Advanced Training Programs
Explore and sharpen your FI work with children. Recognize a child’s place on the developmental spectrum. Learn how to improve head control, crawling, creeping, and other functions. Relate child development to the underpinnings of mature function.Determine which movement patterns are relevant next steps.Transition from working with adults to working with children.

The Field Center is excited to offer three different formats of advanced trainings at our New York City location. These trainings are designed to refine skills in working with the developing child.  The Functional Integration strategies considered in the seminars will be relevant for people of all ages needing to improve basic functioning. Curriculum will be helpful to practitioners regardless of their experiences working with children.

1. Advanced Training Weekends. Each three-day weekend will have a different focus relating to child development . Both weekend trainings offered in 2007-2008 are designed to build on each other. Attendance at both is encouraged, but not mandatory.

2. Ongoing Seminar Series. Six meetings offer practitioners the opportunity to regularly deepen understanding and add new perspective to their work. Series will also include opportunity to observe and discuss lessons Sheryl gives children. Participants may arrange to bring students from their own practice for a FI with follow-up discourse. These seminars count towards continuing education requirements. For those interested in interning at the Field Center, participation in this Seminar Series is required. 

3. Internship. Select practitioners from the Seminar Series may contract with the Field Center for hands-on, supervised FI work in our training clinic. Specific arrangements will be made on an individual basis.

Location
The Field Center-Feldenkrais Institute NYC
134 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001

Application Process
Applications are available on our web site by clicking download below or by contacting The Field Center at 973-655-0385. The application deadline for the March Advanced Training is February 15, and for both the Seminar Series and the October Advanced Training is August 1, 2006. Payments are due upon notification of acceptance.

Download an Advanced Training Application in .pdf format.

2007-2008
Upcoming Training Opportunities
The Field Center is excited to offer four different formats of advanced trainings at our New York City location. These trainings are an opportunity for practitioners to develop the functional skills needed to work with children. All practitioners are welcome, regardless of prior experience working with children.

October 2007 Advanced Training Weekend
Dates and times to be announced. All interested please contact TFC at 973-655-0385
Tuition - $350

March 2008 Advanced Training Weekend: Orienting to Development
We would like to invite you to join us, March 7th-9th, for Orienting to Development, an Advanced Training with Sheryl Field.

During this three-day weekend we will focus on more fully referencing ATM lessons sensorily to gain more potent understanding of the developmental underpinnings of intentional action and skill. We will move beyond familiarity towards a deeper appreciation of functional organizations.

Practitioners can benefit regardless of their experience working with children, and 3rd and 4th year trainees are welcome.

Sheryl studied extensively with Moshe Feldenkrais, and has been working with children with motor difficulties for over 20 years. Her Advanced Trainings are an extraordinary opportunity to learn from her deep experience, and to orient more accurately to developmental processes.

March 7th-9th
Friday, 6-9pm
Saturday, 1-6pm
Sunday, 11am-4pm
Tuition - $350

Ongoing Seminar Series 2006-2007
Eight meetings offer practitioners the opportunity to regularly add new perspective to their work. Practitioners will observe and discuss lessons Sheryl gives to children, and may bring students from their own practice. For those interested in interning at the Field Center, participation in this Seminar Series is required. In the case of missed sessions, make-ups can be arranged.

Saturdays, 11:00am - 5:00pm
November 10, December 1, January 5, February 2, March 1, April 12, May 3, May 31
Tuition - $750

Professional Practicum
Sundays 10am-1pm, following each Seminar Series session. participants can register to meet with Sheryl in a small group setting to address questions specific to their own FI practice, including the option of giving a supervised FI.
$125 per session

ATM® Touchstones
The Touchstones Series was begun to offer an opportunity to explore key "touchstone" ATM lessons in depth. These lessons are chosen for their developmental significance, and each month is devoted to rigorously exploring just one of these lessons. This means doing the lesson together three times, highlighting different aspects each week. In addition you are encouraged to do the lesson on your own, teach it yourself, work with it in FI, and otherwise make it your own, so that it is readily available to you in your understanding and practice. Our discussions afterwards are great opportunities to sort out questions that arise and resource each other in delving into our practice.

Devoting a month to each of these touchstone lessons lets us move beyond familiarity towards a deeper appreciation of these functional organizations, allowing us to more fully reference them sensorily, and understand the developmental underpinnings of action.

It is a great opportunity to continue to develop your work. We encourage you to join us, and look forward to seeing you there!

Touchstones meets 3 Mondays a month, from 7:30- 9:30pm.
(Regulars, please note the new day.)
Series 3: Jan 14, 21, 28
Series 4: Feb 11, 18, 25
Series 5: March 10, 17, 24
Series 6: April 14, 21, 28
Series 7: May 5, 12, 19
Series 8: June 9, 16, 23
$60/series; Seminar students - $30/series

Tuition
$60/ series of 3 classes
(Field Center Seminar students - $30/series)
Open to Trainees by special arrangement.

Registration/Questions
To register or with questions, contact The Field Center at info@thefieldcenter.org or 973/655.0385.