FRIDAY - JULY 31

10am-12:30pm

P1: Revivify! Plot the Course of your Professional Future
M. Candace Conino (1996), Dwight Pargee, MS (1996), Keith Johnson (1997) [Details]

2:30pm-5pm

P1: Revivify! Plot the Course of your Professional Future
M. Candace Conino (1996), Dwight Pargee, MS (1996), Keith Johnson (1997) [Details]

SATURDAY - AUGUST 01

10am-12:30pm

P1: Revivify! Plot the Course of your Professional Future
M. Candace Conino (1996), Dwight Pargee, MS (1996), Keith Johnson (1997) [Details]

2:30pm-5pm

P1: Revivify! Plot the Course of your Professional Future
M. Candace Conino (1996), Dwight Pargee, MS (1996), Keith Johnson (1997) [Details]

7:00pm-8:30pm

Opening Presentation: The Language of Hope [Details]

SUNDAY - AUGUST 02

8:30am-9:45am

Morning Awareness Through Movement Class with Allison Rapp
Allison Rapp (1977) [Details]

10am-12:30pm

Workshop Full SM3: To The Source and Back To The Present: Revisiting Moshe's Method
Mia Segal (1969) [Details]
S2: The Effective Voice: Teaching from a Feldenkrais Method® Perspective
Marina Gilman (1996) [Details]
SM1: Learning How Babies and Children Learn
Donna Ray, MA, MFT (1986) [Details]
SM2: Esther Thelen’s Legacy: Applying the Relationships and Processes of Research to the Feldenkrais Method®
Pat Buchanan, PhD, ATC, PT (1996), Jim Stephens, PhD, PT, GCFP (1987) [Details]
SM4: Teaching through Being
Details]

12:30pm-2:30pm

Meet the Board: Get Your Lunch & Join the FGNA Board of Directors in the Cafeteria [Details]

2:30pm-5pm

Workshop Full SM3: To The Source and Back To The Present: Revisiting Moshe's Method
Mia Segal (1969) [Details]
S2: The Effective Voice: Teaching from a Feldenkrais Method® Perspective
Marina Gilman (1996) [Details]
SM1: Learning How Babies and Children Learn
Donna Ray, MA, MFT (1986) [Details]
SM2: Esther Thelen’s Legacy: Applying the Relationships and Processes of Research to the Feldenkrais Method®
Pat Buchanan, PhD, ATC, PT (1996), Jim Stephens, PhD, PT, GCFP (1987) [Details]
SM4: Teaching through Being
Details]

7:30pm

Guild Forum: Lifelong Learning for Feldenkrais® Practitioners [Details]

MONDAY - AUGUST 03

8:30am-9:45am

Morning Awareness Through Movement Class with Donna Blank
Donna Blank, MS, CMA (1983) [Details]

10am-12:30pm

Workshop Full SM3: To The Source and Back To The Present: Revisiting Moshe's Method
Mia Segal (1969) [Details]
M2: The Ability To Reason: Learning For the 21st Century
Linda Flanders (1991) [Details]
SM1: Learning How Babies and Children Learn
Donna Ray, MA, MFT (1986) [Details]
SM2: Esther Thelen’s Legacy: Applying the Relationships and Processes of Research to the Feldenkrais Method®
Pat Buchanan, PhD, ATC, PT (1996), Jim Stephens, PhD, PT, GCFP (1987) [Details]
SM4: Teaching through Being
Details]

12:30pm-2:30pm

Lunch with your Region [Details]

2:30pm-5pm

Workshop Full SM3: To The Source and Back To The Present: Revisiting Moshe's Method
Mia Segal (1969) [Details]
M2: The Ability To Reason: Learning For the 21st Century
Linda Flanders (1991) [Details]
SM1: Learning How Babies and Children Learn
Donna Ray, MA, MFT (1986) [Details]
SM2: Esther Thelen’s Legacy: Applying the Relationships and Processes of Research to the Feldenkrais Method®
Pat Buchanan, PhD, ATC, PT (1996), Jim Stephens, PhD, PT, GCFP (1987) [Details]
SM4: Teaching through Being
Details]

