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The Center for Energetic Studies, under the direction of Stanley Keleman, offers personal and professional education through workshops, classes and private sessions. The Center is concerned with the act of daily living and with body process as the basis for how individuals form both themselves and their worlds. This approach honors the universal process that animates us all while seeking to nurture and mature a personal and social self. Somatic emotional education uses individual experience, emotions, states of feeling, action patterns, insights and images to discover how life has been shaped and what is seeking to emerge. The key issue is how we use ourselves; learning the language of how viscera and brain use muscle to create a personal skill for managing one's life, in one's own way, with vitality and emotional truthfulness. Programs by Stanley Keleman throughout the year build on each other and are organized to form a whole; it is recommended that those persons interested in acquiring competence in his somatic approach participate in these courses in their entirety. Stanley
Keleman has
been practicing and developing somatic therapy for over thirty-five
years and is a pioneer in his study of the body and its connection
to the sexual, emotional, psychological and imaginative aspects of
human experience.Through his writings and practice, he has developed
a methodology and conceptual framework for the life of the body. Formative Psychology Life makes shapes. Life is a natural, evolutionary process in which series of shapes are continually forming. These shapes are part of an organizing process that embodies emotions, thoughts, and experiences into structure. This structure, in turn, orders the events of existence. Each person’s shape is his embodiment in the world. We are the body we inherit, the one that lives us, and a personal body, the one we live and shape through voluntary effort. We are citizens of these two worlds, the inherited and the personal. Molecules and cells organize into clusters, which further organize as layers, tubes, tunnels, and pouches. These give structure to liquid life and set the stage for embodied human consciousness. Through the act of living, a personal human shape grows, one that is changed by the challenges and stresses of life. Formative psychology is based in the evolutionary process in which life continually forms the next series of shapes, from birth through maturity to old age. At conception each person is given a biological and emotional inheritance, but it is through voluntary effort that this constitutional given fulfills its potential for forming a personal life. Form gives rise to feeling. The smallest voluntary effort brings forth the existential truth of one’s bodily experience. When individual identity grows from a somatic ground, we can say,“I know who I am by how I experience myself.” The methodology of formative psychology is voluntary muscular effort. The human cortex makes possible voluntary participation in our lives and gives the ability to make variations in muscular patterns. With voluntary effort, we can increase and decrease muscular intensity. The purpose is to generate and form emotional excitatory responses and to know how to receive, contain, and shape them. The ability to influence inherited behaviors, to differentiate them, is to participate with the forces of creation. It is a gift of life to give shape to our existence. Making shape is learned with practice over time. This forming practice proceeds from the simple to the complex through a continual chain of events, establishing patterns that have duration. In this way, an inner dialogue grows, giving our lives a personal and sacred dimension. With practice and commitment, we can learn the skills for living the cycles of our embodiment with vitality and emotional truthfulness.
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Descriptions Taking Charge of Your Life Part I: July 7 - 8, 2008 ....................................................... $300. Monday 9:30 am–4 pm, Tuesday 10 am–1 pm University of California Faculty Club 8 Continuing Education Credits Part II: July 10 - 11, 2008 .................................................... $125 Thursday and Friday 10 am–1 pm 2045 Francisco Street, Berkeley 6 Continuing Education Credits The personal power to take charge of our life cannot be found in external images or societal precepts. It is a power that comes from voluntary participation in the shapes of our embodiment. The ability to influence our destiny comes from the deepest source of inner pulsation, our life force. How we encourage or inhibit our innate actions establishes the autonomy to reorganize the past and present and orient to the future. Daily sessions include somatic-emotional exercises, didactic presentation, and individual work with Keleman in the group. Formative practice exercises are the heart of the work and teach the process of voluntary management of behavior. The intent is to support individual identity, deepen somatic process and patterns of feeling, and gain practical skills in working with oneself and others. To register, send a nonrefundable deposit of $150 and a brief statement about your background, occupation, and interests. Part II: Keleman will work with individuals who wish to deepen their experience from the previous session. The Formative Method and Practice Class The methodology of Formative Psychology teaches individuals how to participate in their embodiment. Classes are taught by Stanley Keleman and are held October through June for clients of Keleman and Center associates. Although participation in the ongoing practice class is limited, the methodology is introduced in all Keleman programs. For
information MANDATORY CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT The Center for Energetic Studies is approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences to provide mandatory continuing education for Marriage, Family, and Couple Counselors and Licensed Clinical Social Workers. Provider #1049. Programs in this brochure so designated meet the requirements for licensure renewal. To be added to our Mailing List To view or print the actual CES Brochure To register for a Program or to order Books or Tapes 
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