Guidelines

  In-Sevice Training Program in Spacial Dynamics

         The five-year training consists of a Foundation Year plus a Four-Year Training Program. The In-Service character gives a hands-on, practical accent. The length of the program allows for personal growth, widening understanding, and deepening teaching, remedial, and therapeutic skills.

Among the requirements that are essential for anyone wishing to enroll in the program are:

• A joy in movement;
• The physical and emotional health necessary for the occupation of teacher or therapist;
• The desire and ability to implement and follow through on an individual study program, which will include practicing and developing skills, carrying out creative projects, reading, and inner researching;
• The interest and openness to actively explore, in thought and movement, ideals of the human being as a physical, enlivened, ensouled, and enspirited being.

Goals of the Program:

The full five-year program trains students in the discipline of Spacial Dynamics, which will benefit movement professionals— teachers, therapists, artists, and consultants. It will also enhance the effectiveness of class-, specialist-, and remedial teachers, as well as parents and all those interested in gaining a greater understanding of the relationship between movement, spatial development, learning, and remedial processes.

Goals of the part-time training program are to develop

• The quality of each participant’s own movement
• The ability to perceive the effect of movements on oneself and others;
• An understanding of the role of movement in the spatial development that takes place from child to adult;
• The ability to teach and apply Spacial Dynamics® principles in any given activity;
• The capacity to recognize, understand, and work remedially with problems that stem from incomplete or interrupted physical-spatial coordination.

          Curriculum:

The course includes Spacial Dynamics® exercises, Bothmer exercises®, sports, indoor and outdoor games, track and field, exercises for the classroom, tumbling and acrobatics, stave exercises, stave fencing, and juggling. Also included are posture exercises, movement observation, and analysis, teaching methods, therapeutic techniques, and remedial applications. The course will draw upon the ideas and practical applications of such thinkers as George Adams, Albert Einstein, M.C. Escher, Edward T. Hall, August Nitschke, Jean Piaget, Johannes Rohen, Theodor Schwenk, and Rudolf Steiner.

It is not necessary to be an outstanding athlete to join the program. Former and present trainees vary widely in their experience, abilities, and ages. They are united in their desire to pursue a study of spatially oriented movement. Each person is encouraged to enter into each activity to the extent that they wish to be challenged.

            Schedule:

Students train intensively for one week in the fall and one week in the spring, and for an eleven-day session in the summer.

Dates:

East Coast: October 20-25, 2006

                    April 13-18, 2007

                    August 16-26, 2007

West Coast: October 27-November 1, 2006

                    March 4-9, 2007

                    August 16-26, 2007 (at the Hudson/UpRiver

                    Site in Mechanicville, NY)

Trainees will receive complete and timely information before the courses begin.

Terms:

1) The decision to continue or terminate the training, from either side, is made after the first year.

2)  A medical release form, to be signed by a physician and returned, is sent to each applicant.

3) The full five-year Training Program does not qualify students to train others as teachers or therapists.

Tuition:

The tuition will be $2,250 per school year. A payment plan allows students to pay on a monthly, quarterly, or biannual basis, with payments of $210 per month, $610 per quarter, or $1,185 biannually. It must be stressed that the course fee is calculated for the year rather than per session. No refunds can be given for sessions that are not attended.

A nonrefundable, one-time deposit of $100 must accompany applications for the course, which is in addition to the tuition cost. Each student will be responsible for his or her board and lodging; the Spacial Dynamics Institute will endeavor to help students find board and lodging options at a reasonable additional cost.

For more information and an application form, please click here or contact the SDI office at 518-665-0082, or email sdiadmissions@earthlink.net

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