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Welcome to From Trauma to Formativeness: Trauma as Distortions of Form with Jim Feil

We are presently experiencing a massive interest in the subject of trauma, led by a host of researchers and clinicians around the world. A number of methodologies and figures have emerged in this conversation, including individuals such as Gabor Mate, Stephen Porges, Peter Levine, Judith Hermann, and many more. Their approaches vary, although much of this work emphasizes somatic and neurobiological processes.

Stanley Keleman is a pioneer in the field of somatic education. His work, Formative Psychology, has influenced many professionals in the somatic movement. Although Keleman’s work will be the primary influence in the methodology presented in this seminar, other important sources include Polarity Therapy, Craniosacral Biodynamics, and Pre and Perinatal understanding. Together, all this work is synthesized under the name Formative Embodiment.

​This course will serve as an introduction to the following topics:

  1. Primary Pulsation – The Body’s “Metronome” and Organizing Principle.
  2. The Embryological Foundations of Formativeness – Morphogenesis
  3. Boundaries and Form-Building – Porosity, Motility, Rigidity and Density
  4. Action – The Fundamental Imperative of the Human Form – The Body as “Organized Action”
  5. Formative Embodiment – Its Implications for Managing Stress and Trauma
  6. The Formative Narrative – Building Differentiation and Coherence
  7. Formative Methodology for Therapy and Self-Management
  8. Stanley Keleman’s Bodying Practice – The Dynamic of Embodying, Rebodying, and Cobodying.
  9. VMCE – Voluntary Motor-Cortical Effort – Keleman’s “Royal Road to the Unconscious” and to self-forming.

Our course meets online April 21-24, 2022

Times: 10 am - 6 pm, end by 4 pm on Sunday, Eastern time

Broadcast start times:

  • 7 am Pacific US
  • 8 am Mountian US
  • 9 am Central US
  • 10 am Eastern Us
  • ​2 pm London
  • 3 pm Spanish

The course is run in Zoom. All classes are recorded and uploaded into the online classroom.

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