Being in the body vocational and career guidance and Core Energetics’s grounding

1. Being in thebodyvocational and career guidance and Core Energetics’s grounding Fernando Aguiar BRAZIL

2. Core energetics • Body-orientedpsychotherapy An integrated aproach of human’s growth and evolution as a whole being. (John Pierrakos)

3. What is vocacional guidance? • A practicethataims to help people build uptheirownlifeandprofessionalprojects • Self-knowledge • Knowledgeof reality • Decisionmaking • Identity as the starting point (Jean Guichard) • Thefacilitatorlooks for theEssence, the Core.

4. Thebody as ourbasicidentity • The baby feels, thereforehe/sheexists • culture usually limits individuals spontaneous expressions, • We loose contact with our own body, feelings and real needs • To have a strong and healthy identity, we must have a deep contact with our body • Body-work as a way for empowerment and changing of self concepts

5. praticalexperience • Grounding • Be in touchwithoneselfandwiththeexternal reality • Breathing • Breathdeply = feeldeply • Self-expression – soundandmovement • More selfintegration • Establishingnew neural networks

6. Whenwe are groundedweknowwherewe are andwhowe are. (Alexander Lowen)

7. Method • 10 adolescents from a public school in Brazil doing their last High School term • 10 group meetings, 2 hourseach • All meetings startedwiththebody • Research: audiorecordingand notes weretaken • Qualitative data analysis: Constructive -interpretativemethodfrom Fernando González Rey

8. Some activities Need some adaptation • Walkonthediferentregionsofthefeet • Say “ME”, “Yes”, “No” • Jumpon a X andsay a profession • “I’mright, your are wrong” • Territory dispute • Powerfull ME

9. Resultsanddiscussion Firstmeaning zone: “Withoutdirection” • “I want to knowmyselfso I canchoosesomething I like” • “I hatemaths! I thoughtaboutdoingpsychology, nursing, fisiotherapy, social serviceandnutrition.” • I thought about doing veterinary or physical education, but gave up. I thought of turism, but I don’t know. My father don’t want me to do physical education. At this point, doing grounding position was vary hard

10. Resultsanddiscussion • Second meaning zone: "Facing Reality“ • "Making grounding hurts“ The playful when doing body work with adolescents • "I sought more civil engineering, architecture and psychology. I liked psychology. I tried also the military. The exam is difficult, but I can get there “ • "The last workshop made ​​me think of all the problems we have in professions.“ • “I felt like an energy. I felt that it started at my feet going all the way up here (at the head)."

11. Resultsanddiscussion • Third meaning zone: "I can make it“ • "Helped me to say ‘ME' and to appreciate myself more“ • "I cried with people that I had just met. The vocational guidance made ​​me feel very comfortable, the people allowed me that. " • "With my decision ... I'll be saying no to my father and yes to me "

12. The more someone expresses oneself from a true place, the more he/she approaches to this truth (Pierrakos, 1990).

13. final considerations • The body helps to make a more energetically charged choice. •   The body as a key element of adolescence •   The emphasis on clinical perspective • Article published: • Aguiar, F. H. R.  e  Conceição, M. I. G. (2008). Vocational Guidance according to neo-reichian perspective: the contributions of grounding. Revista Brasileira de orientação profissional. 2008, 9(1), 115-128.

14. Contacts • Fernando Aguiar • fhaguiar@gmail.com • www.psicologiaessencial.com.br .com/fernandohraguiar Thankyou! ThispresentationandmyparticipationatthisConferencewasfundedby Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Distrito Federal – FAPDF