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CORK — March 6-7, 2009 — A weekend workshop LearningMethods workshop    The application of Intelligence to Experience:    Learning how to solve problems and navigate life's challenges

 

WHO IS IT FOR?

Open to anyone — you do not need to have attended any previous workshops.

HOW WILL THE WORK HELP ME ?

Do you have some problem or ongoing issue in your life that you'd dearly love to be rid of? Have you tried many things, and maybe become better at coping by getting rid of the symptoms each time, but the problem keeps coming back?

Well, LearningMethods is a simple, fast, and straightforward way to use your intelligence to explore what is causing the problem, and how to change it and finally be truly liberated from those issues. You're not learning a whole new method, but you will be learning how to use the smarts and the experiences you already have.

It really does work. You'll be impressed with how fast you can make sense of and change your life.

Here are some of the common issues that people get help with (but you can bring up anything):

— Tension and pain — work-related, ongoing, or in specific activities like playing an instrument, driving, using a computer,

— Nervousness and stage-fright — in performance situations, giving a speech or presentation, or socially,

— Stress and strain — business demands, deadlines, being caught in rushing, personal crises, etc.,

— Injury and healing — Dealing with injury after an accident or chronic misuse, how to heal and recover well

— Learning blocks — difficulty or frustration in rehearsal / practice, in studying or in learning new activities,

— Phobias and fears — fear of flying, of heights, of driving, of dogs or insects, other ‘irrational’ fears, etc.,

— Relationship issues — on-going misunderstandings, conflict or arguing, being stuck in reaction, jealousy, etc.,

— Compulsions and dependency — eating disorders, quitting smoking, over-indulging, anorexia, etc.,

— Self-worth and judgement — self-judgement or worry of what others are thinking, low self-esteem, envy and comparison,

— Worry, fear for the future / stuck on the past — worrying about bad things that could happen, or unable to let go and move on,

— Other learning and discovery issues — how to go on learning and discovering for oneself, when to trust your own feelings, how to allow rather than force learning, etc.

— And, of course, anything else that you want to bring up...

Or you may simply want to learn more about yourself, or take your already-existing teaching or helping skills in a new direction…

David will work directly with each of you to help you learn how to explore, understand and solve problems, issues or challenges from your personal or professional life.

From these days you will definitely take away powerful tools that you can use right away in your life and your work, as well as to teach or help others.

WHAT WILL I BE LEARNING ?

Through the process of exploring and understanding your own issues, as well as by witnessing the explorations of others, you will find that you are learning to:

— systematically explore your own experiences and thoughts to be clear what is happening in your life (this sounds simple, but for most people, this is what stops them from solving their problems),

— recognize the difference between a symptom and its cause so you can liberate yourself from having to endlessly deal with symptoms,

— understand the messages of your emotions so that you can act instead of react and no longer be a slave to your feelings,

— and be more in touch with what the sensitivity and intelligence of your marvellous system is telling you,

— uncover inaccurate and misconceived beliefs and interpretations that keep you caught in problems,

— let change into your life without fear of the unknown and discover the pathway to what makes you happy,

— get out of the way of your intention, stop trying and making effort so that your innate co-ordinations can organize what you want,

— be clear about your own value and abilities and not get caught in worrying about what others think,

— be yourself with ease and acceptance, both alone and with others, and see others as they are so you can respond appropriately,

— communicate more effectively with more understanding of other people's point of view and so that they understand yours,

— uncover your amazing potential for effortless learning and deep change the more you gain the tools to see clearly how things work and align yourself with them.

— And this can happen a lot more easily and quicker than you might think.

You CAN be liberated from the habits and problems of a lifetime.
Come along and see for yourself — all you have to lose are your problems!

It is very common that issues are solved right there in the workshop, but the main emphasis is on helping you learn the tools and techniques of how to explore, understand and solve your own issues and challenges.

"LearningMethods is a very effective means of change and to me
the two most striking qualities are that it is immediate and it is permanent."
Professor of Education

LearningMethods is such an effective and fast way to change in large part because you are not learning a new method. Rather you are learning how to use your own intelligence to explore and make sense out of your own rich experiences. Once you know how to do this you will be able to solve your own problems and navigate successfully in your daily life.

