Course detail

Body Experience - summer

FaVU-TZK-LAcad. year: 2009/2010

Physical and mental exercises coming out from the method of body work on the grounds of dream analyses, on the grounds of attention to somatic impulses, including their subsequent transformation. Limits of communication, blockages and taboos in the context of somatic feelings and dreams. Method of dialogue. Visualisation.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Active work with one´s own and partner´s body. Through verbal communication, bodily emotions will appear. Students will be able to recognize these emotions and decode them with the help of the teacher. With the help of transformation, they will learn to control difficult conditions which are the essential gateway towards self-indentification. Through the analysis of dreams, bodily reactions and work with body, students consciously learn to use the subconscious aspects of their personalities. Thus, work with bodies has both cognitive and therapeutic effects. Students learn the ability to express intimate emotions in a group and they will be able to share them, as well as to find the sense in the fact of sharing. This will lead to personal psychosomatic information in the communication with partners and with oneself.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of recommended and required literature. Psychological preparedness. Consultations.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Credit (attendance + practice).

Course curriculum

1) Communication with impulses of one´s own body, deepening sensitivity and coping with difficult conditions and crisis.
2) Recognition of communication with the subconscious mind through dreams, their symbolism, one´s own interpretations.
3) Limits of communication, blockings and taboos in connection with bodily emotions and dreams.
4) Group talks, work with a partner, mutual work on the transformation of bodily impulses, the method of dialogue.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The purpose of the course is to gain ability to recognize body signals which we usually do not pay attention to, to work with them, to accept them, to recognize their language and transform them through the active form of the work with the body into self-realizing level of our personality. Other aspects of this purpose are: to become acquainted with the body in its communicative role and to be able to lead a dialogue with it; to develop imaginative and cognitive role of dreams and to work with them on the level of body reactivity, along with the exploration of the possibilities of the different states of mind; to harmonize self-identifying component of our personality.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Attendance is mandatory.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Petr Rezek, Tělo, věc a skutečnost v současném umění, 1983
Kreativita a perverze / Janina Chacsegvetová – Smirgelová, edice Portál
Sigmund Freud:"Totem a tabu"

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch ATD , 1. year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Seminar

27 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer