Morit Heitzler (MSc)

Relational Body Psychotherapy and Integrative Embodied Trauma Work

Professional Training Events (CPD)

Professional Training Events (CPD)

Continuing Professional Development

Events for Counsellors & Psychotherapists

I offer a variety of workshops and CPD training events for individual practitioners as well as for counselling and therapy organisations and services. 

My approach to CPD learning

In order to do justice to the variety of learning styles which participants bring to the events, there is usually a mixture of theoretical, practical and experiential learning, involving everybody at the level and to the degree that they are expecting and willing to engage. As we are dealing with what happens between people, the group itself provides a learning situation, with people learning from and with each other. Each participant’s experience is therefore understood as a resource. Depending on the theme and the configuration of the group, we can pay attention to the unfolding group dynamic (and how it supports or hinders participants) as an aspect of the learning. Balancing attention to each participant’s psychological and learning process with the group process and the task and objectives of the course is an important element in how I teach.

Forthcoming courses & events

  • Embodied Trauma Therapy – working with trauma and PTSD in the body

    A weekend workshop with Morit Heitzler June 25-26th 2022, Ballydehob, Cork, Ireland. Working with traumatised clients can be challenging and at times overwhelming. Often therapists are familiar with some of theories that underpin trauma and its manifestation but feel under-resourced when it comes to the actual work that needs to be done in order to…

  • Helping the Helper: “Do’s and ‘Dont’s” in Trauma Work

    Date: Saturday 22nd June 2019 – 10am-5pm One day CPD workshop with Morit Heitzler Working with traumatized clients can be challenging and at times overwhelming. Often therapists are familiar with some of theories that underpin trauma and its manifestation but feel under-resourced when it comes to the actual work that needs to be done in…

  • Relational Embodied Trauma Therapy Course – a 4 module course with Morit Heitzler

    Date: 5-7 July, 2019 – Vilnius, Lithuania Unique Trauma Therapy Training – a new series of 4 CPD Workshops with Morit Heitzler Are these workshops for me? These workshops are designed for practising counsellors and therapists who have some previous training and experience with trauma work. They might best be described as ‘intermediate’ workshops, for…

  • Grounded Steps in the Minefield – Embodied Trauma Therapy

    Date: July 20th-21st 2019 A Training and in-depth supervision weekend with Morit Heitzler This next event in our series with Morit is CPD that includes both training and in-depth supervision. The depth of this weekend training is a key benefit as is the opportunity to be part of an ongoing group making connections and offering…

  • Trauma-focussed Supervision Group

    Date: Sat. 27 July 2019 – Times: 10.00 – 16.00 Bi-monthly Ongoing Group in Oxford with Morit Heitzler For counsellors and therapists working with trauma Suitable for practitioners from across all therapeutic approaches This supervision group is an opportunity for you to specifically bring trauma clients for supervision – each day will be a mixture of clinical supervision of…

  • Disordered Eating: Working With and Through the Body/Mind of Patient and Therapist

    Date: Saturday 30 November 2019 – London With Yeva Feldman, Morit Heitzler and Susie Orbach This conference will be grounded in the most up to date thinking on eating problems, as well as offering some substantial and inspiring assistance to those working with this challenging client group. Traditionally, the term “eating disorder” is a medical…

  • Birmingham: Trauma in the body – trauma in the mind

    A CPD workshop with Morit Heitzler at Chroma, Birmingham “The implications of trauma for the therapeutic relationship” Dates: Sat. 21 April 2018 Times: 10.00  – 13.30 1. the neuroscientific and body-mind basis for PTSD and trauma symptoms 1. the neuroscientific and body-mind basis for PTSD and trauma symptoms 2. the psychological and psychosomatic impact and long-term effects…

  • Integrative Trauma Therapy – 3 CPD Workshops in Oxford with Morit Heitzler 2018

    Unique Trauma Therapy Training – a new series of 3 CPD Workshops with Morit Heitzler If you regularly work with traumatised clients, these training days are for you. These workshops are designed for practising counsellors and therapists who are currently engaged in trauma work, and/or have some previous training or experience with trauma. If you have completed…

  • Exeter: An Embodied Integration of Trauma Therapy Approaches

    Is this weekend workshop for me? This workshop is designed for practising counsellors and therapists who have some previous training and experience with trauma work. They might best be described as ‘intermediate’ workshops, for therapists who have completed basic training in one of the modern trauma therapies (like Somatic Trauma Therapy (Babette Rothschild), Somatic Experiencing…

