Core Evolution^®

One-Year In­ter­na­tion­al Pro­gram  - Septem­ber 2026 to June 2027

CoreSoma^® Touch Train­ing

Be­fore we have words or nar­rat­ive, be­fore we know our thoughts or even re­cog­nize our feel­ings, we en­counter the world through being touched and through touch­ing. Already in­trauter­in and es­pe­cially from the mo­ment we are born, we are re­ceived through touch—held, em­braced, soothed, sup­por­ted, and, ideally, placed upon our moth­er's body.

These earli­est ex­per­i­ences pro­foundly shape our sense of safety, trust, self-reg­u­la­tion, and re­la­tion­al at­tun­e­ment. They be­come the found­a­tion from which our sense of self, be­long­ing, love, and par­ti­cip­a­tion in the lar­ger field of life be­gins to emerge.

Con­tem­por­ary de­vel­op­ment­al neur­os­cience, at­tach­ment re­search, and so­mat­ic psy­cho­logy in­creas­ingly un­der­line the sig­ni­fic­ance of these early em­bod­ied and largely non-verbal ex­per­i­ences. The im­prints formed at this level do not speak the lan­guage of cog­ni­tion or will. They re­quire a dif­fer­ent mode of con­tact—one rooted in em­bod­ied pres­ence, at­tun­e­ment, and re­la­tion­al ex­per­i­ence—in order to be ac­cessed and in­teg­rated.

As ther­ap­ists, we en­counter the liv­ing ex­pres­sions of these early de­vel­op­ment­al im­prints every day. We meet cli­ents whose deep­est wounds were formed be­fore lan­guage ex­is­ted, yet con­tin­ue to shape the or­gan­iz­a­tion of the nervous sys­tem, mus­cu­lature, fas­cia, pos­ture, move­ment, emo­tion, and the body-mind as a whole.  

The CoreSoma Touch Train­ing teaches subtle, safe, and thera­peut­ic­ally groun­ded ways of work­ing with these early de­vel­op­ment­al pat­terns as they are held with­in the soma. Through skilled, sup­port­ive touch—al­ways fully clothed and ap­plied in sit­ting, stand­ing, or lying po­s­i­tions—par­ti­cipants learn how the body can begin to soften long-held pro­tect­ive or­gan­iz­a­tions, re­lease trau­mat­ic im­prints, and re­or­gan­ize to­ward great­er in­teg­ra­tion and vi­tal­ity. In this way, touch be­comes a bridge between the non-verbal and the verbal, the so­mat­ic and the psy­cho­lo­gic­al, the per­son­al and the transper­son­al.

The train­ing ex­plores how nour­ish­ing and sup­port­ive touch can fa­cil­it­ate the in­teg­ra­tion of early at­tach­ment wounds that were formed be­fore lan­guage and con­scious con­cep­tu­al un­der­stand­ing. Work­ing be­neath the level of cog­nit­ive pro­cessing, CoreSoma Touch of­fers path­ways for restor­ing con­tain­ment, healthy bound­ar­ies, em­bod­ied reg­u­la­tion, and an in­creased sense of inner co­her­ence.

Com­bin­ing the­ory, demon­stra­tion, and ex­per­i­en­tial prac­tice, the CoreSoma Touch Train­ing of­fers a com­pre­hens­ive path­way for in­teg­rat­ing thera­peut­ic touch into pro­fes­sion­al prac­tice. It brings to­geth­er em­bod­ied pres­ence, so­mat­ic aware­ness, thera­peut­ic touch, and clin­ic­al un­der­stand­ing with­in a clear eth­ic­al frame­work rooted in So­mat­ic Psy­cho­logy, Body-Ori­en­ted Psy­cho­ther­apy, and Em­bod­ied Con­scious­ness.

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Ex­plore the In­teg­ra­tion of
So­mat­ic Psy­cho­logy and Body-Ori­en­ted Psy­cho­ther­apy

Touch is our first lan­guage. From the mo­ment our first cells begin to di­vide in the womb, to the ex­per­i­ence of being born and re­ceived onto our mother’s body, it is touch that shapes our earli­est ex­per­i­ence of ourselves, about re­la­tion­ships, about be­long­ing, and about life it­self. It forms the liv­ing mat­rix from which our body-mind field de­vel­ops. As ther­ap­ists, we work every day with the im­prints of these early ex­per­i­ences.

