CORE Expressions – Radical Aliveness Group Therapy
A Gym for Your Soul. A Part of SoulWork LA.
Weekly Closed Group Therapy Objectives:
This group is set up for you to have the time and space and fellowship for self-care, gaining insights about your circumstances, and supporting positive change in all aspects of your life.
Description:
In our group therapy work, we will use movement, experiential and partner exercises, physical, emotional & artistic expression, energy work, guided breathwork, and Radical Aliveness process work.
This work can help people address addiction, resistance, trauma, PTSD, relationships, and a sense of belonging. While working towards creating a life that brings more of their authentic self into it. Resulting in more resilience, empowerment, fulfillment, and the ability to affect change.
Join us for fun, discovery, intensity, laughter, music, tears, pleasure, joy, movement, deep connection, delight, release, exploration, and growth.
Who, What, When, Where:
Wednesday Nights, Weekly: 7:30-9 PM
Format: Closed Group. Beginner to Advance.
Fee: $50 per group session. Sliding scale applications accepted.
Payments: Accepted by Cash and Venmo
Facilitated by: Liam Blume, CPRA
Location: ZOOM
Join Us.
Please fill out the sign-up form below.
Guidelines for Group Therapy Attendance:
- Agreement to confidentiality.
- A willingness and spirit to apply the Radical Aliveness Principles in group.
- A minimum 8-week commitment is required. And a 2 session advanced notice of your last group attendance. This gives time to work on closures.
- Lateness or absence needs to be reported in advance.
- 100% Attendance is the group commitment to one another during each other’s 8-week participation.
- In the event of a delay or emergency absence, we ask you to inform the group in real-time and prior to the start of the group. And we will be concerned if you are missing. And we will want to support you if we can.
- Group payments are accepted each week before the group starts.
Registration and Intake:
Fill out the registry form below. Liam Blume will follow up with you for a brief interview and discussion around your goals for attending group therapy. This is powerful work, and we like to ensure participants are prepared for that journey. And that we give you all the support and resources we can.
Click here to e-mail Liam direct to schedule an appointment.
Payments Accepted by Cash and Venmo
Thank you in advance for your payment.
If Using Venmo
Pay @LiamBlume
In The Deepest Expressions of Ourselves… We Transform and Go to New Places in Our Lives. Let Group Therapy Support This Experience ~ Liam Blume
About Your Facilitator
Liam Blume, CPRA
- Founder of SoulWork LA
- Somatic Practitioner providing BodyMind Therapy, Coaching, and Leadership
- Certified Radical Aliveness Practitioner
- Group Counselor, Beit T’Shuvah Treatment Center
- US Association for Body Psychotherapy, Director for Somatic Psychology and Body Psychotherapy Teaching and Training
- 12 Step Guidance: 30 years of experience working with others in multiple 12 step addiction recovery programs
- Asset – Risk Management: Previously licensed to practice in real estate, insurance, securities, and commodities trading
- For business coaching, he brings 31 years of experience in launching and consulting businesses and non-profits in areas of product development, operations, sales, branding, marketing, advertising, and fundraising.
About Liam
Liam bridges BodyMind Therapy, coaching and leadership development work together for dealing with life on the personal, interpersonal and systemic levels.
Through SoulWork LA he brings his CORE Expressions Group techniques, Radical Aliveness Process Work and Breathworks Plus experiences to: individuals, couples, outpatient treatment, specialty workshops and other on-going groups.
Why Join and More Details
Let Life Flow Through You
Join us if you are seeking to:
- unblock recent or chronic stress,
- keep your body-mind instrument fully open to do your best in the passions of your life,
- be in the flow with your partner, children, family, friends and co-workers, etc.
Perfect if you are:
- Looking to discover what’s underneath the surface of what you think is going on in your life
- Having stress or conflict at work you’d like to get more perspective on
- Isolating and needing to get back in to connection with self and others and the world
- Grieving loss or change in your life
- Resisting the need for change in your behaviors and thought patterns
- Suffering writer’s block
- An actor wanting to be more fully in their body to play the roles they are working on
- An artist looking for new inspiration
- Wanting to stay in the flow you are in
- Avoiding traffic and Covid-19
- Far away from groups that work somatically
This weekly group will be facilitated by Liam Blume, CPRA (Radical Aliveness Somatic Practitioner)
This group operates in conjunction with transformation workshops held several times a year. This group will include full Radical Aliveness Process Work. This is a great group for people to work out what came up for them in any intensives or in any other healing work or therapy sessions they have done outside of this group.
This group is open to those who have taken any past group workshops, have previous Radical Aliveness group experience or are seeking to improve their lives but have little to no experience with self-discovery work and trauma healing. This group is attended by many leaders who will bring you (including newcomers) support.
