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Fall 2022 Weekly OSF Advanced Practice (Online)

Sundays 2 October – 20 November 2022

10am – 12pm Pacific Time (Find the time at your location at https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ )

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Following rewarding experiences offering Open Source Forms programs ONLINE VIA ZOOM since July 2020, we’re offering another series of eight two-hour weekly online Advanced Practice OSF Sessions, Sundays October 2 – November 20, 2022.

For those who’ve experienced the full spectrum (3 weeks) of Introductory OSF or SRT, and want to deepen their practice and/or pursue OSF Teacher Certification.

Though most Open Source Forms programs are now in-person, we’re continuing to offer weekly advanced sessions online, because so many advanced practitioners in our community live at great distances. We’ve discovered we can indeed feel in-community despite inhabiting separate far-flung environments. That for many, this community became a psychic lifeline during the challenges of a long pandemic. That we can experience rewarding levels of intimacy, adventure, trust & compassion. And that with a playful approach to screens, we’re finding new forms while avoiding the dreaded ‘zoom fatigue.’

Advanced OSF material is deeply rooted in and fluidly expanded from advanced Skinner Releasing practice. It’s where OSF/SRT Introductory work is headed! New alignment insights, new depths, more and deeper deep-states, transporting imagery. Joan Skinner did not intend Advanced Level SRT to be codified or limited to 12 ‘Ongoing’ SRT classes. She left us with a wealth of material not included in those 12 classes. Our advanced sessions are culled from decades of notes, explorations, & advanced material created & passed on by Joan and other veterans, and integrated with improvisation experiments — material developed & augmented by Stephanie and other experienced OSF & SRT teachers during the past 25 years. Stephanie is the only still-practicing facilitator who worked closely alongside Joan Skinner for over a decade, and had the precious opportunity, as a close friend, to roam inside Joan’s brilliant mind with any questions & curiosities.

“These classes are amazing, beautiful, releasing, healing, vital and a bargain.” Julia Sasso, SRT teacher, Toronto

We’re the only SRT or OSF teachers on the planet, that we know of, currently creating classes at this advanced level!

To ensure responsible facilitation, participant numbers are limited. Hold your place by registering for the whole series of eight at a discount, or register in advance for single sessions.

Once again, we offer three payment options: full, online & out-of-work price. Full price participants help subsidize those who are out of work — THANK YOU!

Photo Credit: Wendy Perron, Juliette Mapp, Stephanie Skura in ‘Surreptitious Preparations for an Impossible Total Act’, Sundays on Broadway, NYC, 2016. Photo by Anja Hitzenberger.

Spring 2022 Weekly OSF Advanced Practice (Online)

A series of eight two-hour weekly online Advanced Practice OSF Sessions with rotating facilitators: Stephanie Skura, Nate Dryden, and Susanna Hood.

Sundays 20 February – 10 April 2022

10am – 12pm Pacific Time (Find the time at your location at https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ )

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Back by popular demand! Following rewarding experiences offering Open Source Forms programs ONLINE VIA ZOOM since July 2020, with weekly advanced practice series in 2020 & 2021, we’re offering another series of eight two-hour weekly online Advanced Practice OSF Sessions, Sundays 20 February – 10 April 2022. 

Designed for those who’ve experienced the full spectrum (3 weeks) of Introductory OSF or SRT
and want to deepen their practice and/or pursue OSF Teacher Certification. 

We’ve discovered we can indeed feel in-community with each other despite inhabiting separate far-flung environments. That for many of us, this community has become a psychic lifeline during the challenges of a very long pandemic with its attendant isolation, grief, and health challenges. That we can experience rewarding levels of intimacy, adventure, trust & compassion. And that with a playful approach to screens, we’re finding new forms while avoiding the dreaded ‘zoom fatigue.’

Advanced OSF material is deeply rooted in & fluidly expanded from advanced Skinner Releasing practice. It’s where OSF/SRT Introductory work is headed! New alignment insights, new depths, more and deeper deep-states, transporting imagery.  Joan Skinner did not intend Advanced Level SRT to be codified or limited to 12 ‘Ongoing’ SRT classes.  She left us with a wealth of material not included in those 12 classes. Our advanced sessions are culled from decades of notes, explorations, and advanced material created and passed on by Joan and other veterans, and integrated with improvisation experiments — material developed and augmented by Stephanie and other experienced OSF & SRT teachers during the past 25 years.

“These classes are amazing, beautiful, releasing, healing, vital and a bargain.”  Julia Sasso, SRT teacher, Toronto

We’re the only SRT or OSF teachers on the planet, that we know of, currently creating classes at this advanced level! 

To ensure responsible facilitation, participant numbers are limited. Hold your place by registering for the whole series at a discount, or register in advance for single sessions.

Once again, we offer three payment options: full price, online price, and out-of-work price. Full price participants help subsidize those in our field who are, sadly, out of work for the duration — THANK YOU!

