Embodying Creation

- Embodying Creation

Module 6

Practices of Imagination and Expression

This module invites participants into a living exploration of creativity as an embodied, transformational, and practical focus. It aims to provide somatic, concrete examples and address a wide range of topics. Participants will be given concrete tools and experiential practices to deepen the connection between perception, movement, and expression—with direct reference to areas such as communication, leadership, education, therapy and artistic practice.

We explore vital questions such as:

How do we create our lives, our movements, and our environments with greater ease? How do we manage to remain both stable and flexible in changing circumstances, depending on what is needed? By experiencing themselves as fully alive in their bodies—with agency, presence and awareness—participants cultivate the inner conditions necessary to be creative and courageous within complex systems. This module supports professionals in offering holistic, embodied support to their clients, patients, students and teams—while staying grounded, inspired and creatively resourced themselves.

 Key Topics of the module

  • Creativity as a transformational process
  • From inspiration to creative expression
  • Somatic tools for imagination and movement
  • Creativity in leadership, therapy and education
  • Stability and flexibility in changing environments
  • Perception, movement and expressive integration
  • Agency and aliveness in the creative self
  • Holistic support in professional practice
  • Sustaining creativity in complex systems

Ausführliche Seminarinformationen

200 UE / 6 modules / 4 somatic methods / 3 instructors

Curriculum

The C.A.R.E training consists of 6 modules and each module can be booked individually. You can join the ongoing modular training at any time.
Some of the modules are recognized as educational leave in Berlin.

Curriculum

Module 1

tba 2026 | Embryology

  • Early imprints
  • Embodied exploration
  • Genetic–environment interaction
  • Somatic memory
  • Pre-birth connection
  • Cellular consciousness
  • Nervous system development
  • Attachment 
  • Universal relevance
  • Embryological development of the organs, muscles, nervoussystem, urogenital system

Module 2

tba 2027 | Infant movement development

  • Muscle tone and movement development in the first year
  • Foundational movement sequences: Roll / Yield / Push / Reach / Pull
  • Primitive reflexes and postural reflexes
  • The balance system (vestibular system)
  • Brain and visual development
  • Movement observation and analysis
  • Contextual applications, practical examples, and case studies
  • Interaction and attunement with caregivers

Module 3

tba 2027 | Becoming Self

  • Development of the Self through movement, play and imagination
  • Autonomy and relationship – Self and Other/SelfOther
  • Language as a tool for developing our inner concept of the Self
  • Sensory integration and the development of Body Awareness
  • Nurturing self-awareness and emotional security through touch
  • Encouraging exploration and creative expression with the forming Self
  • Understanding the development of Identities
  • Building pathways towards curiosity and creativity
  • Bonding and Attachment
  • Using movement and creativity to foster self-expression and personal awareness
  • Cultivating empathy – evolving from the self-centered to shared values and social understanding

Module 4

tba 2027 | Embodied Pathways

  • Brain and Neuroplasticity through movement
  • Understanding the Nervous System
  • Interconnectivity
  • Lifelong learning through movement
  • Movement observation and analysis
  • Recognizing compensations and adaptations
  • Repatterning habits
  • Practice-based tools and contextual applications 
  • Emotional regulation and nervous system balance
  • Embodied Approach to Development 
  • Case studies
  • Trauma

Module 5

Jan 31 - Feb 04, 2026 | Motivation, Engagement & Vitality

  • Role of neurotransmitters in behavior and emotion
  • Brain functions
  • Endorphins and the biology of vitality
  • Dopamine, Serotonin, Oxytocin: functions and effects
  • Neurochemistry of motivation and engagement
  • Emotional regulation and brain chemistry
  • Touch and sexuality
  • Motivation and engagement, Play and creativity
  • Attachment and neurochemical dynamics
  • Perception shaped by neurochemical states
  • Embodied practices to experience neurochemical shifts
  • Practical applications in therapy, education, and human development                         

Module 6

Mar 30 - Apr 03, 2026 | Embodying Creation

  • Creativity as a transformational process
  • From inspiration to creative expression
  • Somatic tools for imagination and movement
  • Creativity in leadership, therapy and education
  • Stability and flexibility in changing environments
  • Perception, movement and expressive integration
  • Agency and aliveness in the creative self
  • Holistic support in professional practice
  • Sustaining creativity in complex systems

 

For whom is C.A.R.E?

  • Teachers, social workers, youth workers and parents who are looking for new ways to help children and young people grow and develop through physical experience and body awareness.
  • Parents who want to better understand how they can promote their children's emotional and physical well-being through movement and mindfulness.
  • Anyone who wants to learn how to find and support their own emotional and physical balance.