  • Oxford: Integrative Trauma Therapy – 2 CPD Days with Morit Heitzler – Workshop 2

    Saturday, 18 November 2017 For all the background information and a detailed workshop description of these CPD days, see the dedicated page. Download the leaflet Download the booking form to email back Download the booking form to print and post

  • Oxford: Integrative Trauma Therapy – 2 CPD Days with Morit Heitzler – Workshop 1

    Saturday, 16 September 2017 For all the background information and a detailed workshop description of these CPD days, see the dedicated page. Download the leaflet Download the booking form to email back Download the booking form to print and post

  • Working with trauma in the body (Vilnius 13-15 May 2016)

    We will address the following topics : – What is trauma and PTSD ? – Brain function during and after trauma – Different types of trauma – Disturbances to self regulation in trauma – How re-traumatision occurs and what we can do about it – Trauma in the therapy room: basic principles of a body-based…

  • Somatic countertransference in trauma work

    A CPD workshop at UKAPI with Morit Heitzler 2 April 2016 – 10am – 5pm at National Council for Voluntary Organisations – London N1 Over the last 25 years, trauma work – more than any other aspect of our field – has shown us the limitations of purely verbal ‘talking therapy’, and neuroscience has helped…

  • Supervision Group for complementary therapists & body workers

    3-hours small supervision groups on Saturdays in Oxford – with Morit Heitzler Future dates: 14 March 2015, 16 May 2015

  • Monthly Supervision Group for complementary therapists & body workers (Oxford – 2019-2020)

    3-hours small supervision groups on Saturdays in Oxford – with Morit Heitzler Times: 10.00 – 13.00 and 14.00 – 17.00 – Future dates: tbc. These supervision groups have been running for several years now, with Morit making basic principles of the therapeutic relationship, as understood in psychotherapy, available and accessible to bodywork and other complementary…

  • Working with the Concept of Boundaries in Trauma Work

    An Evening at Reading Therapies Group with Morit Heitzler Tue. eve 12 June 2015 One of the most excruciating aspects of trauma is the invasion or collapse of boundaries, not just in the moment of trauma, but as lasting damage. Traumatised clients usually bring to therapy an ongoing background feeling of threat: both to physical…

  • Broken Boundaries, Invaded Territories – the challenges of containment in trauma work

    A 1-day event with Morit Heitzler at Relate Medway & North Kent A morning presentation followed by lunch break and then a workshop: “Working with embodied boundaries” Sat. 27 June 2015    

  • Oxford Systemic Constellations Weekend

    Sat/Sun. 12/13 May 2012 in Central Oxford with Morit Heitzler & Michael Soth   Systems are ‘you’ We are all part of multiple, interweaving systems, from small to big, from environmental to social. Our life paths and opportunities are shaped or blocked by the influence these systems have on us, and the influence we can…

  • Family Constellations Workshops

    ‘Family Constellations’ is a powerful approach, developed by Bert Hellinger, designed to bring awareness to and work with hidden dynamics and transgenerational family patterns in a group setting. For further details, download the leaflet.

  • Character Structures

    A course of 6 Saturdays in 2008/2009 ‘Character structure theory’ is a comprehensive method of diagnosing and working with habitual patterns, as manifested in the body. For further details, download the leaflet.  

  • Courses on ‘being’ and ‘doing’ in the Therapeutic Space

    2-day workshop in Tel Aviv: 10 & 11 April  (2 – 8pm) Many therapists view their role as inherently and necessarily active: the client comes to them in distress or in need, and it is the therapist’s task to be proactive and intervene. Like a doctor who is expected to diagnose and prescribe the right medicine,…

  • NAOS Institute – London – 8-Months Diploma in Clinical Supervision and Consultancy

    July 14th 2012 – with Morit Heitzler   Embodied Countertransference in Supervision Over the last decade, the field of psychotherapy has increasingly paid attention to the body and non-verbal as well as subliminal communication. Neuroscience’s contributions (mirror neurons, right-brain-to-right-brain attunement, etc) have emphasised the importance of the mind-body connection in the ‘talking therapies’. This has…

  • CHARACTER STRUCTURES – Five-day Intensive

    An integrative bodymind approach to developmental theory Five-day Intensive – August 12th – 16th – Tel Aviv, Israel A practical & experiential CPD course for counsellors, psychotherapists, helping professionals & complementary therapists   About the Course: Our clients bring to us limiting, self –defeating and destructive patterns which keep repeating themselves. They ask for our…

