communitas

I think the concept of communitas as elaborated in this link fits very well with both the intent and affect of freeforming practice.

Quotes from the UKAGP Freeforming workshop handout

inclusion

the therapist must feel the other side, the patients side of the relationship, as a bodily touch to know how the patient feels.

Buber, M. 1967. In R. Anshen (Ed.), A believing humanism: Gleanings by Martin Buber New York:Simon and Schuster

kimusubi

“tying awareness/intention” – a process of continually unfolding connection.

and awareness of different levels of physical and energetic feedback that enables spontaneous creative experience of Aiki (meeting energy)

See Aikido As A Martial Art © by Lawrence Novick, Ph.D. http://home.earthlink.net/~aiki1/martial.html

intersubjective communion

mutual engagement between subjects who consensually attend and attune to one another’s emotive states, expressions and gestures in a prereflective and nonverbal mode of felt immediacy.

Braten, Stein  http://stein-braten.net/p00044.htm

attunement

“a kinaesthetic and emotional sensing of others – knowing their rhythm, affect and experience by metaphorically being in their skin, and going beyond empathy to create a two-person experience of unbroken feeling connectedness by providing a reciprocal affect and/or resonating response” (p. 236).

Erskine, R. (1998). Attunement and involvement: Therapeutic responses to relational needs. International Journal of Psychotherapy, 3(3), 235-244.

play

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Plato

new freeforming flyer

freeforming.net and facebook group

We have a new URL to fit our new identity – freeforming.net.

We also have a new freeforming facebook group.

This group is open to all to add your thought, experiences, ideas, media and links regarding althings freeforming and associated areas of connective awareness, mutual mindfulness, freeform aikido, kimusubi, intersubjectivity, improvisation, play, etc…

Your contributions are most welcome