7:30pm

A Pictorial Biography of Moshe Feldenkrais [Details]

TUESDAY - AUGUST 04

8:30am-9:45am

Morning Awareness Through Movement Class with Mia Segal
Mia Segal (1969) [Details]

10am-12:30pm

TU: Our Tipping Point: Can We Create a Legacy?
Donna Blank, MS, CMA (1983), Alice Friedman, MA (1987), Keith Johnson (1997) [Details]

2:30pm-5pm

TU: Our Tipping Point: Can We Create a Legacy?
Donna Blank, MS, CMA (1983), Alice Friedman, MA (1987), Keith Johnson (1997) [Details]

7pm

FGNA Annual Meeting [Details]

WEDNESDAY - AUGUST 05

8:30am-9:45am

Morning Awareness Through Movement Class with Donna Ray
Donna Ray, MA, MFT (1986) [Details]

10am-12:30pm

W1: Awareness Through Movement® and Awareness Through Stillness
Russell Delman (1977) [Details]
W2: Power Learning: The Feldenkrais Method® in the Classroom
Beth Sidlow Mann (1997) [Details]
W3: Integrating Tellington TTouch® into your Professional Practice and Everyday Life
Linda Tellington-Jones (1977) [Details]
W4: Learning to Fly and Flying to Learn
Kathy James (1983) [Details]
W5: The Feldenkrais Method®: Off the Table and Into Your Life
Allison Rapp (1977) [Details]

12:30pm-2:30pm

Trainers and Assistant Trainers Meeting [Details]

2:30pm-5pm

W1: Awareness Through Movement® and Awareness Through Stillness
Russell Delman (1977) [Details]
W2: Power Learning: The Feldenkrais Method® in the Classroom
Beth Sidlow Mann (1997) [Details]
W3: Integrating Tellington TTouch® into your Professional Practice and Everyday Life
Linda Tellington-Jones (1977) [Details]
W4: Learning to Fly and Flying to Learn
Kathy James (1983) [Details]
W5: The Feldenkrais Method®: Off the Table and Into Your Life
Allison Rapp (1977) [Details]

7pm

Panel: Moshe's Legacy--the Feldenkrais Method® and Beyond [Details]

8:45pm

Party Time! [Details]

THURSDAY - AUGUST 06

8:30am-9:45am

Morning Awareness Through Movement Class with Russell Delman
Russell Delman (1977) [Details]

10am-12:30pm

H1: Neural Moonlighting: Snooze Your Way to Better Memory, Learning, and Motor Skills
Michael Krugman (1987) [Details]
H2: 1 mm: The Difference Between the Impossible and the Possible
Details]
H3: Creative Learning through Movement with Children
Sonja Sutherland (1997) [Details]
H4 CANCELLED: Learning as we Age: The Feldenkrais Method® with Older Adults
Gerhild Ullmann, PhD (1995) [Details]
H5: Finding Neutral - Learning to Live as an Awakening Being
Russell Delman (1977) [Details]

2:30pm-5pm

H1: Neural Moonlighting: Snooze Your Way to Better Memory, Learning, and Motor Skills
Michael Krugman (1987) [Details]
H2: 1 mm: The Difference Between the Impossible and the Possible
Details]
H3: Creative Learning through Movement with Children
Sonja Sutherland (1997) [Details]
H4 CANCELLED: Learning as we Age: The Feldenkrais Method® with Older Adults
Gerhild Ullmann, PhD (1995) [Details]
H5: Finding Neutral - Learning to Live as an Awakening Being
Russell Delman (1977) [Details]

5:30pm-6:00pm

Closing Circle [Details]

FRIDAY - JULY 31

Two Day Workshops

P1: Revivify! Plot the Course of your Professional Future
Presenter(s): M. Candace Conino, Dwight Pargee, Keith Johnson
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

What if hundreds of successfully working Feldenkrais® practitioners from around the globe got together and described their discoveries of what it really takes to be a successful practitioner and then that information was written down and organized for you?

