Fighting monkey

Embodied Intelligence for Everyday Resilience

How do we practice today if we do not know what tomorrow brings? Fighting Monkey is a movement-based learning practice and research platform. It explores how humans perceive, respond, behave, and adapt under changing conditions. Drawing on biology, neuroscience, and complexity science, it treats practice itself as a form of inquiry.

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WHAT WE PRACTICE

We learn what to do when we do not know what to do, because life demands the capacity to generate behaviour that is versatile, adaptive and robust. Being creative is confusing, frustrating, messy, maybe even painful. But comfort takes us nowhere.

WHO IT IS FOR

Fighting Monkey is for people who sense that fixed methods no longer or insufficiently answer their questions. It is practiced by artists, athletes, educators, researchers who want to remain responsive not only physically, but cognitively and relationally, across all of life’s domains.