2011 Feldenkrais Method® Annual Conference
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Feldenkrais® Science Network: |
What's New
Registration Open
Photos of Moshe and the Amherst training courtesy of the IFF Archive of the Feldenkrais Method®
Daily Schedule
WEDNESDAY - JULY 06 | |
5:00pm-7:00pm | Dinner [Details] |
THURSDAY - JULY 07 | |
7:30am-9:00am | Breakfast [Details] |
12:30pm-2:00pm | Lunch [Details] |
5:00pm-7:00pm | Dinner [Details] |
FRIDAY - JULY 08 | |
7:30am-9:00am | Breakfast [Details] |
12:30pm-2:00pm | Lunch [Details] |
5:00pm-7:00pm | Dinner [Details] |
7:00pm-9:00pm | All Things Feldenkrais® |
9:30am-5:00pm | RE: Feldenkrais® Science Network: The Evolution of Knowing & Learning |
SATURDAY - JULY 09 | |
7:30am-9:00am | Breakfast [Details] |
8:00am-10:00am | Bookstore [Details] |
8:30am-9:45am | Four Points Standing Awareness Through Movement® Lesson |
10:00am-12:30pm | SS1: Eyes Organize the Body |
12:30pm-2:00pm | Lunch [Details] |
12:30pm-2:30pm | Bookstore [Details] |
2:30pm-5:00pm | SS1: Eyes Organize the Body |
5:00pm-6:00pm | Bookstore [Details] |
5:00pm-7:00pm | Dinner [Details] |
7:00pm-9:00pm | Keynote Panel: Amherst Perspectives – How the Feldenkrais Method® Has Evolved [Details] |
SUNDAY - JULY 10 | |
7:30am-9:00am | Breakfast [Details] |
8:00am-10:00am | Bookstore [Details] |
8:30am-9:45am | Integration of the Arms Awareness Through Movement® Class |
10:00am-12:30pm | SS1: Eyes Organize the Body |
12:30pm-2:00pm | Lunch [Details] |
12:30pm-2:30pm | Bookstore [Details] |
2:30pm-5:00pm | SS1: Eyes Organize the Body |
5:00pm-6:00pm | Bookstore [Details] |
5:00pm-7:00pm | Dinner [Details] |
8:15pm | News from Childhood: Treasures from Moshe's Earliest Known Writings |
MONDAY - JULY 11 | |
7:30am-9:00am | Breakfast [Details] |
8:00am-10:00am | Bookstore [Details] |
8:30am-9:45am | Rolling the Pelvis Awareness Through Movement® Lesson |
10:00am-12:30pm | M5: First, Tune the Musician - Radical Listening in Musical Improvisation |
12:30pm-2:00pm | Lunch [Details] |
12:30pm-2:30pm | Bookstore [Details] |
1:30pm-4pm | M5: First, Tune the Musician - Radical Listening in Musical Improvisation |
2:30pm-5:00pm | MT1: Art of Falling and Dynamic Stability - Synergy of Judo and the Feldenkrais Method® |
5:00pm-6:00pm | Bookstore [Details] |
5:00pm-7:00pm | Dinner [Details] |
TUESDAY - JULY 12 | |
7:30am-9:00am | Breakfast [Details] |
8:00am-10:00am | Bookstore [Details] |
8:30am-9:45am | Rolling the Fists Awareness Through Movement® Lesson |
10:00am-12:30pm | MT1: Art of Falling and Dynamic Stability - Synergy of Judo and the Feldenkrais Method® |
12:30pm-2:00pm | Lunch [Details] |
12:30pm-2:30pm | Bookstore [Details] |
2:30pm-5:00pm | MT1: Art of Falling and Dynamic Stability - Synergy of Judo and the Feldenkrais Method® |
5:00pm-6:00pm | Bookstore [Details] |
5:00pm-7:00pm | Dinner [Details] |
WEDNESDAY - JULY 13 | |
7:30am-9:00am | Breakfast [Details] |
8:00am-10:00am | Bookstore [Details] |
8:30am-9:45am | Moshe Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® Lesson [Details] |
12:30pm-2:00pm | |
5:00pm-7:00pm | Dinner [Details] |
Workshops List & Fees
Fees
RE: Feldenkrais® Science Network: The Evolution of Knowing & Learning — $70
1-Day Workshops — $125
2-Day Workshops — $250
$10/day Commuter Fee: If staying off-campus, there is a $10/day fee.
