- Motivation, Engagement & Vitality
DE+EN | 5-day workshop c.a.r.e
Neurochemistry and Perception
In this module, we explore how motivation is linked to endorphins and neurotransmitters. During the developmental process, the human brain undergoes significant restructuring in adolescence. Biochemical messengers act here—and throughout life—as undercurrents shaping our motivation, emotional regulation, and relational dynamics. They are key elements in forming human attachment, behavior, and vitality, serving as subtle architects of mood, drive, and resilience. These messengers influence how we perceive safety, love, challenge, and joy.
We examine how neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphins sculpt our internal landscapes, affecting how we engage with the world, connect with others, and derive meaning from experience.
We delve deeper into brain function to understand the adolescent brain’s reorganization and its connection to hormonal processes. This foundational knowledge enables us to approach behavioral patterns—such as resistance and frustration—in new ways.
While our vitality is biologically rooted in these neurochemicals, it is also culturally shaped by how we learn to perceive the world and behave within social and gendered roles.
Through theory, embodied movement, guided exercises, and contemplative practices, participants will gain a visceral understanding of how neurochemicals manifest in the body—shifting energy, influencing interactions, and coloring perception. As we deepen our awareness of these biochemical flows, we can reframe how we and others experience the world: anxious or calm, connected or isolated, inspired or indifferent.
By understanding these inner dynamics, we see how different neurochemical balances create vastly different realities—where the same environment may feel nurturing or threatening, depending on one’s internal state. This awareness fosters empathy and equips us to cultivate emotional resilience and secure attachment in ourselves and others.
Ideal for professionals in therapy, education, and human development, this module illuminates the biochemical roots of motivation and engagement. While particularly relevant for those working with adolescents, it empowers all participants to better navigate emotional growth and relationships—and even reframe their understanding of the past.
Key Topics of the module
- Role of neurotransmitters in behavior and emotion
- Brain functions
- Endorphins and the biology of vitality
- Dopamine, Serotonin, Oxytocin: functions and effects
- Neurochemistry of motivation and engagement
- Emotional regulation and brain chemistry
- Touch and sexuality
- Motivation and engagement, Play and creativity
- Attachment and neurochemical dynamics
- Perception shaped by neurochemical states
- Embodied practices to experience neurochemical shifts
- Practical applications in therapy, education, and human development
This workshop is also a module of the professional training c.a.r.e - Creativity, Attachment, Resilience, Education
Ausführliche Seminarinformationen
C.A.R.E. – Creativity, Attachment, Resilience, Education
c.a.r.e. stands for Creativity, Attachment, Resilience, and Education. Cultivating care for oneself and others forms a vital foundation for relationships—both with ourselves and those around us.
Our training program equips participants with key insights from neuroscience, pedagogy, psychology, and somatics, focusing on the core of human coexistence: human development. These principles are designed to support professionals in therapeutic, educational, and social fields, while also offering tools for personal growth.
The c.a.r.e. Approach
The c.a.r.e. Program is designed to deepen self-awareness and strengthen personal resilience—essential steps toward fostering supportive relationships with others. Rather than reliving retraumatizing memories, C.A.R.E. helps participants understand how past experiences shape the nervous system and self-perception.
Through targeted work on early childhood reflexes, embryonic development, and self-regulation, the program helps repattern dysfunctional survival strategies while building new resources for stability, flexibility and well-being. C.A.R.E. integrates innovative somatic practices with neuroscientific research, attachment theory, and developmental psychology.
Who Benefits from c.a.r.e.?
This program serves a dual purpose:
- Enhancing professional skills in resource-oriented, attachment-based support.
- Encouraging self-reflection to recognize and transform personal patterns.
By exploring the connections between movement and nonverbal interaction, C.A.R.E. empowers participants to apply these principles in both their personal and professional lives.
