Events »»» HeartTouch 21st - 22nd June 2025, Bern, Switzerland

HeartTouch

Embodied Mindfulness & Compassionate Touch Training.
Working with Anxiety, Emotional Pain & Trauma. ( Deutsch )

Anthony teaching HeartTouch in Ticino

A transformational training for Experiencers of Emotional / Mental Distress as well as those caring for them: Bodywork Practitioners, Mental Health Practitioners, Psychotherapists, Family Members.

As well as facilitating personal transformation and sharing tools for emotional self-regulation, this workshop explores the embodied foundations of co-regulation and care suitable for assisting people experiencing any level of emotional distress, up to and including complex trauma and psychosis.


Embodied Mindfulness

Anthony teaching HeartTouch in London March 2023

Embodied Mindfulness is a way of being in which you are fully connected with your body and you feel safe.

Your mind is quiet and present to your experience of life happening that moment and your heart feels warm and open to yourself and to those around you.

This is a state of well-being and good feeling.

We will explore together how mindfulness & touch based connection practices can help us to move closer towards this state of well-being whether as an experiencer of challenging states or as someone who cares for people in these situations.

We are not looking for 'cures' or 'fixes'. Whatever our 'role' we are learning to be with ourselves and to be ourselves. Just as important we are learning to be fully present with others.

As we transform the way we relate to ourselves, our experiences and the world, symptoms which distress us may also change.

Along the way everyone involved will enhance their capacity to hold safe space for others.
And this will touch everything we do in life from then on...

Workshop objectives

Participants will enhance their capacity / be able:

  • to reset the thinking mind back to a healthy 'presence' and away from unhealthy over-thinking, self-critical thinking and past / future patterns of functioning.
  • to strengthen their sense of self, their relationship with the ground, their centre and to become more embodied generally so there is less anxiety and brain fog and more capacity to feel authentic emotions and bodily sensation.
  • to increase resilience and the capacity to stay with challenging situations without going into emotional imbalance, overwhelm and avoidance strategies.
  • to reset their nervous system when inner or outer challenges have shifted it into sympathetic arousal or a trauma / freeze state.
  • to work with daily practices to free themselves from historical trauma patterns and recover freedom of response and natural vitality.
  • to enter authentically into resonance with others, meeting their own need for connection at the same time as compassionately supporting the other in their need.

Therapist participants will enhance their capacity / be able:

  • to enter resonance with those they meet
  • to rest in empty presence and be there for others
  • to feel their own Ki (life energy) and that of the other
  • to take care of themselves while being with others
  • to strengthen and harmonise their Ki (life energy) with daily practice
  • to integrate HeartTouch into their professional therapy work in a way sensitive for people experiencing trauma & emotional distress including psychosis.

Our final goal is simply to come to a good feeling within ourselves, to open our hearts and share this warm feeling with those we meet in our lives.

About Anthony

Click here for more on Anthony's background and experience.

Details:

The event is being hosted by Anthony Fidler with support from Antje Weinhardt and Karin Gsӧllpointner.

Course Language: English

Venue: Bern - Schanzeneckstrasse 25, 3012 Bern

Date & Time: 21st - 22nd June 2025 10.00-17.00

Target Group: This workshop is open to anyone who at times experiences anxiety, emotional pain, trauma and what may be considered psychosis by some.

It is also open to those who support people experiencing challenging emotional or mental states: bodywork practitioners, mental health practitioners, psychotherapists, social workers, mindfulness teachers and family members.

Couples wishing to enhance their capacity to connect and support each other through times of stress and distress are also very welcome.

Workshop size: Places are limited to 12 so please book early to be confident of attending.

Pricing: *Early bird pre May 16th

  • Fee: 330.- CHF, Earlybird 300.- CHF.
  • Concession Fee: 220.- CHF

Registration and Questions: Anthony Fidler - ( contact Anthony )

Organisational Questions: Antje Weinhardt - Bern (shiatsu@weinhardt.me)

Once we confirm there are places available, complete the application form

I offer a pre-workshop online 1-1 chat: £80 / hour. This can make a big difference anxiety wise for some people before entering a group.

Registrierungslink über: Wise for 330.- CHF

Registrierungslink über: Wise for 300.- CHF

Registrierungslink über: Wise for 220.- CHF

Cancellation / Refunds: Non-Refundable unless a replacement is found by the participant or we have a waiting list.

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