Professional Development Training in BodyDreaming®
The term BodyDreaming refers to a state of consciousness where the body’s innate wisdom is made accessible. Just as the dreaming state reveals psyche’s wisdom or soul dreams, the body too has a state of consciousness that when invited brings forth its pearls of insight. The BodyDreaming approach encourages us to enter and explore this state of expanded consciousness, via an embodied practice that helps to ground psychotherapy, and ensoul somatic practice. It offers a unique combination of the psychology of C.G. Jung, BodySoul Rhythms® of Marion Woodman, the trauma therapy Somatic Experiencing of Peter Levine, neuroscience, attachment and developmental theory.
The training programme is anchored in Marian Dunlea’s book, BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An Embodied Therapeutic Approach. The work is experientially based and allows participants to learn the somatic skills necessary to follow and regulate the currents of the Autonomic Nervous System that is so challenged in these extraordinary times.
We draw on Jung’s vision of the Self, a guiding intelligence which Jung says must be rooted in the body. The autonomic nervous system prompts and feeds the mythopoetic. The inner world of the psyche, dreams and images resonates in the cells, in the tissue, in the organs, in the musculature, in the bones of the body.
Learning the skills needed to titrate emotional overwhelm deepens our sense of rootedness in our bodies and our surroundings. The capacity to regulate our systems is key to working with all manner of trauma. A more coherent and regulated system supports us to experience life with greater ease and pleasure, to connect with each other, to our surrounds and to be more available to our dreams and the numinous.
The BodyDreaming training is designed for those interested in healing, the arts, and living well – ecologists, psychologists, psychotherapists, somatic therapists, coaches, artists and creative minds.
Each training weekend will comprise of theory and practice, experiential learning, embodied practice sessions, dream work, movement, voice work, ritual, and art. We work in large group sessions and in small break-out practice sessions. A team of assistants provides containment and
guidance for the small break out practice sessions, with an assistant present in each.
Requirements and Recommendations to complete the training
The BodyDreaming training is organised into nine modules, taught quarterly (four modules per year).
In order to receive the Certificate of Completion participants are required to:
1. Attend and participate in all nine modules. (Each module costs €419.)
2. Complete two individual sessions with an Assistant or Faculty member between each module, totaling 16 sessions over the training period. (Each session costs €50. Additional sessions with an assistant, if requested, will be charged at the practitioner’s standard rate.)
3. Join a practice/study group that meets between modules to practice exercises and review together the relevant chapter from the BodyDreaming book. It is required that each practice/study group meets with an assistant once between modules. Sessions should reference the reading for the last-attended module. The practice/study group meeting with an assistant costs €20 per person (or a minimum €80 per session).
4. It is strongly recommended that participants attend an in-person BodyDreaming / BodySoul workshop on fairy tale or mask work when appropriate
Training Dates - Cycle 2
2025
Feb. 7th-9th
June 6th-8th
Sep. 19-21st
Dec. 5th-7th
2026
Feb. 6-8th
June 5-7th
Sep. 18th-20th
Dec. 4th-6th
2027
Feb. 5th-7th
Faculty for the Training
Marian Dunlea, M.Sc., IAAP, ICP, is a Jungian analyst who has been leading workshops internationally for the past 20 years integrating body, mind and soul. With the development of her unique approach BodyDreaming®, Marian’s work has expanded to incorporate the developments in neuroscience, trauma therapy with Jungian psychology and the phenomenological standpoint of interconnectedness. Her trainings include Jungian Analysis, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Psychosynthesis, Infant Observation, BodySoul Rhythms® and Somatic Experiencing. Marian is head of training for BodySoul Europe, sister organization of the Marion Woodman Foundation. She is the author of BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An Embodied Therapeutic Approach, Gradiva Award 2019, IAJS Book Award 2020.
Abigail Whyte is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist (C.Clin.Psychol.,Ps.SI). She has worked as a Clinical Psychologist since 1991 with young people and their families in public mental health services in Ireland. She is an experienced clinical psychology supervisor, and has been involved with both University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin D.Clin.Psych Clinical Psychology Training programmes. Abigail finished her training as a Somatic Experiencing /Trauma Practitioner (SETI) in 2015 and has been working as an SEP in private practice in Dublin since then. She is a graduate of the Marion Woodman BodySoul Rhythms Training Programme (www.marionwoodmanfoundation.org) and has been facilitating regular BodySoul groups in Dublin since 2013.
Pauline Sayhi is a Dance Movement Psychotherapist who completed the Leadership Training with Marion Woodman. Pauline has collaborated with Marian Dunlea and Sue Congram in Mask workshops in Greece as well as workshops in Ireland and the UK. She worked in Mental Health settings for 20 years and has trained in trauma treatment with Babette Rothschild. She studied to become a Dream Guide at CCPE in London and she is also a Retreat Guide in the Sufi Tradition. She has lived in the Arab World and uses Arabic Dance and Authentic Movement in her expressive work as well as the principles of play therapy. Her interests are wild swimming, nature as the first book of holy scripture and the alchemical retreat process.
Patricia Llosa, M.F.A., L.P. (USA/PERU) is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. She earned her undergraduate degree in Archaeology and Art History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and did graduate work at The School of Visual Arts. For more than 20 years she worked as an administrator and educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A graduate of Marion Woodman’s BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program, a Woodman Foundation Faculty and Board Member, she has lectured and taught workshops in Ecuador, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Spain and Switzerland. Presently, she serves on the boards of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis Gradiva Awards and The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism and is on the faculty of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association and the Assisi Institute.
Patricia Grey Amante is a Somatic Movement Psychotherapist. With a background in psychology and counselling psychology, Patricia accredited as a Psychotherapist in 2004. Over the last 15 years, Patricia has completed three further professional trainings; BodySoul Leadership Training, with Marian Woodman Foundation, Origins, a 4-year Somatic Training in Embryology and Developmental Movement, with Joan Davis, Original Nature, a 3-year Somatic Training in Authentic Movement, assisting Joan Davis. Patricia’s therapeutic work nourishes Embodied Presence through Dreamwork, Developmental Somatic Movement, and Authentic Movement. She is currently offering a series of Embodied Menopausal Workshops. Through movement and stillness, Patricia brings a deep listening to what is here right now, opening through layers, to the innate wisdom that is so alive and palpable within our human body, and the greater body of nature.
Wendy Bratherton, IAAP, CSTA, has been a Jungian Analyst for over 30 years and recently retired. Her deep interest in early developmental trauma and psychosomatic illness led her to train as a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist sixteen years ago. This introduced her to the developments in neuroscience which have recently been taken on by Psychotherapy. Where appropriate she integrated the Biodynamic Craniosacral work into her Psychotherapy practice, to work with body and psyche. She trained with Marian Woodman (Canadian Jungian Analyst) in BodySoul Rythmns and has co-led BodySoul workshops with Marian Dunlea for over ten years. She ran Infant Observation Seminars for over twenty years and trained in trauma work with Babette Rothschild. Wendy has lectured on the integration of psyche and soma and on Alchemy and work with borderline patients. She has contributed to Contemporary Jungian Analysis, eds. C. Hauke and I. Alister (1998), and a contribution on Disease as Shadow to Jung’s Shadow Concept, eds. C. Perry and R. Tower (2023).
