PBSP UPDATE After more than four decades of intensive work with clients, a fresh, new series of procedures flowered into being The speed with which this allows positive, body, emotional and perceptual changes to happen; the joy of living that is released; the feeling of comfort and pleasure that clients report from being in this new state -- so clearly visible in their demeanor and posture -- is breathtaking. Now our task and mission is to bring that knowledge and technical practices to those people and places which would benefit from them.
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Upcoming 2010 Boston Experiential Workshop
with Albert Pesso
Will be Held at the Sheraton Hotel at The Prudential For more information Call 603-731-8118
Email: apesso@pbsp.com
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Congo Update Fourteen of the sixty member Resource Group that Albert Pesso trained in the Congo for three weeks in May, 2009, arrived in Boston on January 22nd for a three week PBSP Training and Planning Program that was held at the Sheraton Hotel at the Prudential Center. They were accompanied by Karsten Heller, Dr. Muhemeri, and Dr. Gay, Assistants to Dr. Anselm Schneider, the Director of Health in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the GTZ, the International German Government Mission that is sponsoring the introduction of PBSP principles and techniques in the Congo. Florence Cols, was the interpreter. The first two weeks were devoted to training. The third week was devoted to planning the future of PBSP in the Congo with a select group of Certified PBSP Trainers. The plan is to then schedule their trips to the Democratic Republic of Congo to train Congolese to lead PBSP training programs. The training in the Congo with this select group of Certified PBSP Trainers will be carried out under Albert Pesso's supervision. An impressive fifty minute documentary film was produced, based on the work that Al did in May. It is being made available internationally to theaters and television stations. The producers have submitted it for showing at the Berlin International Documentary Film Festival. The film, called "State of Mind," will be shown at the Munich International Documentary Film Festival this May. The film was previewed by Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Director of the Trauma Center: Director, National Complex Trauma Treatment Network, NCTSN: Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, who wrote the following comment: "This is a remarkable movie about a traumatized country and its inhabitants that try to tackle the issue of survival and recovery. Al Pesso, a Master therapist from the US demonstrates how the language of trauma and recovery transcends language and culture, and that it is possible to install a sense of safety and protection in even the most traumatized individuals. Against a beautifully filmed backdrop of the city of Kinshasa and the Congo river, the students show that the drive for survival under the most adverse of circumstances, can be mobilized and put into action. A remarkable achievement."
Quote from Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D. Past President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School, and Clinical Director of the Trauma Center at HRI Hospital in Brookline, Massachusetts. "Over the past 40 years, Al Pesso and Diane Boyden-Pesso have perfected an extraordinarily effective technique, PBSP® [Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor], providing people with experiences that were missing during their growth and development. The artistry of Pesso's ‘structure’ can be a unique and profoundly life-altering experience."
Gus Napier, Ph.D., author of "The Family Crucible" & "The Fragile Bond "
"If you want to really learn how to work on family of origin issues, and how to use body information in your therapy, go straight to the
foremost therapist in that field, Al Pesso."
Quote from Elaine B. Pinderhughes, Professor Emerita, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work "As a practitioner and long time teacher of clinical theory and practice (psychodynamic and family therapy), I had had evidence of the soundness of PBSP® theory and its effectiveness in practice via observations of Al Pesso's work at clinical meetings. However my conviction of the efficacy of the theory in treatment was substantially reinforced through personal experience of his training seminars which I sought to help me cope with my husband's death.
Despite having been psychoanalyzed years ago and having completed family of origin work as part of my training as a family therapist, Pesso's work reached depths not tapped earlier and reworked issues in ways that created greater integration and self understanding than ever believed possible. It is his ability to tap experience at the earliest developmental levels, along with his ever vigilant stance that is respectful of the ego's readiness to accept and integrate new information, that makes his work so stunning and transformative. Of special significance to me also was the capacity to incorporate cultural (ethnic/racial) dynamics to the many levels of understanding gained." |
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