Senses & Perception 1

Name: Senses & Perception 1
Start: 2025-02-11T09:00:00+11:00
End: 2025-02-14T18:15:00+11:00
Location: Abbotsford Convent

Schedule

Tue, 11 Feb, 2025 at 09:00 am to Fri, 14 Feb, 2025 at 06:15 pm

UTC+11:00

Location

Abbotsford Convent | Melbourne, VI

Join us in the new year for an embodied exploration of the senses and the process of perception!
11-14 February 2025
@Abbotsford Convent
Senses & Perception 1 is part of the Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Educator (SME) and Infant Developmental Movement Educator (IDME) certification programs offered by Somatic Education Australasia (SEA). Courses can also be taken for professional and personal development without commitment to the whole program.
Our senses begin as potential and develop in response to stimulation and experience. The senses of touch and movement are located throughout the body — in every cell. It is through our senses that we receive information from our internal environment (ourselves) and the external environment (others and the world).
How we filter, modify, distort, accept, reject, and use that information is part of the act of perceiving. Perception is a global experience. It is the psychophysical process of interpreting information based on past experience, present circumstances and future expectations. When we choose to absorb information, we bond to that aspect of our environment. When we block out information, we defend against that aspect. Learning is the process by which we vary our responses to information based on the context of each situation.
This course includes:
-Exploration of the six senses (movement, touch, taste, smell, hearing and vision).
-Analysis of the perceptual-response cycle as the process of perception.
-Bonding, defending and learning as psychophysical processes based on your perceptions.
Open to anyone interested in embodied, experiential learning, this course is an excellent introduction to a Body-Mind Centering® somatic approach.
For complete information visit seasomaticeducation.com/sme-information
This course is taught by Olive Bieringa, Otto Ramstad & Kim Sargent-Wishart.
SEA is a licensed program of the School for Body-Mind Centering®.
Body-Mind Centering® and BMC® are registered service marks of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.