by Yochanan Rywerant [BOOK]
CONTENTS
I. Preface
II. Introduction
PART A: THE BASICS
III. Review of various “principles” and “working concepts
- Habitual and non-habitual patterns
- Learning by sensing differences
- Awareness, a way of changing intentional patterns
- The stages of baby-development
- Orientation in space and the field of gravity
- Hierarchy of levels of control, changing of control-level
- Clarity of the distal and proximal parts involved in patterns of action
- Defense mechanisms (anti-patterns)
- Communicative manipulation (the manipulon)
- The force-surface-pressure relation, the “surface-like” style
- Clarifying alternative choices, versus imposing correction
- Goal-directedness versus attention to process, learning by “playing”
- Modes of control: sedate, aroused
- Neutral position versus extreme position
- The potent state, or readiness to act versus mere relaxation
- The efficient use of the skeleton (in gravitational field, etc.)
- Acceptance of proposed new patterns; the “Aha!”-Reaction
- The constituents of a pattern of action, sensory anticipation
- Corollary discharge and “relative conjugate movements”
- Sensory filtering in habitual patterns
- Cause and effect vs. stimulus and response
- Heuristic learning vs. model imitation
- Using the senses, calibrating the “gain” of the response
- “What stops me?” as a way to go on exploring
- Using existing (“ingrained”) patterns and responses
- Agonists and antagonists linked neurologically
- Muscle groups involved in more than one function
- Non-normative approach vs. “indoctrinated” (hidden) norms
- Cortical involvement in unusual contexts and settings
- Different levels of control addressed by different “languages”
- Communications as verbal (serial, digital) and as sensory (images)
- The concepts and functions of monitoring and choice-making
- Reversibility for improved control and efficiency
- The role of pain, “measuring” pain, progress and rate of rehabilitation
- Meta-messages in ATM & FI
- Supplying the missing constituent in a deficient pattern of action
- Pattern recognition as a phase of learning
- Primitive (old) patterns
- Respecting dominance
- The view on posture
- Respecting structure
- Shearing stress and friction, supporting at right angles to surface
- Testing, usually by going to extremes
- Repetition, its rationale
- Integration through change of environment, position or context
- Integration through the head, its rationale
- Keystone-manipulation
IV. Review of various themes appropriate for frontal talks (“lectures”)
- The origins of patters of action
- Communication by words and images
- Image of action, the map-territory relation
- Hierarchy in the CNS, levels of control
- Structure and function
- The skeleton
- The Weber-Fechner principle
- The neutral point
- On touch
- Perception of the world
- Damage of the CNS
- Muscles
- The neuron
- Entropy
- The two hemispheres
- Upright stance in the gravitational field
- Physical principles
- Passivity – activity
- Dualism in language and philosophy
- Recommending a bibliography
V. Considerations in ATM
- “Principles”
- Strategy
- Tactics
- Series of lessons
VI. Considerations in FI
- The style of FI
- The FI session
- The limits of FI
PART B: Hints of building a curriculum
VII. General Outline
VIII. A few additional specific items
- Didactics of ATM lessons
- Didactics of FI demonstrations
- Didactics of tutoring FI
- Didactics of the practicum
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