Dr. Anna Dako

On Felt Thinking and Moving with Personal Narratives of the Self

Photo Credit: Ronald Dako

ABSTRACT

Wednesday September 20
2pm – 3:30pm CST |
21:00 – 22:30 CET

A Performance Lecture

Contemplating movement in Felt Thinking means moving with sensations, emotions and insights. More importantly though, Felt Thinking is about communicating with the living qualities of a place. Whether we attend to movement indoors or outdoors, it is with the scents, the sounds, the textures, the temperatures and the visuals that we connect to the sense of self. And that sense of self shapes itself in relation to the timeliness of movement: movement of our thoughts, movement of our physiological processes of adaptation and change, and movement of whatever meets us in space.

Inside out, there is always something to move towards to, and there is always something to fall back on.

When we move in connection to time/space of bodily presence in sensuous receptivity, we are moving with awareness, attitude, attention, and connectivity.

When we move in connection to the agency of the experiential exchange, we are moving with engagement, adjustment, and ongoing dialogue.

When we move in connection to most personal dimensions of experience in insightful intuiting, a different sense of self emerges, the sense of transpersonal dynamics of being and belonging.

In Felt Thinking, we learn how to connect the felt sensations with what constitutes our mindsets of being. And to contemplate movement mindfully means being with what is unfolding for us with every step we take.

Relating to questions about where, who, and how we are is an ongoing part of Felt Thinking as an ecosomatic practice of deep self-inquiry. And, in this practice-based presentation, I hope to guide you towards a few new answers about our embodied environments of self and other, as well as towards the many possibilities of ongoing self-discovery.

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