THURSDAY - AUGUST 30

7:00am-8:30am

Check-in Loaned Equipment [Details]

7:30am-8:30am

Check-in For Symposium Attendees (both days) [Details]

8:30am-12:15pm

SYM1: Esther Thelen Memorial Lecture: Ecology and Dynamics of Movement Development [Details]
SYM2: What’s Special About Human Brains? [Details]

9:00am-11:30am

Concierge & Registration Desks Open [Details]

12:15pm-1:45pm

Lunch for Symposium attendees [Details]

12:30pm-2:00pm

Bookstore [Details]

1:45pm-5:30pm

SYM3: An Alternative View on Neurological Recovery and Rehabilitation: Learning to Use the Arm Again After Stroke [Details]
SYM4: Through the Lens of Development: Order and Disorder in Action [Details]

3:15pm-5:15pm

Concierge & Registration Desks Open [Details]

5:30pm-6:30pm

2012 Esther Thelen Symposium Networking & Reception [Details]

5:30pm-7:30pm

Bookstore [Details]

FRIDAY - AUGUST 31

7:30am-8:30am

Check-in For Symposium Attendees (both days) [Details]

8:00am-10:00am

Bookstore [Details]

8:30am-12:15pm

SYM5: Keeping Body Awareness in Mind: Top-Down Modulation of Sensorimotor Brain Rhythms as a Therapeutic Mechanism [Details]
SYM6: Researching Body Awareness [Details]

9:00am-2:30pm

Concierge & Registration Desks open [Details]

12:15pm-1:45pm

Lunch for Symposium attendees [Details]

12:30pm-2:00pm

Bookstore [Details]

1:45pm-5:30pm

SYM7: You Are Not Your Brain [Details]

3:15pm-7:15pm

Check out a mat to use during conference [Details]
Check-in Loaned Equipment [Details]
Concierge & Registration Desks open (Pick up Nametag for Keynote) [Details]

5:30pm-7:30pm

Bookstore [Details]

7:30pm-9:00pm

KEYNOTE On the Path to Integrated Recoveries: Brain Plasticity Bases of the Development and Restoration of Impaired Brain Systems [Details]

8:30pm-9:30pm

Bookstore [Details]

9:00pm-10:00pm

Keynote Reception [Details]

SATURDAY - SEPTEMBER 01

8:00am-11:30am

Concierge & Registration Desk Open [Details]

8:15am-9:15am

Track 1: Creating the Conditions for Learning
Jeff Haller, PhD (1983) [Details]
Track 2: Tilting your Legs in the Wrong Direction
Lawrence Goldfarb, PhD (1983), Anastasi Siotas (1997) [Details]
Track 3: Let’s Twist Again (Like we did Last Summer)
Stephen Rosenholtz, PhD (1983) [Details]
Track 4: Perceptive Seeing
Ellen Soloway (1983) [Details]
Track 6: How Many Times can you Lift the Pelvis and Feel Something New?
Details]

9:00am-10:00am

Bookstore [Details]

10:00am-12:30pm

S1: Too Strange To Be Believed: The Foundations of Reversibility- Closed
Details]
S2: Fostering Fluency-Closed
Lawrence Goldfarb, PhD (1983) [Details]
S3: A View from the Beginning
Sheryl Lynn Field (1983) [Details]
S4: A Picture Worth a Thousand Words- Closed
M. Candace Conino (1996) [Details]
S5: A Hip Conversation
Kathy James (1983) [Details]
S6: The River of Integration: The Science of Interpersonal Neurobiology in Awareness Through Movement® and Functional Integration® Lessons- Closed
Donna Ray, MA, MFT (1986) [Details]

12:00pm-2:30pm

Bookstore [Details]

12:30pm-2:00pm

Lunch: Annual Meeting (FGNA 2012 Members Only) [Details]

1:30pm-3:30pm

Concierge & Registration Desk Open [Details]

2:30pm-5:00pm

S1: Too Strange To Be Believed: The Foundations of Reversibility- Closed
Details]
S2: Fostering Fluency-Closed
Lawrence Goldfarb, PhD (1983) [Details]
S3: A View from the Beginning
Sheryl Lynn Field (1983) [Details]
S4: A Picture Worth a Thousand Words- Closed
M. Candace Conino (1996) [Details]
S5: A Hip Conversation
Kathy James (1983) [Details]
S6: The River of Integration: The Science of Interpersonal Neurobiology in Awareness Through Movement® and Functional Integration® Lessons- Closed
Donna Ray, MA, MFT (1986) [Details]

