Welcome to Endings, Transitions, Beginnings: Managing Major Transitions with Jim Feil

Major turning points in one´s life can take many forms, and it is often said, As one door closes, another opens. Jim Feil, and his new work Formative Embodiment offers a practitioner workshop exploring what Stanley Keleman described at the three phases of Endings, Transitions (aka Middle Ground) and Beginnings (the Stage of New Formation). These phases are key factors in many turning points in life. You will be learn:

•  New approaches to understanding transitions
•  Ways to help clients embrace a “new self” with sense of what is possible
•  A transformative somatic framework for embracing the unknown
• Tools for you and your clients for inquiry and awareness for change
• Foundational support that stabilizes anyone through stressful and often necessary periods of personal growth

 In this course, we will carefully examine the architecture and process of endings, transitions, and beginnings from this formative somatic perspective. We will build on what Keleman calls ¨the open-ended pulse of our formative process, which includes feelings of powerlessness, instability, and emptiness, as well as feelings of power, security, fullness, and wholeness. We will work with the inherent complexity of actions and of feelings to examine the forms, behaviors, and strategies we bring to important situations in our lives.

Our primary tool for inquiry, self-management and self-formation will be Keleman´s ¨Bodying Practice¨, also called the How practice and the Five Steps. The challenge of this work is to be with “the feeling of formation” as it prepares us for effective and satisfying action in the world. 

The course will be held live, with an online option available through zoom technology. All recordings will be uploaded here and available for 4 months past the date of the workshop.

 Dates: September 29-October 2, 2022

Places: It will be an online and in-person workshop held at The Journey Space in Glen Echo, MD: 6110 Oberlin Ave, Glen Echo, MD 20812.

Times: 10 am - 6 pm Eastern US Time, ending at 4 pm on Sunday

The course will be held live, with an online option available through zoom technology. All recordings will be uploaded here and available for 4 months past the date of the workshop.