"What we often find in front of us are daily experiences we repeatedly misunderstand, thinking that is sloppy and vague, joined with fixed ideas and unexamined beliefs — all driving us into a daily reality of reaction, misperception and suffering.
Agreat part of what we are doing in this work is to call this ‘reality’ into question by learning how to carefully and systematically explore our experiences and then how to use our in-built intelligence to accurately understand the significance of it all.
Whencan do that, over and over we see that what we need in order to change
is all there in front of us. In fact, this is nothing less than coming into our full
inheritance as human beings !"
David Gorman, developer of LearningMethods

The areas we will get into will depend on your needs and interests, so bring any problems you want to learn to solve, any activities or skills which you'd like to develop, or any teaching issues you have from working with others.

You will come out of this workshop with not only a more clear understanding of how to use your inbuilt intelligence to explore and solve issues, but also with the experiential learning that will help you put all this into practice in navigating your life. 

"What has transformed me is the idea and practice that we can work truly from
the symptom as the place of learning. Just the framework that the symptom is an
opportunity for learning rather than something to get rid of is extraordinary!"
University movement teacher

WHO IS THE TEACHER?...

David Gorman is the author and illustrator of The Body Moveable, a 600-page text on our marvellous human structure and design, and Looking at Ourselves, a collection of  essays on learning and change. For over thirty years he has worked with performers (singers, musicians, actors, dancers and circus artists), yoga teachers and students, athletes, and fitness instructors.

Originally trained as a teacher of the Alexander Technique, David 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, physiotherapy, osteopathy, massage, etc. was also director of a Training Program to train teachers of the Alexander Technique in London, England in the '80s and 90's.

Over the years, his changing understanding about the root causes of people's problems led him to gradually evolve his Alexander Technique teaching and develop a new work, LearningMethods (and an offshoot, Anatomy of Wholeness about our human design), which is now being integrated into the curricula of performance schools in Europe, Canada and the United States by a growing number of LearningMethods Teachers.

David is writing a new book, parts of which will soon be available in e-book and/or print format, and he is about to start a new modular training in LearningMethods, the Alexander Technique, and Anatomy of Wholeness.

Dates/Times:

Saturday March 6th and Sunday March 7th, 2009
Each day will run from 10am - 5pm with a one-hour lunch break.

Location:

The workshop will take place at The Teaching Rooms, 6 Sidney Place, Wellington Road, Cork (see a live Google map with directions here).
If you are coming from a distance, contact us about accommodation and/or rides to the workshop — we may be able to help...

Cost: (see also discount for full-time students below — all fees must be paid at registration)

Attending this 2 day workshop:
Early registration is €160 for the two days if paid on or before February 20th (you must pay at the time of registration). Normal fee (after February 20th) is €180 (you must pay at the time of registration).

Full-time student discount:
If you are a student in full-time study you are eligible for a €50 discount. The early registration student fee is €110 for the two days if paid on or before February 20th (you must pay at the time of registration). Normal fee (after February 20th) is €130 (you must pay at the time of registration).

Attending Part-time:
It may be possible to attend part-time, but full-time participants have priority for working.  The part-time fee is for whole days only and is €90 per day if paid on or before February 20th (you must pay at the time of registration). Normal fee (after February 20th) is €100 per day (you must pay at the time of registration).

Concessions are available:
If you cannot afford the full fee, but really want to attend, we would rather have you there than not be there just for financial reasons, so contact the organizer for further details.

Payment Methods:

1. on-line now by credit card or Paypal via secure servers making sure you include your phone
numbers and address in the note section; or

2. by cheque (contact the organizer below for details).

All fees or deposits must be paid at the time of registration

Contact:  for more information about the workshop and registering: 

Kathryn Doehner  
Tel: +353 879-584232
Lisnahorna, Whitescross, Cork, Ireland

 
Fine print – cancellations and refunds:  If we cancel the workshop for any reason you will be refunded in full any tuition or deposit money paid. If you cancel for any reason up to two weeks before the workshop starts you will be refunded any fees paid minus a €40 processing fee. No refunds will be made for any reason later than two weeks before the workshop start time.

 

 
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CORK — March 9-11, 2010 — A 3 day workshop In-depth Professional Training Module   Extending your practical and teaching skills in the Alexander Technique   LearningMethods, and Anatomy of Wholeness

 

WHO IS IT FOR?

Open to anyone who is interested in further practical learning, and in building and improving their teaching skills. Pre-requisite is previous work with David...

