Pages with T&P Spectrum Blue

T&P Spectrum Blue is: Play, non-verbal communication, therapy, personal development,

Tenderness is a form of existence – Ina Stockem

I want to explore touch as a communication tool, a language of touch to connect. Why are there so many highly developped methods of giving professional feedback, on communication skills via coaching, intervision and mentoring – based on verbal language only? How can u read and listen body language in order to fulfill the need of the person on a physical level?

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The Bonobo Garden – Saskia Mieszkalski

Saskia will go into aspects of apish (and human) communications. During the process we will activate our senses and look at the resulting emotions. After this introductive learning experience, the space will be opened for all forms of apish interaction. Ambient jungle sounds and a selection of typical Bonobo food will be provided. The rest will be left to the participants’ imagination. Clothing as well as the use of tools are optional, communication is reduced to onomatopoetics.

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Building safer spaces and consent — Rachel Dean

One of the aspects of Contact Improvisation that appeals to and fascinates me is its potential as a playground for learning, practicing and experimenting with the ways in which we communicate and build relationships as human beings.

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Working with(out) armour: transforming (motoric, emotional, ideological) blindness — Koen Vanbiesbrouck

My interest is in integrating (my) body and mind (or rather letting go of disintegrating experiences and patterns) and overcoming ‘dualism’ so common in Western culture, theoretically as well as in (my) daily life.

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Tantric Doorways into Contact — Jocasta Crofts

I would like to offer a space to go deep into meditative practises using breath, opening the senses, working with the energy that is generated by the male/female polarity, moving energy through the body centers of the Chakras. All these will be our doorways to open our dance, alone or together.

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Undercurrents — Jamus Wood & Lee Bolton

This workshop is an enquiry into what we are actively not thinking, actively not feeling and actively not sensing. How we can bring this sensory landscape into our dancing and relationship with another with the possibility of sharing more of who we are.

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The Soft Man — Ralf Jaroschinski

This is a specific, sensual take on contact improvisation which focuses on exploring male sensuality within a safe and contained environment.

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Origins of Sensibility and Lust — Marina Kronkvist

As a contribution to the Touch&Play Festival I offer a workshop I will give at the Sydney Xplore-festival in April 2011. I’m also very interested in what the days of Experiment brings up to offer at the Festival

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No Love Without Jealousy, No Jealousy Without Love — Paulina Święcańska

During my workshop on the Touch and Play festival I will present ways of transforming jealousy, using games and exercises. In conditions of common trust and security we will try to observe, analyze and understand our partners’ and chiefly our own fascinations and needs.

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Embodying the Human Chemistry of Movement and Communication — Dieter Rehberg

Idiolektik
Somatic Dance
The function of the mind in the process of touch (based on buddhist psychology)
Anatomy and physiology of touch
Sex on a Cellular Level
The emotion of weight

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