April 29 – May 3 2009
Alexey Konstantinov
The second gathering took place in Minsk region of Belarus in April 29 – May 3 2009. There were 34 participants from five countries (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania and Netherlands). The laboratory was facilitated by Alexander Girshon and Alexey Kapterev.
A special visiting teacher and guest – Linda Hartley, who was supposed to introduce aspects of Body-Mind Centering work with the senses, organ system and developmental patterns, and integrate them with Authentic Movement,( focusing on witnessing movement, sensation, emotion and image) was not able to come due to unforeseen circumstances. Vitaliy Kononov – a co-facilitator of the first gathering was also not able to come.
Nevertheless participants discussed, planned and shared experience of more than 20 AM processes. There was a variety of experimental formats, classical and related forms: AM and New Code NLP, AM and Systemic Constellations, AM and Meditation. A unique Long-distance format with a group in USA. 3-hour AM marathons. In total we moved through about 17 different formats.
Overall conclusion: During the first laboratory in 2008 we focused mostly on processes’ content and experimented with contexts. At this laboratory our focus was upon the form itself, a spectrum of feedback formats, rituals, boundaries and rules.
A significant influence on this focus was exerted by participation of Alexander Girshon, Denis Turpitka and Yulia Morozova from the Authentic Movement Gathering in Vienna in 2008. At that Gathering there was a high level of ritualization, “the taste” of the classical approach, and a great value placed on integration processes – all was practiced and discussed.
Among valuable findings we note a “contract witnessing” which enables a mover to choose a particular form of feedback before a process. A long-distance format taught us about creating and maintaining the conditions to experience a collective body with its deep level of participation and pervasive ritual.
A combination of AM and New Code of NLP again displayed its high effectiveness as a “body-storming” technique. Our attempt to combine AM and Systemic Constellations resulted in a number of serious questions necessary to solve in order to continue. AM with a meditative preface is a very interesting format which creates a unique state and space. We repeated a 3-hour night marathon format to clarify the necessary terms, advantages and drawbacks of the format. AM and performance is as usual, a highly workable and inexhaustible theme.
Important issues of the laboratory were – integration of AM into ordinary life, AM community
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Preliminarily, we are planning the third laboratory in early May 2010 in Belarus. A week-long event will consist of three days retreat with classical forms and four days of laboratory work.
Organizers: Alexey Konstantinov and Yulya Korzunova
http://www.authentic-movement.by/ilab
© 2009 Alexey Konstantinov
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