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While we typically see the Moving Cycle as a psychotherapy form, it can also be used in many other disciplines. In this course, co-taught by Christine and other MC teachers, we will dive deeply into the process of making art, whether it be for self-reflection, performance, or the sheer joy of it.

Gretl will teach us about sculpting with everyday objects, Thomas and Sabine will lead us in sound and music, and all of us will play with dance and movement as art-making. Together, we will apply various MC principles, such as oscillation, associations, description, and movement sequencing to our creative outpourings, and feel the effects of building temporary, intentional community on our experience of art. This course is open to all Moving Cyclers, regardless of how many courses they have taken. Special Topics classes (like the Creativity one) are also open to anyone interested!

Participants learn the theory and practice of the Moving Cycle, as it has developed from its roots in dance therapy, body psychotherapy, neuroscience, attachment theory, phenomenology, and contemplative disciplines. Learning takes place largely through physical experimentation, followed by discussion. Core skills will be taught: the oscillation of attention, postponing meaning-making, physical free association, shared authority between the facilitator and the mover, and supporting emerging movement sequences to become body narratives.

Taught in Englisch by Christine Caldwell

Basic skills will be refined and extended by focusing on how the self develops in relationship, and how non-verbal interaction deeply influences our energy, our character, and our bodies. By experimentally studying the body-to-body relationship between the facilitator and the mover, the facilitator can internalize skills that support the mover to feel more secure in touching into body memories and action tendencies from the past that can now be sensitively worked with within the attuned relationship.

Taught in English by Christine Caldwell