SUNDAY - AUGUST 02 | |
8:30am-9:45am | Morning Awareness Through Movement Class with Allison Rapp |
10am-12:30pm | S1: Learning How Babies and Children Learn |
2:30pm-5pm | S2: The Effective Voice: Teaching from a Feldenkrais Method® Perspective |
MONDAY - AUGUST 03 | |
8:30am-9:45am | Morning Awareness Through Movement® Class with Donna Blank |
10am-12:30pm | M1: Learning How Babies and Children Learn |
2:30pm-5pm | M2: The Ability To Reason: Learning For the 21st Century |
7:30pm | A Pictorial Biography of Moshe Feldenkrais [Details] |
TUESDAY - AUGUST 04 | |
8:30am-9:45am | Morning Awareness Through Movement® Class with Mia Segal |
WEDNESDAY - AUGUST 05 | |
8:30am-9:45am | Morning Awareness Through Movement® Class with Donna Ray |
10am-12:30pm | W1: Awareness Through Movement® and Awareness Through Stillness |
2:30pm-5pm | W1: Awareness Through Movement® and Awareness Through Stillness |
THURSDAY - AUGUST 06 | |
8:30am-9:45am | Morning Awareness Through Movement® Class with Russell Delman |
10am-12:30pm | H1: Neural Moonlighting: Snooze Your Way to Better Memory, Learning, and Motor Skills |
2:30pm-5pm | H1: Neural Moonlighting: Snooze Your Way to Better Memory, Learning, and Motor Skills |
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S1: Learning How Babies and Children Learn
It is impossible to experience the developmental movements of infants and children and be untouched by curiosity, discovery, play, frustration, mastery, and more. Intellectual, sensory, and practical experiences including an Awareness Through Movement lesson, lecture, and demonstration of a hands-on Functional Integration lesson, will deepen your appreciation of learning how to learn through movement. Broaden your understanding of the Feldenkrais Method® and learn how to apply this understanding to interacting and working with babies and children. We will learn together, co-regulating as a dynamic system, expanding awareness, and deepening our knowledge of human behavior.
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S2: The Effective Voice: Teaching from a Feldenkrais Method® Perspective We are all voice professionals, utilizing our voice for effective communication. Every act of organizing ourselves to stand, sit, move, and be directly impacts the voice. In fact, the quality, timbre and tone of our voice conveys far more than words. Becoming a more powerful, dynamic vocal communicator requires learning to organize ourselves not only for action, but with the intention to communicate. This workshop will explore vocal production through the lens of the Feldenkrais Method. Participants will learn to work with their own voice, as well as their clients’ vocal needs through Awareness Through Movement® and Functional Integration® lessons.
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SM2: Esther Thelen’s Legacy: Applying the Relationships and Processes of Research to the Feldenkrais Method® Feldenkrais Method practitioners began an exciting dialogue with developmental scientist Esther Thelen after reading her book “A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action.” This workshop continues that exchange to construct a stronger research infrastructure benefiting clients, practitioners and researchers. Video stories of Esther’s research will launch discussions and Awareness Through Movement® lessons regarding her elegant experiments, the research process, and developmental theory. We will identify assumptions underlying practitioners’ interactions with their students, translate relevant research geek speak, and share resources for supporting research. We will unearth roots of a theoretical foundation and identify testable research questions.
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M1: Learning How Babies and Children Learn
It is impossible to experience the developmental movements of infants and children and be untouched by curiosity, discovery, play, frustration, mastery, and more. Intellectual, sensory, and practical experiences including an Awareness Through Movement lesson, lecture, and demonstration of a hands-on Functional Integration lesson, will deepen your appreciation of learning how to learn through movement. Broaden your understanding of the Feldenkrais Method and learn how to apply this understanding to interacting and working with babies and children. We will learn together, co-regulating as a dynamic system, expanding awareness, and deepening our knowledge of human behavior.
