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Turning Challenges into Possibilities for the Special Needs Family
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DAY 1: Keynote
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The Feldenkrais® Method – Creating pleasurable conditions for learning
After a few words about Dr. Feldenkrais and his Method, I will share with you some of the elegant principles and strategies we use in our work to create pleasurable learning conditions for your child. We are uniquely equipped to help each child develop their sensory image of self which in turn leads to new movement capacities and a better connection to the environment.
To illustrate the ideas I will show some short video clips from my work with children. Each child started with a different initial diagnosis. After we see the principles in action we can then begin the conversation of ways in which the parents can also create pleasurable learning conditions for their child.
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M.D., Ph.D.
The power of showing up: How parental presence shapes who our children become and how their brains get wired
This talk will provide an overview of the science of attachment through the lens of the interdisciplinary field of interpersonal neurobiology. By exploring how relationships shape the developing mind by molding the networks of the brain involved in regulation of emotion, bodily processes, and mindsight, we will discuss how parents’ and teachers’ mental presence—their open, receptive awareness—can offer the “Four S’s of attachment” as children experience being safe, seen, soothed and then secure. This security of attachment is the best predictor of a child’s development of resilience, insight, empathy, and mindsight as the foundations of social and emotional intelligence.
LMFT, Feldenkrais® Trainer
Atypical learning: You and your child’s needs
Clarify learning the Feldenkrais® way. Knowing your child and family dynamics will help you create optimal learning. Understanding your child’s brain processing provides you with effective educational options.
Healthy learning including gentle handling, kind messages, safe spaces to move and play. Interaction sometimes referred to as co-regulation, and movement exploration develops problem-solving skills and intelligence. Awareness and calm nervous systems create information flow, a necessity for learning. Safe secure spaces allow all children to blossom.
Vision + your child
The first step to your child’s development is their vision. A child with special needs usually has challenges with vision and movement. You may not think your child has vision needs, but if your child is delayed in their milestone development, more than likely they have a visual concern. Michelle Turner, creator of Movement Lesson, discusses what you need to know to do a basic evaluation of your child’s vision needs.
MBS Master Trainer and Program Director, BSC Stanford, CA, Feldenkrais® Master Trainer, NLP Trainer, Martial Arts Black Belt Kodokan, Japan
YOU CAN DO IT: Simple, practical interventions to improve your child and make your life easier
We have distilled and combined exponentially effective techniques, which are practical to apply and include benefits for the entire caregiving system. This thoughtful combination is designed to be sustainable long-term.
Our work is about learning and connecting with one’s own resources. The higher potential is there, our job is to provide an environment within which the system can learn the associated intention with execution, thereby expanding ability.
Panel Discussion
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CYNTHIA ALLEN and these parent/practitioner experts
DAY 3
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Breakthroughs for children on the autism spectrum with NeuroMovement®
1 in 54 children have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). In12 years, ASD increased 289.5%. While ASD is understood as a brain disorder, interventions frequently treat it as a behavioral issue. Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® approaches the brain as an information system. When a child has ASD, their brain is challenged with generating information – the fuel for learning. We replace drilling and copious repetitions that might inadvertently limit the child’s progress with helping their brain do its job better and heal. When that occurs, we see spontaneous behavioral, motor, cognitive, and social transformations, i.e. healthy growth and learning.
M.D., Pediatric Neurologist and Author
Child neurologist encounters somatic education
ABM-NeuroMovement® has helped me become a “recovering neurologist” by offering a profoundly systematic approach to brain challenges, based on interconnection and potential, rather than on reductionist disease treatments. This approach aligns with other functional systems approaches, such as functional medicine, but goes beyond metabolism, microbiome, and immune system to generating transformation by talking to the brain through movement; its earliest and foundational, but greatly underappreciated, learning modality. This is an important expansion of the developmental whole body-brain approach, and has implications across neurology, rehabilitation, education, creativity, and how we raise our children. It is also rich with potential neuroscientific discoveries.
MA, AThR, R-CASE
A liminal space: An embodied arts therapy presence with children with autism
Parents can be empowered to use the arts to connect with their children with special needs and help them express themselves in non-verbal ways. Tailoring their choices and environmental conditions to make it necessary for them to use more variations of movement, creativity, imagination, and play are ways parents can assist their children to self-regulate. In this talk, Lama will share how embodied approaches in arts therapies can help build bridges between what is possible and unique when working with parents and caregivers of children on the spectrum.