  • CONFER – Trauma Skills – London

    Jan. 18 – Mar. 28 2012 I will be offering a Wednesday evening session at this Trauma School organised by CONFER, on Wed. Jan. 25th, entitled:   Relational Body Psychotherapy – An Integrative Approach to Trauma Work Offering interactive regulation to engage with and complement the patient’s disturbed auto-regulation, the therapist becomes a container for…

  • Working with trauma in the body

    I offer occasional one-day workshops for counselling and psychotherapy practitioners on ‘Working with trauma in the body’, in which I cover the following topics : – What is trauma and PTSD ? – Brain function during and after trauma – Different types of trauma – Disturbances to self regulation in trauma – How re-traumatision occurs…

  • Trauma Symposium (Stroud)

    18 & 19 November 2011 Who is it for? This event is designed for therapists and professionals working with trauma, and for people interested in research and shared learning in this field. It will address these four basic questions: • How do we recognise trauma? • How do we think about it: neurologically, emotionally, physically,…

  • Character Styles

    A comprehensive, modular course over 8 Saturdays Sep. 2012 – July 2013 at Fulcrum House, Clifton, Bristol with Morit Heitzler & Michael Soth An integrative bodymind theory & approach to developmental theory This comprehensive, modular course for counsellors and psychotherapists is designed to familiarise you with the theory and application of ‘character styles’ to your…

  • CONFER: Working with Sadism – an Embodied Relational Approach

    An evening with Morit Heitzler at CONFER London, 5 Dec 2014 – 19:30 – 21:30 Clients who experienced sadistic dynamics – whether they were on the victim or the perpetrator end of the spectrum – bring into the therapeutic space many shadow aspect of the human psyche. Cruelty, domination, humiliations, manipulation, aggression are only a…

  • Introduction to Gestalt Dialogue

    3-day Course (Israel) 26 Oct – 28 Oct 2014 Workshop description TBC.

  • Character Structures – Weekend Course (Lithuania)

    An integrative bodymind approach to developmental theory A practical & experiential CPD course for counsellors, psychotherapists, helping professionals & complementary therapists 18 – 21 July 2014 – Vilnius   The origins of repetitive patterns Our clients bring to us limiting, self –defeating and destructive patterns which keep repeating themselves. They ask for our help in…

Identity and Cultural Aspects

Panel discussion with – Identity and Cultural AspectsJill van der Aa, Rubens Kignel, Marc Rackelman, Ljerka Zoric, Morit Heitzler, Ulrich Sollmann Saturday, September 9th https://congress.eabp.org/2023/site/

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Past workshops and training events for practitioners

Below is a list of the most recent past events. If you are interested in me running any of these events for your organisation or training, please get in touch.

Past Courses

  • Embodied Trauma Therapy – working with trauma and PTSD in the body

    A weekend workshop with Morit Heitzler June 25-26th 2022, Ballydehob, Cork, Ireland. Working with traumatised clients can be challenging and at times overwhelming. Often therapists are familiar with some of theories that underpin trauma and its manifestation but feel under-resourced when it comes to the actual work that needs to be done in order to…

  • Helping the Helper: “Do’s and ‘Dont’s” in Trauma Work

    Date: Saturday 22nd June 2019 – 10am-5pm One day CPD workshop with Morit Heitzler Working with traumatized clients can be challenging and at times overwhelming. Often therapists are familiar with some of theories that underpin trauma and its manifestation but feel under-resourced when it comes to the actual work that needs to be done in…

  • Relational Embodied Trauma Therapy Course – a 4 module course with Morit Heitzler

    Date: 5-7 July, 2019 – Vilnius, Lithuania Unique Trauma Therapy Training – a new series of 4 CPD Workshops with Morit Heitzler Are these workshops for me? These workshops are designed for practising counsellors and therapists who have some previous training and experience with trauma work. They might best be described as ‘intermediate’ workshops, for…

  • Grounded Steps in the Minefield – Embodied Trauma Therapy

    Date: July 20th-21st 2019 A Training and in-depth supervision weekend with Morit Heitzler This next event in our series with Morit is CPD that includes both training and in-depth supervision. The depth of this weekend training is a key benefit as is the opportunity to be part of an ongoing group making connections and offering…

  • Trauma-focussed Supervision Group

    Date: Sat. 27 July 2019 – Times: 10.00 – 16.00 Bi-monthly Ongoing Group in Oxford with Morit Heitzler For counsellors and therapists working with trauma Suitable for practitioners from across all therapeutic approaches This supervision group is an opportunity for you to specifically bring trauma clients for supervision – each day will be a mixture of clinical supervision of…