Can you imagine exactly how useful that information would be?

How might your experience of professional development change if you and your colleagues had an ATM-like structure for conversations about your work? And, if you knew there was a way to give and receive feedback that was always and only constructive and supportive and never destructive or dispiriting, would you spend two days with your fellow practitioners learning this skill? Imagine that everyone in our community had learned to communicate effectively and compassionately.

In fact, over the last decade, hundreds of successful, experienced practitioners have refined and tested this workshop so that it and the accompanying materials are ready for the entire Feldenkrais community, a truly unique contribution by the people, for the people. Because of them, now everyone has the opportunity to unlock the secret of what it takes to be successful in our work.

Close your eyes and imagine this . . . everyone in our community working fruitfully, creatively crafting next steps, as they discuss and process together to achieve their avowed and unavowed dreams.

“A must for everybody.”

“A most empowering workshop, let us keep it alive!”

 

SATURDAY - AUGUST 01

Two Day Workshops

P1: Revivify! Plot the Course of your Professional Future
Presenter(s): M. Candace Conino, Dwight Pargee, Keith Johnson
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

What if hundreds of successfully working Feldenkrais® practitioners from around the globe got together and described their discoveries of what it really takes to be a successful practitioner and then that information was written down and organized for you?

Can you imagine exactly how useful that information would be?

How might your experience of professional development change if you and your colleagues had an ATM-like structure for conversations about your work? And, if you knew there was a way to give and receive feedback that was always and only constructive and supportive and never destructive or dispiriting, would you spend two days with your fellow practitioners learning this skill? Imagine that everyone in our community had learned to communicate effectively and compassionately.

In fact, over the last decade, hundreds of successful, experienced practitioners have refined and tested this workshop so that it and the accompanying materials are ready for the entire Feldenkrais community, a truly unique contribution by the people, for the people. Because of them, now everyone has the opportunity to unlock the secret of what it takes to be successful in our work.

Close your eyes and imagine this . . . everyone in our community working fruitfully, creatively crafting next steps, as they discuss and process together to achieve their avowed and unavowed dreams.

“A must for everybody.”

“A most empowering workshop, let us keep it alive!”

 

SUNDAY - AUGUST 02

Full Day Workshops

S2: The Effective Voice: Teaching from a Feldenkrais Method® Perspective
Presenter(s): Marina Gilman
Open To: Public, Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

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.

 

Two Day Workshops

Workshop Full SM3: To The Source and Back To The Present: Revisiting Moshe's Method
Presenter(s): Mia Segal
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

Throughout the years of developing and teaching, Moshe, along with other great minds such as Bateson, Mead, Erickson, Noguchi, Pribram, and Satir, consistently explored new scientific developments and new ways of thinking. Mia was part of that network and worked with Moshe throughout that time. She now continues to guide practitioners in Moshe’s approach and practice, a teaching she has developed and defined through many decades of work. Leora and Mia will highlight core principles of the Feldenkrais Method®, and its visionary principles. Building on new discoveries that enhance and update these principles, they will add dimensionality, dynamism and insight that confirm the teaching’s fundamental and essential truths.

Trainees attending this workshop must be enrolled in Year 3 or 4.

 

SM1: Learning How Babies and Children Learn
Presenter(s): Donna Ray
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

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 thematically woven into two days of Awareness Through Movement® and Functional Integration® lessons, lecture, and demonstrations will deepen your appreciation of learning how to learn through movement. Broaden your understanding and skills of the Feldenkrais Method® and become comfortable working with babies and children in your professional practice. Mornings will include Feldenkrais® practitioners, parents, and professionals. Afternoons will be open to Feldenkrais practitioners only. We will learn together, co-regulating as a dynamic system, expanding awareness, and deepening our knowledge of human behavior.

