April 2025
The Mobility Gradient is seen as increasingly central in the Moving Cycle’s theory and practice, helping us to understand how to observe movement, how to work with trauma and addiction, and how to promote creativity. This course, taught through the DMT program at Zoe School in Basel, will briefly review the structures of movement processes, and then look in detail at how to work with all the locations on the Gradient.
Taught by Christine Caldwell, in English
May 2025
The Mobility Gradient is seen as increasingly central in the Moving Cycle’s theory and practice, helping us to understand how to observe movement, how to work with trauma and addiction, and how to promote creativity. This course, taught through the DMT program at Zoe School in Basel, will briefly review the structures of movement processes, and then look in detail at how to work with all the locations on the Gradient.
Taught by Christine Caldwell, in English
Special Topic Course: The Moving Cycle as Creative Process
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!
Teachers: Christine Caldwell, Thomas von Stuckrad, Sabine von Stuckrad, Great Bauer, and Barbara Schmidt Rohr.
Advanced Topic Teaching and Learning
In many ways, wellbeing can be seen as related to our ability to learn. Whether it is in therapeutic, educational, or personal contexts, learning ensures our adaptability, our openness to new experiences, and our problem-solving skills. We typically think of learning as a largely cognitive phenomenon, but our bodies constantly need to learn as well.
This course will explore, in a cross-disciplinary way, how we can use body-based learning as a means of expanding our ability to take in, digest, and make use of new experiences, and apply this to our healing, our education, our relationships, and our ability to self-reflect. In addition, we will practice both formal and informal teaching techniques within the framework of the Moving Cycle.This course will count as the Teaching Course requirement for students interested in becoming Moving Cycle teachers.
Teacher: Christine Caldwell
Assisted by: Sabine Von Stuckrad, Kira Kords and Rachelle Janssen.
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
IMPORTANT
Day 1 and 2 (17.&18.May) will take place at tanzApartmentStudio, day 3 and 4 (19.&20.May) at Eden Studios.
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
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