Course Description

Em-BODY-ing Conversations integrates somatic and affective-inspired EMDR Therapy, interpersonal neurobiology, and somatic therapies with a narrative therapy approach.  Lynne Rosen builds on the philosophical tenets of a narrative therapy approach to explore what becomes possible when we enter the realm of the nonlinear, creating different kinds of scaffolding through sensations, images, gestures, affect, dreams, movement, and imagination. Richly illustrated with client stories, Lynne explores ideas around embodiment, memory theory, and interpersonal neurobiology as frames for discernment, helping inform the pacing and movement between safety and risk and helping clients move from constriction to greater spaciousness, agency, and freedom. Throughout, Lynne seeks ways to guard against imposing Western embodiment ideas on others, to explore ancestral and cultural wisdom and knowledge, and to make visible and heal bodily inheritances from abuse, colonization, and other forms of oppression.

Most importantly, Lynne hopes that the dialogues clients have so generously agreed to share and the ideas shared by colleagues, authors, and professional and personal ancestors, on whose shoulders she stands, engage us in dialogue, envisioning, and collectively imaging different pathways forward that support relational being, greater justice, and collective healing.

Course Instructor

Lynne V. Rosen, LCSW (Pasadena, California) has been engaged in therapeutic work for over 25 years in medical, residential, inpatient, community and private practice settings. She found her therapeutic and philosophical home in the early 90’s when she traveled to New York to hear Michael White and David Epston. Most recently, she has focused her attention on integrating Narrative Therapy with EMDR, Somatic Therapies and Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) with clients who are living with the effects of Trauma, Eating Problems and other difficulties that compromise relational well-being. Her favorite proverb is an African one: “Until lions have historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter.” Lynne has had a long-standing interest in bringing forward lions’ tales, stories and experiences at the margins, where there is wisdom and knowledge that can transport us all. She continues to feel passionate about teaching, supervising and public conversation work and for many years, she had the privilege of working as Core Faculty and Director of the Postmodern Therapy Training Program at PGI and Co-Founder of WPLA (Women’s Project Los Angeles).

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