 

SM2: Esther Thelen’s Legacy: Applying the Relationships and Processes of Research to the Feldenkrais Method®
Presenter(s): Pat Buchanan, Jim Stephens
Open To: Public, Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

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.

 

SM4: Teaching through Being
Presenter(s):
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

As practitioners, we are automatically educators. We are literally an energetic environment that influences others simply through our presence. It is by living and being our truth that we most effectively inspire and transform others. In this workshop, we will learn to process and gracefully move through the fears that keep us limited, learn through experiential practices how to get in touch with and radiate our heart–felt truth, and explore the practical effects of being centered when we work with our clients.

Trainees attending this workshop must be enrolled in Year 3 or 4.

 

MONDAY - AUGUST 03

Full Day Workshops

M2: The Ability To Reason: Learning For the 21st Century
Presenter(s): Linda Flanders
Open To: Public, Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

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.

 

Two Day Workshops

Workshop Full SM3: To The Source and Back To The Present: Revisiting Moshe's Method
Presenter(s): Mia Segal
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

Throughout the years of developing and teaching, Moshe, along with other great minds such as Bateson, Mead, Erickson, Noguchi, Pribram, and Satir, consistently explored new scientific developments and new ways of thinking. Mia was part of that network and worked with Moshe throughout that time. She now continues to guide practitioners in Moshe’s approach and practice, a teaching she has developed and defined through many decades of work. Leora and Mia will highlight core principles of the Feldenkrais Method®, and its visionary principles. Building on new discoveries that enhance and update these principles, they will add dimensionality, dynamism and insight that confirm the teaching’s fundamental and essential truths.

Trainees attending this workshop must be enrolled in Year 3 or 4.

 

SM1: Learning How Babies and Children Learn
Presenter(s): Donna Ray
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

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 thematically woven into two days of Awareness Through Movement® and Functional Integration® lessons, lecture, and demonstrations will deepen your appreciation of learning how to learn through movement. Broaden your understanding and skills of the Feldenkrais Method® and become comfortable working with babies and children in your professional practice. Mornings will include Feldenkrais® practitioners, parents, and professionals. Afternoons will be open to Feldenkrais practitioners only. We will learn together, co-regulating as a dynamic system, expanding awareness, and deepening our knowledge of human behavior.

 

SM2: Esther Thelen’s Legacy: Applying the Relationships and Processes of Research to the Feldenkrais Method®
Presenter(s): Pat Buchanan, Jim Stephens
Open To: Public, Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

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.

 

SM4: Teaching through Being
Presenter(s):
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

As practitioners, we are automatically educators. We are literally an energetic environment that influences others simply through our presence. It is by living and being our truth that we most effectively inspire and transform others. In this workshop, we will learn to process and gracefully move through the fears that keep us limited, learn through experiential practices how to get in touch with and radiate our heart–felt truth, and explore the practical effects of being centered when we work with our clients.

Trainees attending this workshop must be enrolled in Year 3 or 4.

 

TUESDAY - AUGUST 04

Full Day Workshops

TU: Our Tipping Point: Can We Create a Legacy?
Presenter(s): Donna Blank, Alice Friedman, Keith Johnson
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

Like all organizations, we face a time of change. Over the years, many have felt isolated from the Guild and from each other and have not experienced the power of functioning as a coherent group. As a collective, we have not walked the talk we practice with our students. Moreover, our membership grows, further straining our early model and makes essential new ways of organizing.

Without reinventing ourselves, we can listen to the wisdom of those who came before, learn from mistakes and benefit from their experience. We can re-organize as a group to create a shared, collaborative and peer-driven future. Our work teaches that the entire self is involved in everything we do and that the quality of organization is what is important. We now have an opportunity to explore how we might apply this principle to the development of our community and profession to create a new paradigm.