5:00pm-6:00pm

Book signing - Alva Noë, PhD [Details]
Concierege & Registration Desk Open [Details]

5:00pm-6:30pm

Bookstore [Details]

5:15pm-6:00pm

Memorial Gathering [Details]

SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 02

8:00am-11:30am

Concierge & Registration Desk Open [Details]

8:15am-9:15am

Track 1: Creating the Conditions for Learning
Jeff Haller, PhD (1983) [Details]
Track 2: Tilting your Legs in the Wrong Direction
Lawrence Goldfarb, PhD (1983), Anastasi Siotas (1997) [Details]
Track 3: Let’s Twist Again (Like we did Last Summer)
Stephen Rosenholtz, PhD (1983) [Details]
Track 4: Perceptive Seeing
Ellen Soloway (1983) [Details]
Track 6: Stretching the Arms Overhead
Kathy James (1983) [Details]

9:00am-10:00am

Bookstore [Details]

10:00am-12:30pm

Su1: Maintaining Mobility: The Feldenkrais Method® and Multiple Sclerosis
Susan Dillon (1998), Beth Rubenstein, MS, PT (1991) [Details]
Su2: Deepening our Somatic Dialogue: Shaping Actions into Behavior-Closed
Sonja Sutherland (1997) [Details]
Su3: Thinking and Sensing: Motor Learning Theories and the Feldenkrais Method®-Closed
Details]
Su4: The Intelligence of Moving Bodies-Closed
Carl Ginsburg, PhD (1977), Lucia Schuette-Ginsburg (1994) [Details]
Su5: Updating the Self-Image
Cliff Smyth, MS (1991) [Details]
Su6: Neuroplasticity - What Have You Done for Me Lately?
Frank Wildman, GCFT, PhD (1977) [Details]
Su7: Working in the Gravitational Field-Closed
Julie Casson Rubin (1977) [Details]

12:00pm-2:30pm

Bookstore [Details]

12:30pm-2:00pm

Lunch: Region Lunches (FGNA 2012 Members Only) [Details]

1:30pm-3:30pm

Concierge & Registration Desk Open [Details]

2:30pm-5:00pm

Su1: Maintaining Mobility: The Feldenkrais Method® and Multiple Sclerosis
Susan Dillon (1998), Beth Rubenstein, MS, PT (1991) [Details]
Su2: Deepening our Somatic Dialogue: Shaping Actions into Behavior-Closed
Sonja Sutherland (1997) [Details]
Su3: Thinking and Sensing: Motor Learning Theories and the Feldenkrais Method®-Closed
Details]
Su4: The Intelligence of Moving Bodies-Closed
Carl Ginsburg, PhD (1977), Lucia Schuette-Ginsburg (1994) [Details]
Su5: Updating the Self-Image
Cliff Smyth, MS (1991) [Details]
Su6: Neuroplasticity - What Have You Done for Me Lately?
Frank Wildman, GCFT, PhD (1977) [Details]
Su7: Working in the Gravitational Field-Closed
Julie Casson Rubin (1977) [Details]

5:00pm-6:00pm

Concierege & Registration Desk Open [Details]

5:00pm-6:30pm

Bookstore [Details]

5:15pm-6:00pm

Where is that @(%!# ATM®? [Details]

MONDAY - SEPTEMBER 03

8:00am-11:30am

Concierge & Registration Desk Open [Details]

8:15am-9:15am

Track 1: Creating the Conditions for Learning
Jeff Haller, PhD (1983) [Details]
Track 2: Tilting your Legs in the Wrong Direction
Lawrence Goldfarb, PhD (1983), Anastasi Siotas (1997) [Details]
Track 3: Let’s Twist Again (Like we did Last Summer)
Stephen Rosenholtz, PhD (1983) [Details]
Track 4: Perceptive Seeing
Ellen Soloway (1983) [Details]
Track 6: The Secret Lesson that Remains Unknown
Frank Wildman, GCFT, PhD (1977) [Details]

