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Studying LearningMethods:
In-Depth Study with DAVID GORMAN:
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Find out more about:

LearningMethods Open workshops
For those who want to learn
how to explore, understand and solve their own problems
Anatomy of Wholeness workshops (Practice &
Principles)
For health professionals and other
teachers to develop their own teaching
and pedagogical skills

LearningMethods Teaching workshops
For those wanting to train
to become a certified LearningMethods teacher
See also:
Calendar of courses
Teachers list
Where the work is taught
Change
can be quick and dramatic
when we get past our symptoms to the real causes. |
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When we
get in touch with ourselves, we really do have
all the sensitivity and information we need to guide our lives. |
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We are
the most amazing learning creatures on the planet
when we remove what has stopped us from growing. |
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If we stop trying so
hard to change ourselves and to get things right, new and surprising
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These workshops show you how to access all this in a simple and systematic
way. They have been designed to be equally valuable as a format to
understand your problems and transform your own life or as an on-going
apprenticeship towards learning to teach others. Anyone new to the work is
very welcome to join us.


LearningMethods Open Workshops


The emphasis in these workshops is on learning how to learn and find out
for yourself; i.e. the workshops are driven by your own questions,
problems, explorations and experiments. The weeks are open to anyone
willing and committed to learning more about themselves, to challenging
their current framework of understanding and to exploring their practice
or performance.
Sessions can be set up either individually, in small groups of 2, 3 or 4,
etc. or by joining in any of the scheduled
workshops that take place in various cities in Europe and North
America. These workshops are small—usually between 5-8 participants, in
order to ensure a depth of personal and practical work.
Most of the time we will be working as a group so that each person learns
to articulate their experiences and everyone can share in the learning.
There is a tremendous support and understanding when we all go through
things together, not to mention more opportunities to gain a perspective
on one's own issues when see them mirrored in others.
The workshops usually take place over 5 days, from approximately 10:00am
to 4:00pm (with a one-hour lunch). Because of the small class size,
preference will be given to those committing for the whole workshop, but
if numbers permit, it may be possible to attend for three days, the
minimum period in which it is possible to get a sense of the approach of
the work. This part-time attendance is especially helpful for those who
wish to get a sense of whether this approach will be helpful for them
before committing to a whole workshop.
Private classes or small groups of 2-4 with David may be available some
days after the main workshop day finishes—contact the organizer of each
event for further information (see workshop
schedules).


