Liaisons: November 2025

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Body-Mind Centering® is described as an approach and its experiential study as a creative process.

As both an approach and a process (rather than a defined technique), BMC® readily intersects with, layers upon, and engages in generative dialogue with related disciplines, diverse fields, and applications.

Liaisons was a three-day online event that spotlighted some of the many ways in which Body-Mind Centering® has been applied to a range of disciplines and helped shape cross-exchanges between BMC® and other approaches and disciplines, organized within the following topics:

  • BMC® & contemplative practices

  • BMC® & creative process

  • BMC® & dance / performing arts education

  • BMC® & developmental movement education and therapy

  • BMC®-informed psychotherapeutic and trauma approaches

Featuring Body-Mind Centering® founder Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and a selection of other teachers, practitioners, and explorers of BMC® from over 15 countries.

Presenter list:

  • Amy Matthews (US) & Emily Feit (US)

  • Annie Brook (US)

  • Bari Kim & Namo Joo (KR)

  • Bernadett Jobbágy (HU)

  • Bob Lehnberg (US)

  • David France (US)

  • Erika Berland (US)

  • Gloria Desideri (IT)

  • Kate Tarlow Morgan (moderator, US), Journal Editorial Board (US)

  • Katy Dymoke & Jamus Wood (UK)

  • Karin Spitfire (US)

  • Laura Scudella & Marco Sforzi (IT)

  • Lova - Paula Lostra (AR)

  • Margery Segal (US)

  • Marina Tsartsara (GR)

  • Maruma Rodríguez (ES/VE)

  • Noa Rotem (AU) & Kim Sargent-Wishart (AU)

  • Olive Bieringa (NZ/NO) & Otto Ramstad (US/NO)

  • Paola Romitelli (IT)

  • pavleheidler (SE)

  • Raphaèle Frey-Maibach (FR)

  • Rhea Speights (US), Becky Dyer (US), Jess Humphrey (US), & Sarah Ebert (US)

  • Rosana Barragán (US), Bobi Lott (US), Suhaila Salimpour (US), & Amal Elwardi (US)

  • Thomas Greil (IT) & Anka Sedlačková (SK)

  • Vanessa Chapple & Rivka Worth (AU)

  • Wendy Hambidge (US), Damaris Webb (US), & Jorge Samuel (BR)

  • Zrinka Šimičić (HR)

LIVE (RECORDED) SESSIONS

  • Most sessions are in English. Other languages include Spanish and Italian.

  • All sessions have been recorded and will be available for viewing for at least 6 months after the event.

  • For program details, including sessions details and presenter biographies:

    • download a PDF of the program.

    • follow this link to preview the Liaisons program on our community platform. Note that login is required and it’s free to join.

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The Jigsaw Puzzle of Trauma and Healing: Karin Spitfire
BMC®-informed psychotherapeutic and trauma approaches
The Jigsaw Puzzle of Trauma and Healing: Karin Spitfire
BMC®-informed psychotherapeutic and trauma approaches

The experience of trauma affects everything. Over the last 45 years, I have worked with the effects of trauma from a somatic point of view. Healing from trauma is non-linear, multi-dimensional. We can’t leave out the soul, the political context, the relational, the big feelings, the shame, or the generational. But everything is connected to everything; no matter where we begin, we get somewhere, and the next move/issue will show itself. 

In this session, I invite you to raise questions about all of it: from where to start, how to listen, nervous system reversals, grounding, soul retrieval, polyvagal theory, mental health diagnosis, inner child work, symptoms management, addiction, co-dependency, re-enactment, triggers, how to separate the cranial rhythm from the breath, integrity, self-disclosure, when to push, when to hold, etc. 

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BMC®-informed psychotherapeutic and trauma approaches
The Touching Performance – an Invitation to Bodymindful Presence and Shared Responsibility for What Emerges: Zrinka Šimičić Mihanovic
BMC® & creative process
The Touching Performance – an Invitation to Bodymindful Presence and Shared Responsibility for What Emerges: Zrinka Šimičić Mihanovic
BMC® & creative process

This presentation explores the intersections of artistic and educational approaches to working with the body and movement, emphasizing their potential for empowerment, transformation, and a felt sense of connection with oneself, others, and the world. The Touching Performance is an experiential, participatory, and site-responsive intermedia artwork created in collaboration with visual artist Marina Bauer, inspired by author’s somatic practice and study of Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®).

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BMC® & creative process
Awareness as a Motor Act: Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
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Awareness as a Motor Act: Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
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The traditional science of movement approaches the sensation of movement as a feedback system. Our motor acts create a sensory response.

Awareness practice reverses this process. Our awareness creates a motor response.

In this workshop we will explore underlying principles concerning these two processes and the interaction between cognitive and cellular consciousness.

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