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

This workshop is for those who have worked with David before. The emphasis is on helping you deepen your learning, extend your teaching skills, and learn how to take the new approaches you have been learning with David into your more effectively into your teaching and into your daily life.

As such it will be largely driven by your interests and questions, your experiences in applying the work and where you want to go with it. David will also introduce new areas of exploration and help you to be more effective leading students and expressing the work.

What we get into can and probably will, draw upon many aspects of the overlapping approaches of the Alexander Technique, LearningMethods, and the Anatomy of Wholeness, which after all are just slightly different ways of looking at our ourselves and how we work, how we get stuck, and how we can change.

These workshops are part of the developing "LearningMethods Modular Training Program" and will be credited along with future work.

Dates/Times:

Tuesday March 9 to Thursday March 11, 2010
Each day will run from 10am - 5pm each day with a one-hour lunch break.

Location:

The workshop will likely take place at Lisnahorna, Whites Cross, Cork, Ireland (see a live Google map with directions here).
If you are coming from a distance, contact us about accommodation and/or rides to the workshop — we may be able to help...

Cost: (see also discount for full-time students below — all fees must be paid at registration)

Attending this 3 day workshop:
Early registration is €240 (€140 deposit) for the 3 days if paid on or before February 16th (you must pay the deposit or full fee at the time of registration). Normal fee (after February 16th) is €270 (deposit €140 – you must pay the deposit or full fee at the time of registration).

Full-time student discount:
If you are a student in full-time study you are eligible for a €60 discount (25%). The early registration student fee is €180 (€100 deposit) for the 3 days if paid on or before February 16th (you must pay the deposit or full fee at the time of registration). Normal fee (after February 16th) is €210 (€100 deposit – you must pay the deposit or full fee at the time of registration).

Attending Part-time:
It may be possible to attend part-time, but full-time participants have priority for working.  The part-time fee is for whole days only and is €90 per day if paid on or before February 16th (you must pay all part time days at the time of registration). Normal fee (after February 16th) is €100 per day (you must pay all part-time days at the time of registration).

Concessions are available:
If you cannot afford the full fee, but really want to attend, we would rather have you there than not be there just for financial reasons, so contact the organizer for further details.

Payment Methods:

1. on-line now by credit card or Paypal via secure servers making sure you include your phone
numbers and address in the note section; or

2. by cheque (contact the organizer below for details).

All fees or deposits must be paid at the time of registration

Contact:  for more information about the workshop and registering: 

Kathryn Doehner  
Tel: +353 879-584232
Lisnahorna, Whitescross, Cork, Ireland

 
Fine print – cancellations and refunds:  If we cancel the workshop for any reason you will be refunded in full any tuition or deposit money paid. If you cancel for any reason up to two weeks before the workshop starts you will be refunded any fees paid minus a €40 processing fee. No refunds will be made for any reason later than two weeks before the workshop start time.

 

 
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CORK — March 13-14, 2010 — A weekend workshop Liberating Performers     A series on eliminating major performance problems Part 2.  Performance without Tension, Effort, Difficulty or Injury

 
In association with the CIT Cork School of Music   

WHO IS IT FOR?...

Open to everyone — but especially for singers, musicians, actors, dancers, public speakers, and other performers, as well as teachers of all types of performance who want to learn ways to help their students.

You do not need to have attended any previous workshops, though the series collectively covers the majors issues faced by performers. Attending all parts of the series will be especially valuable for teachers to learn the whole range of ways to help your students.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?  WHAT WILL IT COVER?...

This is the second of the "Liberating Performers" series of workshop using the powerful LearningMethods approach which has helped hundreds of performers and revolutionized the pedagogy of teachers all around the world. It is now a regular part of the teaching curriculum in numerous colleges and conservatories in Europe and North America.

As a performer you have probably had some of those moments of effortless freedom, when you are totally immersed in the flow, where everything is easy, and your performance does itself with a quality and skill that is near your best.

