Transformative body psychotherapy

1. Introduction

Version followed: Transformative Körperpsychotherapie (TKP) as described by the Aus- und Fortbildungszentrum Transformative Körperpsychotherapie, Berlin. Bettina Schroeter founded it in 1993, and Wolfgang Hegenbart is its scientific director. This guide uses the institute's website and its 2026 training programme (read October 2026). The institute publishes no treatment manual, so technique-level detail comes from the root schools it names, chiefly Biosynthesis (Boadella 1996, opened). Detail from root-school books is marked [uncertain]. [source: TKP institute pages; SFU faculty profile; EABP training list]

What it is. TKP is a Berlin training tradition and integrative method, not a separately manualised therapy. The institute calls it a depth-psychologically founded neo-Reichian method ("tiefenpsychologisch fundierte neoreichianische Psychotherapiemethode"). It combines modern body psychotherapies (Reich, Lowen, Boadella, Boyesen) with humanistic and transpersonal psychology (Rogers, Maslow, Yalom, Grof), depth psychology and developmental theory (Freud, Winnicott, Bowlby, Stern), neuroscience, attachment and infant research, trauma theory and stress research. Schroeter trained from 1978 in Biodynamics (Gerda Boyesen's school) and Biosynthesis (David Boadella's school). Her further training was in Reichian analysis, transformative breath and energy work, trauma therapy and transpersonal psychology. Hegenbart's background is Bioenergetic analysis, Biosynthesis, behaviour therapy and Ericksonian hypnotherapy. The EABP lists the Berlin centre as a FORUM-accredited training institute. It is based in Berlin, Germany. [source: transformative_kp page; Dozenten page; SFU profile; EABP list]

How change happens (the institute's account). "Transformation" means conversion or reshaping ("Umwandlung oder Umformung"): an inner or interpersonal conflict between two poles is reworked until a "new, third way" integrates both. Symptoms are read as prompts to develop that often contain buried life qualities. Change runs in two directions:

Backwards: "energetic regression" to deficits, traumas and fixations, so that delayed psychovegetative maturation ("psychovegetative Nachreifung") can happen.
Forwards: a behaviour-therapy style practice hour ("Übungsstunde"). The therapy room is used as a rehearsal stage ("Probebühne") for new action, emotional expression and social trial action.

The institute holds that neurosis comes from early deprivation and also from forward-directed expressive movements that were never given shape ("die Ungestaltetheit zukunftsgerichteter Ausdrucksbewegungen"). The stated aim is a life that feels grounded, sensually connected and inspired. [source: transformative_kp page]

2. Framework

What the sources give. The institute names no formal phases, session counts or transition criteria [source: transformative_kp page; uncertain]. It does give:

the two-direction model of change (regression and Nachreifung, then a forward-directed practice phase);
working channels: movement, breathing, voice, emotional expression and social trial action, plus "therapeutische Antwortebenen" (therapeutic response levels, left undefined) [uncertain];
a 2026 seminar sequence that shows the learning order (see below).

From the root school, Boadella (1996) adds:

start with a diagnosis of the client's polarities;
build ego strength and containment before intensive energetic work;
work through three modalities: centering, grounding and facing;
follow a process-centred course rather than a fixed protocol. [source: Boadella 1996]

Training sequence as a map of the method. The order of the 2026 seminars across year groups shows the order in which TKP content is built [source: Termine page; titles only, content not published]:

New group (year 1): Presence and energy → Somatic resonance → Containment and catharsis → Embodied autonomy → Body in trance → Trauma and body → Separation from the parental body.
Group 4: Mirrorings → Body and character I → Embodiment of defence mechanisms → The matrix of life → Dream body → Body and character II.
Group 5: Skin, holding and boundaries → Body language → Emotional anatomy → Forms of love → Body connections → Crises of ageing.
Across groups: Body and touch.

The training lasts at least 4 years and 600 hours, with at least 100 hours of body-oriented personal therapy and supervision outside seminars. It ends with a written thesis and a practical demonstration. [source: Ausbildung page]

Working phase model for practice [synthesis]. This is built from the institute's change model and Boadella's sequencing. It is not a TKP-published protocol.

Phase	Goals	Typical format	Move on when
A. Contact, assessment, stabilisation	Alliance; body-oriented history; polarity diagnosis (over- or undercharge, freezing or flooding); resources; screening; touch agreement	3–8 individual sessions of 50–60 min, weekly; sitting, standing and lying work, mostly without touch	Client can notice and name body states, can come back from arousal with a grounding or centering tool, and has stated consent preferences; no unaddressed red flags
B. Deepening (energetic regression)	Body-process work on character patterns, defences, early developmental themes and trauma, inside containment	Weekly individual sessions; optional ongoing group; touch and breath work only after Phase A	Recurring patterns are felt and understood; client can tolerate affect and come back to the present within the session
C. Nachreifung and integration	New body experiences of support, boundary and autonomy; verbal meaning-making	Weekly or fortnightly	New patterns appear spontaneously in sessions and in daily life
D. Forward practice (Übungsstunde / Probebühne)	Rehearse new expressive and social behaviour; transfer to daily life	Role-play, practice tasks between sessions	Client uses the new behaviour outside therapy
E. Existential and transpersonal work (as indicated)	Ageing, illness, loss, mortality, meaning; staying grounded	Any time after stabilisation	Client-led

Total length is not published [uncertain]. Neo-Reichian individual therapy is usually open-ended and long-term (often 1–3+ years), and phases interleave rather than run strictly in order [synthesis]. The institute also offers groups and couples work (Rackelmann, Schäfer) [source: Dozenten page].