Be heard, listen, and share in this community-wide inquiry day to create a legacy we can live and pass on to future practitioners. Together, let’s devise an organized, aware community that contains the essence of our work, the Feldenkrais Method® of Somatic Education.

 

WEDNESDAY - AUGUST 05

Full Day Workshops

W1: Awareness Through Movement® and Awareness Through Stillness
Presenter(s): Russell Delman
Open To: Public, Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

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.

 

W2: Power Learning: The Feldenkrais Method® in the Classroom
Presenter(s): Beth Sidlow Mann
Open To: Public, Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

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

 

W3: Integrating Tellington TTouch® into your Professional Practice and Everyday Life
Presenter(s): Linda Tellington-Jones
Open To: Public, Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

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.

In this workshop, you’ll learn about and practice many Tellington Ttouches that have been studied and verified to create profound effects and dramatic changes in health, behavior, performance and well-being of animals and their people. The basics are quickly and easily learned and you can integrate TTouch into your professional practice with people or animals, or for family, pets, and self-healing. You will also learn about the commonalities of TTouch and the teachings of Dr. Feldenkrais, enriching your understanding and practice of both.

 

W4: Learning to Fly and Flying to Learn
Presenter(s): Kathy James
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

Awareness Through Movement lessons provide a wealth of strategies that invite learning to emerge, and they also help to create our artistry. Using this rich series of ATMs (the Flying Lessons), we will begin with our own experience and perceptions and grow our understanding of the elements that bring forth emergent learning. In addition, we will explore, through Functional Integration lessons, not only the underlying themes of the ATM, but also how to “blend” with our students learning process in such a way that they may learn HOW TO FLY!

Trainees attending this workshop must be enrolled in Year 3 or 4.

 

W5: The Feldenkrais Method®: Off the Table and Into Your Life
Presenter(s): Allison Rapp
Open To: Practitioners
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

If “Movement is life, and life without movement is unthinkable,” does it follow that ATM and FI are the only choices for “doing Feldenkrais®”? Can our work change something other than movement? Can you really use it to improve every aspect of your life—and lead your clients to do the same? Can we use it to improve Guild functioning? If you’ve ever wondered what Moshe meant when he said that our work could be taught using something other than movement, please join me in a Feldenkrais workshop that may or may not include ATM and FI!

 

THURSDAY - AUGUST 06

Full Day Workshops

H1: Neural Moonlighting: Snooze Your Way to Better Memory, Learning, and Motor Skills
Presenter(s): Michael Krugman
Open To: Public, Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

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.

 

H2: 1 mm: The Difference Between the Impossible and the Possible
Presenter(s):
Open To: Public, Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

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.

 

H3: Creative Learning through Movement with Children
Presenter(s): Sonja Sutherland
Open To: Public, Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

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.”

 

H4 CANCELLED: Learning as we Age: The Feldenkrais Method® with Older Adults
Presenter(s): Gerhild Ullmann
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

New research suggests we lose our agility and balance as we age due to changes in our brains. With an increasing proportion of older adults in the population, the number of older folks in Feldenkrais® classes is likely to increase. Are special considerations required? What is important for older citizens? Does our ability to learn change as we age? How might we adapt our instructions or create distinct classes, and what can we learn from older adults in our classroom? In this workshop, we will search for answers and explore Awareness Through Movement® lessons that effectively address the special needs of older adults.

 

H5: Finding Neutral - Learning to Live as an Awakening Being
Presenter(s): Russell Delman
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees
Time(s):
10am-12:30pm
2:30pm-5pm

Skeletal neutrality is one of Moshe’s most central teachings. This organization forms the basis, both physically and in metaphor, for what we can call ‘organismic neutrality’. In this state our physical, emotional and mental patterns are sufficiently conscious that we needn’t react out of compulsion, fear and habitual self-protection. Through Functional Integration® (mostly deepening our understanding of and facility with compressive movements), Awareness Through Movement® lessons and other awareness practices we will explore neutrality from various perspectives.

