Workshop Series – Level 1 – Douglas Heel

So many people want to get more than just the training. They want the workshop experience too. In this program we take you into the workshop from start to finish.

The hello session is a powerful part of the work, it is where we learn who is in the room and extract learning and ideas from the interactions. The teachings that arise have been recorded for the first time. Usually cameras only start rolling when the official teaching starts, but as you will see, the teaching starts straight away. As we give meaning to what people say we find how the interpretation of the story can completely change the information, the data we collect. With better data about your client you can help them more.

We will then move through the teachings of the 123 and then have 3 people up to see it in real world scenarios. Again, any testing we do needs to have meaning and help us get a clearer picture of our client. We then always reflect this bad to them as it is their body and their challenge. We are here to facilitate a process, they must do the work.

We go into mind and body and see how it plays out in a group. As I say often, don’t take my word for it, you need to feel it in your own body. We would want our clients to be feeling the changes too.

And then it is on to the rollercoaster through the sequence, we have different participants up and we have different learnings. This is the greatest thing about this work. We could be doing the same thing with 10 different people and the framework and methodology reminds the same, but somehow every time on the table it looks different and we learn different things. This is why after 16 years of teaching I still don’t get bored.

If you have been on one or many of our workshops you will know there is a huge amount of information happening at the same time. This is a time where you can sit back and take it in at a pace that suits you. You can go back and watch the parts where you feel you have not fully picked up all the information. There is lots there – I know because editing this was a mighty challenge that has had me stuck many a time. But it was worth doing. there is so much beautiful human spirit when we do the work right. We are not just working to connect the neurological system to make sometimes physical body perform better or overcome pain and dysfunction. We want to expand these possibilities into how people live their lives. The more understanding a client can take for ma session, the more empowered they are to make the changes needed in all areas of their lives. I hope you experience the joy and the frustration of being on the table, the aha moments and the how when things are not working out, we can use these moments for learning, because that is what we are all here to do anyway.

I love this work and I love sharing and teaching, because for me the joy is when we understand just a bit more of our story.

Your Instructor

Course Curriculum

Workshop Series – Level 1
You had me at hello!

Introduction

Hello, commitment, trauma, understanding why, not impressed (13:42)

Kids, rugby, what did you say? Shane (9:19)

cancer expert, 7th level 1, heart diaphragm, doctor 123 (10:49)

Communication, stress, doubt, clarity (9:43)

Seating positions owe it too myself, face yoga, running pose, software, bladder (13:46)

Order of workshop and sequence we work in (4:25)

The 123 of BeActivated

Concept introduction (13:40)

123 Testing Round 1 (31:04)

123 Testing round 2 (19:02)

123 Testing Round 3 (17:45)

123 discussion, Doug’s patterns and injury (24:47)

Mind And Body

Mind Body introduction (8:24)

Mind Body Group (13:30)

How do you feel? (0:49)

How hard do I push (4:27)

Breathing – lets activate your diaphragm

Diaphragm activation (44:08)

Diaphragm practical and feedback (12:36)

Point of focus and breathing (2:40)

Psoas, Glute and hamstring

Zone 1 Activation (53:31)

Practical plus feedback (14:03)

Day 2

Good morning (36:03)

Quads

Quads Activation (47:32)

Calves, tibialis and foot turn

Calf tibialis activation (60:12)

Practical plus feedback (5:18)

Lateral sling

Lateral sling + pelvic floor (44:36)

Piriformis lats

Piriformis to lats (57:46)

Abdominals

Two times the testing (17:05)

Shoulders

this shoulder stuff is real good! (36:35)

Neck and Jaw

SCM + jaw (29:49)

Supraspinatus and posterior rotation

Supraspinatus, posterior rotation and goodbye (30:04)

Course materials

course manual