Formative Psychology is concerned with the act of daily living and with body process as the basis for how individuals form both themselves and their worlds. This approach honors the universal process that animates us all while seeking to nurture and mature a personal and social self. Somatic emotional education uses individual experience, emotions, states of feeling, action patterns, insights and images to discover how life has been shaped and what is seeking to emerge. A Personal Life Humans have a sense of an inner organization, of a potentiality and possibility. This organization is a source of optimism and connects us to a bigger reality.
Most people lack a way to volitionally actualize their personal present.
We shape this embodiment when we organize an individual expression of universal qualities, such as gender and sexuality. Through commitment to ourselves and others, we form contact into intimacy and create the relationships that give the body its personal fate. Formative psychology suggests that we have many somatic selves waiting to be bodied. Our life is continually forming and re-forming, and from birth to death the shapes of our fate present themselves to be lived. The appearance of each new shape is another incarnation.