Other Recommended Supplemental Reading

Openness, Surrender & Mystery Training Year

The particular books listed below are highly regarded in their fields of expertise, and they are excellent sources of clinical knowledge.

Each of these books may be considered to be challenging reads, but all are valuable contributions to the field of body-mind psychotherapy, and healing in general.  They are an essential part of our personal libraries as professionals who are established as process practitioners.

The Psychophysiology of Self Awareness,  by Alan Fogel.

Balancing science with practice, Fogel presents an array of options for regaining and cultivating embodied self awareness in a fast-paced, technologically oriented society. A very useful and practical book for understanding the neurological, anatomical, and psychophysiological sources of embodied self awareness.

Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: In the Expressive Language of the Living, by William Cornell.

This is book that has highly influenced and shaped the work of the PSEN facilitation team.  The author has been a primary consultant to the professional development of the the PSEN founders.  This book offers systematic attention to somatic experience and direct body-level interventions in process work, and it provides an broad understanding of how to work with the body in process facilitation.  It is essential reading for anyone who wishes to offer meaningful, body-centered depth work in their own practice.

The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience,  by Varela, Thompson & Rosch.

The authors offer a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist mindfulness.  A unique, sophisticated examination of the spontaneous and reflective dimensions of the human experience.