FRIDAY - JULY 08
Full Day Workshops
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RE: Feldenkrais® Science Network: The Evolution of Knowing & Learning
BABIES GONE WILD: UNLEASHING INFANT EXPLORATION As Moshé noted, movement is life. Mobility and exploration lead to happiness, sorrow, friendships, anger, drama…life. The same is rarely said of power wheelchairs! There is a resurgence of interest in pediatric power mobility—especially in children under the age of 2 yrs. This presentation will summarize our recent work combining developmental psychology and pediatric rehabilitation to re-invigorate two interrelated areas: a) infant power mobility, and b) power mobility for socialization in toddlers and preschoolers. We demonstrate the process of learning to drive these robots and the impact of self-directed mobility for those who use them. Interestingly, a completely unanticipated set of barriers have emerged that prevent children from using power devices for peer-typical exploration and thus constrain their mobility-related developmental gains. Solutions will require a deeper understanding of infant-device interaction, the co-emergence of mobility and socialization, and the hidden lives of children with mobility impairments and their families. In this presentation I will propose a future that involves a radical expansion of power mobility as a dynamic field that can harness infants’ spontaneous movements and offer mobility aids that children ultimately walk away from. This future is deeply grounded in systems theory, embodied development and the co-creative nature of children’s exploration, and demands private-public-community research and development partnerships. Dr. Galloway is an Associate Professor, Dept of Physical Therapy at the University of Delaware. Since 2000, his Infant Behavior Lab has focused on better understanding how infants physically explore their world through each day. Most recently, he has focused exclusively on assisting infants and young children with special needs in maximizing their exploration. His research team includes parents, early educators, therapists, industry partners, physicians as well as clinical and engineering researchers. Current projects include assessments of brain-behavior relationships in preterm infants, family-based interventions and reality-based technologies for behaviors ranging from newborn head, arm and leg control to infant object exploration to robotic enhanced power mobility for infants and toddlers. His lab is currently funded by multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation. Recent awards include the American Physical Therapy Association’s Outstanding New Academic Faculty Member (2005) and their Pediatric Section Research Award (2009). http://www.udel.edu/PT/About%20Us/People/galloway.html Organizers and facilitators FeldSciNet.org is a virtual space of the Feldenkrais® Science Network in which Feldenkrais practitioners with research interests and researchers who are exploring human development and function in educational, clinical, and research circles can all cross paths. This workshop is organized by the Esther Thelen Research and Education Fund Subcommittee of FEFNA. The Thelen Fund spearheads the FeldSciNet project. Thelen Fund Subcommittee members include: Pat Buchanan (chair), Jim Stephens, and Roger Russell. 
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SATURDAY - JULY 09
Two Day Workshops
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SS1: Eyes Organize the Body
Most of us have grown up without learning to use our eyes properly. The various ways that we move our eyes make a tremendous difference to the distribution of our muscle tonus and to the organization of our entire self. In fact, in the first year of the Amherst training, Dr. Feldenkrais devoted over twenty hours to lessons and talks about the eyes. Exploration of this material is a profound opportunity for both seasoned practitioners and beginners alike. We will learn and experience fundamental changes to the way we stand, sit, lie down, function and see in the world.
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SUNDAY - JULY 10
Two Day Workshops
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SS1: Eyes Organize the Body
Most of us have grown up without learning to use our eyes properly. The various ways that we move our eyes make a tremendous difference to the distribution of our muscle tonus and to the organization of our entire self. In fact, in the first year of the Amherst training, Dr. Feldenkrais devoted over twenty hours to lessons and talks about the eyes. Exploration of this material is a profound opportunity for both seasoned practitioners and beginners alike. We will learn and experience fundamental changes to the way we stand, sit, lie down, function and see in the world.
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MONDAY - JULY 11
Full Day Workshops
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M5: First, Tune the Musician - Radical Listening in Musical Improvisation
Developing the capacity to tune into one’s own inner organization has tremendous value for ensemble work. Listening to oneself - in the widest sense - and joining with the listening of others to themselves, creates a very different texture of composition. Through a progression of ATM lessons, interactive and group processes, improv exercises in various combinations, and performance, we create the circumstances for a wholly different music - without rehearsals, scores or, for that matter, anything already known. The musicians meet, compose themselves, and play.
