Movement experience (ME): A context of inquiry for professional development.

Abstract

Abstract This article advocates the incorporation of a model for learning witnessing and moving to explore authenticity1 as it unfolds through and within the nonverbal language of the body, into the initial education and ongoing professional development of psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, regardless of the school of thought they follow. It argues for the expansion of the verbal/intellectual focus in professional educational experience, to include a focus on Movement Experience (ME) ‐ a context of inquiry, a process which can teach us of presence and clarity, and may lead to an unfolding of the Self and of self‐knowledge, that rest in the wisdom and the mystique of the human existence as body and movement becomes conscious. It presents a working model as a tool for raising self‐awareness, and for reflection in‐action and on‐action (movement supervision). In Movement Experience (ME)2 and Authentic Movement (AM)3 participants consciously engage in a heuristic act, in the search, and re‐search, for a deep...