Susan E. Cahill, L.C.P.C., A.D.T.R.
Cultivating Presence Through Authentic Movement
WINTER DATES
Sundays: DECEMBER 4 AND 11, JANUARY 8 AND 15, FEBRUARY 12 AND 19
6:30-9:30pm
Cost $55 per class, please chose 3-6 dates to sign up.
Student Rate $45 per class
Location: Heaven Meets Earth, 2746 Central St., Evanston, IL 60201
(corner of Ewing and Central St.)
Call to register at or ask questions: 847-920-1556 or email at
(Limit 8 participants)
(3 CEU’s available for each class)
This workshop is intended for students with previous experience with Authentic Movement who are familiar with the practice of tracking one’s direct experience in the present moment. The workshop, which will be conducted in an open circle format, will help train participants in how to speak as a witness to both their own experience and to those who are movers.
The learning objectives for the class are as follows:
1. To experience the felt sense of the body in movement in relationship to sensations, images, thoughts, memories and feelings as they unfold in a safe environment.
2. To increase the ability to access the active imagination in the body and articulate the experience.
3. To increase the capacity to articulate what is observed in the witnessing process without projections.
4. Therapists will be given coaching in the witnessing process and taught how to discern what to verbalize to a mover so that psychological safety is ensured. Parallels will be made from this process to the process of therapist, client.
Format
· Check in and introductions
· Authentic Movement Outline
· Body Image Warm-up and Grounding Exercises
· Experiential
· Coaching of witness role
· Questions and Closure
Susan Cahill, MA, LCPC is a licensed clinical professional counselor. She maintains a private practice in Wilmette, Illinois, where she works with couples, adults and adolescents. Susan received graduate training in Counseling and Dance/Movement Therapy at Columbia College incorporating psychodynamic theory and body-centered therapy approaches. She received post-graduate training at the Family Institute at Northwestern University in the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Model. Susan has been immersed in the practice of Authentic Movement for over 15 years. For the past 6 years she has studied in depth with Janet Adler, one of the pioneering theorists in the development of Authentic Movement. Susan would like to use this workshop as an opportunity to pass on the wisdom and lineage of Authentic Movement as informed by her work with Janet Adler.