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Two Day Workshops
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MT1: Art of Falling and Dynamic Stability - Synergy of Judo and the Feldenkrais Method®
In Higher Judo (written in 1948), Moshe presented judo concepts and highly praised the art of falling as well as dynamic stability among the most important features of judo training. This workshop will expose the practical influence of Moshe’s judo on the Feldenkrais Method®. Using ATM lessons from Amherst and Alexander Yanai, we’ll experience those features as complementary actions, in the aspects of self-preservation and efficiency of action. This workshop is suitable for everyone – no need for previous martial arts experience. I believe that everyone will broaden their knowledge about the Feldenkrais Method® and will acquire new ideas and tools useable for teaching.
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TUESDAY - JULY 12
Two Day Workshops
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MT1: Art of Falling and Dynamic Stability - Synergy of Judo and the Feldenkrais Method®
In Higher Judo (written in 1948), Moshe presented judo concepts and highly praised the art of falling as well as dynamic stability among the most important features of judo training. This workshop will expose the practical influence of Moshe’s judo on the Feldenkrais Method®. Using ATM lessons from Amherst and Alexander Yanai, we’ll experience those features as complementary actions, in the aspects of self-preservation and efficiency of action. This workshop is suitable for everyone – no need for previous martial arts experience. I believe that everyone will broaden their knowledge about the Feldenkrais Method® and will acquire new ideas and tools useable for teaching.
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Special Events
FRIDAY - JULY 08
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7:00pm-9:00pm |
All Things Feldenkrais®
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Founded in 1998, FEFNA fosters education, research and public awareness of the Feldenkrais Method® of Somatic Education. A lot has transpired in the last 30 years since Moshe taught in and developed the Amherst training. Join us for a multi-media presentation of what’s new in the world of the Feldenkrais Method. SATURDAY - JULY 09
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7:00pm-9:00pm |
Keynote Panel: Amherst Perspectives – How the Feldenkrais Method® Has Evolved
Our Keynote Panel will reflect on the ideas and perspectives that Dr. Feldenkrais presented in the Amherst training. The 1980-81 training addressed the fundamental principles of our work, forming a foundation for our profession and creating a teaching resource utilized by most Feldenkrais® Professional Training Programs training and advanced training programs in the world today. Now, 31 years later, those that experienced the work then have a unique perspective on where we have been as a community and how we might continue to evolve in it. This keynote panel discussion will be a unique opportunity to share an in-depth experience of Dr. Feldenkrais’ foundational principles, influences and ideas during this period.
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SUNDAY - JULY 10
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8:15pm |
News from Childhood: Treasures from Moshe's Earliest Known Writings In Feldenkrais’ little-known childhood writings we have a message from a vanished world - the self-portrait of a gifted child, and through his eyes, a window on history. Moshe wrote these pieces during WWI, when he was a month short of eleven years old. His family, community and the world around them were in crisis. Refugees were appearing at the door, massacres and lynchings were reported nearby. Meanwhile, he was in school, writing (beautifully) about his life, his family, friends, memories, and dreams. This is a multi-media presentation, with stories, music, photos, and readings from the journal.
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Pat Buchanan
Pat Buchanan, PhD. (1996) is the chair of the Esther Thelen, PhD, GCFP Research and Education Fund Subcommittee of FEFNA, 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.
RE: Feldenkrais® Science Network: The Evolution of Knowing & Learning
Bonnie Rich Humiston
Bonnie Rich Humiston (1977) Bonnie first experienced ATM lessons with Moshe in 1972. She is a trainer, editor of the Amherst Transcripts, and does ATM and FI in the Scripps Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program in Encinitas, CA. She has a private practice in the Hillcrest area of San Diego.
David Kaetz
David Kaetz (2001) is a Feldenkrais® practitioner, musician, storyteller and writer. He is the author of Making Connections, a book about Moshe’s cultural background, and co-translator of Moshe’s childhood writings, soon to be published in English and German editions.
M5: First, Tune the Musician - Radical Listening in Musical Improvisation
Roger Russell
Roger Russell (1977) Although a graduate of San Francisco, Roger attended the first two years of the Amherst training in 1980 and 1981. An American, he lives in Heidelberg, Germany where he is Educational Director, with his partner, Ulla Schläfke, of the Feldenkrais® Zentrum Heidelberg. Since he met Moshe he has been interested in understanding the scientific knowledge behind the Method.
RE: Feldenkrais® Science Network: The Evolution of Knowing & Learning
Jim Stephens
Jim Stephens PT, PhD. (1987) is chair of the FEFNA Research Committee. He has taught movement sciences at Widener, Drexel, and Temple Universities and is currently working with elderly individuals in the LIFE program at the University of Pennsylvania. He also maintains a private practice in the Feldenkrais Method®.