  • Disordered Eating: Working With and Through the Body/Mind of Patient and Therapist

    Date: Saturday 30 November 2019 – London With Yeva Feldman, Morit Heitzler and Susie Orbach This conference will be grounded in the most up to date thinking on eating problems, as well as offering some substantial and inspiring assistance to those working with this challenging client group. Traditionally, the term “eating disorder” is a medical…

  • Birmingham: Trauma in the body – trauma in the mind

    A CPD workshop with Morit Heitzler at Chroma, Birmingham “The implications of trauma for the therapeutic relationship” Dates: Sat. 21 April 2018 Times: 10.00  – 13.30 1. the neuroscientific and body-mind basis for PTSD and trauma symptoms 1. the neuroscientific and body-mind basis for PTSD and trauma symptoms 2. the psychological and psychosomatic impact and long-term effects…

  • Integrative Trauma Therapy – 3 CPD Workshops in Oxford with Morit Heitzler 2018

    Unique Trauma Therapy Training – a new series of 3 CPD Workshops with Morit Heitzler If you regularly work with traumatised clients, these training days are for you. These workshops are designed for practising counsellors and therapists who are currently engaged in trauma work, and/or have some previous training or experience with trauma. If you have completed…

  • Exeter: An Embodied Integration of Trauma Therapy Approaches

    Is this weekend workshop for me? This workshop is designed for practising counsellors and therapists who have some previous training and experience with trauma work. They might best be described as ‘intermediate’ workshops, for therapists who have completed basic training in one of the modern trauma therapies (like Somatic Trauma Therapy (Babette Rothschild), Somatic Experiencing…

  • Oxford: Integrative Trauma Therapy – 2 CPD Days with Morit Heitzler – Workshop 2

    Saturday, 18 November 2017 For all the background information and a detailed workshop description of these CPD days, see the dedicated page. Download the leaflet Download the booking form to email back Download the booking form to print and post

  • Oxford: Integrative Trauma Therapy – 2 CPD Days with Morit Heitzler – Workshop 1

    Saturday, 16 September 2017 For all the background information and a detailed workshop description of these CPD days, see the dedicated page. Download the leaflet Download the booking form to email back Download the booking form to print and post

  • Working with trauma in the body (Vilnius 13-15 May 2016)

    We will address the following topics : – What is trauma and PTSD ? – Brain function during and after trauma – Different types of trauma – Disturbances to self regulation in trauma – How re-traumatision occurs and what we can do about it – Trauma in the therapy room: basic principles of a body-based…

  • Somatic countertransference in trauma work

    A CPD workshop at UKAPI with Morit Heitzler 2 April 2016 – 10am – 5pm at National Council for Voluntary Organisations – London N1 Over the last 25 years, trauma work – more than any other aspect of our field – has shown us the limitations of purely verbal ‘talking therapy’, and neuroscience has helped…

  • Supervision Group for complementary therapists & body workers

    3-hours small supervision groups on Saturdays in Oxford – with Morit Heitzler Future dates: 14 March 2015, 16 May 2015

  • Monthly Supervision Group for complementary therapists & body workers (Oxford – 2019-2020)

    3-hours small supervision groups on Saturdays in Oxford – with Morit Heitzler Times: 10.00 – 13.00 and 14.00 – 17.00 – Future dates: tbc. These supervision groups have been running for several years now, with Morit making basic principles of the therapeutic relationship, as understood in psychotherapy, available and accessible to bodywork and other complementary…

  • Working with the Concept of Boundaries in Trauma Work

    An Evening at Reading Therapies Group with Morit Heitzler Tue. eve 12 June 2015 One of the most excruciating aspects of trauma is the invasion or collapse of boundaries, not just in the moment of trauma, but as lasting damage. Traumatised clients usually bring to therapy an ongoing background feeling of threat: both to physical…

  • Broken Boundaries, Invaded Territories – the challenges of containment in trauma work

    A 1-day event with Morit Heitzler at Relate Medway & North Kent A morning presentation followed by lunch break and then a workshop: “Working with embodied boundaries” Sat. 27 June 2015    

  • Oxford Systemic Constellations Weekend

    Sat/Sun. 12/13 May 2012 in Central Oxford with Morit Heitzler & Michael Soth   Systems are ‘you’ We are all part of multiple, interweaving systems, from small to big, from environmental to social. Our life paths and opportunities are shaped or blocked by the influence these systems have on us, and the influence we can…

  • Family Constellations Workshops

    ‘Family Constellations’ is a powerful approach, developed by Bert Hellinger, designed to bring awareness to and work with hidden dynamics and transgenerational family patterns in a group setting. For further details, download the leaflet.