CoreSoma works dir­ectly with these early de­vel­op­ment­al pat­terns as they con­tin­ue to live with­in the body. Through skilled thera­peut­ic touch, em­bod­ied aware­ness, and re­la­tion­al pres­ence, par­ti­cipants learn how these pat­terns can gradu­ally re­or­gan­ize to­ward great­er reg­u­la­tion, in­teg­ra­tion, and vi­tal­ity.

From this un­der­stand­ing, CoreSoma has evolved as an in­teg­rat­ive thera­peut­ic ap­proach. It com­bines so­mat­ic psy­cho­logy, body-ori­ented psy­cho­ther­apy, and thera­peut­ic touch, teach­ing both prac­tic­al skills and the clin­ic­al dis­cern­ment needed to know when, how, and why touch be­comes a pro­found thera­peut­ic re­source.

CoreSoma is also a jour­ney. Through the­ory, demon­stra­tions, and shared prac­tice, par­ti­cipants are guided into deep­en­ing their own em­bod­ied pres­ence.

Wheth­er you are new to thera­peut­ic touch or wish to deep­en an es­tab­lished prac­tice, this train­ing of­fers an ex­per­i­en­tial and pro­fes­sion­ally groun­ded path­way into one of the most fun­da­ment­al di­men­sions of human heal­ing. It in­vites you not only to learn new thera­peut­ic skills, but to cul­tiv­ate a deep­er em­bod­ied pres­ence from which heal­ing nat­ur­ally un­folds.

This is a 5-Unit Train­ing, which in­cludes
4 In-Per­son Units, 4 Video Practices and 4 On­line Meet­ings

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Unit 1
Found­a­tions of Thera­peut­ic Touch
In-Per­son with Cor­ne­lia Gerken
4. - 6. Septem­ber 2026  •  Zagreb  •  Euro 275.-  
• In­tro­duc­tion into the basic res­on­ance of our Body-Mind-Fields;
• At­tun­e­ment to the dif­fer­ent levels of con­scious­ness, in­clud­ing our deep need for
  touch;
• Touch as re­la­tion­ship, con­tact, com­mu­nic­a­tion and pres­ence;
• Ac­cess­ing So­mat­ic-Con­scious­ness and de­vel­op­ing a dia­logue with your own body;
• Bridging the verbal with the non-verbal and pre-verbal;
• Ap­ply­ing dif­fer­ent in­ten­tions of touch and how they trans­late through your hands;
• Aspects of depth, rhythm and dur­a­tion of touch;
• What makes touch safe and eth­ic­al for the prac­ti­tion­er and the cli­ent;
• Con­train­dic­a­tions for touch.
  
Unit 2
Work­ing with Devel­op­ment­al Pat­terns
In-Per­son with Cor­ne­lia Gerken
9. - 11. Octo­ber 2026  •  Zagreb  •  Euro 275.-      
• Deep­en­ing the un­der­stand­ing and ap­plic­a­tion of the spiral­ing touch for open­ing
  our un­der­ly­ing phys­ic­al and emo­tion­al hold­ing pat­terns;
• Touch in re­la­tion to our early de­vel­op­ment­al needs, safety, be­long­ing and feel­ing
  loved;
• Work­ing with hy­po­ton­ic and hy­per­ton­ic tis­sue and mus­cu­lar or­gan­iz­a­tion;
• Under­stand­ing pro­tect­ive re­sponses ex­pressed as ten­sion, col­lapse, or dis­so­ci­ation;
• Under­stand­ing the ap­plic­a­tion of touch in the con­text of de­vel­op­ment­al trauma;
• In­ter­re­la­tion of de­vel­op­ment­al move­ments to yield, to reach, to in­vite, to grasp,
  gently pull and fi­nally to re­ceive;
• Move­ment as an ex­pres­sion of the body field lan­guage;
• Ex­pand­ing our tools in dia­loguing with the Body-Mind-Field.
  