OTR/L
The road map to a child’s social engagement and communication
Sensory regulation, sharing attention, and engagement are the foundational skills needed for a child to further develop social communication skills. Learn about the roadmap that a pediatric occupational and speech therapist teaches a family to follow to help their young autistic child further develop his social engagement and functional communication skills.
M.S., CCC-SLP
Panel Discussion
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CYNTHIA ALLEN and these practitioner experts
Sheryl Field
GCFP
DAY 4
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M.D., Ph.D.
Development after Pediatric Stroke: Empowering families to drive their rehab journey
Dr. Musolino will review types of stroke in children and how injury to the developing brain can affect different abilities/neurological functions. She will also discuss the impact on development and how we can, with this understanding, support learning of new skills and improve quality of life.
Ph.D., GCFP
11 years parenting a pediatric stroke survivor
After my younger daughter had a stroke, diagnosed two days after birth, I faced shock then grief. I was able to bring my scientific and Feldenkrais® training to this parenting journey. At age eleven, she is bilingual and biliterate in English and Spanish, plays soccer and ice hockey goalie, enjoys math, science, and robotics. In this talk, I share vignettes from our journey to educate and inspire other parents. Optimal outcomes for children with early brain injuries come from persistent parents who fight, at every age and stage, to ensure their children’s needs are being met.
GCFP
The vagal tone connection to oxygen deprivation and seizures
The day I happened to have my hand on the belly of a sweet little boy with CP and severe seizures, I felt something right beneath my finger tips. It rippled and ran like live electrical wires teeming with electricity. I heard Mom call out to her son and felt her blow on his face to stop the onset of a grand mal seizure. Oxygen deprivation can wreak havoc on the vagus nerve, and I simply applied this method, in this way, and the seizure stopped. I taught it to Mom and she learned life long tools to help her son. But, there’s more!
MA, GCFP
Reframing challenges at school and home
A young child survived a stroke, but must learn to navigate his preschool classroom. He speaks loudly, stands too close, and senses himself and his environment differently from his peers. He wants to connect, but feels like an outsider looking in. Can his teachers help him learn without making him feel wrong? Using examples of real children, Matty will present a framework for creating ideal conditions for learning. Teachers and parents can replace correction with rich experiences, amplify the child’s ability to sense himself and his environment, and reframe mistakes as empowering and potent learning opportunities.
Panel Discussion
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CYNTHIA ALLEN and this practitioner/parent team
DAY 5
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Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner, Certified Anat Baniel Method NeuroMovement® Practitioner, Certified Pilates Instructor
Turning the challenges of Down syndrome into possibilities
We all want what is best for our children. The quest to unlock a child’s potential is a complex journey for a parent of a child with Down Syndrome. Judith Dack will share how she partners with parents and children to achieve better function than has been predicted. Judith will speak about igniting children’s curiosity, facilitating greater self-awareness of their bodies, and their relationship to their environment. Judith will share strategies that help children with Down Syndrome to more effectively learn to crawl, walk, talk, and cultivate their dreams for a remarkable future.
M.A, Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner® and Child'Space Trainer
Empowering parents: Three pillars of support for you and your child
Discover the enormous potential in daily interactions using three fundamental pathways: informed proprioceptive touch, supportive hands-on movement patterns, and strength-based relationships. Touch promotes biological and emotional regulation and provides proprioceptive input for the emerging sense of self. With knowledge of the building blocks underlying function, caregivers can offer simple movement explorations that support the child’s developmental process. Grounded in a strength-based perspective, the family can gain confidence in their role in maximizing their child’s potential. This session will explore these concepts and offer practical steps to encourage development in gross and fine motor skills, early language and cognition, and social-emotional growth.
Intervention Specialist
The Intervention Specialist as a resource
This conversation discusses the typical role of an intervention specialist. It goes on to discuss how the Intervention Specialist can be a resource to parents and families both within as well as outside of the school building.
Ph.D., Developmental Psychologist, Feldenkrais® and Child’Space Practitioner
The power of a somatic approach to learning and your child
The body is always part of learning. The body is a constant source of information about self and environment, and the body regulates encounters. This session delves into key components of somatic learning science. Parents and mentors can work with a child’s multiple sensory and action systems to join with and expand the child’s abilities. A child who feels their whole self affirmed and capable is ready to learn from new encounters. Somatic work (such as Feldenkrais®, Child’Space, and ABM Neuromovement®) supports learning by empowering the whole person to sense themselves, and feel how to explore and discover new abilities.
