What is SKT Structural Core Therapy ?
The SKT Institut is a aprooved IASI School ( www.theiasi.org ). The Structural Core Therapy presents a bodymind method to empower people through their SomaNet.
That means working with the human myofascial structur and at the same time with stress- and traumaregulationsytems by reorganizing the bodymemory. The SKT trainingsformat shows the high quality and efficiency – exploring the Philosophy, Science, and Art of Structural Integration.
SKT® and TraumaSomatics® training directorDr. Herbert Grassmann is one of SKT’s two founders. The organization is a dozen years old and has trained over 150 health care practitioners. It is based in Bavaria, in Southeast Germany. In the late ‘80s and early 90s Dr.Herbert Grassmann trained in Structural Integration work at the Guild for Structural Integration (he is an advanced practitioner of ten years); in Hakomi Integrative Somatics and served as translator for a training in Germany (he is a Certified Hakomi Therapist); and trained with Dr.Peter Levine, founder of Somatic Experience. He has combined these three kinds of work and teaches the combination in a high quality and more efficient format.
Course duration phase/conclusion course costs
Orientation Seminar 6-days (basics) body oriented psychotherapy 500 Euro
SKT® Somatics 8×5-day blocks of regular training 500 Euro/block
3×14-day blocks of intensive training in Mallorca 1.250 Euro/block
TraumaSomatics 5×5-day blocks of regular training 500 Euro/block
2×14-day blocks of intensive training in Mallorca 1.250 Euro/block
Certification period
SKT® Therapist condition: Somatics + TraumaSomatics 500 Euro
For whom are the SKT®-Training Modules suitable?
Depending on the student’s needs and experiences, he or she will be able to learn the different aspects of a modern body psychotherapy method offered by our SKT-Training Academy. We offer these training courses to technically experienced therapists (physiotherapists, body workers, psychologists, etc..) as well as to beginners who dare to jump into an exciting, creative and new field of bodywork.
What prerequisites are required?
The applicant needs to have received a 10 session series of the Ida P. Rolf method of Structural Integration with a Certified Practitioner and completed the SKT Orientation Seminar. In addition, it is beneficial and requested that anyone new to bodywork, complete an Anatomy course to assure sufficient anatomy knowledge.
Orientation seminar
This introductory course supplies the potential student with a solid base in SKT® Somatics and/or SKT® TraumaSomatics. This is a requirement for all students who continue on with our trainings.
SKT® Somatics
If you are looking for a solid tool for bodywork, we recommend training in SKT® Somatics. Anatomy, Physiology, and the 10 session series, based on the Ida P. Rolf Method of Structural Integration are presented in a “hands-on process” of learning.
SKT® TraumaSomatics
Training in body psychotherapy and TraumaSomatics is meant for body workers, psychotherapists, doctors, teachers, social workers, those who are looking for a body-psychotherapy-training with emphasis in neurobiological trauma therapy.
How to become a Certified SKT® Therapist?
Both trainings (SKT® Somatics + SKT® TraumaSomatics) must be completed with 6 to 12 months of supervision and review in order to be fully certified as an SKT® Practitioner. This requirement is for the benefit of the student so they may receive feedback on one’s own strengths and weaknesses while using structural bodywork as a therapy.
Who leads the trainings?
The training modules are offered by the team of the SKT training academy in cooperation with its partner organization, Shifting Culture (SC): Dr. Eric Wolterstorff (SC), Zoe Zimmermann (SC), Liz Stewart and Dr. Herbert Grassman (SKT training director).
Where do the trainings take place?
In the German-speaking countries the trainings are based on a number of intensive learning blocks (5-day training blocks) as well as supervised training groups. This way the learned subjects may be integrated again and again into practice. At present, SKT trainings take place in Germany and Austria.
An intensive training is offered in Mallorca (Spain) to people who prefer intensive trainings due to their own personal life situation. The advantage of this kind of training is the experience of a very intensive group work over almost two weeks. This variation makes it possible to process very intensely the fundamental SKT work in a pleasant Mediterranean environment.
