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Studying LearningMethods
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In-Depth Study with DAVID GORMAN
Learn how to use your own intelligence and bring it to bear on your experiences so you can understand how and why you have been caught in the problems you have... and
learn how to change them so that you become free of them.
— Change can be quick and dramatic
when we get past our symptoms to the real causes.
— When we get in touch with ourselves, we really do have
all the sensitivity and information we need to guide our lives.
— We are
the most amazing learning creatures on the planet
when we remove what has stopped us from growing
— If we stop trying so hard to change ourselves and to get things right, new and surprising abilities are revealed
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 has been studying human
structure and function since 1970. He is the author of an illustrated 600-page
text on our human musculoskeletal system, called
The Body Moveable (now in
its 6th edition and in colour), and numerous articles and essays, including
the book, Looking at Ourselves (2nd
edition in colour).
David has been working with performers (singers,
musicians, actors, dancers and circus artists) for over forty years. He is a
trainer of teachers of LearningMethods and of the
Alexander Technique and has taught all
over the world in universities, conservatories, performance companies, and orchestras;
for doctors in hospitals and rehabilitation clinics; and in training courses
for Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, physiotherapy, osteopathy, massage & yoga.
Over the years, his changing understanding about the
root causes of people's problems led him to gradually extend his Alexander Technique
teaching into the development of a new work, LearningMethods (and an
offshoot, Anatomy of Wholeness about our marvelous human design), which
is being integrated into the curricula of performance schools in Europe, Canada
and the United States by a growing number of LearningMethods
Teachers and Apprentice-teachers.
Since 2010, David has been running online post-graduate
groups for Alexander Technique teachers and groups for those who want to learn to
use LearningMethods in their own lives, as well as those who want to integrate the
work into their existing professional work as a teacher, therapist, medical or
body-work practitioner.
LEARNINGMETHODS
Teachers
The following are the certificated LearningMethods teachers currently
licensed 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.
Most of the teachers below teach in-person
sessions or workshops, but they also teach in online or phone sessions, so don't
let distance stop you from exploring how LearningMethods can help you.
To find a LEARNINGMETHODS Teacher in a specific country, click below:
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Norway -|- Sweden -|- Switzerland -|- United Kingdom-|-
United States
or to find a Senior LearningMethods Apprentice-Teacher
(see note about Apprentice Teachers):
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Ireland -|- United
Kingdom -|- United States
More information on training as a LearningMethods teacher,
click here
CANADA
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David Gorman
Toronto area
Teaches in-person lessons and workshops
Online / phone sessions worldwide
LearningMethods teacher training
E-mail:
Tel: +1 416-519-5470
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Eillen Sellam
Toronto area
In-person lessons or workshops
Online / phone sessions
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
In-person lessons or workshops
Online / phone sessions
Teaches in Norwegian or English
E-mail:
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SWEDEN
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Bodil Rummelhoff
Stockholm area
In-person lessons or workshops
Online / phone sessions
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 / Drottningholm 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
In-person lessons or workshops
Online / phone sessions
E-mail:
Tel. (cell): +1 612-729-7127
web site: www.StonesInWater.com
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Ben Kreilkamp
Minneapolis/St. Paul area
In-person lessons or workshops
Online / phone sessions
E-mail:
Tel: +1 612-721-3569
web site: www.BenKreilkamp.com
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Elizabeth Garren
Minneapolis/St. Paul area
In-person lessons or workshops
Online / phone sessions
E-mail:
Tel: +1 612-375-9142,
cell: +1 612-804-1086
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Rebecca Frost
Minneapolis/St. Paul area
In-person lessons or workshops
Online / phone sessions
E-mail:
Tel: +1 612-827-7956
web site: www.EmbodiedArts.com
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Bonnie Z. Bottoms
Minneapolis / St. Paul area
E-mail:
Tel (cell): +1 952-380-7667
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Miriam Scholz-Carlson
Minneapolis / St. Paul area
E-mail:
Tel: +1 612-825-0997
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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.
Canada -|-
Germany -|- Ireland
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United Kingdom -|-
United States
More information on training
as a LearningMethods teacher
CANADA — APPRENTICE-TEACHERS
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Marion Day
Stratford, Ontario area
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario area
E-mail:
Tel: +1 519-276-0888
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GERMANY — APPRENTICE-TEACHERS
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Kathryn Doehner
Tübingen / Stuttgart area
Unterrichtet auf deutsches oder englisch
— sessions in German or English
E-mail:
Tel: +49 (0)87-958-4232
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IRELAND — APPRENTICE-TEACHERS
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Andrew Monaghan
Cork or rest of Ireland
In-person lessons or workshops
Online / phone sessions
E-mail:
Tel: +1 514-898-0053
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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 KINGDOM — APPRENTICE-TEACHERS
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David Robertson
Enniskillen, Belfast, and other parts of Northern Ireland
In-person lessons or workshops
Online / phone sessions
E-mail:
Tel: +44 (0)288-952-1986
mobile: +44 (0)770-959-0838
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UNITED STATES — APPRENTICE-TEACHERS
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Jen Bush
San Francisco area
E-mail:
Tel: +1 715-688-9556
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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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and
we'll notify you of upcoming events, including more
details of this new training as they become available.
If
you cannot make it to a workshop or want to work in
between workshops, it is always possible (and very
effective too) to do LearningMethods
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