Here you will find general information about Moaiku, Bodynamic Brantbjerg, Resource Oriented Skill Training, and Bodynamic Analysis. Please click on the appropriate link on the left.
You will also find news of Merete Holm Brantbjerg’s international activities and examples of the workshops she can facilitate
Please excuse any language inaccuracies as most of the text on these English pages is either written directly into English or translated from Danish by myself, a Dane. Some translations have also been made by Tania Christensen and Barbara Picton.
NEWS about international activities:
CABP - Chiron Association of Body Psychotherapy - continue to organize workshops with Merete Holm Brantbjerg in London.
A series of 3 workshops are planned in 2011 and 2012. All 3 workshops "Trauma, safety and boundaries", "Authority and Trauma" and "Identity and Trauma" have already been offered once - with groups of 14-16 participants attending. May 5-6 2012 "Identity and Trauma" is offered.
The 3 modules of Moaiku Trauma Therapy in Vancouver are now completed.. The group of participants have decided to continue their learning process in follow up workshops.
Read what previous participants say about their learning and experience in the 3 workshops.
We will start a new training in October 2012 if the interest is big enough. See the new flyer: Moaiku Trauma Therapy
Pre-requisites for the training are:
- to be working professionally with people who are impacted by unresolved trauma or states of high stress
- to attend at least 2 workshops with Merete to become familiar with Resource Oriented Skill Training as a psychotherapeutic method personally and professioinally.
- to be ready for an in depth psychotherapeutic process touching on own high arousal patterns
A new article related to Moaiku Trauma Therapy can be downloaded for free now - see below,
Attachment and Trauma - March 31-April 1 2012
2 day open workshop at the Vancouver School of Theology, UBC campus.
How do attachment patterns impact healing of trauma? And how do we work with them?
This workshop is new. It will focus on how trauma- and attachment patterns are interwoven - and how psychomotor skill training can be used as a method in a healing process.
Flyer is in the process of being written.
Individual sessions with Merete Holm Brantbjerg - therapy or supervision - are available on March 20, 21 and 30. A 4th day will be added if the interest is big enough. Please contact Gayle Robinson on robinsonwilliams@telus.net if you are interested in individual sessions
Practical information:
The website www.bodynamic.ca does not exist anymore - so this website is where you find information about Merete Holm Brantbjerg’s activities in Vancouver. To sign up for workshops please contact Barbara Picton: barbara@barbarapicton.com. Barbara is organizing the activities in Vancouver in cooperation with Gayle Robinson.
Please contact Barbara if you want to be included on the mailinglist receiving information about the activities in Vancouver. If you miss information on this website please write an email to moaiku@brantbjerg.dk - and tell us what you would like to become available at the site.
US-activities:
In connection to the SCT conferences I am planning to do pre-conference workshops: April 14-15 2012 in San Francisco - April 13-14 2013 in Philadelphia - and probably March 28-29 2014 in San Francisco.
Besides that I don't have any plans for workshops in the US. If you are interested in my work please look at the possibilities in either Vancouver or London.
A new article written by Merete Holm Brantbjerg is available: "The Relational Aspect of Resource Oriented Skill Training".
This article - the newest in the series - focuses on ROST as a relational method. What is it that makes the skill training work as a psychotherapeutic method with a significant impact? and what role does the relationship between the facilitator/therapist and the participant/client play this? Click on English litterature to see how to purchase the article.
Steen Jørgensen and Merete Holm Brantbjerg (2010): "Coping Skills and Survival Strategies in Relation to Trauma and Traumatic Stress" - can now be downloaded for free. The article is developed as teachingmaterial for the Moaiku Trauma Therapy workshops in Scandinavia. Our understanding of survivalreactions - developed and widened over the last years in Moaiku - is described in the article.
The following article by Merete Holm Brantbjerg was published in October 2009 in the magazine of the Danish Psychotherapist Organization: "When the therapist is aroused. Sexual feelings in the therapyroom". The article can be downloaded here for free. The article holds examples of how concrete skill training can be used to support containment and coping with sexual energy in the contact field between therapist and client.
Go to English litterature and you will find another article for download.
Click on the workshoptitles and you will find descriptions of workshops. Some descriptions are translations of flyers used in Scandinavia – others are flyers from English spoken workshops.
The descriptions hold information about the variety of workshops Merete Holm Brantbjerg is offering – in Scandinavia and internationally.