Mind in Motion

Practitioners learn evocative and instructive assessments, refine hands-on acuity and abilities, and compose effective lessons.

THE TRILOGY consists of three, five, or six-day segments that address, in turn, how to carry out evocative and meaningful evaluations, explore the repertoire of hands-on techniques, refine touching skills, and compose effective and memorable lessons.

THE TRILOGY offers a safe and supportive environment for practitioners who want to:

• Nurture the capacity to understand and respond to problems in the context of patterns.
• Learn an explicit model for observing and understanding movement.
• Cultivate the sensitivity, skills, strategies, and styles of effective touch.
• Refine the ability to recognize and respond to roadblocks, setbacks, & breakdowns.
• Develop the craft of giving memorable and meaningful lessons.

Module 1: BRIDGING THE GAP

How do we present the work in such a way that our students can understand and use what we have to offer? There is, for many of us, a gap between what we do and what we say, between what we do and how we think about it. So that you can help your students comprehend their lessons in practical, concrete ways, BRIDGING THE GAP presents ways of spanning this rift between moving and speaking, doing and explaining. In this segment, you learn SPIFFER—a clear-cut model for observing and understanding movement—and apply it to evaluating students, analyzing ATM lessons, and giving FIs. This model offers an unambiguous understanding of your students’ problems and greater precision in responding effectively to them.

Module 2: INSIDE TOUCH

What makes the Feldenkrais^® touch unique and effective? In this module, we review the basics—including skeletal contact, directional touch, kinesthetic conversation, the listening hand, and tactile tracking—from an advanced perspective. You refine and deepen your ability to connect with students by exploring the strategies, tactics, and techniques that comprise Functional Integration^® lessons. Doing ATM lessons that examine the relationship of the hand and arm to the center, you explore how you engage in touch and consider the influence of your own movement on your effectiveness. All along, we inquire into how touch teaches, delving into the relationship between the ways we make contact and the experiences they evoke.

Module 3: A COURSE OF CHANGE

Why are some lessons so potent that we feel deeply touched and begin to perceive our possibilities and ourselves anew? In this advanced training, we examine the structure and flow of a lesson, investigating how the teacher composes a series of events that engages curiosity and invites the student to learn. You will come to understand and utilize the relationships between meaningful action, global movement patterns, and the biomechanical underpinnings of motion. Considering both ATM and FI, we generate and use a multifaceted model, generalizing from individual lessons to series of lessons. We define different categories of FIs, consider what these categories are good for, and apply them to creating compelling lessons.

Participants in THE TRILOGY do ATM, observe movement, learn and apply relevant concepts, work in small groups, and practice FI. You will have the opportunity to develop a new appreciation of your competence, realize how your teaching approach works (and how it limits you), expand your choices, enhance your sensory acuity, deepen your understanding of the Method, and become a better practitioner. So that each participant can receive personal comments & suggestions in a supportive environment, enrollment is strictly limited.

TESTIMONIALS

"THE TRILOGY lets us get back to the very basis of our learning as Feldenkrais practitioners. It offers a fresh view on what it is that we actually do in ATM and FI. With the SPIFFER structure, what we see becomes clearer and, together with the broad space given for practicing FI, more clarity in touch emerges."
Monika Vogelmann, Physician and Feldenkrais Practitioner, Bad Segeberg/ Germany

"Larry is a teacher who teaches that it is individuals—and not groups—that learn. Thus learning in THE TRILOGY not only takes place on the actual workshop day, but also in the time between the segments. One gets great ideas for one’s own process while having a lot of fun learning!"
Corinna Eikmeier, Cellist, Musician and Feldenkrais Practitioner, Hannover/ Germany

"For me personally, enrolling in The TRILOGY was an important step. But I only discovered this after I had joined the training (after two sessions). Now my work has new quality: I would say much more clarity in how I see and understand the work and teach lessons."
Jacek Paszkowski, Physiotherapist and Feldenkrais Practitioner, Warsow/ Poland

"Larry showed me again with how much ease and fun learning can happen!"
Roswitha Rath, Feldenkrais Practitioner, Graz/ Austria

"Thanks for the different models for guiding the learning process and supporting the communication between practitioners. I have a new, much deeper understanding of the method that is concrete and powerful. It’s exciting to now know that my understanding and skills are going to continue get better and better . . . feels great. I already notice the impact of the 5 days on the ATMs that I gave yesterday and the FIs today – that is amazing, really amazing!
Larry's way of teaching is fun, precise, extremely open and at the same time guided by his past "errors,” that he generously shares. I have become aware of the "things that I'll do wrong" It was especially great in the second segment to use simple "well-known" moves in FI as a way to move towards a deeper appreciation of technique, simpler & more efficient self-use, and to improve the quality of the dialogue between practitioner and student."
Lynn Bullock, Feldenkrais Practitioner, Paris/ France

Please see our Calendar for the dates, times and locations that THE TRILOGY is offered.

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