Panel Discussion
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CYNTHIA ALLEN and these parent/practitioner experts
DAY 6
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Pediatric Physical Therapist, Lifetime Certified Practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method®, Certified Practitioner & Former Trainer of the Anat Baniel Method Neuro® Movement®
Making every movement count™ with Cerebral Palsy
Teaching parents how to integrate the principles of the Feldenkrais Method® and ABMNM® into their ordinary, daily activities to provide the most optimal conditions for their child’s learning, facilitate their child’s best posture, and promote healthy hip joint development including:
- picking up, carrying, holding, playing, and diapering
- choosing, designing, &/or adapting activity &/or wheelchairs
- using gravity as an ally in promoting movement variations and in assisting children &/or adults with safe and minimally effortful transfers
- teaching how to use the Upsee upright mobility device dynamically, in many different positions, instead of, or in addition to, using standers
Parent and Advocate
A parent’s path – What I learned raising a special needs child
Audrey will share her 32 years of experience as the parent of a young woman with severe multiple disabilities. She’ll talk about her path through denial, grief, and fear to become a strong, effective advocate for her child. She will provide insight on working with professionals – teachers, doctors, and therapists – and she’ll speak about the benefits both she and her daughter received from Feldenkrais lessons. Audrey will particularly emphasize the need for self-care that can be difficult, but so crucial, for parents of special needs children to incorporate into their lives.
Feldenkrais Practitioner and Hard of Hearing Individual
Unheard, unseen: MicroMovement [Feldenkrais®|ATM®] accessibility strategies
Overcoming the challenges of teaching online Awareness Through Movement® lessons to those who lip-read involves more than just adding captions. The learner’s opportunity to immerse in their sensory experience is substantially reduced when reading a screen continuously. However, restructuring to minimize use of the eyes, and the neck faces a balance, of what to include. Explore solutions of how to communicate the imperceptible, inaudible, richly tactile Feldenkrais Method® through an innovative multi-sensory format.
Your 5 point plan for life after lockdown
Carole will lead you through, step-by-step, a practical strategy for emotional well being in challenging times.
Panel Discussion
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CYNTHIA ALLEN and this expert mother/son team
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BONUS MATERIALS
[$560 Value]
Dive deeper with these bonus lectures, demonstrations, lessons, and white papers. With these, you can further improve your own body organization and learn how to deepen the work with a child. Here are just a few examples:
- Cynthia Allen: Squatting - Hips, low back, knees, and ankles. An audio series [Value $120]
- Carla Reed: Dynamic Ways to Use the Upsee for Learning [Value $100]
- Leora Gaster: Diagonal Exercise: Demonstrations and Professional Intervention video [Value $90]
- Michelle Turner: Patching 101 course [Value $40]
- Cynthia Allen: Better Back Lite. Video lessons [Value $80]
- Barbara Leverone: Health Moves with the Feldenkrais Method: 8 short lessons [Value $55]
- Anat Baniel: Fixing to Connecting Lecture, Magic of Sitting Lesson, Demonstrations with Deborah and Isaac. 6 videos [VALUE $50]
- Matty Wilkinson: Rolling, Reversibility, and Developmental Learning. An Awareness Through Movement lesson [Value $25]
15 Awareness Through MovemenT® Lessons
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These expertly taught Feldenkrais® lessons will contribute to your own wellbeing.
By learning to regulate your own nervous system and moving with greater ease,
you will find interactions with your child will improve, as will her movements.
These potent experiences will give your brain
and nervous system the food they crave.
By doing a lesson each day, you will experience positive changes
that will accumulate towards
your better living now.
“It was very inspiring and gave me new ideas and resources to explore in my own practice.”
“I thought I would watch a couple interviews during the Summit, but I quickly understood that this was much more than “interesting interviews” – it was a very valuable experience for my growth and learning. I ended up listening to most of them live and purchased the lifetime access! I learned and gained insights from almost every presentation, it was very inspiring and gave me new ideas and resources to explore in my own practice.”
~ Francine Bonjour-Carter
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If you are a parent, caregiver, or work with children, this summit is for you. Through these master classes, you will learn simple things you can do throughout the day to make the world a friendlier place for your child. A world which is accessible to her. A world where he can feel safe.
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Host
Cynthia Allen launched the first Feldenkrais® Awareness Summit in 2018. She is the creator of the online Your Learning Body program, published researcher on the effects of the Bones for Life® approach in the elderly and co-creator of Integral Human Gait™ theory. She is a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Senior Trainer in Movement Intelligence with a private practice in Cincinnati, Ohio, at Future Life Now, LLC.