“I believe we are in a historically brief transition period that heralds the emergence of the truly human man.” (Moshe Feldenkrais ATM p.48)

Open to 4th year trainees only.

 

SATURDAY - AUGUST 01

7:00pm-8:30pm   

Opening Presentation: The Language of Hope
Presenter(s): Diana Whitney
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees

Like an acorn longing to be an oak tree, each one of us has a longing to discover and bring our best self forward, and to offer it up to the world. For some the seeds of our potential are hidden by pain and fear, having been tossed to the wind by injury, violence or abuse. For others, the seeds lay dormant waiting for nourishment to awaken and grow.

As Feldenkrais® educator practitioners we are interested in how people learn and grow – in order to help them be the best they can be. This may mean that we have to understand their patterns of pain and fear. This may mean that we have to understand what they want, what they need, and what they are capable of accepting at any given time in their life. And always to be successful we must speak the language of hope – through our words, our touch and our way of being.

Our work is noble work. Through it we guide people to discover new functional capacities and easier ways of doing what matters to them. When we are at our best, we help others be at their best.

In the opening keynote address, Dr. Diana Whitney will draw upon current research in positive psychology and hope theory, along with her work as a leader in the growing field of positive change - to illustrate the importance of hope in human learning and well being. She will guide us through a brief Appreciative Inquiry, a process for which she is internationally recognized, as a way of helping us connect to our own wealth of experience about learning and the language of hope.

 

SUNDAY - AUGUST 02

12:30pm-2:30pm   

Meet the Board: Get Your Lunch & Join the FGNA Board of Directors in the Cafeteria
Presenter(s): FGNA Board
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees

Find out who we are, how we think and communicate
Cultivate a relationship in an informal atmosphere.
Become aware of what our commitment is to growing FGNA.

Ask us questions
What’s happening to decrease the Guild’s debt?
What are we doing to increase financial stability?
How do we plan to improve the Method's future?

Hear about the big issues, relevant challenges and changes.
Learn what we are doing to accomplish FGNA's goals.

Here is where you can find out what it is like to serve on the FGNA Board, what challenges we face, and what we have found most rewarding.

 

7:30pm   

Guild Forum: Lifelong Learning for Feldenkrais® Practitioners
Presenter(s): Dwight Pargee, M. Candace Conino
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees

Join your friends and colleagues in creative collaboration about the future of continuing education, quality and competency:

Continuous learning and continuing education for Feldenkrais® practitioners is a philosophy promulgated by FGNA since its beginnings, and by Moshe himself. But what does this mean? The Continuing Education Committee, which has been meeting since Fall 2008, wants to know what members think about what should be required in FGNA policy, what kind of variation should be allowed, and what is our best approach to maintaining and improving the quality of practitioners of the Feldenkrais Method.

“Competency,” “quality assurance” and “quality improvement” – These are concepts that make all professionals tremble. Feldenkrais practitioners all over the world engage in a mostly private, informal and continuous process of assessing their own skills. When this process is clarified, one’s personal goals formalized, and one’s skills and services are reflected upon in relation to the standards of practice and ethical guidelines of the professional associations and guilds, that is quality assurance and it leads to competency. Dwight Pargee and Candy Conino will involve us in a delightful and experiential introduction to the IFF Competency Profile and how it will change your life.

“The Profile might help to point to our own responsibility and take action on this responsibility in relation to the Feldenkrais Method in the world.It also might help to feel our roots more in the ground/to feel more clearly the place of the Feldenkrais Method in society.” --IFF Competency workshop participant

 

MONDAY - AUGUST 03

12:30pm-2:30pm   

Lunch with your Region
Presenter(s): Regional Representatives
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees

Join your colleagues and your Regional Representative for lunch: Meet others from your Region, discuss what’s important to you, and hear from others in your community. You can also recommend projects and give your Representative feedback about what is going on. Don’t miss this!