LearningMethods / Anatomy of Wholeness
Practice and Principles Workshops


Prerequisite is to have attended one or more of the
other introductory open LearningMethods workshops or Anatomy of Wholeness
workshops.
For anyone interested in learning more about:
— The practice & pedagogy of teaching others how to
learn,
— Our human structure and function and its implications
for performance and movement,
— Bringing greater skill and ease of learning to
singing, acting, yoga, martial arts, etc.,
— How to apply the insights of LearningMethods in other
teaching modalities,
— and for those becoming teachers of the
LearningMethods work.
More information coming soon...
Further Information about the Courses
All of the courses on the calendar follow
roughly the same format and schedule (except for some of the residential
weeks as noted):
Course Dates and Times:
Monday to Friday (or sometimes Saturday to Wednesday or Thursday to
Sunday)
10:00 am to 4:00 pm with a one hour lunch
Cost:
Contact organizers for details, a non-refundable deposit will assure your
place.
Description of each Course:
Jump to the workshop schedule page for a
description of each particular course and its venue.
David Gorman will be present full-time on all these courses. Other
teachers and senior apprentices may join us to assist in some of the
courses.
Individual and Small Group Sessions after 4:00 pm
Private lessons: approx. 1.5 to 2 hours each
Small groups of 2 to 4 people: approx. 1+ hour per person (e.g. 2
people for 2 to 2.5 hours, or 3 people for 3 to 3.5 hours).
About the developer of LearningMethods
David Gorman developed the LearningMethods work out
of over 40 years of research and teaching experiences. His background is in art and science and
a fascination with exploring human structure and function. In the early 1970s he spent many nights
dissecting and drawing in the human anatomy lab. In 1981 he published an illustrated 600-page
work on our human musculo-skeletal system called The Body Moveable (about to enter its 6th edition) and in 1996, a collection of
articles, Looking at Ourselves (now in its 2nd edition).
He happened upon the Alexander Technique in 1972 and was immediately intrigued
by its power for change. After training as an Alexander Technique teacher with Walter Carrington in London, David has
been teaching that work since 1980, becoming well-known worldwide
for his innovations to the work and notorious for challenging the orthodoxy of the profession.
He has been invited to teach all over the world in universities, conservatories and training colleges,
at conferences and symposia, and with performance groups and health professionals.
In 1982, his teaching was revolutionised by his discovery of a new model of
human organisation — Anatomy of Wholeness — with its
profound implications about our in-built natural tendency toward balance, ease and wholeness. He
extended these insights into a new way of training teachers of the Alexander Technique and from
1988 to 1997 in London, England he trained 45 teachers.
His experiences with his own students and in other training groups made it clear
that a huge part of our chronic problems lay not in the 'body' but in our consciousness and habitual
way of seeing things and how we misinterpret our daily experiences and then become caught in reaction
to these misunderstandings. At this point it also became apparent that his discoveries revealed
new premises which in turn implied new teaching methods, so David developed the LearningMethods
work to teach people how to apply their in-built intelligence and clarity of perception to their
daily experience in order to understand their problems, solve them and more successfully navigate their
lives.
Since the beginning of this new work in 1997, David has trained a growing number
of LearningMethods Teachers, many of whom are now teaching the LM work in universities and conservatories,
and he has now begun a new modular training program
for LearningMethods, Anatomy of Wholeness and the Alexander Technique, pioneering new ways to learn and teach via online
video conferencing.
LEARNINGMETHODS
Teachers
The following are qualified LearningMethods teachers certificated by David
Gorman to teach the LearningMethods work. All teachers adhere to a Professional Code of Conduct.
If you wish more information than these web pages offer about how the
LearningMethods work may be able to help you, contact one of the
teachers below to talk or to set up an
appointment and experience it for yourself.
To find a LEARNINGMETHODS Teacher
in a specific country, click below:
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Switzerland -|- United Kingdom -|- United
States
or to find a Senior LearningMethods Apprentice-Teacher (see note below
about Apprentice Teachers):
Sweden -|-
United States
More information on training as a LearningMethods teacher,
click here
CANADA
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David Gorman
Toronto area
Teaches in-person workshops,
online and phone sessions,
LearningMethods teacher training
E-mail:
Tel: +1 416-519-5470
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Eillen Sellam
Toronto area
Les séances en Français, en anglais ou en espagnol
— sessions in French, English, or Spanish
E-mail:
Tel: +1 416-519-5470
web site: www.eillensellam.com
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FRANCE
NORWAY
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Kari Manum
Oslo area
Teaches in Norwegian or English
E-mail:
Tel. (mobile): +47 9508-2274
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SWEDEN
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Bodil Rummelhoff
Stockholm area
Teaches in Swedish or English
E-mail:
Tel: +46 (0)8-687-0248,
mobile: +46 (0)73-679 48 43
web site:
www.learntolearn.se
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Åsa Öhlin
Stockholm / Ekerö area
E-mail:
Tel: +46 (0)8-759-0147,
mobile: 0707-306450
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Lena Jonhäll
Stockholm area
E-mail:
Tel: +46 (0)8-156395,
mobile: +46 (0)70-899-0528
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SWITZERLAND
UNITED KINGDOM
UNITED STATES
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Babette Lightner
Minneapolis/St. Paul & western Wisconsin area
E-mail:
Tel. (cell): +1 612-729-7127
web site: www.StonesInWater.com
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Ben Kreilkamp
Minneapolis/St. Paul area
E-mail:
Tel: +1 612-721-3569
web site: www.BenKreilkamp.com
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Elizabeth Garren
Minneapolis/St. Paul area
E-mail:
Tel: +1 612-375-9142,
cell: +1 612-804-1086
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Rebecca Frost
Minneapolis/St. Paul area
E-mail:
Tel: +1 612-827-7956
web site: www.EmbodiedArts.com
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SENIOR APPRENTICE-TEACHERS
The senior Apprentice-Teachers in this section are at the stage of their
training as LearningMethods teachers where they are quite experienced and are qualified to work with pupils in an
unsupervised capacity even while they continue the final stages of their supervised training, Contact them for details, appointments, fees, etc.
Sweden -|- United States
More information on training as a
LearningMethods teacher
SWEDEN — APPRENTICE-TEACHERS
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Niclas Stureberg
Stockholm area
Teachers in Swedish or English
E-mail:
Tel: +46 (0)8-744-4463
mobile: 070-372-7210
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UNITED STATES — APPRENTICE-TEACHERS
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Bonnie Z. Bottoms
Minneapolis / St. Paul area
E-mail:
Tel (cell): +1 952-380-7667 (cell)
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Miriam Scholz-Carlson
Minneapolis / St. Paul area
E-mail:
Tel: +1 612-825-0997
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All attempts are made to ensure that the information in these pages is
accurate, however we assume no responsibility for errors. Please
to notify us of any inaccuracies and we will correct
them as soon as possible.
If you have any questions please contact us at:
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