How we encourage or inhibit our innate actions establishes the autonomy to transcend the past and present and orient to the future. In this four-day program participants work intensively with formative methods developed at the Center. Daily sessions include somatic-emotional exercises, didactic presentation, and individual work with Keleman in the group. Formative practice exercises are the heart of the work and teach the volitional management of behavior. The intent is to support individual identity, deepen somatic process and patterns of feeling, and gain practical skills in working with oneself and others.
First section is prerequisite and enrollment is limited.
The methodology of Formative Psychology teaches individuals how to participate in their embodiment. Through practice, a person learns to grow, heal, and form a personal future throughout the different stages of a life. Developing a volitional relationship between body and cortex, a person invokes bodily attitudes just below awareness. The intent is to generate experience by changing the intensity of these attitudes. The volitional management of behavior gives personal identity.