Back	is a clinical psychologist and a licenced psychotherapist. He is a pioneer in Finland in body(psycho) therapy, which is mainly based on the theories by Dr. Wilhelm Reich. He has been teaching body psychotherapy, expression, communication, team-work and theatre for professionals in several countries in Europe, former Soviet Union and in Brasil. He has worked for several universities, art schools, theatre academies, private companies like GM and Ericsson etc teaching and supervising in expression, communication and the emotional life of the human body. From 1983 he has had private practice in Helsinki, Finland. He is co-founder and editor of the journal Running Dog - Juokseva koira. Bodypsychotherapy with Markku Välimäki The focus of the workshop is teaching the theory and practice of Bodypsychotherapy which is based on the theories of Wilhelm Reich and exploring the implications of its transmission into different cultures. Through individual and group processes, in small and large group settings, lecture and informal discussions, movement, theatre and voice work a rich and rewarding learning will occur. The goal of the workshop is the enhancement of personal and professional growth with particular emphasis on experiental learning. We expect participiants to actively engage in all phases of the workshop. New learnings and discoveries are based on the participiants degree of personal engagement. One of the main interests in this workshop is to explore the emotional expression in humans, which takes place in the human bodies. The human body carries not only our personal histories but also the histories of our families and our culture in the ways our bodies are formed and how they act. When we start to listen and pay attention to our bodies, the small and big sensations, we can use them as guidelines in our lives. The saying that our bodies know better means literally that the language and expression in our bodies carries deeper understanding of our lifes than the rational thinking. The blocks in the body and character that inhibit the movement of lifeforce are seen as the cause of sicknesses, psychic disorders, depression etc. Both the talking and direct work on the body and with the body through voice-work, movement and expression aims at the same direction, which is to facilitate the moving of the life force. It is the motions and pressures of the muscles which create sensations. Bodypsychotherapy is also a method of re-educating motor responses, a method which emphazis the central role by tactile stimulation in the selection and reinforcement of patterns of muscular activity. New ways of standing, sitting and moving cannot be readily learned until the characteristic tension patterns developed by old habits of movement and posture that is to say the character, the muscular armor are removed, until the muscles in question are less charged with tension.