3. Guiding principles

Psyche, mind and soma are one functional unit ("untrennbare funktionale Einheit"). Practical meaning: every psychological theme gets a body question ("where/how is this in you now?") and every body event gets a meaning question. [source: transformative_kp page]
Transformation as a third way. Practical meaning: do not side with one pole of a conflict (e.g. clinging vs. fleeing). Help the client feel both in the body until a new form emerges. [source: transformative_kp page]
Symptoms are invitations to develop. Practical meaning: explore what life quality a symptom is holding back before trying to remove it. [source: transformative_kp page]
Look back and go forward. Practical meaning: do not end with regression. Plan an Übungsstunde or trial action for what was found. [source: transformative_kp page]
Each person's essence is unmistakable and indestructible ("unverwechselbar und unzerstörbar"). Practical meaning: take a resource stance, and look for the intact core and life energy as well as the damage. [source: transformative_kp page]
Development is relational and dialogical (Stern, Winnicott, Bowlby). Practical meaning: read body patterns as traces of early relationships, and use the live therapist–client relationship as a place where things can mature again. [source: transformative_kp page]
Link cognitive reflection with direct body work. Practical meaning: every body sequence ends with talking it through and putting it into words. [source: transformative_kp page]
Whole-lifespan and existential scope. Practical meaning: ageing, illness, mortality and crisis are legitimate themes. Transpersonal experience is welcome only while the client stays grounded. [source: transformative_kp page]
Polarity diagnosis; no one technique fits everyone. Practical meaning: give more charge (breath, movement, expression) to undercharged or frozen clients and more containment (grounding, slowing, holding) to overcharged or flooding ones. [source: Boadella 1996]
Contact before technique. Practical meaning: never push into muscles or affect unless you are in clear contact with the client's emotional readiness. [source: Boadella 1996]
Ego-building and containment before intensive energetic work. Practical meaning: no breath intensification or catharsis until stabilisation is in place, especially with fragile structure. Boadella reports Nic Waal's warning about provoking psychotic reactions. [source: Boadella 1996]
Formative rather than merely cathartic. Practical meaning: aim to reorganise posture and patterns of contact, not to re-live trauma for its own sake; Boadella cites Keleman's view that reliving can re-imprint. [source: Boadella 1996]
Centering, grounding, facing (Biosynthesis). Practical meaning: check each session for breath/inner balance, contact with ground and reality, and eye/interpersonal contact. [source: Boadella 1996]
Containment and catharsis must be balanced (seminar title). Practical meaning: any expression needs a container: frame, time, the therapist's presence and a way back. [source: Termine page, title only; detail inferred, synthesis]
The therapist's body is an instrument ("Somatische Resonanz", "Spiegelungen"; Hegenbart's focus on transference and countertransference). Practical meaning: track your own sensations as data, and check them before you act on them. [source: Termine and Dozenten pages; detail synthesis]
Touch is an intervention with ethics ("Körper und Berührung"). Practical meaning: explain, ask, offer a no-touch alternative, agree a stop signal, check in during and after. Never sexual or genital touch. [source: Termine page title; consent steps synthesis]

4. Intervention inventory

How to read this section. The TKP institute names its working channels and seminar themes but publishes no step-by-step procedures [source: transformative_kp, Termine pages].

Each entry says where the procedure comes from: a TKP-named channel or seminar, Biosynthesis (Boadella 1996, opened), or another root school.
Steps for root-school techniques whose primary books are not drawn on (Reich, Lowen, Boyesen) are marked [uncertain]: they follow the standard descriptions of those schools.
Practical steps not given by any source are marked [synthesis].
All example wording is illustrative, not TKP's own.

Standing requirements for all body work [synthesis unless cited].

Licence and training. Touch, breath intensification and expressive discharge need specific body-psychotherapy training (TKP: at least 4 years and 600 hours plus personal therapy) and ongoing supervision [source: Ausbildung page]. Check what your licence and jurisdiction allow. In Germany, psychotherapy needs either approbation or a Heilpraktiker (Psychotherapie) permit, and body psychotherapy is not a statutory-insurance method.
Touch consent protocol (T1–T6), used for every touch technique below [synthesis].
- T1: Explain what touch, where, why, and for how long.
- T2: Ask, and accept no, hesitation or a non-verbal freeze as "no".
- T3: Offer a no-touch alternative (the client's own hand, a cushion, a verbal image).
- T4: Agree a stop signal (word or raised hand) and test it once.
- T5: Check in during the touch ("still OK?") and adjust.
- T6: Check in afterwards, and again at the next session.
- Record consent. Touch is never sexual or genital, and never on breasts, buttocks or the inner thighs.
Screening before intensive techniques (breath intensification, stress positions, cathartic discharge, deep massage). Boadella reports Nic Waal's warning that provoking psychotic reactions without prior ego-building is dangerous [source: Boadella 1996]. Exclude or defer, or adapt with medical clearance [synthesis]:
- pregnancy;
- cardiovascular disease, hypertension or aneurysm;
- asthma or COPD;
- epilepsy;
- glaucoma or retinal detachment;
- recent injury, fracture or surgery; osteoporosis; joint or spine problems;
- anticoagulants (for deep tissue work);
- psychosis or a history of it;
- bipolar mania;
- severe dissociation or DID;
- active suicidality or self-harm;
- recent trauma without stabilisation;
- intoxication;
- eating disorder with medical instability.

A. Assessment and stabilisation

4.1 Body-oriented intake and polarity diagnosis

Purpose / when: At the start and whenever the process changes. Decide whether the client needs more charge or more containment. [source: Boadella 1996: diagnosis of polarities such as freezing/flooding and over/undercharge guides treatment]
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Take the usual psychotherapy history, plus a body history: illnesses, injuries, surgeries, pain, sleep, breath problems, medication, pregnancy, past body therapies and how they went.
2. Take a developmental and attachment history: early caregiving, separations, touch in the family, violence or abuse.
3. Screen against the contraindication list above, plus suicidality and dissociation.
4. Observe while the client talks: breath (where it moves, pauses, held exhale), voice, eye contact, posture, contact with the floor, colour, movement tempo.
5. Place the client on polarities: over- vs undercharged; flooding vs freezing; contracted vs collapsed; more at ease standing (vertical) or lying (horizontal); voluntary/will-driven vs flowing/vegetative.
6. Share a brief, tentative description and agree first goals.
Example language (illustrative): "As you tell me this, I notice your breath stays high in your chest and your feet are pulled under the chair. Does that match how you feel?"
Watch for: Over-interpreting. Hold readings as hypotheses. A sign it is working: the client starts to notice their own patterns.