Finances
For the intensive fourteen day blocks in Mallorca (Spain) one has to prepare for flight + accommodation costs of approx. 750 Euro. For the 5-day blocks of training in the German-speaking countries the costs are approx. 300 – 350 Euro depending on the lodging. We are aware that a SKT training may mean a substantial investment but practice shows, that the costs will pay off soon, if one works seriously with this method. Many training participants pay individually for each course block the due seminar costs – usually 500 or 1.250 Euro, but we also offer the possibility to pay training costs in monthly rates. In this case we may arrange an individual agreement with the student. We hope that by offering suitable financing, we can encourage the student to make a decision more readily. We are also available for further personal discussion.
SKT® Somatics
In the SKT® Somatic Training the student will become acquainted with anatomical and physiological connections. They will also be trained to recognize and treat the structures of the human body, based on the 10 session series of the Ida P. Rolf method of Structural Integration. This is a hands-on process of working with the myofascial system. The student will be trained to see structure and make changes according to the 10 series protocol. The premise being that an organized structure is oriented around a verticle line, thus an upright position takes place in the field of the gravitational force. The intent is directed toward different levels of the fundamental direction of human evolution. The substantial goal for each session is the uplifting of the entire human being.
SKT MovementSomatics works with mental images of how our thoughts influence our body awareness. Due to systematic compilation of mental body pictures we are able to change attitudes from the inside out, instead of trying to force them from the outside onto the inside.
The final supervision period consists of 2 weekends to help refine the relational and technical aspects of the work.
SKT Somatics ” Our job is to learn to contact reality
as the reality exists in the human body”
IDA ROLF (Founder of the ROLFING© METHOD)
Theory: Somatic empowerment process + techniques of the fascial work 100 hours
Introduction to myofascial anatomy and physiology of movement
10-step system of myofascial reorganization
Practical exercises: 10-step system of the myofascial reorganization 100 hours
Exercises to enhance therapeutic attitudes 30 hours
Group supervision 20 hours
Total training hours for SKT Somatics: 250 hours
SKT MovementSomatics
Theory: Structural Movement Training 40 hours
Myofascial anatomy and physiology of movement
Practical exercises: Internal perception matrix and expressed movement 20 hours
Total training hours MovementSomatics: 60 hours
Total training hours SKT® Somatics: 310 hours
SKT® TraumaSomatics
TraumaSomatics I _ Basic Training in Body Psychotherapy
In this training, basic instruments for body psychotherapy skills are mediated. Beside self-experience of process hours, the participants become acquainted with their, often unconscious, “attitudes” of how to be a therapist. Another component of the training units is the conversion of more substantial “basic principles” like non-violence, truthfulness, being present and basic techniques of emotional attendance during body processes. Recognition and handling fundamental character strategies during evolutionary processes as well as a special procedures when dealing with the consequences of traumatizing events, allow the training participants to deal differentiated with different mental processes. Thanks to the non-violence approach of the SKT-Therapists, messages of the body become clear as hidden parts of ourselves. The mental blockades bound in the fascia and their gluing can be made conscious during a sensible dialogue and can therefore be transformed. The body becomes as a source of our feelings, sometimes also as feeling tanks transparent.
TraumaSomatics II _ Somatic Trauma Therapy
The trauma therapy consists of the following steps: Stabilization – Trauma treatment – Integration. SKT® TraumaSomatics offers here the possibility of an body-oriented trauma therapy. With the body as central healing reference, this approach differs substantially from other trauma methods. The essence of this therapeutic method lies in the processing of somatic trauma symptoms and to find a new adjustment of the autonomic nervous system. Psychological reactions due to traumatic events can persist for a long time, even months or years. This is to be expected especially when particularly serious physical or mental injuries were suffered. The therapeutic goal of a trauma therapy exists not primarily in the correction of pathogen fantasies, but first in restoring control of itself, independently from the experienced phenomena, as for instance intrusive memories of traumatic events. We know from the current neurobiological studies (Allen Schore, Bruce Perry, Bessel van der Kolk and James Grigsby), that the early attachment relationships and the developing of the human stress mastering systems are of vital importance. Since traumatic events weaken or limit the individual attachment abilities, the necessity to train fundamental attachment abilities seems clear. Trauma therapist must be trained beyond that. They must be trained in specific ways of handling transference and counter transference. This important and does not depend on the therapeutic method or school.