 

7:30pm   

A Pictorial Biography of Moshe Feldenkrais
Presenter(s): Mia Segal
Open To: Public, Practitioners, Trainees

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.

 

TUESDAY - AUGUST 04

7pm   

FGNA Annual Meeting
Presenter(s): FGNA Board of Directors
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees

Join your colleagues, get information, and contribute your ideas at the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America of North America Annual Meeting. Meeting topics include recognition of volunteers, nominations for the FGNA Board of Directors and other volunteer leadership positions, and a financial report - with time for your questions.

 

WEDNESDAY - AUGUST 05

12:30pm-2:30pm   

Trainers and Assistant Trainers Meeting
Presenter(s): FGNA Board of Directors
Open To: Practitioners (With 5+ Years of Experience)

Beyond Lunch and Beyond the Conference: An invitation to Trainers, Trainer Candidates, Assistant Trainers and Training Organizers from the FGNA Board to come together to listen to and discuss bigger perspectives.

 

7pm   

Panel: Moshe's Legacy--the Feldenkrais Method® and Beyond
Presenter(s): Russell Delman, Mia Segal, Linda Tellington-Jones, facilitated by Donna Blank
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees

Moshe told us that we would each learn to do the work ‘in our own handwriting.’ He also said that ‘some of you will go beyond me’. Where does one end and the other begin? Our remarkable panel will include Mia Segal, whose life work has been to be true to the legacy of the Feldenkrais Method through her own handwriting, and Russell Delman and Linda Tellington-Jones, who have utilized Moshe’s principles in developing new directions. Donna Blank will facilitate.

 

8:45pm   

Party Time!
Presenter(s): Party
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees

Come celebrate creative collaborations and unpredictable outcomes. We have the space, we have the time and we have the Feldenkrais teachers’ ability to wait with gleeful anticipation and see what happens. Bring your sense of adventure, bring your music, bring your favorite beverage, maybe even bring food. Let’s have a party.

 

THURSDAY - AUGUST 06

5:30pm-6:00pm   

Closing Circle
Presenter(s): Closing Circle
Open To: Practitioners, Trainees

As we gather once more, fully immersed in the learning and the foundations of our beginnings, having deeply contemplated our individuality and collaborative community, let us send one another away with a wish for a potent future.

 

Donna Blank

Donna Blank (1983), MS, LMA, is a practitioner/trainer who practices in the Washington, DC area and the Hudson Valley, NY. Her background in the arts, education and Laban Movement Analysis, as well as her ongoing work in meditation and Authentic Movement inform her interests in creativity learning, and consciousness. She has served on the Guild and the IFF Boards of Directors and the North American Training Accreditation Board, and has chaired a Guild conference in Washington, DC.

TU: Our Tipping Point: Can We Create a Legacy?

Pat Buchanan

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.

SM2: Esther Thelen’s Legacy: Applying the Relationships and Processes of Research to the Feldenkrais Method®

M. Candace Conino

M. Candace Conino (1996) came to the Feldenkrais Method® as a physical therapist specializing in adults and children with complex spinal disorders. She works with people of all stages and abilities and, as assistant trainer, especially delights in mentoring the practitioners in her community.

P1: Revivify! Plot the Course of your Professional Future

Russell Delman

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”.

H5: Finding Neutral - Learning to Live as an Awakening Being
W1: Awareness Through Movement® and Awareness Through Stillness

Linda Flanders

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.

M2: The Ability To Reason: Learning For the 21st Century

Alice Friedman

Alice Friedman (1987), MA, R.Psych., is an Feldenkrais® assistant trainer with a background as a psychologist and trained dancer.  She has studied and taught Somatic Experiencing® trauma recovery work in addition to studying Ericksonian hypnosis, cranio-sacral therapy and meditation.  Alice practices in Victoria, BC and on Salt Spring Island.

TU: Our Tipping Point: Can We Create a Legacy?