4.2 Body reading: character and body language

Purpose / when: Understand protective patterns (character as learned defence against early stress), from Phase A onwards. Taught in "Körper und Charakter I/II" and "Körpersprache". [source: Termine page, titles; Boadella 1996 on character as a protective system; Reich/Lowen character typologies, uncertain]
Steps:
1. With consent, have the client stand in comfortable clothes, feet hip-width apart, and walk a few steps.
2. Notice: alignment; segments held or collapsed; the eyes; the jaw; shoulders (raised, pulled back or forward); chest (inflated or sunken); pelvis (held back or forward); knees (locked or soft); weight (on heels or toes).
3. Invite the client to sense the same areas from inside.
4. Link to themes only together with the client: "what would this posture protect you from?"
5. Never present a character label as a diagnosis to the client. [steps 3–5 synthesis]
Example language (illustrative): "If your shoulders could speak, what would they say they are bracing against?"
Watch for: Shame at being looked at. Ask before observing, and let the client stay clothed and choose the distance. It is working when the client recognises the pattern as their own, not as your verdict.

4.3 Presence and arrival ("Präsenz und Energie")

Purpose / when: Opening every session. Builds interoceptive awareness and the therapeutic contact field. [source: Termine page, seminar title "Präsenz und Energie"; steps synthesis]
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Seated, feet on the floor, eyes open or lowered.
2. For 1–3 minutes, guide attention to contact points (feet, seat, back), then to the breath, without changing it.
3. Ask for a one-word description of the inner state and where it sits in the body.
4. The therapist also notes their own state (see 4.9).
5. Choose the session's focus from what is most alive.
Example language (illustrative): "Let your eyes rest somewhere. What do you notice first, from the skin inwards?"
Watch for: Clients who go blank or dissociate when turning inward. Keep eyes open, use external orienting (name three things you see). It is working when arrival time shortens and descriptions become more specific.

4.4 Standing grounding (vertical grounding; legs channel)

Purpose / when: Contact with the ground, everyday reality and will. Use for undercharged, ungrounded, dissociative or anxious clients, and to close sessions. [source: Boadella 1996: grounding as contact with earth, daily reality and will; legs as the grounding channel; vertical vs horizontal grounding. Standing exercises are from Lowen's Bioenergetics, uncertain]
Steps [uncertain/synthesis]:
1. Stand with feet parallel, hip- to shoulder-width apart, knees slightly bent (never locked), weight spread across the whole foot.
2. Slowly shift weight front/back and side to side, then find the centre (about 1 minute).
3. Bend the knees a little more on the exhale and straighten slightly (not fully) on the inhale, 10–20 times, letting the legs carry you.
4. Press the feet into the floor as if pushing it away. Notice the legs and the support coming up.
5. Optional: allow fine trembling in the legs if it comes. Stop if it becomes uncomfortable.
6. Close by standing still and naming the felt sense, then sit and talk it through.
Example language (illustrative): "Let the floor take your weight, a little more with each out-breath. What changes in how you stand here with me?"
Watch for: Dizziness (sit down), knee or back pain (reduce the bend), panic at trembling (stop, open the eyes, orient). It is working when breath drops lower, the voice steadies and the client reports feeling "here".

4.5 Lying work and horizontal grounding (biodynamic orientation)

Purpose / when: Allow the vegetative (involuntary) flow and parasympathetic settling. Use for over-stressed, over-controlled clients. Boadella contrasts the Biodynamic stance (pleasure, surrender to vegetative flow, lying positions) with Bioenergetics. [source: Boadella 1996. Boyesen's procedures, e.g. listening to gut sounds (psychoperistalsis), are from books, uncertain]
Steps [uncertain/synthesis]:
1. Client lies on a mat, supine, knees bent or legs out, a blanket available, a cushion under the head.
2. Invite letting the floor hold the body, without doing anything.
3. Track spontaneous signs of settling: deeper sighs, yawns, warmth, softening, tingling ("streamings" in the school's language), gut sounds.
4. Name these gently, without pushing.
5. After 5–15 minutes, invite slow movement, rolling to the side and sitting up. Then talk it through.
Example language (illustrative): "Nothing to do or achieve. Just notice what your body does when you stop holding yourself up."
Watch for: Lying down can make clients feel vulnerable or bring back memories of abuse. Offer sitting, a door-side position, eyes open. It is working when the client experiences being held by the ground and reports pleasure or calm. Reich's and Boyesen's "energy" and "streaming" concepts are the schools' theory, not physiology.

4.6 Centering through breath

Purpose / when: Rebalance breathing and the polar extremes of overcharge and undercharge [source: Boadella 1996: centering]. Use for agitation, flooding or collapse, and before and after deeper work.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Seated or standing, one hand on the lower belly and one on the sternum (the client's own hands).
2. Notice which hand moves more.
3. Overcharged clients: lengthen the exhale slightly and let a pause come after it, 6–10 cycles.
4. Undercharged or collapsed clients: let the inhale fill a little more into the back and sides, still without force.
5. Bring attention to the centre of the body below the navel.
6. Return to natural breath and compare.
Example language (illustrative): "Let the out-breath be a little longer than the in-breath, like a slow sigh, and wait for the next breath to come by itself."
Watch for: Hyperventilation signs (tingling around the mouth or hands, dizziness). Return to normal breath. It is working when the client can shift their own state within a few breaths.

4.7 Facing: eye contact and interpersonal contact (eyes channel)

Purpose / when: Clear contact in the interpersonal field and the ability to fine-tune communication [source: Boadella 1996: facing; eyes as the facing channel]. Use for withdrawn, avoidant or merged contact patterns, and to anchor the present during regression.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Sit facing each other at a distance the client chooses; let them adjust it.
2. Invite brief eye contact, then looking away, then returning, at the client's pace.
3. Ask what happens in the body when contact is made and when it is broken.
4. Vary the distance, angle and length of contact.
5. In deeper work, ask the client to open their eyes and find yours to come back.
Example language (illustrative): "Look at me only as long as it feels OK, then look away. What happens in you each time?"
Watch for: Shame or fear spikes, and fixed staring (a freeze sign). Work with soft focus or side-by-side seating. It is working when the client can hold softer, flexible eye contact while feeling.

4.8 Containment: self-holding and supported holding

Purpose / when: Build ego strength and emotional containment before and during intense affect; return from overwhelm. Taught as "Containment und Katharsis"; Boadella names containment and boundary formation as key. [source: Termine page title; Boadella 1996; steps synthesis]
Steps (no-touch first) [synthesis]:
1. Client places one hand on the sternum and one on the belly, or crosses the arms to hold the opposite upper arms.
2. Feel the hands' warmth and pressure for 1–2 minutes, breathing slowly.
3. Option: wrap in a blanket, or lean the back against a wall or large cushion.
4. Supported holding with touch (T1–T6): the therapist, at the client's side, places a flat, still hand between the shoulder blades, or a hand on the back with the client's hand on the sternum. Steady, non-moving pressure for 1–3 minutes. The client controls the pressure and the ending.
5. Close by asking what the holding gave, and which no-touch version they can use at home.
Example language (illustrative): "Would it help to have my hand on your back while you feel this? You can also hold yourself, or we use the cushion. Say 'stop' any time."
Watch for: Holding can trigger longing, regression or fear of dependency. Talk about it. It is working when affect becomes bearable without being cut off.