What are the key educational aspects of the C.A.R.E. program? 

  • Developmental foundations: C.A.R.E. begins with the observation of how humans develop from the earliest stages (prenatal, infancy, early childhood) and how movement and attachment influence learning. The neurobiological foundations of learning, such as the function of the nervous system and the development of trauma, form the educational cornerstones of the training.
  • Learning through experience: Participants learn through embodied experience. Movement-based activities provide a deep understanding of developmental processes, while theoretical information accompanies their own learning and reflection process.
  • Learning as a lifelong process: C.A.R.E. is aimed at those who wish to deepen their understanding of learning as an ongoing developmental process - be it in their work with children, adults or for their own personal growth.

Research-based and practice-oriented

Our C.A.R.E. program is based on years of practical experience and integrates proven approaches from various disciplines, such as Somatic Experiencing (SE), Body-Mind Centering®, Neuromotor Development Promotion INPP®, NARM, Feldenkrais and others. These methods are integrated with each other to promote a deep understanding of the connections between body, mind and development. They are based on the latest research and help to regulate the nervous system and understand the effects of trauma and early childhood development without focusing on the traumatic event itself.

Applied somatic methods of training

  • IBMT (Integrative Bodywork- and Movement Therapy)
  • Neurophysiological Psychology
  • Feldenkrais
  • Contact Improvisation
  • Ideokinesis
  • Body-Mind Centering®
  • Dance

Graduation Requirements:

  • Proof of 10 hours observation.
  • One class presentation
  • Case study or practical research, documented in an essay of maximum 3,000

General content:

Embryology
  1. Tone
  2. Development of the vestibular system
  3. Reflexes
  4. Primitive reflexes
  5. Postural reflexes
  • Human Movement Development
  • Brain development
Learning
  1. development of the nervous system
  2. information processing
  3. physiological learning processes
  4. new ​​versus re-learning
  5. creating a supportive space for learning
Self awareness
  1. dealing with resistance
  2. achievement evaluation
  3. age-appropriate mediation
Ages
  1. teenagers
  2. 8-11 (development of sexuality)
  3. 3-7/8 (Postural reflexes should be integrated)
  4. 0-3
Practice-related mediation
  1. Games: Movement activities / Support / Touch
  2. Touch: as support not as correction /alternatives to touch

Subjects:

  • Experiential Anatomy
  • A variety of Somatic methods
  • Context / practical application / practice fields
  • Integration
  • Hands on
  • Case study discussions

Seminarleiter*innen

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Heike Kuhlmann


www.heikekuhlmann.net

MSME, BMC®-Practitioner, dancer, -educator, choreographer, MA Performance Studies/Choreography 

Heike is interested in the unfolding process of human beings. It is more than the individual unfolding, but in how people can meet each other at eye level through personal development and inclusion of structural conditions in her somatic facilitations. Being a condition to become Critical Somatics. She accompanies somatic processes in individual sessions, courses, workshops and trainings. Activism and somatics are interwoven in her artistic work. More information on: www.somatik-tanz-choreographie.dewww.heikekuhlmann.net

 

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Adalisa Menghini

Teacher, choreographer, performer

Adalisa studied at the S.N.D.O in Amsterdam, after which she completed her M.A. in Neurophysiological Psychology. She is a teacher of the Feldenkrais Method. She works with professional and non-professional dancers, children and seniors. She was nominated twice as best choreographer of the "Giocabriga". In collaboration with K. Wickenhäuser, she has brought performances with school children to museums. Twice they have won the "Kinder zum Olymp!" award. She teaches at the Tanzfabrik, the Somatic Academy Berlin and at the Berlin University of the Arts.

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Ka Rustler

Ka Rustler has been performing, researching and analyzing somatic practices and their embodiment in movement, choreography and therapy for over 30 years. BMC® Teacher

Anmeldeinformationen

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Veranstaltungsort
Berlin
Somatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor
Preise
  • Full Price: 690.00 EUR
Zahlung Banküberweisung, PayPal
Hinweise

This module is part of the professional training ca.r.e. It is seperatly bookable as well:

Embodying Creation

DE+EN | 5-day workshop c.a.r.e
Mar 30, 2026 – Apr 03, 2026

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Lehrer

Heike Kuhlmann
Adalisa Menghini
Ka Rustler

Daten & Kosten

KursspracheEN + DE
Kurskosten
  • Full Price 690.00 EUR
ZahlungBanküberweisung, PayPal
VeranstaltungsortBerlin
Somatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor