WHAT IS IT?
Perceptual Pedagogy is a psycho-somatic discipline that supports the development of the individual, social, intellectual, behavioral, relational, mental, and learning capacities
The discipline, originally developed by Ph.D. Danis Bois (osteopath, fascia-and psychotherapist), is the subject of ongoing research involving scientists from various fields at the CERAP.org, Center for Applied Research and Study of Perceptual Psychoeducation at the University Fernando Pessoa in Portugal
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How?
# MANUAL TREATMENT ON THE FASCIA
THE PSYCHOTONIC TOUCH is a relational touch that creates a real tissue dialogue between the practitioner and the accompanied person and awakens a new sensibility. Its protocol is made of slow stretches and support points on the person lying down. The person finds a state of unity and physical and mental well-being. Self-perceiving becomes a pathway to an enriched relation to self, to others, and to the world around and whatever events one encounters
# FULL PRESENCE® meditation
Through the feeling of a living, sensitive and warm body, this meditation renews the presence to oneself and delivers information that allows one to better understand and live oneself. It promotes the creation of a space of silence, and a climate of calm and balance. Step away from the hustle and bustle to deploy a mode of perception that optimizes reflection, creativity, and innovation. A moment to listen to each other and welcome self, others, and events with more openness in seeing potentialities
# SENSORIAL MOVEMENT TRAINING®
is a dynamic and internalized gestural work. Sensorial Movement develops a presence to one’s gesture and conveys a sense of unity and engagement that offers a solid commitment to action. By developing self-listening one learns to better open up and relate to others. Moving is also a way to address eventual blind spots and areas less dominant in one’s perception, beyond one’s constructed representations…one can slowly build up more directions, orientations, and amplitude. New possibles are born from the experience of the moving body
# DIALOGUE
A time to put the bodily (manual, gestural, or during meditation) experience into words, simply describing it. Dialogue is essential to highlight and promote experiences that, if they stay unnamed, do not take on their full dimension. All these practices develop new capacities of attention and perception and open towards a more conscious presence to oneself in relation to others
An extra tool can be added to express what was encountered during Full Presence – writing, drawing, dancing…without any need for skills or previous experience. We will usually suggest writing a few words for ex directly post-immediate experience
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One of the key principles of Perceptual Pedagogy is to momentarily establish a slight loss of references, for example by working eyes closed, or moving slowly, using silence and stillness as entry points, and ‘hack’ one’s habitual predominant representations. This is called the Sensible mode. Once a loss of references has been experienced, the practice invites us to stand witness to what new data eventually emerges from this state and integrate the unusual into the known, in simple words, learning from what is new and finding new meanings. The novelty in this discipline comes from the emergence of potentialities otherwise invisible to the usual perception that once experienced, reveal new valid meaning and knowledge directly from corporeality and a lived experience
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WHERE?
HELSINKI punavuori / centre
or I can make my way to yours in case of mobility issues
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INDIVIDUAL SESSION (60-75 min)
may include a combination of gentle manual care, sensorial movement sequences, introspective FULL-PRESENCE® meditation, and writing / verbalizing from the sensorial experience or solely the manual practice depending on the person's need
BENEFITS
• Well-being: appeasement of physical and psychic tensions, bodily anchoring, security, unity between body and thoughts, solidity, vitality
•Relational quality: simplicity, authenticity, quality of presence, self-esteem, respect for others, better communication
•Creativity and self-action: access new points of view on life situations, a better understanding of the issues, new perspectives, and innovative solutions
• Self-development: feel at home in one’s life, learn to use one’s strengths and improve weaknesses, find a freer and more expressive sense of self, access more nuances and new potential views not usually thinkable
•Professional skills: enrich one's knowledge and life skills, reveal one's talents, skills, desires, childlike vital force sometimes lost along the way, and develop one's quality of presence in front of an audience
A first-time session will include an initial dialogue to take into account a person's current mental and physical state as well as evaluate together if the work is suitable considering her history
GROUP SESSIONS
spring 2023 schedule
WEDNESDAYS 17.15-18.30
at Sweet Spot Studio Helsinki
Unioninkatu 7
book at 0451121590 or ingrid.catherine.andre@gmail.com
Or contact me to organize a course for your community or team: to build shared fields of perception between group members, address relational situations, as well as address a need for new perspectives within personal or professional situations
A COURSE FOR ARTISTS & CREATIVES
EXPANDING PERCEPTION
/ adding the Sensible dimension to artistic, creative, and reflective processes
An experimental course I created leaning on Perceptual Education and my own experience as a dancer and artist, starting from the Sensible mode of perception as a pathway to explore materials, situations, or whatever subject or field a group is working with
PDF file of the course overview is available upon request
PRICE
Individual sessions are 80 euros (incl. 10 % vat)
Groups and courses upon request
BOOKINGS & INFO
+358.45.1121590 and ingrid.catherine.andre@gmail.com
Photos by Jan Ahlstedt
