Introductory workshop Core Strokes™ in Switzerland

A Transformational Experience for Personal Growth, Based on a Body-Mind Integration Approach

Core Strokes™ is an in-depth (psycho)therapeutic process designed to foster personal development through a relational and emotional alliance, helping you reconnect with your Core (Center of Right Energy) Essence.

A powerful blend of experiential and didactic learning

This workshop offers a deep understanding of how blocked energy impacts you emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. You will engage in powerful energetic techniques designed to systematically open the flow of life force within you.

During the workshop, you will uncover the unconscious ways in which you hinder yourself from being fully aligned, clear-minded, and vibrant. By activating and moving stuck energies into action and interaction, you will find satisfaction, validation, and internalized meaning. The process allows you to release old psychological patterns—mirrored in the body as holding patterns and layers of protective “armor”—while creating new, meaningful body-mind maps that align with your deeper life flow on every level of your personality.

You will learn how your body and emotions serve as vital guides in discovering your life’s purpose and facilitating desired change. The three stages of transformation in Core Strokes can be summed up as: “Let be, Let go, Let in.”

Participants frequently share that this method helps them experience more pleasure, fulfillment, and a profound sense of purpose and connection.

For those ready to go deeper, both personally and professionally, this workshop also serves as an introduction to the professional training modules offered in various countries, which can be taken independently in the location of your choice.

Program of the workshop in Brienz (Switzerland)

Core Strokes™ offers a creative, dynamic, and deeply fulfilling approach to experiencing the full vitality and joy of your life force. In this introductory workshop, we integrate several key elements:

• A comprehensive model of the “natural energetic wave in steps”: This model helps you understand energy flow and identify specific blockages, which can be related to character structures.
• Consciousness and personality maps: These maps serve as guides for assessing the depth of the work, offering insights into the defense mechanisms that obscure your Core. With this understanding, you will be able to resolve inner conflicts and relationship challenges with yourself and others.
• Structured exercises: These practices are designed to heighten your physical sensitivity and body awareness.
• Dynamic body reading: You will engage in developing a dialogue between the energies of different parts of your body, exploring how they interact with each other and the environment.
• Microtracking: This involves cultivating the pre-frontal “pilot” and the “witness,” sharpening your ability to observe and guide your internal processes.
• Gestalt exercises: You will work with creative, experiential techniques to explore and express your inner world.
• Controlled role-play interactions: These exercises, in pairs, triangles, or larger constellations, allow for the externalization of inner “bodymind dramas,” helping you understand and navigate your emotional landscape.
• Process work and hands-on techniques: These practices focus on relaxing the myofascial network, which is closely linked to emotional and autonomic defense systems. The work includes physical, cognitive, and energetic support to release tension and facilitate deeper healing.

Through individual and group practices, you will experience how your body, energy, emotions, and attitudes begin to subtly transform. Participants who have undergone this process often report feeling more alive, powerful, connected, satisfied, joyful, and courageous.

The place in Brienz – Schweibenalp

Schweibenalp is a beautifully situated seminar center in the Swiss Alps, near Brienz. It offers a serene and inspiring environment, ideal for personal growth and immersive group work. Surrounded by lush forests and mountain landscapes, it’s the perfect place to connect with nature and your inner strength. Schweibenalp is renowned for its holistic approach, providing comfortable accommodations and organic meals. The peaceful atmosphere enhances a deeper connection with yourself and the world around 

What about the facilitator?

Dirk Marivoet, MSc.

is the founder and director of the International Institute for Bodymind Integration (IBI). He is an accredited psychotherapist (ECP) and a certified psychomotor therapist, having earned his credentials at the University of Leuven, where he served on the staff of the Psychiatry/Psychoanalytic Clinic for 11 years. Dirk is a Certified Trainer and Supervisor in Postural Integration, Energetic Integration, Reichian Bodywork and Pelvic-Heart Integration (as developed by Jack Painter, PhD), as well as a Core Energetics Teacher and Supervisor (under John Pierrakos, MD).

With 40 years of clinical and teaching experience in both academic and alternative fields of psychotherapy, Dirk developed the Core Strokes approach, which he now teaches internationally. He resides in Ghent, Belgium.

Practical information

Languages:

English (with possible translation into French and German)

Accomodation and Meals:

Accommodation and full board can be arranged directly with Schweibenalp.

For additional questions, please contact Randy Mellaerts, who is responsible for the organization, at: randy@remedi.be