Alexander Technique Institute Teacher Training School

Suite 4 / 188 Pacific Highway, North Sydney, Australia 2060

Teacher Training

Continuing Professional Development

Marjory Barlow, Alexander's neice

Weekend Hands-On Intensives
(for teachers and third year trainees)
9am to 1pm

Bookings
Essential!

FM Alexander teaching

INTENSIVE SKILLS-BASED HANDS-ON INSTRUCTION

Demonstrating & Teaching:- INHIBITION, NON-DOING, giving DIRECTION

as outlined

"...the teacher will ask the pupil to give the new messages necessary to carry out the new means whereby required for bringing about that employment of the primary control of the use of himself which is fundamental in conditioning reflexes. At the same time the teacher will, with his hands give the actual sensory experience of this new employment of the primary control..."

F.M. Alexander
The Universal Constant in Living.

FOCUS OF INTENSIVES WILL INCLUDE:-

How to place hands on the head, neck and back relationship so as to demonstrate "let the neck be free, to let the head balance forward and up on the neck, to let the back lengthen and widen".
How to teach & demonstrate inhibition, non-doing and direction-sending (to the primary control) in all daily life activities and interactions i.e., when standing, sitting, reciting or public speaking; while putting hands on the back of a chair or picking up a musical instrument, doing a lunge; or when meeting the unexpected!
The atmosphere of the intensive will be peaceful, mindful and supportive in order to facilitate a learning environment.

Special Weekend Intensive Available for Alexander Teachers only:-
Communicating & Demonstrating Alexander lessons to Medical Doctors & Health Professionals with C.C.C. - Clarity, Consistency, Confidence - in light of the British Medical Journal's research publication of 23/8/08.

Diana Devitt-Dawson, head of training will be conducting the intensives.
For Further Information & Bookings Contact Us
Cost:- Weekend $400.00 or one day $220.00
A Certificate of Attendance for CPD will be issued.

Recommended Reading:-
1).'Talking' Hands - From the Conceptual into Reality by Diana Devitt-Dawson Published in the 2004 Oxford Congress Papers.
2). F.Matthias Alexander: The Man And His Work (Memoirs of Training in the Alexander Technique 1931-34) by Lulie Westfeldt
3). Taking Time - interviews with Six first generation teachers. Edited by Crissman Taylor