Embodied & Somatic Practice PD
Digital Manual

A therapeutic model for self-care, community-care and planetary-care

 

“Consciously living your embodiment is a personalised political act towards immediate and future sustainability – yours, ours, the planet’s.” Live Particle

 
 

Welcome to This central hub for independent and group learning

THis Manual accompanies your ESP PD program. Here You can:

  • Explore in more detail the ESP PD program’s key concepts

  • Engage with quality somatosensory audio experiences

  • Access materials for continuity and reinforcement of content from in-person sessions

  • Practice at your own pace, anywhere, anytime and deep dive as you wish

  • Shift your mood, change your state and support your regulation and processing with a collection of multi-media therapeutic practices in our practice menus.

Core Areas

Fostering Embodied Knowing, Curiosity, Connection, and Care

We recognise that the strategies for self, community and planetary care are intrinsically linked. This approach to professional learning simultaneously grows reflexive self-care processes at the individual level whilst building a repertoire of strategies that can be applied in community and client settings. This work is then reviewed within the broader context to explore the conditions that are driving harmful behaviours and dysfunctional systems. Always grounded in body-based, trauma-informed practices, this work aims to empower people to act within their locus of control and where possible, influence systems change within their world of work and across the social and political contexts within which they live. This holistic approach brings a different kind of presence into play and invites more purposeful living into personal and professional lives.

Digital Resource Collection

Venture your soma

Click on a image to journey from pixel to cell. Delivered digitally, these original sound-designed audio works and accompanying resources consolidate learning and provide anywhere, anytime access to quality somatosensory experiencing and content delivery.
NB: In the program version of this manual, these tiles will link to pages with a collection of resources.

PRiming

1.

Meta Concepts

FIELD

2.

Conditions

MARK

3.

Orientation - Because of Me

PATTERN

4.

Conversation - Because of You

Spectrum

5.

Resonation - Because of Us

Flow

6.

Continuity & Re-inforcement

“It is through our senses that we receive information from our internal environment (ourselves) and the external environment (others and the world). How we filter, modify, distort, accept, reject, and use that information is part of the act of perceiving.” Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

 

Example
Original experiential Audio Resource…

 

ADDITIONAL TILE: Orienting Set - links to a page with the descriptors around why we use these and images of all of the cards incase someone doesn’t have access to them at the moment.

Orienting Set

an ecology of touch that supports personal and group practice

The Orienting Set is a small pack of handcrafted, handheld objects accompanied by a deck of Orienting Cards.

This ecology of touch begins the journey and is your pathway into practice.

Emerging from evidence-based research, lived experience and artistic process, the objects operate as practice cues - segues into embodied ways of thinking, knowing and doing, while the cards are descriptors of metaphors and the correlating body system. The objects will be used in-person and online, and will be upsized for group practice. 

Where possible, these objects are made from sustainably sourced, respectfully gathered, up-cycled and preloved materials.