9:00am-10:00am

Bookstore [Details]

10:00am-1:00pm

M1: Public Workshop: Continual Improvement
Stephen Rosenholtz, PhD (1983) [Details]
M2: Research Mentoring Workshop
Pat Buchanan, PhD, ATC, PT (1996), Jim Stephens, PhD, PT, GCFP (1987) [Details]
M3: Mentoring Workshop: Get the Practice You Want Without Selling Your Soul
Allison Rapp (1977) [Details]
M4: Mentoring Workshop: Making Contact-Closed
Kathryn Goldman Schuyler, PhD (1983) [Details]
M5: Mentoring Workshop: Learning to Understand and Trust What We Are Doing in Functional Integration® Lessons
Phyllis G. Friedman (1993) [Details]
SmallGroupMentoring01: Developing Internal Strength by Improving Self-Organization-Closed
Jeff Haller, PhD (1983) [Details]
SmallGroupMentoring02: Self-Use and Efficacy-Closed
Lawrence Goldfarb, PhD (1983) [Details]
SmallGroupMentoring03: Our Adaptable Foot: The Structure and Function of 26 Bones and 33 Joints-Closed
Anastasi Siotas (1997) [Details]
SmallGroupMentoring04: Open Coaching on Client and Practice Questions-Closed
Dwight Pargee, MS (1996) [Details]
SmallGroupMentoring05: Working with Spasticity-Closed
Julie Francis (1994) [Details]
SmallGroupMentoring06: Utilizing Childhood Developmental Patterns-Closed
Ellen Soloway (1983) [Details]
SmallGroupMentoring07: Working With Children With Special Needs-Closed
Elinor Silverstein (1983) [Details]
SmallGroupMentoring08: Creating Take-Aways: Mini-Lessons Your Clients Can Do at Home-Closed
M. Candace Conino (1996) [Details]
SmallGroupMentoring09: Connecting More Fully with Your Client and Yourself-Closed
Ralph Strauch, PhD (1983) [Details]
SmallGroupMentoring10: Emphasizing ‘Function’ in Functional Integration® Lessons-Closed
Donna Ray, MA, MFT (1986) [Details]
SmallGroupMentoring11: Working with Older Adults: Improving Stability in Sitting, Standing and Walking (CLOSED)
Mary Spire (1987) [Details]
SmallGroupMentoring12: Using the Language of Neuroscience to Promote the Feldenkrais Method® to Educational Systems
Catherine Rosasco-Mitchell (1987) [Details]
SmallGroupMentoring13: Integrating the Feldenkrais Method® into a Physical Therapy Practice
Stacy Barrows, PT, GCFP (1994) [Details]

12:30pm-5:30pm

Concierge & Registration Desk Open [Details]

1:00pm-2:30pm

Bookstore [Details]

2:00pm-5:00pm

Public Day: Experience the Feldenkrais Method® [Details]

2:30pm-5:00pm

Free time to explore the San Francisco Bay Area [Details]
Trainer and Assistant Trainer Collegial Colloquium
Deborah J. Bowes, PT, DPT (1987) [Details]

TUESDAY - SEPTEMBER 04

8:00am-11:30am

Concierge & Registration Desk Open [Details]

8:15am-9:15am

Track 1: Creating the Conditions for Learning
Jeff Haller, PhD (1983) [Details]
Track 2: Tilting your Legs in the Wrong Direction
Lawrence Goldfarb, PhD (1983), Anastasi Siotas (1997) [Details]
Track 3: Let’s Twist Again (Like we did Last Summer)
Stephen Rosenholtz, PhD (1983) [Details]
Track 4: Perceptive Seeing
Ellen Soloway (1983) [Details]
Track 6: Side-lying Arm to Ceiling
Bonnie Rich Humiston, MS (1977) [Details]

9:00am-10:00am

Bookstore [Details]

