Online Classes & Meet-Ups
It’s our intention to offer Continued Learning opportunities for our students and communities with graduate level studies as a focus, while also being available for current and additional trainees to join in.
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UPCOMING CLASS SERIES - FALL 2024
Meeting a Student’s Trauma Patterns in a Lesson
September 7th, October 12th, and November 16th
As teachers of Alexander Technique it is our job to work with people’s patterns and habits, and many times patterns or habits develop as a response or survival strategy after experiencing trauma. Through this three part class series, Molly Kittle, Rebecca Harrison, and Darci Balkcom will offer tools for recognizing and working with trauma patterns when they come up while teaching an Alexander lesson.
Each one of these teachers has developed their own skill sets based on experience and varying continuing education for working with trauma.
We will explore the following together from the perspective of being teachers facilitating Alexander lessons:
How to identify & recognize when a pattern may or may not have trauma at the root
How to hold productive space in a lesson that helps a student process a trauma
How to offer additional options to the traditional Alexander Technique directions we all know that can offer a safe space for trauma to be psychophysically processed and potentially released
and more!
When:
Saturday, September 7th, 10-12 am CT with Molly Kittle
Saturday, October 12th, 10-12 am CT with Rebecca Harrison
Saturday, November 16th, 10-12 am CT with Darci Balkcom
Where:
Molly’s Zoom Room - link provided upon registration
Cost:
3 Classes for $150
Replays will be available!
Please register by August 31st!
September 7th Class
Everything Gets To Be Here
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central (8 AM - 10 AM Pacific)
with Molly Kittle
To open our series, Molly will be exploring the general theme of trauma — what it is, how to identify it — with specific focuses on how to tell when someone is fully in their body and when they're not, and grounding through pelvic awareness. We’ll also experiment with facilitating a safe space while in a teaching role, with some examination on when not to use typical “direction” in hands-on work when it relates to trauma specifically, and how you might start to apply some tools that address these things in your work.
October 12th Class
All About Patterns!
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central (8 AM - 10 AM Pacific)
with Rebecca Harrison
The second class of our series is all about patterns! Join Rebecca in exploring and identifying distinctions around dysregulated states or stress responses that inevitably come up when doing whole-self explorations in AT work. Learn to notice whether a student’s dysregulated state stems from a deeply ingrained pattern OR from having an active experience of processing material at hand. We’ll examine what patterns are, how the typical “fight, flight, and freeze” play a role in a patterned response, and how to work with each one.
November 16th Class
Somatic Experiencing and AT
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central (8 AM - 10 AM Pacific)
with Darci Balkcom
Inspired by her continued education in this modality, join Darci in learning how to weave a few simple Somatic Experiencing tools into an Alexander lesson. We’ll touch on how the 2 modalities have some similarities, and how one’s mindset, memory, or thinking can influence or trigger a trauma response to show up. Learn some SE-inspired tools that can help a student think about a traumatic experience while being able to keep their body present and even open up the possibility for unwinding the residue of that trauma in the body, and how you might do that in the context of a lesson. We will also continue to build on the exploration of which AT directions can be most supportive for trauma responses, and how they might differ from the traditional Alexander directions of “up and out.”