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M2: The Ability To Reason: Learning For the 21st Century Classical education relies heavily on verbal and auditory learning. Many students are not willing to follow, or do not understand, verbal instructions. How can we teach atypical learners self-awareness and cognitive thinking skills? This workshop takes you through a class designed to teach Feldenkrais® principles of thinking and doing through clay, art-based lessons and use of the imagination. You will learn “another way” to understand Feldenkrais principles of flexible thinking that can be used in school, after school programs, or students who need help learning cognitive skills. This approach has been used effectively in public schools and special needs programs. This class has been taught for 2.5 years for a Court Services youth diversion program with a 91% non-recidivism rate. Awareness Through Movement® lessons will enhance the learning experience. Curriculum is available.
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SM2: Esther Thelen’s Legacy: Applying the Relationships and Processes of Research to the Feldenkrais Method® Feldenkrais Method practitioners began an exciting dialogue with developmental scientist Esther Thelen after reading her book “A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action.” This workshop continues that exchange to construct a stronger research infrastructure benefiting clients, practitioners and researchers. Video stories of Esther’s research will launch discussions and Awareness Through Movement® lessons regarding her elegant experiments, the research process, and developmental theory. We will identify assumptions underlying practitioners’ interactions with their students, translate relevant research geek speak, and share resources for supporting research. We will unearth roots of a theoretical foundation and identify testable research questions.
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W1: Awareness Through Movement® and Awareness Through Stillness Many people think of Awareness Through Movement as a moving meditation. While this is accurate in colloquial/loose terminology, there are important differences between the two. This seminar will explore “Embodied Meditation” and its relationship to ATM. The Feldenkrais Method® has much to offer meditation practitioners in terms of comfort in sitting and as well as organizing the attention AND there is an approach to meditation that deepens our understanding of our method. This seminar is for meditators, those wanting to learn to meditate and those who would like to work effectively with people who meditate. Awareness Through Movement lessons, meditation and discussion will be our main practices. Chairs will be available.
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W2: Power Learning: The Feldenkrais Method® in the Classroom Instantaneous learning - how does it happen? What are the conditions that allow for a child to be in the “Academic Zone” - where learning is fun and easy? Power Learning utilizes Feldenkrais Method concepts of variation, differentiation, and quality of movement, to improve student performance. Now you can learn how to enhance student learning with just a few easy steps. Whether you are a practitioner, a teacher or a parent, you will enjoy Awareness Through Movement® lessons with a child-oriented twist, and discover how integrating these ideas and strategies into academic activities can improve performance, enjoyment, and satisfaction of learning
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W3: Integrating Tellington TTouch® into your Professional Practice and Everyday Life
TTouch is a gentle method of touch which activates the healing potential of the body at the cellular level through very specific and simple ways of touching.
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H1: Neural Moonlighting: Snooze Your Way to Better Memory, Learning, and Motor Skills According to the new science of “sleep dependent learning,” knowledge and skills we acquire during waking are consolidated in the brain during subsequent sleep, leading to significant enhancements in learning, memory,and motor skills. Sleep also enables certain neural processes essential for insight, intuition, and creative problem solving. These findings have profound consequences for somatic education and for learning in general. This workshop will demonstrate how an integrated program of daytime and bedtime Awareness Through Movement® lessons can be employed specifically to enhance learning, memory, and creativity, as well as the quality of your nightly sleep.
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H2: 1 mm: The Difference Between the Impossible and the Possible What do you do when you find things difficult? When you want to learn something new? When you want to change something within yourself...about yourself? It’s common to struggle. But what if I told you that it is only a small fraction of difference between what you are doing now, and what you want to achieve? The key is within the first millimeter of movement. In this workshop, we tap into our inherent intelligence and teach you to feel how the start of the movement determines the direction of all that follows and our ability to achieve our dreams.
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H3: Creative Learning through Movement with Children How do we make learning effective, exciting, personal and fun? How do we create curriculum that is functionally oriented rather than fact driven - engaging the learners in a dynamic process in which they absorb understanding, instead of memorizing material? Through Awareness Through Movement® lessons, discussions, and movement explorations, we will engage in our own creative process to discover how we can spark curiosity, foster creativity, enhance self-image, and create life-long learning. In the spirit of experiential education, a group of children will visit our workshop as we experience with them “Creative Learning through Movement.”
