You are living in the past. What you experience as the present is a result of several milliseconds to seconds of integrating sensory information. You are also living in the future. Your perceptions are shaped by your beliefs about what might be coming next.

As the American psychologist, George Kelly said, we are all “living in anticipation.”

These CL sessions will elaborate and update ideas I introduced at the Berlin Congress.

Our exploration will be based on two ideas:

1. Our brains are prediction machines.
2. We commonly think that perceiving and moving are two different activities. We are wrong.

Through a series of practical, playful activities, we will explore the recent science behind those two ideas. We will seek to appreciate what “living in anticipation” can mean and its relation to what John Dewey called “the continuity of mind and body in action.”

As we do, this new perspective will fundamentally shift your understanding of Alexander’s concepts and principles, and in turn, deepen and enrich your practice.