| Anat Baniel Method (ABM) for Children |
Instructor
Josie has been a licensed massage therapist for more than 20 years and is a licensed clinical social worker. She has taught courses in the evaluation and treatment of injuries, deep tissue bodywork, gestalt communication skills and Anat Baniel Method. transformational movement lessons. Josie is a Certified Feldenkrais. Practitioner with over 15 years of advanced training and experience working with infants and children with special needs, anti-aging and improving performance skills in adults.
Description
The Anat Baniel Method (ABM) has been shown to be clinically effective for over 30 years for helping children with special needs upgrade their capacity for learning new movement options, emotional regulation and cognition. "With the Anat Baniel Method (ABM), a very different approach is taken. Rather than focus on the limitations and try to directly fix the presenting problem on the level of muscle, bone, joints, and soft tissue, the focus is shifted to where the most powerful solutions actually lie - with the brain." (Anat Baniel, Massage & Bodywork Magazine, Dec-Jan 2007)
With the ABM, instead of asking a child to do directly what is already difficult or impossible for them to do, we perceive and find the components and incremental steps that are necessary to build the skill. For example, children begin building the skills for the coordination of rolling up to sit, sitting, crawling and walking - while on their backs, bellies and side-lying - before they actually sit up. In this method, we do lessons in different positions and configurations to help build those components needed for later skills and to generalize their learning process. There are two modalities for learning in the Anat Baniel Method(sm): transformational movement lessons(TML) and functional synthesis(FS). These are the same lessons delivered two different ways, by guiding verbally or through gentle touch contact. There are more than a thousand movement lessons, many of which are developmentally based, which support and enhance a diversity of dynamic movements. In this workshop, you will experience a group of these lessons, first as movement lessons and then as hands-on skills that directly correlate with those lessons. Participants are taught to pay attention to small differences which can be enhanced comfortably into larger easy movements that may not have been options even a half hour earlier.
With the ABM, instead of asking a child to do directly what is already difficult or impossible for them to do, we perceive and find the components and incremental steps that are necessary to build the skill. For example, children begin building the skills for the coordination of rolling up to sit, sitting, crawling and walking - while on their backs, bellies and side-lying - before they actually sit up. In this method, we do lessons in different positions and configurations to help build those components needed for later skills and to generalize their learning process. There are two modalities for learning in the Anat Baniel Method(sm): transformational movement lessons(TML) and functional synthesis(FS). These are the same lessons delivered two different ways, by guiding verbally or through gentle touch contact. There are more than a thousand movement lessons, many of which are developmentally based, which support and enhance a diversity of dynamic movements. In this workshop, you will experience a group of these lessons, first as movement lessons and then as hands-on skills that directly correlate with those lessons. Participants are taught to pay attention to small differences which can be enhanced comfortably into larger easy movements that may not have been options even a half hour earlier.
- Learn the 9 essentials for lifelong vitality
- Experience brain-changing movement lessons)
- Learn about neuro-plasticity and it's relevance to children with disabilities
- Observe children receiving lessons from experienced ABM practitioners
- Learn hands-on techniques based on the Anat Baniel Method
- Enjoy the learning process!
| Date | September 17-19, 2010 |
| Time | Fri 6-9PM, Sat and Sun 9-5:30PM |
| Price | $325 ($275 if paid in full one month prior; $275 for current FSM students) |
| CEUs | 18 Florida |