In co-operation with Dr. Eric Wolterstorff, Co-worker for many years of Dr. Peter Levine and the founder of his own Trauma Institute in Boulder, Colorado, TraumaSomatics is an important psychological and neurobiological addition to Peter Levines SE work (Somatic Experiencing).
SKT® TRAUMASOMATICS I ” Mindfulness is an effective therapeutic tool, if we want to investigate, how we develop internal opinions of the world. It permits a courageous, sincere meeting with the present reality, with which at the moment simply and simple is.”
RON KURTZ (FOUNDER the HAKOMIMETHODE)
Theory: Basis of body psychology 40 hours
Principles of a healing relationship between Therapist + Client
Mindfulness and non-violence
Practical exercises: Emotional Empowerment Process 40 hours Character studies and attitude exercises
Interventions with Transference and Counter transference
Group supervision 10 hours
Individual self-experience 10 hours
Total Hours SKT® TRAUMASOMATICS I 100 hours
SKT® TRAUMASOMATICS II “A trauma has less to do with the conscious memory as with the inability of the body itself to relax” Bessel van der Kolk (Trauma expert in the USA)
Theory: Bases of the somatic trauma therapy 50 hours
Anamnesis of trauma and shock physiology
PTBS diagnosis: Stress, trauma and the autonomic nervous system
Trauma therapy with episodic and procedural memory
Trauma + role understanding:
The therapeutic handling of the unconscious perpetrator-, victim + observer behavior
Therapeutic work with the phenomena of transference
Other models of trauma therapy (EMDR, Imaginat. Trauma therapy)
Practical exercises: Somatic trauma therapy 40 hours
Therapeutic work with “hot” (Stress) and “cold ” (Trauma) Symptoms
Live demonstrations
Video work and evaluation of short working sessions
Group supervision (5×4-hours) 20 hours
Individual supervision 10 hours
Total hours of SKT® TraumaSomatics II 120 hours
Total hours of SKT® TraumaSomatics I + II 220 hours
Overall SKT® TRAINING MODULES CONTENTS + HOURS
Orientation Seminar
Introduction to myofascial anatomy and movement motion 15 hours
Body reading: Careful observation of human structures 15 hours
SKT principles of a healing relationship 10 hours
Total hours of Orientation Seminar 40 hours
SKT Somatics
Theory: Somatic empowerment process + techniques of the fascial work 100 hours
Introduction to myofascial anatomy and physiology of movement
10-step system of the myofascial reorganization
Practical exercises: 10-step system of the myofascial reorganization 100 hours
Therapeutic attitude exercises 30 hours
Group supervision 20 hours
Total training hours SKT Somatics: 250 hours
SKT MovementSomatics
Theory: Structural Movement training 40 hours
Myofascial anatomy and physiology of movement
Practical exercises: Internal perception matrix and expressed movement 20 hours
Total training hours of MovementSomatics: 60 hours
Total training hours SKT® Somatics: 310 hours
SKT® TRAUMASOMATICS I
Theory: Basis of body psychology 40 hours
Principles of a healing relationship between Therapist + Client
Mindfulness and non-violence
Practical exercises: Emotional Empowerment Process 40 hours Character studies and attitude exercises
Interventions with Transference and Counter transference
Group supervision 10 hours
Individual self-experience 10 hours
Total hours SKT® TRAUMASOMATICS I 100 hours
SKT® TRAUMASOMATICS II
Theory: Basis of somatic trauma therapy 50 hours
Anamnesis of trauma and shock physiology
PTBS diagnosis: Stress, trauma and the autonomic nervous system
Trauma therapy with episodic and procedural memory
Trauma + role understanding:
Therapeutic dealing with the unconscious perpetrator-, victim + observer behavior
Therapeutic work with transference phenomena
Other models of trauma therapy (EMDR, Imaginat. Trauma therapy)
Practical exercises: Somatic trauma therapy 40 hours
Therapeutic work with “hot” (Stress) and “cold ” (Trauma) Symptoms
Live demonstrations
video work and evaluation of short working sessions
group supervision (5×4-hours) 20 hours
Individual supervision 10 hours
Total hours of SKT® TraumaSomatics II 120 hours
Total hours of SKT® TraumaSomatics I + II 220 hours
Certification of SKT Therapist® + Supervision of case studies
Total hours of Certification process approx. 100 hours
Total training hours „Structural body therapy” 630 hours
