The Center
for Bodylore and Learning
Sara
K. Schneider, Director
sks@thinkingdr.com
The Center for Bodylore and Learning helps people to use both
body-based methodologies and content about body practices to engage
more intimately with Self, Other, and subject matter across the
curriculum.
The
Center’s training and educational workshops and consulting provide:
(1) personal growth for members of the
general public;
(2) a research home for
anthropological and other scholarly investigations; and
(3) professional development for
educators, physicians and nurses, members of the clergy, and others who
see themselves as charged with the well-being and growth of the
integrated mind-bodies of their constituencies.
As its
funding and partnership base expands, its activities will therefore
include:
• A thinktank for
scholars in anthropology, performance studies, folklore, cultural
studies, health, education, and other relevant disciplines;
• A
collaboration zone for American and international cultural excavations
and fieldwork focused on somatic practices and conducted in working
groups with teachers, graduate students, and interested adults and
children;
• An
Internet-based, annotated visual archive on the global fount of
movement and body-based practices;
• A consultancy
to educational, cultural, health-care, religious, and other
institutions on working effectively with the mind-bodies of their
ethnically diverse constituencies, offering educational and training
workshops and follow-on coaching and structured experiences to deepen
learning;
• A publisher
of educational materials; and
• A contributor
to cultural preservation policy, as practiced by international NGOs
working in the field of intangible cultural heritage.
For further
information, please contact the Center for Bodylore and Learning
at sks@thinkingdr.com.
All
materials © Sara K. Schneider 2008
Not to be used without permission.