PRACTICAL DETAILS
Date: Sunday 9th November
Time: 17:00 - 19:00 UK time. Check your timezone here
Venue: Online
Title: HOMOFASCIATICUS: From Living Fibrillar Architecture to Stochastic Continuity.
With: Surgeon Dr Jean Claude Guimberteau and Clinical Anatomist John Sharkey
Note: The replay will be available to all attendees until Sunday, 18th January 2026. After this date, the recording will not be added to the Members’ Area, but will be included in our On Demand video collection at a higher fee — with an exclusive discount for Members.
SUMMARY
This joint presentation by Surgeon Dr. Jean-Claude Guimberteau and Clinical Anatomist John Sharkey explores the fascial continuum as revealed through pioneering intra-tissue endoscopy imaging and fascia-focused anatomy. Drawing on Dr Guimberteau’s film Homofasciaticus, we will trace how the fibrillar extracellular matrix, once neglected as packaging tissue, emerges as a coherent, irregular, dynamic, and continuous architecture. The study of our microanatomy and fibrillar architectural network through the observation of living matter by intratissular endoscopy encourages us to leave the traditional academic world to study the science of complexity, and of chaotic, non-linear systems.
The multifibrillar, microvacuolar network appears to be an ocean of apparent disorder that generates the order of life. This architectural fibrillar network, previously known as “Connective tissue”, but being in fact “Constitutive”, can no longer be neglected. Its globality and continuity give meaning and definition to the term of “Fascia”.
John Sharkey will expand these insights through the lens of tensegrity and fascia-as-process, highlighting fascia not as a passive wrapping, but as the stochastic living matrix that underpins human form, function, and perception.
The classical linear model of Platonic harmony, as applied to the body, turns out to be inadequate, and it cannot help us to understand complexity because it favours only order and stability. The study of complex non-linear systems such as ecosystems allows us to address complex natural phenomena that are unstable and cannot be accounted for by classical mathematics and physics. There is still much to discover about human anatomy but new technological advances and theories in the fields of physics and mathematics have allowed us to lift a corner of Nature's veil.
Together, we invite participants to reconsider anatomy as a field of continuity rather than compartmentalized layers, revealing the fibrillar network as both the interior architecture and the universal tissue of relationship.
Relevant reading:
- Noble, Denis. “The role of stochasticity in biological communication processes.” Prog. Biophys. Mol. Biol. 162 (2021): 122-128.
- Noble, Denis. “Harnessing stochasticity: How do organisms make choices?” Chaos. 2018, 28(10):106309.
Note: The replay will be available to all attendees until Sunday, 18th January 2026. After this date, the recording will not be added to the Members’ Area, but will be included in our On Demand video collection at a higher fee — with an exclusive discount for Members.
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PRESENTERS
Jean-Claude Guimberteau M.D is a surgeon, founder of the Institut Aquitain de la Main, Director of Research and Past President (2012) of the French Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Society.
He is a member of the French Hand Society (GEM) and the French Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Society (SOFCPRE).
Throughout his career Dr GUIMBERTEAU has developed an ongoing fascination with the sliding and suppleness of living tissue and anatomical structures such as tendons.
He studied medicine at the Bordeaux University Hospital in 1968-1980. He completed his military service in Benin (Africa) 1973-1974.
John Sharkey is an international educator, author and authority in the areas of Clinical Anatomy, Fascia Science, human movement and the manual treatment of chronic pain.
John is a graduate of the University of Dundee, University of Liverpool and University of Chester. He completed undergraduate and post-graduate studies in the areas of exercise physiology, clinical anatomy and holds post-graduate qualifications in education.
John's latest book ‘Understanding Fascia, Tensegrity and Myofascial Trigger Points’ has become one of Human Kinetics' most popular titles, reflecting the growing interest in topics related to fascia science.
John provides unique, full-body dissection courses across the globe and is a popular conference Keynote speaker. John will be chairing a round table discussion on fascia at the upcoming International Fascia Research Congress, in New Orleans, as well as providing a workshop with his colleague Dr Andrzej Pilat of Myofascial induction and a special dissection course with Dr Carla Stecco, Gil Hedley and Gabriel Venne.
Note: The replay will be available to all attendees until Sunday, 18th January 2026. After this date, the recording will not be added to the Members’ Area, but will be included in our On Demand video collection at a higher fee — with an exclusive discount for Members.
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