CORE STROKES ™ – MODULE 4

“Core functionality, vibrational integrity, structural alignment — savouring the fruits and rewards of living”

What is/are Core Strokes ?

The Core Strokes method was developed by Dirk Marivoet after 30 years of practice and teaching.

This psycho-corporal method combines the theoretical and practical aspects of the following approaches:

• Postural Integration, Energetic Integration and Pelvic-Heart Integration, developed by Jack W. Painter, PhD
• Core Energetics, developed by John C. Pierrakos, MD
• Pesso-Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP), developed by Albert Pesso and Diane Boyden-Pesso
• Other approaches and systems such as those of William Reich, Carl Jung, Alexander Lowen, Eric Berne…

 In Core Strokes, ‘Core‘ stands for our ‘Center of Right Energy‘ and ‘Strokes‘ for the units of recognition (which can be verbal or non-verbal) and the targeted hands-on manipulations, touches and caresses that help us to come out with a new part of ourselves, or an old part of that has been hiding in the body as symptoms. The presence of the therapist should give the client the courage to begin revealing (and become conscious), what is coming to the surface from their inner depths (the Dynamic Ground, which is the seat of the deepest level of the unconscious, the inherited or collective unconscious), to purify and transform it.

” TOUCH AND BE TOUCHED: LEARN TO LIVE WITH AN OPEN AND AVAILABLE HEART! ”  

• The originality and effectiveness of the Core Strokes method lies in its ability to integrate techniques of bodywork and verbal expression that will “touch” us deep within, both in our tissues but also in our emotions, our wounds, our basic human needs, our soul.
• Core Strokes allows us to discover to what degree the “blows”, the “spikes” that we receive can hurt us, close us, and how much the “caresses”, the “strokes”, can bring us support, recognition, and allow us to open our heart, or “Core” (our “Center of Right Energy”).
• Core Strokes allows you to learn to express your needs and your emotions, to release your tensions, to let go, to listen and to perceive differently, to give and to receive. Trauma-based protection and defense mechanisms are effectively resolved and integrated, while developing a deep connection with your Authentic Self.

Program of the Training Module 4 in Core Strokes in Villers-en-Prayères (F)

Core Strokes ™ is a creative, dynamic and ultimately enjoyable way to fully experience the creativity, dynamism and joy of your own life force. In this module 4 our focus is inner integration of all possible splits of being : top-bottom, left-right, back-front, center-periphery, inside-outside. You will learn how to balance the 3 layers of fascia we distinguish (superficial, intermediate deep and deep) at the emotional, energetic and postural levels. We develop the concepts of “tensegrity,” vibrational integrity and structural alignment. With special hands-on techniques as well as energetic work with “in- and outstrokes” we support the free and spontaneous pulsation of the Core. In our interaction with the world, we must continually adapt and redevelop our psycho-somatic integration, vibrancy and free streaming of all dimensions, while constantly re-connecting with outer reality. An embodied way of working with special “whole images” is learned, in which ultimately an inner fusion of our “masculine and feminine polarities” can happen. With “bodymind drama” (Controlled embodied interactions in role-play with accommodation in pairs, triangles or larger constellations with placeholders for the exteriorisation of the inner unfinished situations, dramas, fantasies, dreams, preparations or unrehearsed expressions)  we explore how to maintain or regain our integrity after difficulties or conflicts in order to re-create joy, satisfaction and harmony. Once the bodymind functions in holistic harmony, when long held compensation patterns have lost their hold, we enter a space in which energy and consciousness allows for a clear insight into one’s life’s purpose.

We integrate in this module:

• Bodywork with the fascia with simultaneous verbal strokes (units of recognition): learning specific hands-on techniques of Core Strokes to integrate the 3 layers of the myofascial network, simultaneous with breath, interaction, expression, verbalization – developing Somatic whole-self-consciousness
• Connecting the self and the world; ‘intercorporality’
• Body-mind-spirit-world integration: Beyond character styles — “core affective consciousness,” “core functionality,” “being-in- the-world”
  
• Integrating body parts and dimensions: top-down, left-right, back-front, center-periphery, inside-outside
• Energy Physiology 4: charge-discharge, verbal and hands-on support of pulsation and flow, experience of phases 5 to 9 of Jack Painter’s “natural cycle of energy and breath”.
• Transcending Trauma: Grounding in the core and drawing strength and wisdom from the most difficult experiences. Feeling at home, belonging to the world
• Deepening and diversifying body psychotherapeutic verbal and touch strategies and techniques.
• Working with fine energy, assimilating, internalising, centering, reflecting, identification, insight, self image

Educational Means :

• Bodymind meditations and exercises (awakening, awareness, anchoring, breathing, movement, voice, etc.) theoretical contributions 
• Demonstrations of individual sessions in large groups 
• Supervised practice in small groups and analysis of experiences 
• Analysis of the effects of the methods and techniques tested 
• Question and answer time

Work outside the classroom:

• Individual therapy sessions in Core Strokes or Postural Integration with a certified practitioner (min. 6 hours),
• Working group: regular meetings to discuss and practice on the subjects studied during the training with other students,
• Study of books and recommended resource articles,
• Personal reflection and evaluation.

Thanks to this module:

• I enjoy the benefits of this integration and realize that I was made to be able to be happy, caring, resilient and in a state of fully embodied health,
• I realize that my body is the temple of my spirit, that the world is my “home,” and that there is a place for all of my relationships.

The place in Villers-en-Prayères (F)

Who is the facilitator?

Dirk Marivoet, MSc.

is the main facilitator of this training. He is a psychotherapist (ECP) with 40 years of experience and a psychomotor therapist and physiotherapist (University of Leuven where he served for 11 years as staff psychiatry in a psychoanalytic context), director of the International Institute for Bodymind Integration. He is also a certified trainer and supervisor for all methods of Bodymind Integration (Postural Integration®, Energetic Integration® and Pelvic-Heart Integration®) and a teacher and supervisor of Core Energetics®, a Body Oriented Psychotherapy modality. After more than 35 years of working and teaching, both in the academic, alternative and complementary fields of psychotherapy, he created the Core Strokes ™ approach, which he offers worldwide.

Practical information

COSTS FOR THE TRAINING :

• Early Bird – 880 € (before July 1st 2024)
• Normal Rate – 930 € (after July 1st 2024)

Languages used :

English (with possible translation into French and Dutch by Dirk Marivoet)

QUESTIONS?

Write to Solène, who is responsible for the organization : solenegarreau@posteo.net