It’s An Experience
We will use experiential exercises, movement, partner exercises, physical expression, energy work, guided breathwork, artistic expression, and Radical Aliveness group process work.
Join us for fun, discovery, intensity, laughter, music, tears, pleasure, joy, movement, deep connection, delight, release, exploration, and growth.
Give yourself the time and space and fellowship for self-care and inspiration to follow your heart’s longing.
Curious about participating? Would you like to set up an interview? Please contact us. Ask for Liam.
Practitioners or Clinicians Can Benefit from this Work too. It helps those of them
- looking to begin or better their relationship with themselves,
- feeling the need to go deeper in their personal development work,
- desiring to do work that can help accelerate their growth,
- seeking to uncover and discard what’s holding them back in their life,
- needing ways to recharge themselves after working with their clients or co-workers,
- searching to be exposed to new tools to use when working with clients, co-workers or family and friends,
- wanting to explore new training programs and ways to get CEU credits at the Radical Aliveness Institute.
- See more details on CEU credits below.
- And click here for a video tour about the institute and the benefits of going beyond talk therapy.
The layers involved in processing work and in discovering self.
Video resources sharing the experiences in group:
A) What’s Amazing about a group and why do it? What do you get out of it? …
B) Trauma, emotions and social pressures and becoming fully who we are?
B) What is Radical Aliveness? Taking risks, feeling scared, making mistakes, addressing conflict, Becoming a Leader?
C) Reflections: Radical Aliveness Institute?
Lineage of this Work
Sigmund Freud > Wilhelm Reich, Body Defense Character Structures > Alexander Lowen and John Pierrakos, Bioenergetics Analysis > John Pierrakos, Core-Energetics > Ann Bradney, Radical Aliveness Institute
Factoids
This work stems from research going back to 1933. After 84 years of this kind of work being used in the professional and practitioner fields worldwide and more science based research coming out; you can find more and more people in the public turning to integrative mind-body treatments and self care.
Bioenergetics Analysis has more than 54 training institutes worldwide
There are over 1,500 members of Bioenergetics Institutions in the U.S.
There are 8 plus Core Energetics Institutes in the US and 8 others around the world
Radical Aliveness Institute (which incorporates Character Structures, Bioenergetics Analysis, Core-Energetics and Societal Complexity Issues) is based in Los Angeles with Personal Transformation Centers in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Practitioner Training is held at Synergia Ranch, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Layers Involved in “Processing Work” and in Discovering Ourselves:
About Radical Aliveness Institute? CEU opportunities
Offering a rigorous, ground-breaking curriculum for personal transformation and leadership, the Radical Aliveness Institute was founded in Southern California in 2008 by somatic Core Energetics therapist, Ann Bradney. Currently based in Los Angeles, California Radical Aliveness Institute offers 2-year and 4-year training programs. In these programs, students learn a combination of systems orientation, exceptional cultural sensitivity and self-awareness, the ability to hold and support deep emotional process, and full-self expression. All of these components make this program uniquely healing for today’s world.
The Radical Aliveness Institute is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. CAMFT Approved Provider #137125
A description of the Radical Aliveness Process and Impact.
Radical Aliveness (RA) is a movement, often practiced in groups and workshops, based on values and principles that are intended to support and sustain life. We value relationships as essential to that goal.
We see all humans beings as having equal value, that we all have gifts of leadership to share. Our diversity is valued as an essential part of nourishing and sustaining life. We learn to bring curiosity and self-responsibility to the places where we’re prone to see others simplistically through our assumptions, and personal and cultural biases.
The RA principles and group practices help bring people together across the lines that divide us. RA process help us learn to stay in connection when conflict is present—beyond our impulses to judge, attack, control or separate. We use body based tools and practices, with the understanding that our bodies hold our histories and contain wisdom. RA process teaches us to tolerate big emotional and physical expression. It gives us space to feel our deepest pain and our greatest pleasure.
RA seeks to have a healing influence on individuals, relationships, communities and institutions.
From this place of greater awareness and self-responsibility, we strive to live in alignment with these principles.
The Radical Aliveness Institute is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. CAMFT Approved Provider #137125
Other Group Facilities Location and Parking:
Transformation Groups will be held in Santa Monica, CA
2904B Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Limited free parking and street metered parking available.
Park on Berkeley and Stanford, where there is free 2-hour parking, at least during the day. I would recommend driving around and reading the parking signs carefully so you know if this is still true in the evenings. Most of the other streets require permits so they won’t work. Broadway and Colorado also do have some spots, at least during the day.