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7:30pm |
A Pictorial Biography of Moshe Feldenkrais Take a behind-the-scenes look at Moshe Feldenkrais’ life with Mia Segal—Moshe’s first assistant and lifetime friend. A remarkable collection of slides, some belonging to the IFF archive of Moshe Feldenkrais and some belonging to the Segal family, will serve as the springboard for Mia’s recollections of her life with Moshe after he returned to Israel in 1955 when, for the first time, he made his living solely by teaching his Method.
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Pat Buchanan, PhD (1996) is a Feldenkrais® teacher, certified athletic trainer, physical therapist, and associate professor at Des Moines University in Iowa. From a dynamic systems perspective on development, she uses biomechanical, strength, and observational methods to evaluate motor behavior and the effects of interventions targeting improved movement and awareness.
Russell Delman (1977) has been a trainer since 1984 and has helped train more than 2500 practitioners around the world. His main interest is exploring embodied awareness as an evolutionary path for humanity. He integrates study of the Feldenkrais Method with more than 35 years of Zen meditation and somatic psychology into seminars called “The Embodied Life”.
W1: Awareness Through Movement® and Awareness Through Stillness
Linda Flanders (1991) is a Feldenkrais practitioner and Youth Program Developer, specializing in education through the Media Arts. She has a degree in Criminal Justice and is an independent educational videographer. Linda is a published author and national conference presenter on working with atypical behavior; focusing on at-risk students through multimedia prevention and diversion programs.
Marina Gilman (1996) is a singer, licensed speech/language pathologist and voice trainer and also maintains an active Feldenkrais® practice. She has presented workshops for actors and singers in professional theater and opera companies, university theater and voice departments. Ms. Gilman has served on the North American Training Accreditation Board for the past 8 years.
S2: The Effective Voice: Teaching from a Feldenkrais Method® Perspective
Michael Krugman (1987) is the founder of the Sounder Sleep System® and trains somatic sleep educators worldwide. He is the author of The Insomnia Solution (Grand Central Books 2005) and has been featured in Fortune, Fast Company, Smart Money, and other publications. Please visit http://www.soundersleep.com for further information.
H1: Neural Moonlighting: Snooze Your Way to Better Memory, Learning, and Motor Skills
Donna Ray, MA (1986), Feldenkrais® trainer, works with children of all ages and abilities. She teaches Awareness Through Movement® in preschools, elementary schools, and special learning centers. Her collaborations include research with Dr. Alan Fogel and co-teaching with Dr. Esther Thelen for the professional training of pediatric physical therapists. Donna’s early practice was strongly influenced by Mark Reese, PhD.
M1: Learning How Babies and Children Learn
S1: Learning How Babies and Children Learn
Beth Sidlow Mann, (1997), GCFP and Assistant Trainer, is the owner of Movement Improvement, a private practice in Campbell, CA. Her specialty is working with children and adults with pain and neurological disorders, as well as those wishing to improve performance in sports, academics, and the arts.
W2: Power Learning: The Feldenkrais Method® in the Classroom
Jim Stephens, PhD, PT (1987) is Chair of the FEFNA Research Committee, has a PhD in Neuroscience, was on the physical therapy faculties at Temple and Widener Universities, and has an independent Feldenkrais practice. He has published peer-reviewed research about Feldenkrais Method, recently in Physical Therapy in 2006, and another soon in Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy.
Sonja H. Sutherland (1997) holds a Masters in Choreography and Dance Education, a black belt in Aikido and studies Formative Psychology extensively. For over 11 years, she has developed and taught “Creative Learning Through Movement” curriculum at an elementary school. She also maintains a private Feldenkrais® practice with children, adults and seniors in Berkeley.
Linda Tellington-Jones (1977) studied with Dr. Feldenkrais and graduated in his first North American training at the Humanistic Psychology Institute in San Francisco. An avid horsewoman, she found wide acclaim in the horse and animal communities internationally. Linda’s work is widely known in both the veterinary and human medical world. Research is currently being conducted for TTouch for humans and other animals.
W3: Integrating Tellington TTouch® into your Professional Practice and Everyday Life
For those who have an email address and can pay via credit card, registration is available online at:
http://www.feldenkrais.com/events/conference/2009/register/
If you do not have a credit card and need to pay via other means, request a printable registration form via email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or by phone call to Lynn Ford at 800.775.2118 ext 125. Printable forms will be available after 4/15/2009.