Following the Process: Spontaneity and Wildness in Body Psychotherapy

In-depth clinical learning on a key area of practice, guided by leading experts.

Event overview:

Therapy can easily become domesticated – constrained by chairs, protocols and internalised ideas of how a “good therapist” should behave.

The body, however, has its own wild timing, images and impulses: a sudden urge to stand, an unexpected laugh, a movement towards the window, a shiver when certain themes arise. When these spontaneous processes are welcomed rather than suppressed, they can open powerful pathways for contact, insight and change.

This 2‑hour clinical webinar explores a process‑oriented, “wild” approach to body psychotherapy. Following and amplifying what emerges in the client’s and therapist’s bodies, while maintaining a frame that feels safe enough.

You’ll consider how to balance structure with spontaneity, and how to let the body lead without abandoning ethical and clinical judgment.

We will examine:

• What “wildness” means in therapeutic practice (and what it does not)
• How to track and follow spontaneous bodily impulses, gestures and movements
• Using image, metaphor and environment (including outdoors work) in embodied process
• When structure supports wildness, and when it restricts it
• How spirituality, ecology and politics weave into embodied process work

We’ll draw on examples from Nick Totton’s work on Wild Therapy and The Wildness of the Body, including working with “other‑than‑human” presences, ritual, and bodily responses to social and ecological crisis.

Clinical Takeaway

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Recognise and invite spontaneous bodily process in yourself and your clients
• Differentiate between creative wildness and boundary‑testing or acting out
• Introduce more improvisation into your work while retaining a solid frame
• Integrate ecological, spiritual and political themes into embodied practice where clinically relevant
• Develop your own embodied presence as a therapist who can tolerate uncertainty and aliveness

This webinar forms part of The Body Psychotherapy Series

The Body Psychotherapy Series is a four‑part Grove Series CPD pathway with Nick Totton and Robert Rees, exploring adjustment, trauma discharge, relational and process‑oriented models of body psychotherapy.

Pricing and booking options

You can book this event on its own for £30 (optional CPD & recording purchase available), choose selected sessions, or purchase the full series as a bundled CPD course for a discounted rate of £120 (includes CPD certificates and recordings).

To only purchase selected events, follow the links below to visit each event page, or click here to go directly to the purchase page.

Dates and times

All on Zoom, 14:00-16:00 (UK time)

1. Freeing the Breath: Adjustment in Body Psychotherapy – 6th November 2026
2. Releasing Held Pain: Trauma Discharge and the Body – 27th November 2026
3. Two Bodies in the Room: Relational Body Psychotherapy – 4th December 2026
4. Following the Process: Spontaneity and Wildness in Body Psychotherapy – 8th January 2027