April 2024
Phase One (English & German)
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 English by Barbara Birner – in German by Antje Scherholz.
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 experientially 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 by Barbara Birner, in English.
Advanced Topic: The Mobility Gradient 2
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
PHASE FOUR – TOUCH, ATTACHMENT, AND MOVEMENT PATTERNS – 25 HOURS
In this phase the participants work with the details of developmental movements, and how learned interruptions of these movements can harm adult functioning.
By committing to an accurate, detailed and creative recovery of these early movements, we can set the stage for healthy adult behavior. Because these movements are often ‘remembering’ pre-verbal or non-verbal experiences, touch more than words often becomes the treatment of choice.
Participants will learn the basic principles and practices of the use of touch – types of touch, when, where and how to touch, how long to touch, and when not to touch.
Special attention will be placed on ethics, and how touch interventions can support movement sequencing. As well, we will relate movement tendencies to attachment tendencies – to the patterns of how we learned to navigate close relationships.
We will look into attachment theory, and keep drawing a through-line from attachment tendencies to movement patterns and to the power of touch to help relationships feel secure and nourishing.
Taught by Christine Caldwell, in English.
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