The Formative Model is a highly inclusive somato-educational vision of the human being living in the present moment. It includes in its principles and practice embryology and morphogenesis, evolution, the roles of family and society, and incorporates the influence of formative events in life, including trauma, transitions and crises. It is inspired by the Formative Psychology of Stanley Keleman as well as by a number of other therapeutic modalities, such as Pre and Perinatal Therapy, Craniosacral Biodynamics, Polarity Therapy, and others.

The Formative Process, and its therapeutic method, is built on a number of life-enabling factors:

The Archetypal Pulse - The primary organizing principle of forming and of life.

The Principle of Polarity – An ordering force at all scales of life – from quantum to galactic, including the human.

Boundary-making and Form-Building

The Flow of Energy, Information and Matter through the body and Nervous System – Oscillation, Resonance, Rhythm, Coherence.

Action as the centerpiece and primary concern of the body, supported and informed by feedback, including sensation, feeling, thought, memory.

Embodiment based on inherent and inherited biological pre-programming and on voluntary choice and effort.

The Human Developmental Sequence and Emergence –New perspectives and capabilities for passing through and managing life stages and transitions

The Formative Methodology incorporates the “Bodying Practice” of Stanley Keleman as a primary procedure for self-education, therapy and dealing with life´s challenges and opportunities. This practice is built on neuroscience, embryological studies and , modern physics in their implications for on-going human formativeness.

These include

• Containment,
• Presence,
• Mirroring,
• Precise Tracking of client shifts and responses,
• Accurate reflection of emotional and expressive states,
• Listening to client narratives at many levels simultaneously (content, emotion, gesture, relational dimension, energetics).
• Relational skills including contextualizing, differentiating, appropriate communication and rhythm.

At the end of this course, a participant will have a clear view of formative work and its difference from other somatic approaches.

They will have a step-by-step methodology that, among other functions, amplifies and clarifies the signaling processes among the nervous, motor and metabolic systems, with the heart as the central mediator.

They will have a method to connect the inherent reflex systems of the body (fight, flight, freeze) with voluntary influence and reorganization of defensive responses.

They will have a way to use gestures of the hands and postures of the body to clarify aspects of their unconscious process that are difficult to access in other ways.

They will have a new way to explore their deep imprints and scripts and to help recognize them, explore them, disorganize and reorganize them.

They will have a way to activate the deep inherent Formative Intelligence that is committed to mature the potentials of their inner “conceived adult.”

The course will include lecture, demonstration, individual and small group exercises, personal coaching and other activities to enable learning and deepening in the material.