Training
The Range of Trainings
For counsellors, psychotherapists and other practitioners.Taught by Marcus Sorensen since 2015. Open any entry to see what it covered.
Body and Nervous System
Diplomas
Advanced Diploma in Neurosomatic Psychotherapy
Advanced Diploma in Neurosomatic Psychotherapy
A year of weekly online sessions and two retreat weekends, 150 contact hours. Each session joins teaching, group supervision and a “lab” for live experiment.
Topics include cognitive domains, neuroplasticity, brainwaves, interoception and alexithymia, mirror neurons and interpersonal synchronisation, placebo, love and relationship, trauma, addiction, breath, the gut–brain connection, and chronic pain and early attachment.
What the Course CoveredTwo-Year Diploma in Neurosomatic Psychotherapy
Two-Year Diploma in Neurosomatic Psychotherapy
A training combining neuroscience, physiology and psychotherapy: weekends in London and a residential retreat each year, 420 contact hours over two years. The first year follows Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development, from infancy onwards.
Co-directed with Bernd Leygraf.
What the Course CoveredWorkshops and talks
NeuroDivergence: an Interactive Talk
NeuroDivergence: an Interactive Talk
Typical and atypical presentations of ADHD and autism; living with them from the inside; and supporting someone from the outside, as a teacher, colleague, friend or family member.
For people with a diagnosis, people wondering whether it fits them, family and friends, and professionals who work with neurodivergent people of all ages.
Margate, November 2026Understanding ADHD in the Workplace
Understanding ADHD in the Workplace
Myths and reality about ADHD; the roles of dopamine and noradrenaline; the daily load on executive function; rejection sensitivity; and how colleagues and managers can help.
Given to the mental health first aider team of a large company, 2025Staying Present in Challenging Times
Staying Present in Challenging Times
Staying present with pressure on the mind and intensity in the body. Given online for Talent Insight, the Chinese partner of Team Coaching International.
Online, March 2020Neuroscience and… Seminar Series
Neuroscience and… Seminar Series
Interactive seminars on recent neuroscience and neuropsychology research: Spirituality, Body-Mind, Creativity and Gender Identity. Taken part in live online, or watched later as a recording.
The recordings are free to watch on the Learning page.
Online, 2018Energy Body Awakening Through Yoga
Energy Body Awakening Through Yoga
What the energy body is; how the structure and alignment of yoga poses affect it; how to energise the chakras with yoga asanas; and how energy moves and flows in a yoga practice.
London, run twice in 2017A Neuroscience Perspective for Healers
A Neuroscience Perspective for Healers
An introduction to the brain’s vocabulary, positions and functions; brain balancing; embodied cognition; the amygdala and emotional memory; the somatic marker hypothesis; and a neuroscience approach to higher sense perception. With time for questions and for linking neuroscience and energy healing.
The Hague, 2017Lectures
Lectures on the Body and the Brain
Lectures on the Body and the Brain
Part of a lecture series given between 2018 and 2024, each 1½ to 2 hours.
- Neuroscience for Healers and Therapists
- Embodied Cognition
- Neuroscience of Gender and Sexuality
- Neuroscience of Creativity
- Gene Therapy and Healing of the Heart
- Designing and Evaluating Scientific Research
Mind and Relationship
Modules
Love and Relationship Modules
Love and Relationship Modules
Types of love; the neurochemistry of falling in and out of love; love and addiction; lasting love and the bonding hormones oxytocin and vasopressin; the neuropsychology of gender; why couples begin to talk, act and look alike; and how character patterns develop between partners.
Taught as sessions of about 3 hours within a couples-therapy diploma and a neurosomatic diploma, and as a two-day seminar on relationship.
Workshops and retreats
Creators and Destroyers of Worlds
Creators and Destroyers of Worlds
For therapists, healers, coaches and anyone who wants to live consciously with the selves and worlds they create. Creation and destruction in the universe, in psychological processes and in the cells of the body: black holes, theories of the multiverse, programmed cell death, dissociation and our many selves, with experiential practice.
Berlin, 2020Peace Camp: an Interfaith Retreat
Peace Camp: an Interfaith Retreat
Facing loss, death, anger, fear and life together. Six days and nights in a desert eco-camp of group healing work, non-violent communication circles, systemic and family constellation work, body-mind-spirit meditation and interfaith services morning and night. Open to Palestinian, Israeli and international participants.
Dead Sea region, 2016Shadow Exploration
Shadow Exploration
The shadow as a psychological and cultural phenomenon: shadow inherited from family, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation and nationality; reclaiming parts of yourself such as power, sexuality and abundance; and how to help clients, friends and family with their own shadow.
London, 2015 and 2016Lectures
Lectures on Love and Trauma
Lectures on Love and Trauma
Part of a lecture series given between 2018 and 2024, each 1½ to 2 hours.
- Neuroscience of Love and Relationship
- Characterological Evolution of Love in Relationship
- Sex: What Makes Us Tick
- The Pieces and Puzzle of Trauma Healing
- Ethics for HealersFive ethical dilemmas from practice, seen through the seven main ethical theories. 1½ hours.Watch the recording
Energy and Soul
Diplomas
Diploma in Energy Therapy
Diploma in Energy Therapy
A one-year diploma of embodied exploration of subtle energies: how to perceive and activate energy for therapeutic use, and how to direct it for self-healing and for relational work with others in a talking-therapy setting.
Weekends in London and a three-day retreat in Kent.
What the Course CoveredAdvanced Diploma in Energy Therapy
Advanced Diploma in Energy Therapy
The second year, for graduates of the Diploma, 126 contact hours. Advanced healing techniques and the tracking of subtle energies: trauma energy work, timeline work, working with nature, long-distance work in acute health crises, and relational energy work with couples, families and groups.
Weekends and a five-day retreat.
What the Course CoveredWorkshops and retreats
Ritual Journey: Return and Rise
Ritual Journey: Return and Rise
A ritual journey for a small group, through a day of ceremonies: opening the directions and invoking the ancestors, a mandala, slow walking meditation, inner-animal discovery, a silent mindful meal, a labyrinth walk with a bardo visualisation, breath and stillness, authentic movement, and creative self-reflection. Stewarded by Marcus as an interfaith minister.
Kent, 2018Conscious Living and Dying
Conscious Living and Dying
For therapists, healers, teachers, coaches and those who wish to live and die with their soul wide open. Conscious living through embodiment: day one practises a new kind of embodiment, day two feels it outside and inside the body, and day three works with the body as a veil that dissolves. With the neuroscience of synaesthesia and mirror neurons, simple ritual work and mandala work.
Belfast, 2019On Death and Dying
On Death and Dying
Death midwifery teachings, neuroscience, ceremony and group journey work. For therapists, healers, and those who work and live in the presence of dying.
Kent, 2018 and 2019Lectures
Lectures on Spirit and Consciousness
Lectures on Spirit and Consciousness
Part of a lecture series given between 2018 and 2024, each 1½ to 2 hours.
- Neuroscience and Spirituality
- Neuroscience of Divination
- Spiritual Awakening
- Neuroscience of Birth, Death and Beyond
- Creators and Destroyers of WorldsCreation and destruction in the universe, in psychological processes and in the cells of the body, with experiential practice. 1½ hours.Watch the recording
Each diploma has its own page listing the cohorts that ran.