Welcome.

Fluid Intelligence is dedicated to helping twice-exceptional kids and the people who love them to connect more fully with their innate intelligence, resilience, and sense of well-being. It is possible to learn to move through life with greater clarity and ease! If you are curious, let’s explore together.

“When you learn how to learn, you will realize that there are no teachers, that there are only people learning and people learning how to facilitate learning."

~ Moshe Feldenkrais

Movement matters.

“We are often taught that we sense the world and then react. But our sensing and moving do not happen in sequence. We cannot perceive the world in any detail without moving at the same time. In fact, the act of planning the movement, which is largely unconscious, and the movement itself may sensitize our eyes, ears, and fingers. Perception and movement are intimately linked in a continuous two-way conversation.”

~ Sue Barry, PhD, neurobiologist, author of Fixing My Gaze

“Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve life itself.”

~ Moshe Feldenkrais

“Body organization is the foundation of higher learning.”

~ Ron Minson, MD, founder of Integrated Listening Systems

Why “fluid intelligence”?

fluid - able to flow easily; having a flowing or changing quality; smooth and continuous
intelligence - capacity for learning, reasoning, and understanding; the ability to apply knowledge and skills to manipulate one’s environment or think abstractly

In psychology, fluid intelligence refers to an ability to analyze and solve problems in novel situations (as distinct from crystallized intelligence, which is more about use of knowledge acquired through prior experience). When spoken of in this way, fluid intelligence is generally referring to thinking.

We are also able to develop this ability in our physical being. Moshe Feldenkrais used the word “acture” to describe an ability to move in any direction, from where we are, without any additional preparation. When our physical self is well organized and our self-image and self-awareness more fully available to us, we are able to adapt and respond more easily to experiences as they arise, using an appropriate amount of effort.

And there’s yet a third way we can think about this - that our intelligence is itself a fluid process: dynamic, ever-changing, responsive and adaptable to the conditions of our life as it unfolds, much as water in a stream flows over and around obstacles in its path.

My passion is helping to nurture this kind of embodied, emergent intelligence - a capacity for learning, for adapting, and for growth that is informed by, and responsive to, our personal experience; the kind of intelligence that creates options and opens up choices in who we are and what we do. I am walking this path and welcome opportunities to connect, collaborate, and share with others along the way.

“Health is the ability to realize our avowed and unavowed dreams.”