My desire to work at the Fogel lab came indirectly out of an intense interest in the therapeutic work of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Erickson's highly evolved way of matching aspects of his clients verbal and kinesthetic experience, as well as their belief systems, allowed him to achieve results with his clients that often seemed miraculous. After reading the work of the anthropologist Gregory Bateson, the linguist John Grinder and movement educator Moshe Feldenkrais I found myself in a 4-year Feldenkrais Practitioner Training and eventually the Fogel lab. My research interest broadly stated: How can we, as practitioners, in whatever field that we are in, help to increase the abilities, self-awareness and maturity of our students? I believe that to do so we need to study both the verbal and nonverbal aspects of human growth and development.