BMCA Offerings
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Learn about member options and benefits for those interested in BMC®, active students and graduates of SBMC programs.
Those who are certified in BMC® can choose to become Professional Members, which allows them to use the BMC® registered trademark to describe their offerings.
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Join us for the first online international BMCA gathering to be hosted on our new member platform!
Celebrating BMC®: 50 years of Somatic Movement Education
November 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 2024
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Learn about our newest member benefit, an online member-only platform where you can meet, share and explore BMC®-related topics.
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Lisa Ladurantaye, Membership Relations
lisa@bmcassociation.orgJanna Meiring, Development and Communications Coordinator
janna@bmcassociation.orgBMCA Board of Directors
board@bmcassociation.org
New Website in Progress!
We are gradually rebuilding our website content after shutting down our old website in July 2024 after a security breach.
We ask for your patience while we rebuild our website and prepare our new membership and online event platform.
See below for a menu of resources and contacts to get your questions answered.
BMCA
The Body-Mind Centering® Association (BMCA) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the practice, education, and development of Body-Mind Centering®,
a somatic movement education and therapy approach developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.
Our History
BMCA began in 1985 from an intitiative by Ellen Barlow and Sara Vogeler. In subsequent years, it was developed into a professional organization through generous hours of volunteerism and financial contributions
from practitioners and supporters.
BMCA:
provides support and services to its members,
promotes professional development and somatic conferences worldwide,
publishes a quarterly e-newsletter and an annual journal,
provides fiscal agency for somatic research grants for members, and
is the conduit for communciation and dialogue about Body-Mind Centering®.
We are a U.S. based not-for-profit, tax-exempt professional organization. Donations are welcome and deductible to the extent allowable by law.
BMCA values
The following values, grounded in principles of Body-Mind Centering®, help guide all aspects of our organization:
Responsiveness with the current world, acknowledging our history;
Consensus building and collective decision-making;
Staying in relationship - meeting each person where they are and remembering each others’ aliveness and humanity;
Collaboration and competence - sharing work and resources;
Sustainability and self-care;
Participation in the circle/community - remembering the concentric and converging circles, past and present, local and global, that support us and which we support in return;
Supporting each others’ visibility, voice, and right to belong;
Self-awareness, ability and willingness to reflect, to give and receive feedback - utilizing the perceptual-response cycle;
Clear and responsive boundaries;
Transparency and accountability;
Service to and stewardship of the whole.
