Thomas Greil

Sunday, Day 3
November 3rd
2:30pm - 4:00pm EST

Memory, Imagination, Embodiment

There are questions which follow me since many years, guiding me in my research as human being, practitioner, therapist, and teacher: What is the process by which we learn and how do we integrate experiences in this process; how is memory integrated, maintained, and recalled in cells, tissues, fluids, in the brain and nervous system; how do we form habits; how do we hold on to what is useful and let go of what is not needed anymore; how do we recover forgotten abilities and let emerge new ones; how imagination is the driving force to connect past, present and future; why do we lack as a society and culture enchantment; and what is the role of capitalism in that; how can we deconstruct the illusion of separation, self and identity; how we can become sensitive to the context, and the environment, to allow a view of bodies in communion, in community; resisting isolation, resisting the colonization of bodies, minds and souls; to see care, health and healing as a communal process, rather than an individual. The workshop is part reflection, part experiential and part discussion/ sharing.

Bio

Thomas Greil began to study BMC® in 1994, and since more than 20 years teaches worldwide in BMC® Certification Programs (SME, Practitioner and IDME) as well as in many other contexts. He was the administrative director of the BMC® Program in Germany (2003-2007), and a founding member of moveus, and SOMA. Specialized in the work with children with disabilities, he was close to Bonnie as she articulated the work with children with special needs, and together with Anka Sedlačková founded the project Making Connections. He is also a Practitioner of the Jeremy Krauss Approach (JKA), based on the Feldenkrais method. Drawing on neuroscience, and developmental psychology, he has developed a trauma-sensitive approach to somatic education and therapy. Together with Carla Bottiglieri he founded minima somatica, a laboratory of transversal inquiry in the somatic practices of movement and care, in Faenza, Italy. www.minimasomatica.org, www.making-connections.org