David Kirk-Campbell, f. 1942
Aut. Advanced Rolfer®
Godthåbsvej 4-6, 2000 Frederiksberg
Tlf: 48485759
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The physical work of Rolfing is an invitation for a person to fulfill their potential.
Rolfing is a team work between the Rolfer and the client. I bring my expertise for seeing the holding patterns in the posture of your body and decide where to work. I bring the sensitivity of my touch to find the layer of your connective tissue that is ready to release. You focus your active awareness into where we are working, sometimes with breathing and sometimes with slow stretching movements.
For most of us there is an increasing amount of stress in our daily lives. Stress has the effect of tightening our muscles and connective tissue. When stress continues over years, it can be compared to tuning a cello string tighter and tighter. From our head to our toes the strings (muscles and connective tissue) of our body get tighter, shorter, and gradually our head and neck are pulled closer to our pelvis. As a result, our back bends and curves.
Rolfing releases this shortness coming from stress and invites a person to stand and move with length and the fullness of one's potential.
In this context, over the years, I have learned that the physical changes of Rolfing rest more comfortably and permanently in the body when the client identifies stress factors in their daily life and identifies how they want to change their daily life.
Rolfing can reduce the effects of stress – giving length and fullness to your body. It is only the client that can change their life to reduce the stress of their daily life.
Rolfer and client are on the same team. Each with their own responsibility, working for the shared goal of fulfilling the client's potential.
I speak Danish with most of my clients.
Curriculum Vitae:
University Education
1959-64 Oberlin College, Ohio, USA. Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Philosophy. Alfred P. Sloan Scholar for four years.
1968-70 Rhode Island School of Design, USA. Master of Fine Arts in Photography Specialized Education
Specialized Education
1970-72 Group Relations On-Going Workshop, New York, New York, USA
1970-71 Certified Basic Rolfing Training with Ida P. Rolf, Boulder, Colorado, USA
1973 Advanced Rolfing Training with Ida P. Rolf, San Francisco, USA
1975-78 Gestalt Therapy training with the Foundation for Mental Health, Westchester, New York, USA
1978-79 Supervision of individual psychotherapy sessions weekly from audio tape, with Helmut Harsch, Frankfurt, Germany
1981-83 a. Psychotherapy training weeks with Richard Erskine, New York, USA b. Psychotherapy training weekends with Dr. Richard Abill, N. Y., USA
1981-85 Training and psychotherapy in group context with Al Pesso, of Pesso Psychomotor, New Hampshire, USA
1988-91 Psychotherapy supervision/training group with Dr. Roslyn Wallace, New York, N. Y., USA
Work (including training and supervision when relevant)
1963 Counselor at Bellefaire Residential Treatment Center of the Jewish Children’s Bureau, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Weekly case conferences and supervision with Dr. Fritz Mayer.
1965-67 Chicago State Mental Hospital, training program in Client Centered Psychotherapy as a Mental Health Worker with Marjorie Felder, half a day of training and half a day of work with weekly supervision.
1970-72 Long Island University, N. Y., USA. Instructor of Photography
1973- Private practice in Rolfing in New York City, Frankfurt, Berlin, Copenhagen
1973-75 Rolfing supervision with Owen James & Rosemary Feitis
1979- Private practice in Gestalt Psychotherapy New York City, Frankfurt, Berlin, Copenhagen
1985- Private practice in Touching Dialogue in New York City, Copenhagen
1980-90 Taught body reading, Rolfing and Gestalt ideas to therapists and trainees in Berlin & Frankfurt, Germany; Copenhagen and Odder, Denmark; London, England; New York City and Boston, USA, Durban, S. Africa. Travelling 3 months a year while keeping practice going in NYC.
1985-88 Taught a three year professional training for Touching Dialogue Therapists in Berlin.
1985-90 Guest teacher for Gestaltterapeutisk Institut, Denmark
1992- Permanent teacher for Gestaltterapeutisk Institiut, Copenhagen, Denmark
1993-2008 Former Co-leader and co-owner of Gestaltterapeutisk Institut, Denmark
2000- Certified as a mentor in the Rolfing education system
Individual therapy
1965-68 Psychoanalysis 2 x weekly with Dr. David Dean Brockman, Chicago, USA
1971-73 Gestalt Psychotherapy 1 x weekly with Jean Drake, New York, N. Y., USA
1975-76 Gestalt Psychotherapy 1 x weekly with George Kandle, Westchester, N. Y., USA
1981-83 Group psychotherapy 1 x weekly with Dr. Richard Abill, NY., NY. USA
1985-86 Jungian psychotherapy 1 x weekly with Dr. Wolfgang Hochheimer, Berlin
1986-87 Jungian psychotherapy 1 x weekly with Dr. Christopher Whitmont, New York, N. Y., USA
1988-91 Gestalt body centered psychotherapy 1 x weekly with Dr. Roslyn Wallace, N.Y. N. Y. USA
International Congress Participation
1977 Presenter at I. T. A. A. Congress, Zeefeld, Austria
1981 Presenter at I. T. A. A. Congress Toronto, Canada
1983 Presenter at I. T. A. A. Congress, Switzerland
1991 Participant at Milton Erickson Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
2001 Participant at E.A.G.T. Conference, Stockholm
Publications
1989 Author of book, Touching Dialogue-a somatic psychotherapy for self-realization. In Hand Books. 1989
Membership in professional organizations
1973- Rolf Institute
1999- European Association of Gestalt Therapy
2003- European Certificate of Psychotherapy through the European
Association of Psychotherapy
2003- Psykoterapeut Foreningen af Danmark
Languages
English – as my first language
Danish – fluent with spoken language, weak with reading and writing
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