Thinking in Movement Studio
Specializing in …
Somatic Education & Focusing
Katarina Halm, M.A., CFT, GCFP
Focusing,
Feldenkrais® Method of Somatic Education,
Taijiquan,
Movement Intelligence,
Sounder Sleep System™
Katarina Halm
A Recent Presentation: Focusing Facilitators As The New Educators And Leaders
Bio
Weaving Focusing, Feldenkrais®, Sounder Sleep System™, and Movement Intelligence, Katarina Halm develops a unique lesson plan for each student and each group. With a deep interest in how language emerges in our movement, dreams, and daily living, Katarina integrates practices from Eugene Gendlin and Moshé Feldenkrais.
Listen to Katarina being interviewed by Serge Prengel, a focusing-oriented therapist/life coach in New York City. The interview is part of The International Focusing Institute (TIFI) Conversations series.
Available for Seminars and Workshops
- Peer Support for Earthquake Preparedness and Disaster Response ~ inspired by the World Health Organization *WHO)
- New ways to listen to and engage with yourself and with others through Focusing, Feldenkrais® and Movement Intelligence
- Pioneering work on the Dream Appreciation Group Process, including Pfunder, Bosnak, Gendlin, Mindell, Ullman theories of the dreaming process
- A Sounder World with Sounder Sleep System™
- Mutual Support for a Peaceful World
- A Simple Model of Natural Process Action Steps (based on articles for The Focusing Connection 2009, FOLIO 2010, and FOLIO 2013)
- Silence and Social Responsibility
- How Language Emerges in our Work and Daily Living
Background
- Professional Member of CPCA, Canadian Professional Counselors Association
- Certification and teaching: Feldenkrais®, Bones for Life®, Sounder Sleep System™, Taijiquan, Yamuna Body Rolling®, Movement Intelligence Chairs. Walk for Life, Mindful Eating, Solutions for Optimum Mobility
- Teaching Focusing & Feldenkrais & Feldenkrais: Victoria BC, Vancouver BC, and Online 2006-present
- Feldenkrais Professional Continuing Competency seminars: Victoria BC, Vancouver BC, and Online 2013-2014
- Twenty years dancing and teaching Ballet in New York, San Francisco, Vancouver BC
- Certified Focusing Trainer
- Whole Body Focusing practicum/supervision with Astrid Schillings, ongoing.
- Studies and assisting the teaching of Gendlin’s Process Model with Rob Parker 2007-2014
- Studies and assisting Meditative Listening with Rob Foxcroft 2016
- Two years studies and assisting Glenn Fleisch Whole Body Focusing in Vancouver BC and online.
- Fifty hours weekly seminars on Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy with Ann Weiser Cornell and Glenn Fleisch
- Ten years training in Inner Relationship Focusing with Ann Weiser Cornell
- Treasure Maps to the Soul conferences with Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin, Winnipeg 2007, Bowen 2010, and Toronto 2010
- M.A. with the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 1994 (Resonance and Dissonance in the Learning Process)
- Study and practicum in community psychotherapy with R.D.Laing, John Heaton and Francis Huxley in London, England, 1982-1984
Writings
- WRITINGS:
- Halm, K. (1983-1986). The Society of Friends London, England: Contributed to newsletter: articles on Quaker Peace Testimony and Quaker Social Testimony.
- Halm, K. (1994). Resonance and Dissonance in the Learning Process. M.A. thesis, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, External Program, Palo Alto, California, USA.
- Halm, K. (2010). “Attuning to Natural Process Action Steps: How does one find the natural action, the unforced next step? Maybe with a Little Wind from Your Fingertips!” The Folio: A Journal for Focusing and Experiential Therapy. Volume 22, #1, Focusing Through the Transitions of Later Life pages 111-129.
- Halm, K. (2011-2015). Website creation and continuing contributions, ‘Thinking In Movement’
- Halm, K. (2013). “Fingertips and Dragons: A Memoir” The Folio: A Journal for Focusing and Experiential Therapy. Volume 24, #1, MeMoirs pages 103-107
- Halm, K. (2012-2015). Community updates in Dunbar Residents Association News and Events.
- Halm, K. (2013). Feldenkrais® and Focusing, Complementary Practices.
- Halm, K. (2013-2015). Website creation and continuing contributions, Dunbar Earthquake and Emergency Preparedness (DEEP)
- Halm, K. (2016). Website in progress Cascadia Earthquake Preparedness
- Halm, K. (2015). Rolling with Possibility, The Feldenkrais Method® for those living with autism, SenseAblitiy Journal #66 Publication of the Feldenkrais Educational Foundation FEFNA®
- Halm, K. (pending) Ancient Patterns and Symbols: from ‘abject reverence’ to ‘reasserting experience’.
- Halm, K. (pending) Autonomy and Ethics in the Feldenkrais® Method.
- Halm, K. (pending) Complementarity: ground and quantum movement.
- Halm, K. (pending) Living with Autism: an exploration for Feldenkrais® practitioners.