Unit 3
On­line In­teg­ra­tion and Clin­ic­al Practice
On­line with Cor­ne­lia Gerken
6. Decem­ber 2026  •  10. Janu­ary 2027  •  14. Febru­ary 2027  •  14. March 2027
Four live on­line ses­sions from 6 to 8:30 pm  •  Euro 275.-
Each Meet­ing in­cludes a the­or­et­ic paper and an in­struc­tion­al prac­tice video of around an hour that you can read, watch and prac­tice with an­oth­er stu­dent be­fore­hand. The On­line meet­ings are for deep­en­ing the un­der­stand­ing, hands-on prac­tice, ques­tions and ad­di­tion­al teach­ing. 

• The in­struc­tion­al videos demon­strate four thera­peut­ic ap­plic­a­tions and when to choose them in re­la­tion­ship to the per­son’s phys­ic­al, en­er­get­ic and psy­cho-emo­tion­al state;
1) Work­ing with the en­ergy that is held in and around the bone-struc­ture;
2) Treat­ment fo­cused on joints and co­her­ence of the Body-Feel­ing-Mind-Field;
3) Work­ing with sta­bil­iz­a­tion, con­tain­ment and safety;
4) Ap­ply­ing broad and deep touch.
 

Unit 4
Im­pulse Form­a­tion and Sys­tem In­teg­ra­tion
In-per­son with Siegmar Gerken
2. - 4. April 2027  •  Zagreb   •  Euro 275.- 
• Im­pulse Form­a­tion, ap­plic­a­tion and choice of touch in re­la­tion to the Cycle of
  Im­pulse Form­a­tion;
• Under­stand­ing how the bio-psy­cho-emo­tion­al in­form­a­tion and en­ergy-move­ment
  travel through the Body-Feel­ing-Mind Field;
• Es­tab­lish­ing co­her­ence and the unity of flow through­out the body;
• Under­stand­ing the in­ter­act­ive com­plex­ity of the sym­path­et­ic and para­sym­path­et­ic
  sys­tem and its im­plic­a­tions for touch;
• Learn­ing the prin­ciples of how to lead the sys­tem to Im­pulse-Com­ple­tion and In­teg­ra­tion. 
 

Unit 5
Ad­vanced Practice and Em­bod­ied Con­scious­ness
In-per­son with Cor­ne­lia Gerken
11. - 13. June 2027  •  Euro 275.-
with Com­ple­tion Cere­mony
• Spe­cif­ic and skill­ful open­ing around the joints and in­vit­ing the en­ergy into
  ex­pres­sion and move­ment;
• Hands-on tech­niques to ex­pand inner space;
• Open to the subtle en­er­gies;
• At­tun­e­ment to non-local con­scious­ness;
• In­vite the qual­it­ies of love and light to per­meate the Body-Feel­ing-Mind Field.
  
Who is this train­ing for?
The CoreSoma Touch Train­ing is de­signed for psy­cho­ther­ap­ists, psy­cho­lo­gists, coun­sel­lors, body-ori­ented ther­ap­ists, so­mat­ic prac­ti­tion­ers, health­care pro­fes­sion­als, and ad­vanced train­ees who wish to in­teg­rate thera­peut­ic touch into their pro­fes­sion­al work with­in a safe, eth­ic­al, and clin­ic­ally groun­ded frame­work.

CoreSoma un­der­stands thera­peut­ic touch not just as a tech­nique, but as an em­bod­ied re­la­tion­al lan­guage through which the or­gan­ism can com­plete de­vel­op­ment­al pro­cesses, re­or­gan­ize trau­mat­ic im­prints, and re­dis­cov­er its in­nate move­ment to­ward in­teg­ra­tion.
 
• Times of the In-Per­son Units:
Fri­day, 4 - 8 pm, Saturday, 10 am to 7:30 pm, Sunday, 10 am to 4 pm 

• The loc­a­tion is at the Center: Snaga Namjere, Raciceva 5/1, Zagreb, Croa­tia

• The CoreSoma Train­ing can only be taken as a full pro­gram
The train­ing fee can be paid for each unit and is Euro 275. - 
The fee must be trans­ferred be­fore the unit or paid at the be­gin­ning of each unit. 
Since space is lim­ited, please make a de­pos­it of Euro 100 be­fore the very first Unit.

For fur­ther in­form­a­tion and ap­plic­a­tion, please con­tact:
Cor­ne­lia Gerken at: cor­ne­liagerken@g­mail.com