4.9 Somatic resonance (therapist's embodied countertransference)

Purpose / when: Use the therapist's own body sensations as information about the client's unspoken states. Taught as "Somatische Resonanz"; Hegenbart's focus includes transference and countertransference; Boadella describes the contact field as resonant. [source: Termine, Dozenten pages; Boadella 1996; steps synthesis]
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Throughout the session, scan yourself briefly: breath, tension, impulses, images, sleepiness, nausea.
2. Distinguish your own baseline (how you came in) from what changes with this client.
3. Hold it as a hypothesis.
4. If useful, offer it tentatively and briefly, without burdening the client.
5. Bring persistent strong reactions to supervision.
Example language (illustrative): "While you were talking I noticed my own breath getting very shallow. I wonder if something is being held back right now?"
Watch for: Projecting your own material. Disclose sparingly. It is working when the client recognises the state and the work deepens.

4.10 Mirroring ("Spiegelungen")

Purpose / when: Make a client's body expression visible to them, and give attuned, early-type responsiveness (Stern-style attunement). [source: Termine page, title only; developmental roots Stern and Winnicott per transformative_kp page; steps synthesis]
Steps [synthesis]:
1. With permission, the therapist copies a posture, gesture or movement the client just made, at a slightly reduced intensity.
2. Alternatively, match its rhythm in another channel (voice, hand tempo).
3. Ask what the client sees or feels watching it.
4. Variant: the client mirrors the therapist's suggested alternative posture to sense the difference.
5. Group variant: participants mirror each other in pairs.
Example language (illustrative): "May I show you what I just saw your hand doing? Watch, and tell me what you notice."
Watch for: Feeling mocked. Keep mirroring respectful and announced. It is working when the client becomes curious about their own gesture.

B. Deepening: energetic regression and body-process work

4.11 Vegetotherapeutic breath deepening (lying)

Purpose / when: Phase B. Soften chronic tension and deepen breathing so that held emotion can surface. Boadella describes Reich's vegetotherapy as releasing blocked emotion and restoring a sense of pulsation and streaming. Use for over-controlled or undercharged clients after stabilisation. [source: Boadella 1996; Schroeter's focus on vegetotherapy per Dozenten page; detailed Reichian procedure, uncertain]
Contraindications: see the screening list. Defer with fragile ego structure (Boadella/Waal warning).
Steps [uncertain/synthesis]:
1. Client lies supine, knees bent, feet flat, eyes open at first.
2. Invite breathing through a slightly open mouth, letting the exhale fall out fully without pushing. Allow the belly and chest to move.
3. Continue for 5–15 minutes at a natural, slightly fuller rhythm, not fast.
4. Track where the breath stops: throat, chest, diaphragm, belly, pelvis. Invite gentle sound on the exhale, or small movements (jaw loosening, small pelvic tilts with the breath).
5. When feeling arises, slow down and invite the client to stay with it and let it be expressed at a tolerable level.
6. Close with natural breath, rolling to the side, sitting, eye contact (4.7) and talking it through.
7. Touch, only via T1–T6: a flat, still hand on the sternum or upper belly to bring attention there; no pressing into muscles.
Example language (illustrative): "Let the out-breath go a little further than usual, as if letting go of a weight, and then wait."
Watch for:
- Hyperventilation (tingling, cramping hands): slow down, longer exhale, sit up.
- Dissociation or a frozen face: open the eyes, orient, ground.
- Pressing on muscles without contact: Boadella calls this ineffective.
- It is working when the breath moves more freely, affect is felt and expressed, and the client returns to present contact.

4.12 Transformative breath and energy work (intensified breath)

Purpose / when: Named in TKP teachers' training as "transformative Atem- und Energiearbeit" (Schroeter, Kalinowski, Verhoef, Schäfer). Its exact protocol and origin are not published on the institute's pages [source: Dozenten page; uncertain]. Use only in Phase B or later, for well-stabilised clients, and only if you are trained in the specific method.
Contraindications [synthesis]: the full screening list above. In particular: pregnancy, cardiovascular or respiratory illness, epilepsy, glaucoma, psychosis, bipolar disorder, severe dissociation, suicidality, recent unstabilised trauma, panic disorder with a history of breath-induced attacks.
Steps (general pattern of intensified-breath sessions; not a TKP protocol) [synthesis]:
1. Pre-session screening and consent; agree the stop signal.
2. Lying on a mat; agree a duration (shorter at first).
3. Connected breathing (no pause between in- and out-breath) at a fuller depth, paced by the client. The therapist watches and keeps the breathing below the level of tetany.
4. Allow emotions, sounds and movements; support through 4.8 containment if needed.
5. Taper to natural breath; rest for at least as long as the active phase.
6. Ground (4.4) and talk it through; have the client stay until fully present and steady.
Example language (illustrative): "Breathe in a circle, in and out without a pause, only as deeply as feels right. Raise your hand any time and we slow down."
Watch for: Tetany, panic, flashbacks, depersonalisation. Slow the breath, open the eyes, orient. If in doubt, stop and stabilise. It is working when the experience is integrated afterwards, not merely intense.

4.13 Bioenergetic stress positions (root school; Hegenbart trained in Bioenergetic analysis)

Purpose / when: Bioenergetics used stress positions, often painful, with will-directed movement, usually standing [source: Boadella 1996]. In TKP-related practice they mobilise charge in undercharged or rigid clients. Whether and how TKP teaches specific positions is not published [uncertain].
Contraindications [synthesis]: back, hip or knee problems; osteoporosis; cardiovascular disease and hypertension; pregnancy; recent injury or surgery; plus the general list. Never hold a position through sharp pain.
Steps (standard Lowen-type example, "bow/arch") [uncertain]:
1. Stand with feet about shoulder-width apart, knees bent.
2. Place the fists in the small of the back and let the pelvis move forward and the upper body arch back a little, breathing freely.
3. Hold for up to about a minute while vibration may come into the legs.
4. Come out by bending forward with soft knees and fingertips toward the floor (forward bend), letting the legs tremble. Rise slowly.
5. Talk it through.
Example language (illustrative): "Go only as far as is comfortable-challenging, not painful, and let your breath keep moving."
Watch for: Pain, dizziness, a performance attitude (Boadella criticises over-directive, pain-based work). It is working when vibration and breath increase and the client feels more alive without strain.