200 UE / 6 modules / 4 somatic methods / 3 instructors
This innovative training combines several somatic methods (IBMT; BMC®, INPP, Feldenkrais, Cranio-Sacral Osteopathy, Experiential Anatomy, Authentic Movement) with the latest theory and research on child development. A somatic approach can provide effective and simple support for babies, children and adolescents who are facing challenges in learning, development or emotional regulation, whether big or small. This programme will support you to integrate somatic approaches into your practice, providing a combination of body awareness and embodiment training with practical somatic exercises and approaches appropriate to specific client groups.
Who is this training suitable for?
The training offers a comprehensive professional development programme suitable for those working with babies, children and young people in a range of education and health care contexts. It is relevant to educators, social workers, midwives, doulas, physiotherapists , paediatric nurses, doctors , teachers, psychologists and no medical practitioners in the field of dance, music and theatre provision for children.
Training Goals
- Familiarity with the fundamentals of child development
- The ability to recognise the profound interconnections between the nonverbal and verbal dimensions of consciousness
- A somatic and theoretical understanding of the ongoing development and learning processes
- An understanding of the interpersonal emotional exchange of the development process and how to support it in relationship
- Knowledge of the psycho-physical processes of learning
- An understanding of Brain development
- The ability to recognise different developmental aspects of the different client groups
- The ability to integrate somatic approaches and methods into working with children
- An understanding of the Importance and fundamentals of communication with parents and carers
- Skills to recognise developmental and learning challenges within their client group.
Once qualified you will
- Be able to develop playful-somatic movement programs for different age groups, which support their development.
- Be familiar with"preverbal language” and able to playfully integrate childhood movement development and reflexes in a variety of contexts
- Be able to recognise and understand the presence of persistent primitive reflexes and be able to implement strategies to address this.
- Be able to recognise compensatory behaviours in your client group
- Be able to identify and develop support possibilities for development and learning difficulties / blockages
- Create an appreciative, appreciative and attentive atmosphere as a place of learning and playing
Curriculum
Module 1 | Jul 06 - Jul 11, 2026 | Embryology
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Module 2 | Jul 13 - Jul 17, 2026 | Infant movement development
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Module 3 | Sep 28 - Oct 02, 2026 | Self-Other* - and interaction
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Module 4 | Jan 04 - Jan 08, 2027 | Embodied Pathways
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Module 5 | Mar 29 - Apr 02, 2027 | Motivation, Engagement & Vitality
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Module 6 | May 03 - May 08, 2027 | Embodying Creation
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Seminarleiter*innen
Heike Kuhlmann
MSME, BMC®-Practitioner, dancer, -educator, choreographer, MA Performance Studies/Choreography, Learner of the Discipline of Authentic Movement
Her somatic dance practice focuses on Body-Mind Centering®, Authentic Movement, and Contact Improvisation. In all these methods, Heike is interested in the process of human development. Taking structural conditions into account, Heike aims to support individuals through her work and thereby contribute to creating an environment where people can meet on equal footing. She facilitates somatic processes in individual sessions, courses, workshops, and training programs. Co-founder of the Working Group on Critical Somatics (AKS). Her artistic interests combine dance, activism, and somatics.
More information on: www.heikekuhlmann.net
Adalisa Menghini
Teacher, choreographer, performer
Adalisa studied at the S.N.D.O in Amsterdam, after which she completed her M.A. in Neurophysiological Psychology. She is a teacher of the Feldenkrais Method. She works with professional and non-professional dancers, children and seniors. She was nominated twice as best choreographer of the "Giocabriga". In collaboration with K. Wickenhäuser, she has brought performances with school children to museums. Twice they have won the "Kinder zum Olymp!" award. She teaches at the Tanzfabrik, the Somatic Academy Berlin and at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Ka Rustler
Ka Rustler has been performing, researching and analyzing somatic practices and their embodiment in movement, choreography and therapy for over 30 years. BMC® Teacher
Anmeldeinformationen
BerlinSomatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor
- Full Price: 690.00 EUR