10:00am-12:30pm

T1: Getting Precise with our Complex Brains
Dav Clark (2008), Dwight Pargee, MS (1996) [Details]
T2: Controlling Personal Space in the Changing Environment Using an Imaginary Ball
Details]
T3: Engaging with Self and others: The Feldenkrais Method® and the Social Engagement System
Alice Friedman, MA (1987) [Details]
T4: Mining the Functional Integration® Gold in the San Francisco Evening Lessons
Allison Rapp (1977) [Details]
T5: Merging Nervous Systems in Functional Integration® Lessons [Details]
T6: Shared Experience and the Neuroscience of Empathy
Deborah J. Bowes, PT, DPT (1987), Hillel Braude (2013) [Details]

12:00pm-2:30pm

Bookstore [Details]

12:30pm-2:00pm

Lunch: Trainers & Assistant Trainers [Details]

12:30pm-2:30pm

Concierge & Registration Desk Open [Details]

2:30pm-5:00pm

T1: Getting Precise with our Complex Brains
Dav Clark (2008), Dwight Pargee, MS (1996) [Details]
T2: Controlling Personal Space in the Changing Environment Using an Imaginary Ball
Details]
T3: Engaging with Self and others: The Feldenkrais Method® and the Social Engagement System
Alice Friedman, MA (1987) [Details]
T4: Mining the Functional Integration® Gold in the San Francisco Evening Lessons
Allison Rapp (1977) [Details]
T5: Merging Nervous Systems in Functional Integration® Lessons [Details]
T6: Shared Experience and the Neuroscience of Empathy
Deborah J. Bowes, PT, DPT (1987), Hillel Braude (2013) [Details]

5:00pm-6:00pm

Concierge & Registration Desk Open [Details]

5:00pm-6:30pm

Bookstore [Details]

7:30pm-10:00pm

Dymaxion Dance Performance and Party [Details]

WEDNESDAY - SEPTEMBER 05

8:00am-11:30am

Concierge & Registration Desk Open [Details]

8:15am-9:15am

Track 1: Creating the Conditions for Learning
Jeff Haller, PhD (1983) [Details]
Track 2: Tilting your Legs in the Wrong Direction
Lawrence Goldfarb, PhD (1983), Anastasi Siotas (1997) [Details]
Track 3: Let’s Twist Again (Like we did Last Summer)
Stephen Rosenholtz, PhD (1983) [Details]
Track 4: Perceptive Seeing
Ellen Soloway (1983) [Details]
Track 6: Old Classic, New Perspectives: the Pelvic Clock and the Movements of Life
Roger Russell, MA (1977) [Details]

9:00am-10:00am

Bookstore [Details]

10:00am-12:30pm

W1: The Dynamics of Body Image
Details]
W2: Attention, Breath, Sensation...The Tools of our Trade
Arlyn Zones, MA (1983) [Details]
W3: The Feldenkrais Method®: Neuroplasticity and Working with Parkinson's Disease-Closed
Ernie Adams (1993) [Details]
W4: Filming Your Practice the Feldenkrais® Way
Linda Flanders (1991) [Details]
W5: Improve Your Teaching Voice: Insights From Neuroscience on Receptivity, Self-Awareness, and Learning-Closed
MaryBeth Smith, MM (2004) [Details]
W6: Overcoming Obstacles: The Metaphoric Headstand
Jeff Haller, PhD (1983) [Details]

12:00pm-2:30pm

Bookstore-Final Hours [Details]

12:30pm-2:00pm

Lunch: Guild Forum (FGNA 2012 Members Only) [Details]

2:30pm-5:00pm

W1: The Dynamics of Body Image
Details]
W2: Attention, Breath, Sensation...The Tools of our Trade
Arlyn Zones, MA (1983) [Details]
W3: The Feldenkrais Method®: Neuroplasticity and Working with Parkinson's Disease-Closed
Ernie Adams (1993) [Details]
W4: Filming Your Practice the Feldenkrais® Way
Linda Flanders (1991) [Details]
W5: Improve Your Teaching Voice: Insights From Neuroscience on Receptivity, Self-Awareness, and Learning-Closed
MaryBeth Smith, MM (2004) [Details]
W6: Overcoming Obstacles: The Metaphoric Headstand
Jeff Haller, PhD (1983) [Details]

5:00pm-6:00pm

Concierge Desk Only [Details]
Return your mat [Details]

5:15pm-6:00pm

Closing Circle [Details]

5:30pm-6:00pm

Pick up your loaned Equipment [Details]