4.14 Expressive and cathartic discharge within containment

Purpose / when: Give shape to blocked expressive impulses (anger, protest, grief). Taught as "Containment und Katharsis". Boadella warns against catharsis that overrides formative work. Use only after Phase A, with a clear container. [source: Termine page title; Boadella 1996; steps synthesis]
Contraindications [synthesis]: the general screening list. In particular: psychosis, bipolar disorder, severe dissociation, a history of violence when angry or of self-harm, recent trauma without stabilisation, cardiovascular problems, recent injury.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Agree the purpose, the target (a firm cushion or mattress, never a person), the time frame and the stop signal.
2. Starting position: kneeling in front of a large cushion, or standing with knees soft; or lying with legs free for kicking into the mattress.
3. Begin with small, conscious movements linked to the breath (hands pressing into the cushion, a word such as "no" or "stop").
4. Increase intensity only as far as the client stays in contact (keep the eyes open, check in).
5. Limit each burst to short rounds (e.g. 30–60 seconds), then pause, breathe and feel.
6. End with grounding (4.4), containment (4.8) and talking it through. Ask what the impulse was for and how it could be lived in a measured form in daily life. Then move to 4.28/4.29.
Example language (illustrative): "Let your hands say what your mouth couldn't back then. Keep your eyes open and stay with me."
Watch for: Escalation without contact, re-traumatisation, hoarseness or strain, and shame afterwards. It is working when the client feels clearer, stronger or relieved, and can link the expression to a present-day boundary.

4.15 Sounding (voice channel)

Purpose / when: Free the throat and expression; link breath and affect. Boadella lists "sounding" (voice) as a contact channel; the institute names "Stimme" as a working channel. [source: Boadella 1996; transformative_kp page; steps synthesis]
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Seated or standing.
2. Let a soft sound ("hmm" or "ah") ride on the exhale for 5–10 breaths.
3. Notice where it vibrates (chest, throat, head).
4. Let the sound follow the felt emotion in pitch and volume, from a whisper to fuller sound.
5. Optionally add a word or sentence that fits.
6. Return to silence and notice.
Example language (illustrative): "Let the breath carry a sound out, any sound. Don't make it nice."
Watch for: Embarrassment (start with the therapist sounding along), throat strain. It is working when the voice becomes fuller and more congruent with the feeling.

4.16 Reaching and pushing: arms channel ("bounding and bonding")

Purpose / when: Rework needs for connection (reaching, holding) and for separation (pushing away). Boadella names the arms as the channel of bounding and bonding; TKP seminar themes include "Verkörperte Autonomie" and "Ablösung vom Elternkörper". [source: Boadella 1996; Termine page titles; steps synthesis]
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Reaching, lying or sitting: the client slowly reaches out with one or both arms toward the therapist, a cushion or empty space, with an exhale. Explore the speed, how far the arm goes, and what happens in the chest and eyes. Optionally add words ("come", "please").
2. Pushing, no touch: the client pushes both palms against a wall or a firmly held cushion, feet planted, breathing out, with a word such as "no" or "get back".
3. Pushing with touch (T1–T6): the therapist holds the cushion against the client's palms and gives graded resistance, so the client can feel their own strength. The client controls the pressure.
4. Talk through which was harder, and where it comes from.
Example language (illustrative): "Let your arm reach out as slowly as it wants. Notice the moment it wants to stop."
Watch for: Collapse after reaching (grief, despair). Slow down and contain. Rage overwhelm in pushing: reduce intensity. It is working when reaching and pushing both become available and the client can choose.

4.17 Skin, holding and boundaries ("Haut, Halt und Grenzen")

Purpose / when: Build the felt sense of a personal boundary and of support, for clients with diffuse boundaries, early attachment injury or intrusive histories. [source: Termine page, title only (teacher Kukies, focus on touch, movement and early attachment disorders per Dozenten page); steps synthesis]
Steps (no touch) [synthesis]:
1. Client stands. The therapist walks slowly toward them from a distance; the client says "stop" when they feel the edge of their space.
2. Mark the boundary with a rope or cushions. Repeat from different directions.
3. Self-touch: the client firmly brushes or taps along their arms, legs and torso to feel the skin surface.
4. Back support: the client leans against a wall.
5. With touch (T1–T6): the therapist's hand gives firm back support.
Example language (illustrative): "Say stop exactly when you feel I'm close enough. There's no right distance."
Watch for: Freezing instead of saying stop (a sign the boundary is not yet available). Practise smaller steps. It is working when the client says stop earlier and with a steadier voice.

4.18 Shape-flow and spontaneous movement ("motoric fields")

Purpose / when: Trust in spontaneous, self-organising movement, letting semi-voluntary movement patterns show intentions, emotions and beliefs [source: Boadella 1996 on Diana Jordan's shape-flow and motoric fields]. The institute names movement ("Bewegung") as a working channel. Use when a client is stuck in words.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Any position (lying, sitting, standing).
2. Invite the client to notice the smallest impulse to move and let it happen slowly, without deciding.
3. Follow and amplify it a little, then let it change.
4. The therapist names the pattern ("curling in", "opening the hand") and asks what it wants.
5. Close by stopping, sensing, and finding a word or image for it.
Example language (illustrative): "Let your body move the way it wants, very slowly. You are only following it."
Watch for: Self-consciousness. Try eyes closed, or the therapist turning slightly away. It is working when movement becomes more fluid and meaningful material appears.

4.19 Embodiment of defence mechanisms ("Verkörperung von Abwehrmechanismen")

Purpose / when: Make defences felt in the body, not just understood. Use when an intellectual insight is not changing anything. [source: Termine page, title (teacher Hegenbart); steps synthesis]
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Identify a defence the client shows in session (e.g. smiling while describing pain, rising to leave, holding the breath).
2. Invite the client to exaggerate it deliberately for 30–60 seconds (wider smile, tighter jaw, bracing).
3. Then do the opposite (soften, let the face drop).
4. Ask what the defence protects, and what it costs.
5. Find a third, chosen way in between.
Example language (illustrative): "Make that smile even bigger, on purpose... and now let it go. What comes when it's gone?"
Watch for: Feeling exposed or criticised. Frame defences as intelligent protection. It is working when the client can catch the defence as it happens and choose.

