Pesso Boyden self-development workshop – Honiton

"I can truly say that working with Emma and Pesso has had a transformative impact on my life." - Jacqui

Pesso Boyden System of Psychomotor (PBSP) psychotherapy is a liberating mind-body approach, releasing us from seeing the present through the lens of past memories.

Bessel van der Kolk is one of the world's leading trauma experts. In his book The Body Keeps The Score, he says that PBSP helps ‘rewire your negative thinking and dissolve unwanted patterns that keep you from enjoying your life.'

In this workshop, you’ll be safely supported to create new symbolic ideal memories which will give you a felt-sense of what you needed to have happened in the past, enabling you to live your life more freely in the present.

What can you expect? PBSP is creative. Everything is client-led and guided by Emma, your therapist for the day. We work as a group throughout, supporting each other. There are up to three structured places available, and several observer-participant (o-p) places.

Clients having a structured work 1:1 with Emma within the group, and o-p’s role play ideal-figures, if needed, for the client. When o-p’s witness clients getting their needs met in a structure, they often piggyback on the healing that takes place.

Where is PBSP from? Albert Pesso and Diane Boyden were dance choreographers who noticed their students getting stuck. As a result, their curiosity led them to develop PBSP, which became an official psychotherapy in 1961. Al and Diane realised that when we don’t get our basic needs met as a child - a safe place to grow up in, enough support, nurture, protection or loving limits when we needed - then we’re left with deficits which we fill with our own thoughts and behaviours to keep ourselves safe. Those automatic responses don’t necessarily serve us to live our best lives or allow us to move freely in life. That’s where PBSP can help.

Is PBSP for you? Good question! PBSP is a great approach for healing early childhood issues where our basic needs haven’t been met (you’re not alone there), as well as issues around trauma. Attending as an o-p will give you a good sense if you’d like to have a structure another time. To find out if this workshop is a good fit, have any questions, curiosities or want to book, contact Emma. Teas and snacks included.