Rubenfeld Synergy Training - Personal Wisdom

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Individuals from four different walks of life share how RSM has improved their lives and touched their souls in meaningful ways.

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Chris, a pediatric physical therapist transforms herself, her patients and her career by bringing her Rubenfeld Synergy Training skills to her work and her life.

“My training in physical therapy taught me the skills of “doing” specific manual techniques. The Rubenfeld Synergy Training program expanded how I am, “being and doing” as a whole person. All of me, light and shadow, unique and ordinary is welcomed as a source for both inner discovery and in assisting another’s journey.”

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Chris’s Story ↓

Early on in my career as a pediatric physical therapist I realized the importance of emotions and listening, particularly when treating infants and children with significant developmental difficulties. I attended many classes to improve my listening skills and the parents and the children I treated benefited from my ability to empathize. However, it was not until I entered the Rubenfeld Synergy Training program that I began to experience the depth of listening, empathy and compassion that was possible. I discovered that deep listening to a person’s body, mind, emotion and spirit was transformative. Practicing the skills I learned in the training released me from a “fix them” paradigm and allowed me to focus on how my patients experienced their world rather then how I thought they should. Through RSM I learned to live in a place of compassion for myself and others which helped ease my hold on all the “shoulds” that limited my thinking and behavior.

An awareness of touch

Practically, the Rubenfeld Synergy Method Training transformed my physical therapy clinical practice and my career. Loosening my own judgments allowed others to share with greater freedom and honesty. I could then offer them a softer view and in partnership we could explore what was possible. In one example, I was working with an infant with cerebral palsy. I had shown her mother how she could position her daughter to help with the child’s flexibility but the mother, as is common, was unable to achieve the same effect. I had once thought this difficulty stemmed from lack of practice. After going through the RSM training, I considered how emotions stored as tensions affected the quality of contact the mother was making with her child. I invited her to notice her body and explore what it was saying. The mother discovered that the grief held in her body affected how she moved her daughter. With this awareness the mother was able to shift her touch and her baby responded with greater ease.

Rubenfeld at work

I now work part-time in private practice as a Rubenfeld Synergist and as a clinic supervisor of over thirty therapists in a school for children with disabilities. I offer each practice the skills I developed in the Rubenfeld Synergy Training program. I touch others, literally and metaphorically to encourage a deeper connection with their wisdom and truth. My ability to listen to the whole person has assisted parents to navigate through difficult waters of school districts, doctors and other therapeutic issues. My ability to be peacefully present offers staff and management a friendly place to find mutual ground. The ability to be in awareness of my relationship to myself and others is gently supported through the excellence of the RSM mentors and is an invaluable aspect of the program.