4.20 Developmental re-enactment and Nachreifung ("Verkörperte Autonomie", "Ablösung vom Elternkörper", "Die Matrix des Lebens")

Purpose / when: "Energetic regression" to early themes, aiming at psychovegetative Nachreifung [source: transformative_kp page]. Seminar titles point to autonomy, separation from the parents' body and the earliest matrix [source: Termine page, titles only]. Marc Rackelmann's focus is pre- and perinatal themes in adults [source: Dozenten page]. Phase B/C, with stable clients.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Identify a developmental theme from the history and from body patterns (e.g. not being able to separate, not being held).
2. Choose a fitting body form:
  - curled lying, then slowly uncurling (early holding and unfolding);
  - pushing through a cushion ("coming out", separating);
  - standing up from the floor on one's own (autonomy);
  - walking away and coming back (separation and rapprochement).
3. Work slowly, with eyes open as needed, and the therapist as a present, attuned other.
4. Offer what was missing in a measured, adult-appropriate form (a supportive presence, a back to lean on, words), with T1–T6 if touch is used.
5. Talk through it and link it to current life.
Example language (illustrative): "Take as long as you need to come up to standing. I'm here, and you do it in your own way."
Watch for: Overwhelming regression and dependency. Keep an adult observing part present ("part of you is here with me now, in this room"). It is working when new experiences of support or autonomy persist outside sessions.

4.21 Biodynamic / psychotherapeutic massage

Purpose / when: Touch-based work to support vegetative regulation, body awareness and emotional release. Teachers' foci include biodynamic massage (Schäfer) and therapeutic massage (Kalinowski). Boyesen's specific massage forms are from her books. [source: Dozenten page; method detail uncertain]
Before you start: Requires specific massage training within body psychotherapy, plus supervision. Check your licence and jurisdiction (in some places massage is a regulated health profession).
Contraindications [synthesis]:
- skin infections, open wounds;
- thrombosis or anticoagulants (for deeper pressure);
- fever;
- recent injury or surgery;
- osteoporosis (for pressure);
- pregnancy (abdominal work);
- sexual trauma without specific preparation;
- psychosis, severe dissociation.
Steps [uncertain/synthesis]:
1. Run T1–T6 in full.
2. Agree areas: back, shoulders, arms, legs, feet, head, over clothing or with the client's chosen clothing. Never breasts, genitals, buttocks or inner thighs.
3. Client lies prone or supine on a mat or massage table, covered with a blanket.
4. Begin with still contact (hands resting) for about 1 minute, then slow, rhythmic, light to medium strokes or holds. Follow the client's breath and any spontaneous signs of release (sighs, gut sounds, warmth).
5. Check in every few minutes.
6. If feelings arise, slow down or pause and invite the client to put them into words or sound.
7. End with still holding, then cover the client and give them time.
8. Client sits up slowly, grounds, and talks it through.
Example language (illustrative): "I'll start by just resting my hands on your back over the blanket. Tell me if you want more or less pressure, or want me to stop."
Watch for: Compliance (the client tolerates touch they do not want), erotic transference, re-traumatisation, dependency on being touched. Discuss these openly and in supervision. It is working when the client is more relaxed, more present and better at self-regulation, and the meaning of touch is talked through.

4.22 Supportive and contact touch ("Körper und Berührung")

Purpose / when: Simple, non-massage touch that gives support, a felt boundary, or attention to a body area. Taught as a cross-group supplementary seminar. [source: Termine page, title only; steps synthesis]
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Run T1–T6.
2. Choose the form:
  - a hand on the back or between the shoulder blades (support);
  - a hand on the upper arm or shoulder (presence);
  - feet held through socks (grounding);
  - palm-to-palm (contact and pressure);
  - a hand placed lightly near (not on) an area the client points to (attention).
3. Keep the touch still, clear and with predictable pressure; announce every change.
4. Hold for 1–5 minutes.
5. Remove slowly and announce it.
6. Talk through what the touch evoked.
Example language (illustrative): "I'm going to take my hand away now, slowly."
Watch for: As in 4.21. Never use touch to soothe your own discomfort with the client's affect. It is working when the client can say clearly what kind of touch they do and do not want.

4.23 Trauma-sensitive body work ("Trauma und Körper")

Purpose / when: TKP integrates trauma theory and stress research [source: transformative_kp page]. Several teachers trained in trauma therapy, and a seminar is titled "Trauma und Körper" [source: Dozenten, Termine pages]. The specific trauma model TKP teaches is not published [uncertain]. Use for clients with trauma histories, always resource-first.
Steps [synthesis; following general phase-oriented trauma practice]:
1. Stabilise first: safe-place or resource body states (4.4, 4.6, 4.8), orientation to the room, and tracking of arousal.
2. Agree a signal for "too much".
3. Approach trauma material in small portions: name a small detail and notice the body response.
4. Return to a resource within 1–2 minutes, then alternate.
5. Complete protective movements that were interrupted, in slow motion (e.g. pushing away, turning, running in place), never at full intensity.
6. End every session regulated, and check the 24–48 hours after.
Example language (illustrative): "Just touch the edge of that memory and notice your body. Now come back to your feet on the floor."
Watch for: Flashbacks, dissociation, shut-down. Stop, orient, and do not push into catharsis (Boadella: reliving can re-imprint). It is working when arousal rises and falls within tolerance and the material loses its charge.

4.24 Body in trance ("Körper in Trance")

Purpose / when: Hegenbart's focus is combining body psychotherapy with hypnosis (Ericksonian training) [source: Dozenten, Termine pages]. Use a light trance to deepen body awareness, access body memories and images, and rehearse new body states. Detail is not published [uncertain]. Requires hypnotherapy training.
Contraindications [synthesis]: psychosis, severe dissociative disorders (without specific training), and unstabilised trauma.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Explain and get consent.
2. Induction through body attention: breath, weight, temperature, about 3–5 minutes.
3. Invite an image or felt sense linked to the theme (e.g. "a place in your body that knows how to be safe").
4. Let the body respond with a small movement or posture, and amplify the resource state.
5. Install a cue (a hand gesture or breath).
6. Reorient fully: count up, move, open the eyes. Then talk it through.
Example language (illustrative): "As your body grows heavier, you might find a place inside that already knows how to rest."
Watch for: Abreaction or spontaneous regression in trance. Ground and reorient. It is working when the client can recall the resource state with the cue.

