Asas a Raízes (Wings and Roots)
Asas e Raízes, Terapia e Formação Lda.
Rua das Flores, 57-2
PT-4050-265 Porto
Tel/Fax: +351-2220-59584
School history
Asas e Raízes (Wings and Roots) started its training in Biodynamic Massage in 1995 and established the training programme in body-psychotherapy in 2004. It is located in the old centre of Portugal’s second city, Porto, but training takes place throughout Portugal, mainly in Lisbon.
Basic theory and concepts
The school’s view of body-psychotherapy is integrative, based on a strong belief in ethics. It encompasses the best of traditional knowledge in the field of body-psychotherapy, within a concept enlarged to include systemic and transpersonal approaches.
The essentials of the work are:
- an integrative view of body-psychotherapy: cultivating the common ground on which this specific approach is built
- a strong belief in ethics
- a method where the client finds access to self-growth and volitional efficiency in the dialogue with the therapist
- the enlargement of traditional body-psychotherapy to systemic and transpersonal dimensions.
This approach is called Integral Body-psychotherapy. It places the work with the body into a broader context of nature, self and culture. It recognizes the multiple dimensions of the body and how these are experienced, known and worked with. The main emphasis on the body within body-psychotherapy is on completeness and integration in working with people. As such, Integral Body-psychotherapy provides specific ways of organizing the knowledge and skills of the field.
Integral Body-psychotherapy understands itself as being closely connected to integral approaches to psychology such as the Integral Psychology of Ken Wilber. This is as a developing tool of structuring the knowledge and experience of manifold dimensions of our being. Integral Body-psychotherapy applies the essential dimensions of Integral Psychology such as quadrants, levels, states, types and lines in the field of body-psychotherapy. The purpose of doing so is to build an optimal framework for preserving and developing the rich theoretical and practical knowledge of body-psychotherapy and its relationship to psychotherapy in general.
Training description
The training is organized in sixteen obligatory modules, and some optional ones so that a trainee can choose, to a certain extent, his/her own way within the programme. The school gives equivalents to professionals already working in the field of psychotherapy, so that the training is also attractive for those who want to complete training received elsewhere, with an approach that includes the body.
Obligatory modules (theoretical/practical)
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Foundations of Integral Bodypsychotherapy |
80 hours |
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Working with the Self (Gestalt) |
60 |
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Pillar I of IBPT: The Competence-Compass |
20 |
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Basic Medical Knowledge |
40 |
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Developmental Psychology |
20 |
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Inner Impulse (Vegetotherapy) |
80 |
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Character |
80 |
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Models, Methods and Techniques of Psychotherapy |
40 |
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Psychopathology |
40 |
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Pillar II of IBPT: Interpersonal Intelligence |
20 |
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Epistomology of IBPT |
20 |
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Ethics of Touch |
20 |
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Pillar III of IBPT: Integral Practices |
20 |
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Shock Trauma |
40 |
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Pillar IV of IBPT: Integral Interventions |
20 |
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Psychoenergetics |
80 |
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Trainers
Thomas Riepenhausen, EABP member since 1993, is responsible for the training, together with Ana Cristina Azevedo and Andreas Wehowsky as consultants. Other trainers are Courtenay Young, Ebba Boyesen, Elisabeth Fitger, Franz Ruppert, Isaias Costa, Manfred Thielen, Paula Diederichs and Sueli Simões, and occasional guest trainers.
State of recognition
The school will apply for the accreditation process with EABP FORUM in 2005.
EABP Member
Thomas Riepenhausen
Literature - publication - research
Being based on the traditional knowledge of body-psychotherapy, we consider the principal theories in this field as our theoretical corpus (please see the bibliography in our website).
Some texts about our specific approach:
Wehowsky, Andreas, Terapia Psicodinâmica e Terapia Psico-Corporal. www.asaseraizes.pt
Wehowsky, Andreas, A Bússola de Competência de Auto-Navegação. (2004). www.asaseraizes.pt
Wehowsky, Andreas, Wirkfaktoren in der Koerperpsychotherapie, in: G. Marlock/H.Weiss, Handbuch Koerperpsychotherapie. Goettingen 2005: Hogrefe
From left: Andreas Wehowsky, Thomas Riepenhausen, Ana Cristina Azevedo