- Halm, K. (pending) Modalities Weaving!
- Halm, K. (pending) Natural Action Steps: new little wind from your Fingertips!
- Halm, K. (pending) The Feldenkrais Method® for those living with greif.
- Halm, K. (pending) SenseAbility. Listening and Hearing with The Feldenkrais Method®.
- Halm, K. (pending) Thinking in Movement: re-discovering a phenomenological epoché.
Hosting master teachers
- Hosted Feldenkrais® master teachers Ralph Strauch, Angel Di Benedetto, Michael Krugman at Thinking in Movement Studio and other venues in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- Hosted Ruth Hirsch to teach Focusing and Glenn Fleisch, Ph.D., MFT to teach WholeBody Focusing at Thinking in Movement Studio, Vancouver BC Canada and online.
- Hosted teleconferences for Focusing scholars and senior teachers: Mary Jennings, Rob Foxcroft, Christel Kraft, Christopher McLean, Hanspeter Mühlethaler, Rob Parker, Janet Pfunder, Gisela Uhl.
(NVC) projects
- Nonviolent Communications (NVC) projects
- Quaker and NVC projects have been a part of my life since I was 15 years old
- Open-Hearted Therapy: Bringing Nonviolent Communication to Psychotherapy Practice with CNVC Certified Trainer Miki Kashtan, full year course in 2009
- CTC, Consciousness Transformation Community with Miki Kashtan, 2009-2012
- The Fearless Heart: Why Nonviolence Takes Courage, discussion group with Miki Kashtan, 2015
Affiliations
* Professional Member #100222 Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association CCPA)
* Associate Member #3285 Canadian Professional Counsellors Association (CPCA)
* Professional member:The Center for Mindful Eating (TCME)
Audio readings
J John Heaton : J. J. Gibson & Thomas Reid ; ‘six movements of life’
John Heaton (1969),The Feeling of Effort, Phenomenology of Eyestrain (Katarina Halm reading Audio excerpts)
2) Symptoms
3) Precipitating factores
4) Normal seeing
5) The feeling of effort
6) Eyestrain and the mind
7) The visual grip on the world
8) Pain and fatigue - Summary
8) Pain and fatigue - Summary
Rupert Read (2017) John Heaton (1925–2017) – A personal-philosophical recollection, Self & Society, 45:3-4, 330-330
Rupert Read (2017) John Heaton (1925–2017) – A personal-philosophical recollection, Self & Society, 45:3-4, 330-330 (informal audio Katarina Halm).m4a
John Heaton 1925 2017 A personal-philosophical recollection by Rupert Read pdf
Credits
The following are registrations, copyrights, trademarks and credits to which we are indebted: The name of this website is from “Thinking in Movement”, chapter 12 in the book Primacy of Movement, expanded 2nd edition 2011, by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone. Bones for Life™ is a registered trademark of Ruthy Alon; Pregnant Pauses™ is a registered trademark of Alan Questel. SOUNDER SLEEP SYSTEM® is a copyright of Paris Kern, the founder was Michael Krugman. Yamuna Body Rolling® is a registered trademark of Yamuna Zake.
Certifications
Katarina Halm, M.A., GCFP, CFT GCFP,
Feldenkrais® Method of Somatic Education – Feldenkrais Guild of North America (FGNA) Nominating Commitee, Practitioner;
CFT Focusing & Dream Appreciation: CFT Focusing & Dream Appreciation: Certified Focusing Trainer with The International Focusing Institute;
Level 3 Instructor Canadian Taijiquan Federation; Pregnant Pauses®, Practitioner;
Sounder Sleep System™Assistant Trainer; Yamuna Body Rolling®,Practitioner;
Movement Intelligence (MI) Trainer providing Certification training in:(1) Bones for Life® (2) Chairs (3) Walk for Life (4) Mindful Eating (5) Solutions for Optimum Mobility.
Feldenkrais Canada
The following are service marks, trademarks, or certification marks of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America in Canada: Feldenkrais Guild(TM), Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais® Method or Feldenkrais Method(TM), Awareness Through Movement®, Prise de conscience par le mouvement(MD), Functional Integration®, FI(TM), L’intégration fonctionnelle(MD), Guild Certified Feldenkrais Teacher(TM) , GCFT(TM), Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner(TM), GCFP(TM), Certified Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Teacher(TM), CFATMT(TM), Friends of Feldenkrais(SM) , Feldenkrais Journal(TM), and FGNA Feldenkrais Method Logo.
Feldenkrais US
The following are service marks, trademarks, collective, or certification marks of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America in the US: Feldenkrais Guild®, Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais Method®, Functional Integration®, Awareness Through Movement®, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Teacher®, GCFT(CM), Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner(CM), GCFP(CM), Certified Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Teacher(CM), CFATMT(CM), Feldenkrais Journal(TM), Friends of Feldenkrais(SM), and FGNA Feldenkrais Method Logo.