  • Character Structures

    A course of 6 Saturdays in 2008/2009 ‘Character structure theory’ is a comprehensive method of diagnosing and working with habitual patterns, as manifested in the body. For further details, download the leaflet.  

  • Courses on ‘being’ and ‘doing’ in the Therapeutic Space

    2-day workshop in Tel Aviv: 10 & 11 April  (2 – 8pm) Many therapists view their role as inherently and necessarily active: the client comes to them in distress or in need, and it is the therapist’s task to be proactive and intervene. Like a doctor who is expected to diagnose and prescribe the right medicine,…

  • NAOS Institute – London – 8-Months Diploma in Clinical Supervision and Consultancy

    July 14th 2012 – with Morit Heitzler   Embodied Countertransference in Supervision Over the last decade, the field of psychotherapy has increasingly paid attention to the body and non-verbal as well as subliminal communication. Neuroscience’s contributions (mirror neurons, right-brain-to-right-brain attunement, etc) have emphasised the importance of the mind-body connection in the ‘talking therapies’. This has…

  • CHARACTER STRUCTURES – Five-day Intensive

    An integrative bodymind approach to developmental theory Five-day Intensive – August 12th – 16th – Tel Aviv, Israel A practical & experiential CPD course for counsellors, psychotherapists, helping professionals & complementary therapists   About the Course: Our clients bring to us limiting, self –defeating and destructive patterns which keep repeating themselves. They ask for our…

  • CONFER – Trauma Skills – London

    Jan. 18 – Mar. 28 2012 I will be offering a Wednesday evening session at this Trauma School organised by CONFER, on Wed. Jan. 25th, entitled:   Relational Body Psychotherapy – An Integrative Approach to Trauma Work Offering interactive regulation to engage with and complement the patient’s disturbed auto-regulation, the therapist becomes a container for…

  • Working with trauma in the body

    I offer occasional one-day workshops for counselling and psychotherapy practitioners on ‘Working with trauma in the body’, in which I cover the following topics : – What is trauma and PTSD ? – Brain function during and after trauma – Different types of trauma – Disturbances to self regulation in trauma – How re-traumatision occurs…

  • Trauma Symposium (Stroud)

    18 & 19 November 2011 Who is it for? This event is designed for therapists and professionals working with trauma, and for people interested in research and shared learning in this field. It will address these four basic questions: • How do we recognise trauma? • How do we think about it: neurologically, emotionally, physically,…

  • Character Styles

    A comprehensive, modular course over 8 Saturdays Sep. 2012 – July 2013 at Fulcrum House, Clifton, Bristol with Morit Heitzler & Michael Soth An integrative bodymind theory & approach to developmental theory This comprehensive, modular course for counsellors and psychotherapists is designed to familiarise you with the theory and application of ‘character styles’ to your…

  • CONFER: Working with Sadism – an Embodied Relational Approach

    An evening with Morit Heitzler at CONFER London, 5 Dec 2014 – 19:30 – 21:30 Clients who experienced sadistic dynamics – whether they were on the victim or the perpetrator end of the spectrum – bring into the therapeutic space many shadow aspect of the human psyche. Cruelty, domination, humiliations, manipulation, aggression are only a…

  • Introduction to Gestalt Dialogue

    3-day Course (Israel) 26 Oct – 28 Oct 2014 Workshop description TBC.

  • Character Structures – Weekend Course (Lithuania)

    An integrative bodymind approach to developmental theory A practical & experiential CPD course for counsellors, psychotherapists, helping professionals & complementary therapists 18 – 21 July 2014 – Vilnius   The origins of repetitive patterns Our clients bring to us limiting, self –defeating and destructive patterns which keep repeating themselves. They ask for our help in…

Testimonials

CJ, Psychotherapist

“I attended all three of Morit’s trauma therapy training days and really enjoyed the progression and pacing of the material. I was really impressed with

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CM, Psychotherapist

Morit’s Integrative Trauma Therapy course has enriched my own integrative relational approach to trauma work. As an experienced psychotherapist, I was interested in exploring those

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Anonymous

“Morit you are an amazing trainer. I find your teaching clear and meaningful. Great knowledge and experience. I have learned so much about embodied trauma

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