How Bioenergetics Awakens Our True Selves: Exploring the Pulse of Connection with Jim Elniski
Release Date: 08/12/2024
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info_outlineIn this episode we delved into Jim's profound journey into Bioenergetics, exploring its life-changing impact. Jim shared how this powerful practice helped him connect deeply with his emotions and body, spurred by a lifelong pursuit of self-discovery. His unique blend of art and Bioenergetics brings an emphasis on creativity, community, and healing.
One notable takeaway: "It's about recognizing we're part of a pulsating, vibrational world, and our need for connection and being seen is vital."
Bio:
Jim Elniski, MFA, MSW, LCSW, CBT maintains an independent bioenergetic therapy practice
in Chicago, Illinois and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has been the local trainer and former Director of the Chicago Society for Bioenergetic Analysis, is currently on the Board of Trustees of the IIBA, and a local trainer of the Southern California Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis.
Jim is also a practicing artist whose individual and collaborative work has been profiled in
Visual Inquiry: Learning & Teaching Art, Launching the Imagination, and Parabola and is
Professor Emeritus at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
He was the co-editor, together with Jacqueline A. Carleton, of the USABP Journal issue
commemorating Alexander Lowen.
His special interest, as therapist, clinical consultant, educator, and artist, is the pulsatory
nature of being alive and how we contact, shape, and are shaped by the world around us.
In collaboration with his wife, artist Frances Whitehead, he has developed three projects that repurposed existing buildings as sustainable live/work spaces. Jim's particular
contribution to these projects is his focus on the literal ways we are all interconnected and to
make visible aspects of the communal common ground that all too often remains invisible.
Jim has been an urban beekeeper since 2005. Through the metaphor of Hive Mind, he has
begun to formulate a more explicit set of theoretical and practical connections between
community-centered art practice, clinical social work, somatic psychotherapy, and service work
with art for marginalized, special populations.
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