"I am truly blessed to have met you and all the help I´ve already
have gotten from you and your discoveries"
                                   Professional Musician

This workshop will help you:

— understand why performers experience this lovely state so rarely and instead are often plagued by tension, effort and injury that threatens their career,

— learn what allows those lovely moments and how easy it is to make them your normal way of practicing and performing,

— learn how trying to focus on, and control, the coordinations of your parts leads to tension and effort, and in fact, why it virtually ensures you will not be able to trust your skill,

— learn how to let your amazing inbuilt coordinating system take care of the details so that you are free to focus on what you want,

— see mistakes not as problems to react to but as important parts of your learning process which, used well, will help you learn faster, easier and better,

"With this freedom now, I am a better artist.
My level is higher without having worked.
In the space of a week, it is incredible!"
                                                         Dancer, after recent Liberating Performers workshop

— experience how effort and strain are not the measure of how difficult something is, but of how much you are working against yourself,

— discover how fast, easy and fun learning new pieces and new skills can be once you know how to get your learning system working for you rather than interfering with it,

— understand why repetitive strain injuries can happen no matter how careful you are, but also how unnecessary they are,

— appreciate the significance of what the latest neuroscience shows about why most peoples' way of learning and practicing is bound to cause problems,

— and much, much more...

It is not uncommon for these sort of problems to be solved and for you to gain new skills after one workshop. Almost certainly you will take away such a different way of seeing things that you will be permanently changed, not just in performance but wherever else in your life these habits operate.

Come along and see for yourself — all you have to lose is your problems !

WHAT TO BRING?...

Yourself, your passion for performing, a willingness to explore and experiment, and a desire to be liberated from nervousness, fear and undermining judgment…

You may want to bring a clipboard, paper and coloured pens for notes. Recording is not permitted by participants, but an audio recording of the workshop may be available for purchase by participants.

WHO IS THE TEACHER?...

David Gorman has been working with performers (singers, musicians, actors, dancers and circus artists) for almost thirty years. Originally trained as a teacher of the Alexander Technique, David 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, physiotherapy, osteopathy, massage, etc.

He is the author and illustrator of The Body Moveable, a 600-page text on our marvellous human structure and design, and Looking at Ourselves, a collection of  essays on learning and change. He was also director of a Training Program to train teachers of the Alexander Technique in London, England in the '80s and 90's.

Over the years, his changing understanding about the root causes of people's problems led him to gradually evolve his Alexander Technique teaching and develop a new work, LearningMethods (and an offshoot, Anatomy of Wholeness about our human design), which is now being integrated into the curricula of performance schools in Europe, Canada and the United States.

David is training a growing number of LearningMethods teachers and writing a new book, parts of which will soon be available in e-book and/or print format.
 

Dates/Times:

Saturday March 13 to Sunday March 14, 2010
Each day will run from 10am - 5pm each day with a one-hour lunch break.

Location:

This workshop is co-sponsored by the Cork School of Music, Union Quay, Cork. (see a live Google map with directions).
If you are coming from a distance, contact us about accommodation and/or rides to the workshop — we may be able to help...

Cost: (see also discount for full-time students below — all fees must be paid at registration)

Attending this 2 day workshop:
Early registration is €160 for the two days if paid on or before February 20th (you must pay at the time of registration). Normal fee (after February 20th) is €180 (you must pay at the time of registration).

Full-time student discount:
If you are a student in full-time study you are eligible for a €50 discount. The early registration student fee is €110 for the two days if paid on or before February 20th (you must pay at the time of registration). Normal fee (after February 20th) is €130 (you must pay at the time of registration).

Attending Part-time:
It may be possible to attend part-time, but full-time participants have priority for working.  The part-time fee is for whole days only and is €90 per day if paid on or before February 20th (you must pay at the time of registration). Normal fee (after February 20th) is €100 per day (you must pay at the time of registration).

Concessions are available:
If you cannot afford the full fee, but really want to attend, we would rather have you there than not be there just for financial reasons, so contact the organizer for further details.

Payment Methods:

1. on-line now by credit card or Paypal via secure servers making sure you include your phone
numbers and address in the note section; or

2. by cheque (contact the organizer below for details).

All fees or deposits must be paid at the time of registration

Contact:  for more information about the workshop and registering: 

Kathryn Doehner  
Tel: +353 879-584232
Lisnahorna, Whitescross, Cork, Ireland

Fine print – cancellations and refunds:  If we cancel the workshop for any reason you will be refunded in full any tuition or deposit money paid. If you cancel for any reason up to two weeks before the workshop starts you will be refunded any fees paid minus a €40 processing fee. No refunds will be made for any reason later than two weeks before the workshop start time.