In this experiential group, we will re-connect with the language of our bodies, exploring each Character Structure as a pathway for healing and personal growth.

How Early Experiences Shape Us
When a child’s core needs for safety, trust, healthy boundaries, individuality, and emotionally attuned connection go unmet, these experiences can become embedded in the body and nervous system. An “armour” forms that shapes how we feel, behave, and relate and this impacts below our conscious awareness.

In this experiential group, we’ll explore which needs were met and which were not, what we learned about connection and self-worth, and how these early patterns still shape our daily lives.

Healing Developmental Trauma Will Teach You:

• The five core stages of childhood development: Understand the five core stages of childhood development, from conception to age six, and what a child needs at each stage to grow well.
• Recognising Character Structures: Learn to recognise each Character Structure in yourself and in the people you work with.
• Unique touch and movement practices: Explore unique practices that soften the armour and reconnect you with the language of the body.
• Boundaries & safety: Discover somatic approaches for healing boundary ruptures and supporting a felt sense of safety and restoring regulation of the nervous system.
• Understanding shame: Explore shame, its relationship to self-worth, and ways to meet it skilfully and compassionately.
• Nervous System Support: Learn ways to release trapped trauma and restore regulation of your nervous system
• Embodied Tools & Practices: Explore new ways of working with developmental trauma using breath, imaginal practices, inquiry exercises, and meditations.
• And much more!

The Map of Character Structures
Rooted in the work of Wilhelm Reich and developed further by Alexander Lowen, this map describes five main Character Structures. Most of us carry traits of two or three, with one usually dominant pattern that formed to help us navigate the challenges of childhood.
Each structure has its own pattern of physical tension, emotional profile, and way of relating to others. Each can also be traced back to wounding at a particular stage of childhood development.

Who This Training Is For
This training is for anyone who works with people: therapists, bodyworkers, BBTRS practitioners, coaches, and healthcare providers. You’ll leave with skills you can use with your clients straight away.
It’s equally for anyone who wants to meet the deepest, most unconscious layers of their own personality. Many participants come for both reasons, and it’s the personal work that makes the professional skills real.