Marina Gilman

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

Kathy James

Kathy James (1983) is a practitioner and assistant trainer.  She has a third degree black belt in the martial art of Aikido and trained as a dancer.  She is an adjunct faculty member at John F. Kennedy University, teaches through Kaiser Permanente and has a private practice in Petaluma, California.

W4: Learning to Fly and Flying to Learn

Keith Johnson

Keith B. Johnson, MS (1997) studied laser physics at the University of Illinois, toured for eight years with an avant-garde music ensemble, and worked at the Gesundheit-Institute in West Virginia while training to be a Feldenkrais® practitioner in Strasbourg,  France.  He currently practices full-time in Chalottesville, VA, serving retirees, equestrians and tri-athletes.

TU: Our Tipping Point: Can We Create a Legacy?
P1: Revivify! Plot the Course of your Professional Future

Michael Krugman

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

Dwight Pargee

Dwight Pargee, MS (1996) has studied the movement sciences and martial arts for the last 20 years. Dwight specializes in applied biomechanics and neuromuscular learning, helping clients to discover their optimal mind/body coordination. He currently holds positions on the FGNA and FEFNA Boards of Directors, is the IFF Competency Project team leader and lives in Bend, Oregon.

P1: Revivify! Plot the Course of your Professional Future

Allison Rapp

Allison Rapp is a graduate of Moshe’s San Francisco training and has been a trainer since 1991. She’s known for her ability to precisely describe what she’s seeing, thinking and doing during an FI lesson, for creating a comfortable and safe learning environment and for her humor. In addition to her Feldenkrais schedule, she owns a yarn store in Grass Valley, CA, where she teaches the Feldenkrais Method as Awareness Through Knitting.

W5: The Feldenkrais Method®: Off the Table and Into Your Life

Donna Ray

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.

SM1: Learning How Babies and Children Learn

Mia Segal

Mia Segal (1969) began working with Moshe in 1956.  In his words: “…my apprentice sculptor in human bodies…with you I reached summits that alone I could not reach. The best lessons I ever gave were inspired by your encouraging gaze.” They worked side by side exclusively for 16 years, while Moshe developed the work and expanded its applications, and in the 1970’s, began teaching together internationally. Her vast experience, deep knowledge of the work and clarity in teaching are second to none.

Workshop Full SM3: To The Source and Back To The Present: Revisiting Moshe's Method

Beth Sidlow Mann

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

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.

SM2: Esther Thelen’s Legacy: Applying the Relationships and Processes of Research to the Feldenkrais Method®

Sonja Sutherland

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.

H3: Creative Learning through Movement with Children

Linda Tellington-Jones

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

Gerhild Ullmann

Gerhild Ullmann, PhD (1996) is a Feldenkrais teacher and research associate at the University of South Carolina. She has taught the Feldenkrais Method® for organizations of continuing education and theatre students at Michigan State University. She is currently interested in aging, learning and teaching with older adults.

H4 CANCELLED: Learning as we Age: The Feldenkrais Method® with Older Adults

Diana Whitney

Diana Whitney, PhD (1999) is an inspirational speaker, provocative educator and pioneering thought leader in the emerging field of Appreciative Inquiry and Positive Change. She is President of Corporation for Positive Change, an internationally recognized consulting firm specializing in the application of Appreciative Inquiry, a process she helped to develop, to large scale change. Diana coaches executives and their teams in support of culture transformation, strategic development and leadership capacity building.

Dr. Whitney has authored or edited fifteen books, as well as dozens of articles and chapters, including the best selling book on Appreciative Inquiry:  The Power of Appreciative Inquiry (with Amanda Trosten-Bloom) and Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change (with David Cooperrider).

Diana is a Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center where she teaches and advises PhD students. In addition, she is a founder and director emeritus of the Taos Institute, a center for dialogue among family therapists, educators and organization consultants working to further a social constructionist practices. She lives in Chapel Hill, NC and can be reached at diana@positivechange.org.

Opening Presentation: The Language of Hope

2009 Printable Registration Form


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