgium).

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