For more information on any upcoming event, please email Jennifer directly at: jennifer@jenniferbury.com
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation” ~Plato
“Moving Moments: Finding Ourselves and Each Other”
90-minute online interactive workshop, hosted by The Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles (GTILA) as part of their Salon Series
Where: Online
Date: Sunday, March 23rd 2025, 10-11:30am Pacific Time
Price: $13 USD
Registration: via Eventbrite here
In times of uncertainty, agency is reclaimed and new meanings are formed through our interactions with the world. When we diminish the experience of our living bodies, we lose touch with our dynamically engaged, kinesthetically attuned selves, distancing ourselves from each other, the world, and the very animation that drives and structures our lives.
This experiential workshop views movement as the foundation of all contact. Kinetic engagement with one’s own body – and the bodies of others – can simultaneously make us aware of our own basic fragility, our interconnectedness, and our power to shape ourselves and our lives.
Through shared curiosity and movement-based experiments, we create a place in which attention to movement and stillness become the territory of potential and understanding. Most centrally we are practicing attending to our relationship to the world and focusing our gaze to reveal the less-familiar, subtler dialogue within us. In this way, we can each participate in shaping ourselves and the world – with and through each other.
Online Somatic Study & Supervision Group: Spring 2025 series
Each session starts with a brief check in or group movement experiment to stimulate our sensory awareness, followed by a presentation on an aspect of Gestalt and DSP™ theory to focus our time together. Participants share their responses, ask questions, and bring clients for the group to consider. Supervision is offered from the perspective of contact as interaction. Giving our attention to the movement within us, between us, and around us, takes us away from the person’s story and brings us to the immediate interaction happening between us. This allows us to explore our current responses which can illuminate unrecognized feelings and perceptions. Practicing this form of sensory exploration with each other is particularly helpful in being able to carry this approach into our work, and lives. The group is made up of people from across the world with different backgrounds and training which makes for a dynamic mix of perspectives.
Where: Online
Dates: This series of 4 sessions meets for one hour and 15 minutes, on Thursdays 9-10:15 am Pacific Time, which is 6-7:15 pm CET.
The Spring 2025 series dates are: February 13, March 13, April 10, and May 15
Price: Cost for the series of 4-meetings is $180 USD.
Registration closed, this series is full!
Next series starting in Autumn 2025, please Email Jennifer if you’re interested in participating
“Embodied Exploration: Discovery through Movement, Sound, & Imagery“
In-person workshops meeting in San Francisco every quarter starting April 2024
In collaboration with movement artist and educator Felicitas Fischer
Where: Joe Goode Annex, 401 Alabama Street, San Francisco CA
Dates: 2025 dates TBA
More information and registration here!
We welcome all bodies (18+), no prior movement or dance experience needed, just a desire to move and be met!
These workshops offer a safe, non-competitive, and creative space to uncover the innate wisdom of your body in connection to others. Each workshop begins with a somatic centering and light warm-up before diving into guided movement explorations that include sensory awareness, self reflection, and discussion of our co-created discoveries. The movement experiments are designed to illuminate our preferred patterns and root us in our bodies as vital, living-feeling beings in dynamic relationship with the world. Each workshop has a specific area of exploration and is also shaped by the inherent needs and themes that exist in the here and now, allowing the group’s interests to come through in structure and focus during our time together.
~ This class draws from principles rooted in Bartenieff Fundamentals, Laban Movement Analysis, Authentic Movement, and Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™ (DSP).
Moving between Knowing and Wonder with Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy
2-hour in-person presentation and interactive workshop at the SOMA Festival: an International 4-day festival for Bodypsychotherapy
Where: Shanti House, Bad Meinberg Germany
Dates: September 4-7, 2025
Registration & more Info here
We all originally enter and orient to the world through movement. We wondered our way forward into the world, and formed our responses, and our way of being, along the way. Over time our curiosity may diminish and we may learn to reach for what is familiar in order to feel safe and certain. Through movement-based, relational explorations we will stimulate our kinesthetic attentiveness to the qualities which define the emerging experience of contacting. Instead of making meanings or interpreting, we will allow ourselves to encounter our sensory and movement responses as a way of coming to know the situation we’re living. In this way hidden layers of the experience are revealed – we come to know what we feel though we might not be able to explain how or why it happens. Fortifying our courage for discovery, over the familiarity of assumption is a therapeutic resource for somatic practitioners, coaches, and psychotherapists which requires the ability to discern how to act in relation to the unfolding situation. This workshop provides the territory to move beyond what we have imagined into the novelty of the co-created, wondering moment. Returning to this shared way of learning shifts us from feelings of isolation and fear, to belonging and curiosity for that which we do not yet know.
