Making Connections Workshops
Experience for yourself
Feel, Move, Touch
Making Connections in Berlin and Cologne
Body-Mind Centering® and Diversability
BMC® und die Förderung besonderer Menschen/ BMC® Supporting Special People mit/ with Thomas Greil
22.10.2023 in Berlin, 24.3.2024 in Cologne, 13.10.2024 in Berlin
Tagesworkshops/ one day workshops
PDF Deutsch/ English
November 11 -16, 2023 in Bratislava
M A K I N G C O N N E C T I O N S
B M C ® A N D D I V E R S A B I L I T Y
A week of workshops and individual meetings
for Parents, Therapists, Educators, and other Professionals
Workshop November 11 and 12, 2023
THE ALCHEMY OF ACCEPTANCE
Body-Mind Centering® and Trauma
with Anka Sedlačková and Thomas Greil
for PDF in English
A weeklong meeting, teaching, exchanging, and sharing in Bratislava, coming out of the international project MAKING CONNECTIONS born in 2019 – starting with a workshop on the weekend November 11/12 THE ALCHEMY OF ACCEPTANCE – Body-Mind Centering® and Trauma. The project is especially addressed to families with a member with diverse abilities, parents, as well as educators, and therapists, with the idea that real change can only happen in the entire constellation of relationships around the person. And that only through cooperation can these changes integrate to support the person and his or her environment.
MAKING CONNECTIONS is therefore aimed not only at children/and adults with disabilities or psycho-physical frailty, but at all those who are involved in this experience, both as family members and as professionals, offering a space for mutual recognition of skills and opportunities to exchange and encounter between them.
Learning through Experience
Workshops for Parents and Professionals
Workshops
Learning means making new connections between mental, emotional and physiological processes. The brain develops on the base of experience. The plasticity of the nervous system allows us to learn throughout life and make connections within ourselves and with others and the environment: within the realm of the self, gravity and space. This also includes the context, the family, society, schools and institutions, as well as the group of educators and therapists caring for a person/ child with a disability. These connections create the foundation of all learning processes. The workshops are specifically tailored to share our approach with parents and professionals.
A big part of a workshop is experiential, that means that the participants experience in their own bodies movement and touch as the foundation of learning. We also discuss key concepts and share short videos, which demonstrate the direct link between one’s own experience and the application in individual session.
Learning Objectives
– Exploring a dynamic approach working with children with special needs and their families
– Experiencing developmental steps and processes in one’s own body
– Building experiences from bottom up to verticalization and movements on higher levels
– Bringing different levels for older children – Working through play and enticement – Facilitating in a non-intrusive way
– Facilitating with respect for the child and the family – Using the senses to stimulate the child’s curiosity and sense of discovery
– Enhancing the child’s sense of self and agency, and relationship to others
– Getting an understanding how to transmit movement and touch principles
– Understanding of dormant potentials to facilitate development
– Understanding the importance of touch for development and change
– Understanding the meaning of care and being touched with care
Hosting a Making Connections Workshop
The workshops are facilitated by our collaborators.If you would like to purchase the access to the recording of a series of online workshops see here … or write to babyfit@babyfit.sk
Please write to us, if you are interested in hosting a Making Connections
workshop in your region or online at admin@making-connections.org
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Please write to us, if you are interested in hosting a Making Connections
workshop in your region or online.