The FORUM for Body-Psychotherapy Organisations is the group of Training Organisations, Professional Associations, and European Institutes for modalities which are involved in Body-Psychotherapy. It meets under the auspices of EABP but is now self-financing and semiautonomous: it is not a sub-committee of the EABP Board, but a parallel and co-operative body.The elected Chairperson of The FORUM is a full voting member of the Board(of Directors) of EABP. The FORUM meets twice a year and decides upon issues relating to the training and accreditation of Body-Psychotherapy schools in different modalities. There are regular symposia and presentations. The FORUM met for the first time in April 1998 in Vienna and has since met in Vienna in February 1999; Travemunde, Germany in September 1999; Amsterdam, Netherlands in February 2000; Athens, Greece in October 2002; Frankfurt, Germany in March 2001; Egmond aan zee, Netherlands in September 2001; Iserl?hn, Germany in February 2002; Naples, Italy in October 2002; Montpellier, France in March 2003; Frankfurt, Germany October 2003; Vienna, Austria in April 2004; Marathon, Greece in October 2004; Paris, France in March 2005, Lisbon, Portugal in October 2005; Copenhagen, Denmark in March 2006: Askov, Denmark in September 2006 Valencia, Spain in March 2007, .Paris in September 2007
FUTURE Meetings of the FORUM are: |
| 29 February (leap year) until 2 March - 2008 - Germany 7th November, 2008 in Paris 27-29 March 2009 9-11 October 2009 (proposal) |
26 Training Organisations and 2 Professional Organisations are now members of the FORUM. 19 Training Schools in Body Psychotherapy have been accredited. You can view the list of Member Organisations and their addresses here. :
FORUM Membership
In order to join The FORUM Organisations must first become an Organisational Member of the EABP and
fulfill the Organisational Membership conditions.
Click here to see a full copy of the organisational membership conditions.
Click here for an organisational membership application form.
Once an organisation has been accepted as an organisational member it can
let the EABP Secretariat know that it is interested in applying to become a
member of The FORUM. The organisation will then be invited to, and must
attend, two meetings of The FORUM in order to get to know members who are
participating in The FORUM, and for members to get to know them. An
organisation is accepted as a member of the FORUM on a vote from members at
the end of these meetings.
Once Training Organisations are a member of The FORUM they can apply for accreditation by The FORUM.
Click here to see the process of Self-Assessment and Mutual Recognition.
Click here to see the EABP Training Standards
Click here to see the Self-Assessment application form.
Body-Psychotherapy Modalities
Once a Training School, Professional Association, or European Institute is a member of The FORUM, they can then apply through EABP to the EAP for a process of "scientific validation" of their modality in Body-Psychotherapy,.
Click here to see the EAP's 15 Questions on Scientific Validity
Click here to see EABP's answers about the Scientific Validity of Body-Psychotherapy.
You can view the answers to the EAP's 15 Questions on Scientific Validity from (i) Hakomi Psychotherapy; (ii) Biodynamic Psychotherapy; (iii) Unitive Psychotherapy: (iv) Bodynamic Psychotherapy; (v) Emotional Re-Integration; (vi) Character Analytic Vegetotherapy; (vii) Psychotherapeutic Postural Integration. EAP has also "scientifically validated" independently the modalities of Biosynthesis, Psycho-Organic Analysis, and Bioenergetics.
FORUM Activities
The main activities of The FORUM are:
| Accreditation - is according to the EABP Training Standards. These have been formulated by the EABP Training Standards Committee and were amended and passed by the EABP General Assembly in September 1999. They were amended and accepted by the EABP General Assembly in Askov, Denmark in September 2006. These amended Training Standards can be viewed by clicking here. |
| The Accreditation Process - is one of Self-Assessment and Mutual Recognition. For more details, click here. |
| The Chairperson elected by The FORUM represents the FORUM on the EABP Board. Currently there is a FORUM Executive Committee consisting of Lidy Evertsen, Thomas Riepenhausen and Martin Tidén.One of these three will be present at each Board Meeting. |
| The FORUM is achieving a separate identity from EABP and is developing its own goals and aims related to the needs of its member organisations. |
| The FORUM was given a mandate to accredit Body-Psychotherapy Training Schools by the 1999 EABP General Assembly. This is subject to revue, and subject to a process of scrutiny by the EABP Training Standards Committee. |
| Also discussed at The FORUM was the idea of establishing some "Common Ground" in Body-Psychotherapy between the different modalities. This idea has now been put into a separate page on this Website. There the ideas can be discussed and a dialogue built up. Please visit this page by clicking here. |
| The FORUM holds a one-day symposium before each FORUM Meeting where individual schools present their work and where issues related to all schools are discussed. (see below). |
| The new Ethical Guidelines were passed by the EABP General Assembly in Askov, Denmark in September 2006. |
| The FORUM has produced an information booklet about the schools and their activities. Copies are available from the EABP Secretariat. Press here to get the pdf document. |
The Organisational Membership Fee of EABP is 190 € per year.
FORUM Membership fees are:
Training Institutes
Up to 25 trainees € 80
From 26 - 60 trainees € 180
From 61 - 100 trainees € 270
More than 100 trainees € 360
Professional Associations
Up to 25 trainees € 80
From 25 - 100 trainees € 120
More than 100 € 160
This reflects the costs of The FORUM and a set of accounts is presented to FORUM members annually.
There are certain additional factors concerning the Scientific Validation of
Body-Psychotherapy and modalities need to answer the EAP's 15 Questions. For
further information on this, click here. The FORUM as a group are now
beginning to address this. 6 different Body-psychotherapy modalities have
been "scientifically validated".
For new information about EABP's status with EAP, please click here.
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For a diagram of the EABP & FORUM structure, click here.
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If you wish for your organisation to participate, please fill in the appropriate application forms,
and contact
EABP Secretariat
Jill van der Aa
Leidsestraat 106-108/2
NL-1017 PG Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31-20-3302703
Fax: +31-20-6257312
E-mail: eabpsecretariat@planet.nl
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