Shaping Now and Next: An Intro to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™
Hosted by the The Institute of Family Therapy in Ljubljana, Slovenia
3-Day in-person workshop in preparation for a 2-year in-person DSP certification training
Where: Vija Vaja, Dolenjska Cesta 43, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dates: September, 19-21, 2025, Timing TBA
Price: TBA
“A DSP™ Perspective on the Practical Application of an Aesthetic Approach within a Therapeutic Model”
Assisted and translated by Gestalt therapist & somatic educator Miguel Islas
Where: Center for Relational Kinetics, Mexico City, Mexico
Dates: Autumn 2025, dates TBA
Registration information to come!
This day-long workshop will focus on the practical application of Developmental Somatic Psychology™ within the therapeutic setting. Through attention to our aesthetic experience we can become aware of qualities and movements which shape how we experience ourselves and others. Attending to these immediate responses as they emerge between us, allows us to address long held perceptions of self and the world in the moment. In this way it is possible to re-shape deeply held stances and traumas with the compassionate attention of another feeling, sensing human.
This interactive workshop will include guided movement exercises, self-reflection and discussion, theory presentations, interactive practice exercises, and a demonstration session. These elements are designed for practitioners of all modalities to learn the practical application of this phenomenological and aesthetic approach within a therapeutic model.
* DSP is a phenomenological and movement-oriented approach within a contemporary gestalt therapy framework created by Ruella Frank Ph.D.
Events from 2024
“Everything, Everywhere, Every Moment”
90-minute online interactive workshop, hosted by Humans of Gestalt. Part of the first “OpenGestalt conference: an International Experiment in Dialogue”
(October 2024)
This workshop focuses on fostering our kinesthesia through movement experiments designed to increase our awareness of how we co-create our experience.
Request access to view this workshop free through Humans of Gestalt
Introduction to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™: Meeting in Motion
3-hour in-person workshop for Gestalt trainees of CIIS’ Counseling Clinics
Church Street Integral Counseling Center, San Francisco CA
(October 2024)
“Perception Through Interaction”
2-hour in-person presentation and interactive workshop at the annual conference of the German Association for Gestalt Therapy (DVG): “Mit Körper, Leib und Seele – Konzepte und Methoden der Gestalttherapie”
(Göttingen, Germany. May, 2024)
“Making Meaning in Motion: An Intro to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™”
3-Day in-person workshop for the The Institute of Family Therapy (SLOGES)
(Ljubljana, Slovenia. May 2024)
“Inside Outside: Moving into Awareness Together“
2-Day in-person workshop in collaboration with nature dialog companion Beate Zeller trained in NatureDialogueApproach.
Day 1: at Bewegungsraum, Heßstr. 45, 80798 Munich
Day 2: at U-Bahn Alte Heide, Northern Part English Garden, Munich
(Munich, Germany. May 2024)
This workshop focuses on using movement to strengthen our connection to each other and the natural world. By learning to listen with our whole body we will be reintroduced to the sensuous experience of being alive. Through simple movement experiments we can rediscover our own vitality as moving-feeling-beings and the integral role we play as part of this dazzling world.
“Meeting Before Knowing”
4-hour Pre-conference workshop with Gestalt therapist and Somatic Educator Miguel Islas at the 2024 IAAGT’s Biennial Conference: Re-Imagining and Co-Creating
(Veracruz, Mexico, September 2024)
This workshop encourages us to dare to move beyond what we have imagined into the novelty of this co-created, wondering moment.
“Come To Your Senses”
2-hour interactive workshop at the 2024 IAAGT’s Biennial Conference: Re-Imagining and Co-Creating
(Veracruz, Mexico. September 2024)
“Meeting the Challenges of the Future by Returning to Kinesthetic Resonance: A Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™ Perspective”
3-hour workshop at the 4th Conference presented by the Organization for Humanistic Psychotherapy (AGHPT): “Psychotherapy for the Challenges of the Future”
(2023, Goethe University, Frankfurt Germany)
“An Exploration of DSP™: Let’s Get Physical; Let us hear our bodies talk”
2-Day online workshop through the Gestalt Training institute of Philadelphia (GTIP)
In collaboration with Gestalt therapist Karen Ginsburg LCSW, LMT
(March 2024)
Continuing Education: 10 CEs
“Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™ (DSP): Developing Kinesthetic knowing”
2-day Online workshop presented by The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland (GIC):
This stand-alone training is also a prerequisite for the “Introduction to DSP™” online workshop series starting in 2024
(February & December, 2023
Continuing Education: this workshop offered both (CE): 10 and (ICF CCE): 10
“Introduction to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™️”
For the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) Church Street Integral Counseling Center
Online training on the application of DSP theory to Gestalt clinical practice Online
(July 2020 & 2023 & 2024)