RE: Feldenkrais® Science Network: The Evolution of Knowing & Learning
How to Register
Please register online using the register menu option from the main page of the conference site. If you are unable to register online, you may register via phone at 800.775.2118 Ext 125.
Housing & Meals
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On-campus housing and meal plans are available for our conference attendees and any family members traveling with them. Housing and meal plans must be purchased by June 6, 2011. Housing and meals purchased or changed after June 6, 2011 will depend on availability and cannot be guaranteed. No changes will be accepted after June 24, 2011.
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| Single Room | $50/night. One occupant. There is a $15 non-refundable housing registration fee. Conference attendees registering for accommodations will be housed in single occupancy, dormitory-style rooms in Dakin House. Approximately 11 rooms each share a community bath area and lounge. Genders are separated by floors with separate bath facilities. Rooms are furnished with linens, bed frame and mattress, desk, chair, and bureau. Rooms are not air conditioned; fans are provided. No private baths are available. A very limited* number of rooms with two single beds are available for double occupancy. $100/night. These are first come/first served and not guaranteed. You may request a double room at the time of registration. If we are unable to grant your request, we will assign you to two single rooms. You must include payment for both occupants at time of registration.*Availability not guaranteed. Two single rooms will be assigned if a double is not available. Check-in for accommodations: Conference Registration and check-in for housing and meals will be located in Room 108 of Franklin Patterson Hall |
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Meals |
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Hampshire Dining Commons
No nearby Off-Campus Dining Meal Plans Available In Advance Only*There is a $4.00 non-refundable Meal Registration Fee.
** FGNA will be sharing the cafeteria with other groups. Please note that at 8:30am, 1:30pm, and 6:30pm, certain food items will be pulled from the line for a nutritional weight loss camp. Feldenkrais Conference attendees are welcome to come into the Dining Commons to eat during these times, however please be aware that the full offerings will not be available. FGNA Members may enjoy their Regional Meeting lunch on Sunday July 10th free of charge, courtesy of the Council of Regional Representatives. |
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Amenities |
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| Bathrooms | Approximately 11 rooms within Dakin House share a community bath area and lounge. Genders are separated by floors with separate bath facilities. There are no rooms with private baths. | |
| Kitchens | There is a kitchen with refrigerator and stove available for shared use in the Dakin Student Life Center. You must provide your own utensils and cooking supplies. | |
| Wireless Access/Cell Phone Service/ Phones | Wifi is available in the dorms and most places on Campus. Passwords will be available at Registration. Cell phone reception is generally good. There are no pay phones on campus. A phone (requires calling card) is available in Dakin dorm. For emergencies, participants can be reached by calling the main switchboard For Hampshire College: 413.549.4600. | |
| Pool | Pool passes can be purchased through pre-arrangement with Hampshire College for $30. The pool is available for use only Monday-Friday 12:15-1:15pm. | |
| Air Conditioning | All workshop room are air-conditioned. Dorm rooms are NOT air-conditioned. Fans will be provided in all occupied dorm rooms. | |
| Parking | Please look for signs directing you to a designated parking area when you arrive. Conference attendees with vehicles will be provided with a parking pass. | |
| Other | Alcohol Policy Alcohol consumption by legal aged adults in the housing facilities is permitted as long as the quiet enjoyment of other occupants is not interrupted. | |
Accessibility |
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| Wheelchair access | All buildings are wheelchair accessible. There is an accessible dorm room also available. All buildings are within a short walking distance. (5 mins between buildings.) | |
| Stairs/Walking | All workshops are within a 3-5 minute walk of each other. You can find a Hampshire campus map here: http://www.hampshire.edu/discover/17832.htm | |
Housing Refund and Cancellation Policy
Housing Cancellation and Refunds will be accepted through June 6, 2011. There is a $15 non-refundable housing registration fee. After June 6, 2011, we regret that no refunds will be available for housing cancellations.
Meal Plan Refund and Cancellation Policy
Meal plan cancellations are available through June 24, 2011. If you have purchased a single meal (e.g. 1 lunch or 1 breakfast), refunds are not available. For all other cancellations, refunds are available. However, there is a non-refundable $4 meal registration fee. No cancellations or refunds are available after June 24, 2011.
Questions? Need help registering? Contact:
Lynn Ford
Conference Registrar
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800.775.2118 ext 125 (or 503.221.6612 ext 125)