Continuing Education
Each facial and bodily gesture we make expresses an important meaning and demonstrates how we experience ourselves within our world. When fully felt and understood, they tell us something we had not known about ourselves in our relationships, or that we knew but now see more clearly.
During this two day online workshop we learn how our gestures form complex negotiations with others. They are the pathway to what has gone on in our earlier histories, what they entail for this present moment, and what they anticipate for the future.
Gestures don’t merely express thinking, rather they are thoughts forming in a phenomenological field. Once aware of their meanings, we have the capacity to change our habitual and rigid gestural patterns in relation – patient-therapist, partner-partner, employer-employee, teacher-student – to more spontaneous and free exchanges.
In this workshop, participants will:
- become familiar with their preferred gestural patterns; the ones most often used in communicating their ideas and emotions to another and even to themselves.
- come to understand the meaning made by these gestural configurations; what they say to the individual and to the other.
- discover how repetitive gestures emerge in the immediate present with traces of past experience and anticipations of future engagements.
- learn how gestural patterns always take shape in relation to another
Gestures and their Meaning is recommended for psychotherapists and trainees, social workers, psychiatrists, health professionals, movement educators and anyone who wants to better understand themselves in relationship.
Continuing Education Credits: 12 Hours
Date: Saturday & Sunday June 8 & 9, 2024 Times: 10:00AM - 5:00PM
Fee: Regular Fee: $495.00 | GIT Student & Alumni Fee: $450.00