LONDON | EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE
It moves — fast, uneven, unpredictable.
Control, fixed forms, and protocols are myths of the tired.
We choose another route.
We train perception, not perfection.
We move to understand what moves us.
We embrace the unstable,
turn mistakes into orientation,
use dialogue as calibration,
uncertainty as a teacher.
“Optimal grip is loosening grip”
Schedule
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Saturday, 13 June 2026
10:00 – 18:00
*with a 1h lunch break -
Sunday, 14 June 2026
10:15 – 18:15
*with a 1h lunch break
EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE FOR EVERYDAY RESILIENCE
4 QUESTIONS TO MOVE WITH
1. Who you are as observer
2. How do you observe
3. What do you observe
4. And how innovative you are
when you need to learn and adjust your strategies in life.
These 4 questions are the conceptual framework
within which we will operate.
WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE
A dynamic blend of Zero Forms & Movement Situations exploring:
• Elasticity – yield before breaking; reorganize before damage occurs
• Distribution – share effort & intelligence across the whole network
• Plasticity – transform strain into learning
• Imagination – anticipate before it happens; play with prediction
• Clarity – direct energy where it matters
• Dialogue – coordinate through continuous feedback
• Creativity – compose new actions in real time; turn surprise
into advantage
WHY IT MATTERS
Rooted in ecological psychology, enactivism, and active inference,
Fighting Monkey views movement as a relational,
self-organizing, meaning-making process.
Through continuous, reciprocal processes
that emerge through the coupling of organism and environment.
In dialogue with established theoretical frameworks
FM develops its own living model and language for practice
grounded in complex systems and embodied experience.
blending biological precision with creative sensibility.
The model proposes that adaptive capacity is expressed in
how systems respond to disturbance, distribute load,
and reorganise without losing integrity.
