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Continuing Professional Development / Post-Graduate Training
For Alexander Teachers & Third Year Trainees
INTENSIVE SKILLS-BASED HANDS-ON INSTRUCTION
Diana Devitt-Dawson
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2008
Weekend Hands-On Intensives
10am to 1pm
3-Day Hands-On Intensives
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10am to 1pm
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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.
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FOCUS OF INTENSIVES WILL INCLUDE:-
- Teaching the pupil the means whereby.
- Self-work and creative positions of mechanical advantage while using the hands.
- How to use the hands gently while giving clear direction to the primary control.
- How to place hands on the primary control 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 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 workshop will involve teachers / third year trainees working in pairs. Diana will give instructional guidance to each participant. The environment will cultivate attention and will be peaceful, mindful and supportive.
Marjory Barlow, Alexander's neice
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FM Alexander teaching
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Diana Devitt-Dawson, director of training will be conducting the intensives.
For Further Information & Bookings, Contact Us.
Workshop fee:- Weekend Intensive:- $500.00. 3-Day Intensive:- $600.00.
Maximum number of participants:- (5) Minimum (3)
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
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