Photo Credit: Stephanie Skura & Debra Wanner in Skura’s ’Two Huts’Photo by Ian Douglas

OSF Beyond Beginnings Online, March 15 – April 19, 2022 with Susanna Hood

Tuesdays from 1-3pm ET (Montreal)
March 15 – April 19, 2022
Price: $120 CAD

These classes are destined for anyone who has had at least the first week of OSF/SRT Introductory material. Depending on enrollment, I may play with some remixing as in the Jan/Feb series. However I will prioritize foundational sequences,  beginning with material from the second week for anyone experiencing this level of the work for the first time.


Info, registration, and payment: susannahoodhum@gmail.com

OSF Basics Online, Jan 26 – February 23, 2022 with Susanna Hood

Wednesdays from 1-3pm ET (Montreal)
January 26 – Feb 23, 2022
Price: $100 CAD

These classes will focus on the foundational material from the first week’s worth of OSF/SRT Introductory material. It is perfect for anyone new to the practice and a great opportunity for those with more experience to go more deeply into this basic material.


Info, registration, and payment: susannahoodhum@gmail.com

OSF Beyond Beginnings Remix Online, Jan 18 – February 22, 2022

with Susanna Hood

Tuesdays from 1-3pm ET (Montreal)
January 18 – Feb 22, 2022
Price: $120 CAD

These classes are destined for anyone who has had at least the first and second weeks of OSF/SRT Introductory material. I look forward to getting a little more creative with remixing materials from mostly the first 2 weeks of material and dipping into the 3rd week of material where appropriate.


Info, registration, and payment: susannahoodhum@gmail.com

Spring series: Weekly OSF Advanced Practice

28 February – 2 May 2021
Sundays 10 AM – 12 PM Pacific Time [zoom]

[In your own time zone: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com]

Rotating Facilitators: Nate Dryden, Susanna Hood, Keely Isaak Meehan, Stephanie Skura

Pre-requisite: This series is designed for those who’ve experienced the full spectrum (3 weeks) of Introductory OSF or SRT, and want to deepen their practice and/or pursue OSF Teacher Certification. 

To ensure responsible facilitation, participant numbers are limited. Hold your place by registering for the whole series at a significant discount, or register in advance for single sessions.

Due to the popularity of our weekly advanced practice classes this past fall, we’re launching a spring series!  Weekly Advanced Practice OSF Sessions beginning 28 February 2021. 

Moving online due to the pandemic, we discovered we can indeed feel in-community with each other despite inhabiting separate far-flung environments. We can experience rewarding levels of intimacy, adventure, trust and compassion. And with a playful approach to screens, we’re able to find new forms while avoiding the dreaded ‘zoom fatigue.

Advanced OSF material is deeply rooted in & fluidly expanded from advanced Skinner Releasing practice. It’s where OSF/SRT Introductory work is headed! New alignment insights, new depths, more & deeper deep-states, transporting imagery.  Joan Skinner did not intend Advanced Level SRT to be codified or limited to the 12 ‘Ongoing’ SRT classes.  She left us with a wealth of material not included in those 12 classes. Our advanced sessions are culled from decades of notes, explorations, and advanced material created and passed on by Joan and other veterans, integrated with improvisation experiments — material developed and augmented by Stephanie and other experienced OSF & SRT teachers during the past 25 years.

We’re the only SRT or OSF teachers on the planet, that we know of, currently creating classes at this advanced level! 

Once again, we offer three payment options: full price, online price, and out-of-work price. Full price participants help subsidize those in our field who are, sadly, out of work for the duration — THANK YOU!

A way of moving toward wholeness, sanity, & creative empowerment in our increasingly challenging political climate. 

“Brought me back into a place of great buoyancy & creativity…Such a profoundly empowering, healing & creative body of work.”  Gillian McGinty, California

“It was very important for me to engage in this creative practice, awaken new pathways of my imaginative & physical self, & to be held with such care even in the virtual medium.”

“What a delightful time to spend by the screen that normally just brings tense body & stressed mind — but now what a releasing, healing, creative, touching & funny time it has brought. Thank you for your courage,efforts & generosity to realize this.”  Titta Court, SRT teacher, Finland

Photo Credit: Stephanie Skura & Sally Dean in Surreptitious Preparations for an Impossible Total Act, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY (2016). Photo by Ian Douglas.

Practice & Process Montreal Oct 30-Nov 1, 2020

Weekend Intensive co-facilitated by Sarah Bild & Susanna Hood (bilingual Eng/Fr)

La Poêle studio, Montreal

Oct 30 – Nov 1, 2020

Friday, 7pm-9:30pm

Saturday & Sunday 10am – 4pm (with 1hr lunch break)

*COVID alternative dates: Dec 4 – 6, 2020, same hours

Full workshop: $125

Fri night, Sat & Sun 10am-12pm: $65

8-person max, preference given to full workshop participants

Info, registration and payment: lapoele307@gmail.com

Pulling from their practices of Open Source Forms and Action Theater™, Susanna Hood and Sarah Bild will guide us through physical and sensory awakening of the body/mind to prepare us for creative practice. Inviting breath and imagery into the physical self, we will open ourselves to our physical and metaphorical environment and practice noticing, tending to and following creative impulses as they arise, opening a dialogue between inner experience and outer awareness. How does one impulse invite another? How do we give shape to those impulses? How do we embody them for full expression? How do we frame them in space and time? These are questions we will investigate and experience in the afternoon hours.