4.25 Dream body ("Traumkörper")

Purpose / when: Work with dreams through the body. [source: Termine page, title only (teacher Buchholz); steps synthesis, uncertain whether TKP does it this way]
Steps [synthesis]:
1. The client tells a dream in the present tense.
2. They choose a striking figure or image.
3. They take on its posture, movement and sound for 1–2 minutes, then step out and notice.
4. Optionally repeat with an opposing figure.
5. Talk through what each body state has to do with waking life.
Example language (illustrative): "Stand as the wolf in your dream. How does it breathe? What does it want?"
Watch for: Frightening figures. Embody them only partly, or at a distance (as a hand gesture). It is working when new meaning arises from the felt sense.

4.26 Creative media in body psychotherapy

Purpose / when: Use drawing, clay, body maps and similar to externalise body experience. This is Gerlinde Buchholz's teaching focus. [source: Dozenten page; steps synthesis]
Steps [synthesis]:
1. After a body sequence, the client draws or shapes what they felt (a body outline with colours; clay for a tension).
2. Look at it together and talk about it.
3. Optionally return to the body to feel a change, then draw again.
Example language (illustrative): "Put on paper what's happening in your chest, colours and shapes only."
Watch for: Performance pressure. It is working when the image adds information or distance.

C. Integration and forward-directed work

4.27 Talking it through and verbalising (closing each body sequence)

Purpose / when: End of every exercise and session. The institute stresses linking cognitive reflection with body work. [source: transformative_kp page; steps synthesis]
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Return to sitting and eye contact.
2. Ask about sensations, then feelings, then images and memories, then meaning.
3. Link to the client's current life and themes.
4. Note what to take home and what to come back to.
5. Check the client is grounded and fit to leave (orientation, speech, steadiness).
Example language (illustrative): "What's different in your body now compared to when you came in? What does that tell you?"
Watch for: Rushing into interpretation, or leaving an open state. It is working when the client can name the experience in their own words.

4.28 Practice hour ("verhaltenstherapeutische Übungsstunde")

Purpose / when: The forward-directed phase: apply insights in ways that fit the client's social situation and age [source: transformative_kp page]. The page does not describe its format [uncertain].
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Pick one new behaviour that came from the body work (e.g. saying no with a grounded stance, taking up space).
2. Break it into small steps.
3. Practise the body component in session: stance, breath, voice, eye contact.
4. Plan a concrete situation in daily life.
5. Review it next session and adjust.
Example language (illustrative): "You felt your feet when you said 'no' here. Where this week could you try that, in a small way?"
Watch for: Overly big steps, which lead to failure and shame. It is working when the client reports real-life use.

4.29 Rehearsal stage and social trial action ("Probebühne", "soziales Probehandeln")

Purpose / when: The therapy room as a stage for trying new action and emotional expression [source: transformative_kp page]. Use in Phases C–D.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Set up a scene: an empty chair or cushion for the other person, or the therapist or group members in role.
2. The client first plays it the old way and notices their body.
3. They then try a new body stance, voice and words; repeat until it feels owned.
4. Optionally swap roles to sense the other person.
5. De-role and talk it through.
Example language (illustrative): "Let's try it again, and this time find your feet first before you speak."
Watch for: Re-enactment that overwhelms; de-role clearly. It is working when the new version feels natural in the body.

4.30 Formative reorganisation of posture and contact

Purpose / when: Reorganise the postural set and ways of communicating, rather than reliving trauma (Keleman as cited by Boadella). Reorganised postures can help create calmer emotional states (ethology and Darwin, per Boadella). [source: Boadella 1996; steps synthesis]
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Have the client identify a habitual posture linked to a state (e.g. sunken chest with helplessness).
2. Find a slightly more upright, supported or open version: a small step, not the ideal.
3. Hold it for 1–2 minutes with natural breath and notice the emotional shift.
4. Go back and forth several times.
5. Practise the new form at home in brief daily moments.
Example language (illustrative): "Change it by only ten percent. What changes in how you feel?"
Watch for: Willed, rigid "correct posture". The aim is felt organisation, not compliance. It is working when the new form arises by itself.

D. Existential, transpersonal and group formats

4.31 Existential and life-stage work ("Krisen des Älterwerdens", "Formen der Liebe")

Purpose / when: TKP explicitly includes accepting ageing, illness, mortality and existential crises [source: transformative_kp page; seminar titles on Termine page]. Use with life transitions, loss, illness and ageing. These are psychotherapeutic themes; body work is not a treatment for the physical illness.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Explore how the life-stage theme lives in the body now (energy, pain, changes, how the client relates to their body).
2. Use grounding and breath to stay present with grief and fear.
3. Use gentle movement to explore what the body can still do and enjoy.
4. Use 4.27 to make meaning.
5. Adapt positions for physical limits (chair-based work).
Example language (illustrative): "How is your body living this change right now, not how it used to be?"
Watch for: Depression, suicidality in illness or loss (assess). It is working when the client can hold loss and vitality together.

4.32 Transpersonal dimension, grounded ("earth-light axis")

Purpose / when: TKP includes transpersonal psychology (Grof) and recognises experiences beyond space and time, "while remaining grounded" [source: transformative_kp page]. Boadella describes an earth-light axis between personal and meta-personal [source: Boadella 1996]. Use only when the client brings such experience, and never to induce altered states for their own sake [synthesis].
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Receive the experience respectfully, without interpreting it as pathology or as proof.
2. Ground it: feet, breath, eye contact.
3. Ask what it means for the client's everyday life and relationships.
4. Screen for psychotic features or manic states and refer if they are present.
Example language (illustrative): "That sounds like a big experience. As you feel your feet now, what from it do you want to bring into your week?"
Watch for: Spiritual bypassing and destabilisation. It is working when the experience enriches daily life rather than replacing it.

