Learn potent strategies for individualized sense making through the lens of the "subjective middle." As practitioners we often find ourselves comparing movement left to right. Implicitly, we are making our observations from an idea of an “objective middle.” What if we could suspend the idea of an “objective middle” and instead, identify and work with a person’s “subjective middle,” an orientation from which it is startlingly apparent that they are more at home and function more effectively? From this standpoint, a practitioner can address the self-image from a unique perspective, the client’s own.

Olena fluidly and articulately demonstrates how an FI is not a conversation with ourselves about the person, but a conversation with the person’s subjectivity. In that interaction we meet their subjective orientation and cue their system to self organize to a higher potential. It is an artful way of working where we do not interact with the student as teachers, but as guides for the self organizing process. Olena effortlessly integrates her knowledge of functional anatomy into the teaching in an accessible and clear fashion. This advanced training includes the functional anatomy of the spine, of the “inner cylinder” (specifically, extending from the ring of the fist rib to the pelvic inlet), and of the shoulder girdle in relation to the pelvic girdle. The video includes multiple personal supervision moments. This brings the viewer up close as Olena coaches and leads practitioners to strategize within particular “real life” moments encountered in practice. While everyone is working with the “same” material, the viewer participates in variations that are tailored to particular students. These segments are visually rich and verbally clear, so one can observe the learning interaction with the person on the table, as well as witness the learning taking place.