4.33 Group and couples formats

Purpose / when: TKP training uses supervised small-group and pair work, demonstrations and structured self-experience [source: Aus- und Fortbildung page]. Practitioners offer groups and couples work (Rackelmann, Schäfer, Buchholz) [source: Dozenten page]. Any of the techniques above can be done in pairs or groups, with practitioners adapting them.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Agree group rules: confidentiality, the right to pass, touch only by explicit agreement between participants, a stop signal.
2. Open with a round of arrival (4.3).
3. Do the body exercise in pairs, swapping roles.
4. Share in pairs, then in the group.
5. Do individual demonstration work in the middle, with the group as witness.
6. Close with grounding and a closing round.
7. Couples: begin with each partner's body awareness, then facing (4.7), distance work (4.17) and mirroring (4.10) between partners.
Example language (illustrative): "Check with your partner what kind of contact is OK, and remember either of you can say stop."
Watch for: Group pressure to participate or to touch, contagion of affect, and couples using exercises to escalate conflict. It is working when participants feel safe enough to show themselves.

5. Handling problems

The TKP institute publishes no problem-handling guidance. The cited principles come from Boadella (1996); everything else is marked [synthesis].

Stuck client (nothing moves, the same story repeats).
- Check the polarity diagnosis. You may be adding charge to someone who needs containment, or the reverse (Boadella: no single technique suits everyone) [source: Boadella 1996].
- Switch channel: words to movement (4.18), lying to standing (4.4/4.5), inner focus to facing (4.7).
- Embody the stuckness itself (4.19).
- Check whether the forward step (4.28) is missing. [synthesis]
Resistance and defence. Treat defences as learned protection (character as defence) [source: Boadella 1996]. Make them felt and respected (4.19) rather than breaking through them. Never push into muscles or feelings without contact with the client's readiness [source: Boadella 1996]. Name your observation, offer a choice, and go at the client's pace. [synthesis]
Overwhelm or flooding during body work.
1. Stop the intensifying technique.
2. Eyes open, sit up, feet on the floor.
3. Long exhale (4.6), name five things in the room, self-holding (4.8).
4. Lower the intensity next time and strengthen Phase A.
5. Do not end the session until the client is regulated, and plan contact if needed. Boadella's warning: no intensive energetic work without ego-building. [source: Boadella 1996; steps synthesis]
Dissociation, freeze or shut-down (flat face, fixed gaze, no answer, "far away") [synthesis]:
- Speak more, and more concretely; use the client's name.
- Ask them to press their feet down or push into a cushion (4.16).
- Orient to the room; avoid lying with eyes closed.
- Screen for a dissociative disorder and adapt (shorter, upright, eyes-open work).
Physical reactions [synthesis]:
- Hyperventilation signs: slow the breath, lengthen the exhale, sit up.
- Dizziness: sit or lie, eyes open.
- Pain: stop and modify.
- Chest pain, fainting or seizure: stop and get medical help.
- Re-check the screening list whenever the client's health changes.
Non-adherence (no home practice, missed trial actions) [synthesis]:
- Make the steps smaller and more concrete (4.28).
- Practise them in session first.
- Explore what the body does when the client thinks of the task: often a protective pattern worth working with.
Ruptures (client feels pushed, exposed or shamed by a body intervention) [synthesis]:
- Name the rupture, take your share, and ask what felt wrong.
- Go back to less exposing work.
- Strengthen consent: ask more often, offer more options.
- Bring it to supervision; Hegenbart's focus on transference and countertransference [source: Dozenten page] suggests TKP treats these as material to work through.
Touch-specific problems [synthesis]:
- Client cannot say no or complies: practise refusing touch as an exercise; prefer no-touch alternatives; watch non-verbal signals.
- Client asks for more touch, hugs or holding: explore the need. Keep touch within the agreed, therapeutic form, and say plainly why.
- Erotic transference or arousal: name it calmly as a theme to understand. Stop or reduce touch. Never act on it. Get supervision at once.
- Therapist countertransference: if touch serves your need, stop and get supervision.
- Cultural or religious touch norms: ask and respect them; use no-touch versions.
Over-valuing catharsis (client seeks ever more intense releases) [synthesis, following Boadella's critique of over-directive cathartic methods]:
- Shift to formative work (4.30), integration (4.27) and forward practice (4.28/4.29).
- Explore what the intensity regulates.
Overwhelming regression or dependency [synthesis]:
- Keep an adult part present.
- Do shorter regressive sequences, and end each session firmly in the present.
- Build self-regulation tools for between sessions.
- Discuss the therapeutic relationship openly.
Suicidality or self-harm emerging: pause deep body work. Do a standard structured risk assessment, safety planning and lethal-means counselling (safe storage or removal), and involve medical or crisis services as indicated. Resume body work only when stable, starting with grounding and resources. [synthesis]
Psychotic, manic or destabilising transpersonal experiences: stop intensifying work, ground, and refer for psychiatric assessment. Do not frame such states as "energy opening". [source: Boadella 1996 on the risk of provoking psychosis; rest synthesis]
Body-image or eating-disorder themes: avoid observing or commenting on body shape. Focus on inner sensation and function. Coordinate with medical care. [synthesis]
Physical illness: body psychotherapy addresses experience and coping, not the illness itself. Never present it as treatment for cancer or other physical disease. Energy concepts ("energy", "streaming", "charge") are the school's theory, not physiological fact. [synthesis]
Scope of practice: if you are not trained in a technique (breath intensification, massage, hypnosis), do not use it; refer or get training and supervision. [source: training requirements on Ausbildung page; synthesis]

Sources

Sources

Books cited [uncertain where used for technique detail]

Boadella, D. (1987). Lifestreams: An Introduction to Biosynthesis. Routledge.
Boyesen, G. (1987). Über den Körper die Seele heilen: Biodynamische Psychologie und Psychotherapie. Kösel.
Lowen, A. (1975). Bioenergetics. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan.
Reich, W. (1933). Charakteranalyse.
Keleman, S. (1985). Emotional Anatomy. Center Press.
Schroeter, B. (2013). Gesellschaft, Körper, Zeitgeist. In M. Thielen (Hg.), Körper – Gruppe – Gesellschaft. Psychosozial-Verlag.
Krüger-Kirn, H. & Schroeter, B. (Hg.). Verkörperungen von Weiblichkeit. Psychosozial-Verlag (year not verified) [uncertain].

Further reading (not drawn on): the institute's "Seminarthemen" and "Curriculum" pages and the practice page. Seminar content beyond titles is therefore inferred [uncertain].

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