2006 IFF Academy Coordinators Report

I. New IFF Academy Coordination since July 2005:

• Marie-Christine Schmoetzer, French born and living near Munich, started to work 8 hours per week as IFF Academy Coordinator in July 2005, reporting to IFF Board members Barbara Pieper (D) and Janie Randerson (NZL).
• According to the Job Agreement the coordinator is responsible for the Local Academy Feet/Local Academy Teams (LAF/LAT), the contact with the Workshop presenters, the update of IFF Academy documents and events/workshops on the Website, to initiate and encourage Practitioners to create new LAF/LAT. To motivate the presenters to produce the Evaluation of their workshops and load them on the Website, organize presentations and events.
• And the coordinator needed 1) introduction in the tasks and the structure of the IFF and the Academy and 2) Ongoing Training and upgrading in using IFF Academy websites, Academy GME and the new Website.

II Tasks and Achievements since April 2005 after IFF Assembly and 2^nd EuropeanCongress:

• Berlin 2005 evaluation (note: there was no coordinator from January to July 2005 – only some support days at the congress by former Coordinator Carolin Theuring)
   

- During the 2^nd European Feldenkrais Conference in Berlin the IFF Academy has organized a second IFF Academy Day with 8 IFF Academy Workshops. Reports and Evaluation of the Academy Day Design and the workshops for the Congress Documentation can be found in:  2nd European Feldenkrais Congress Berlin 2005, Hard Copy Congress Documentation, Munich Spring 2006, edited by Feldenkrais Gilde Deutschland e.V. www.Feldenkrais.de and on the IFF Academy website, Academy Days
 

- Evaluation of IFF Info Point at the European Congress through Academy and Board members as a first template for next approximation. In July 2005 Lynette Reid presented an IFF Poster, designed by herself, at the FGNA Annual Conference in Indiana. This Poster now is available for display at Member organisations’ Meetings. It was translated and upgraded for the Annual Gatherings of the German speaking guilds (see below)

• Contacts to Feldenkrais practitioners who could be interested in creating a LAF:

- Canada:

 Sandra Bradshaw, create a Format for the yearly meeting of the working group of Canadian Practitioners called  FFD – Feldi’s Fun Days (still in contact, depends on the decision of participants at the next meeting).

      - France:

 Isabelle Ginot works on the Theme “Body Image – Self Image” with a group of French practitioners.

• Local Academy Feet / Local Academy Teams

- Austria:

Stefan Weinberger offered a Prisma Blue WorkshopVersion 6 . A Second PRISMA blue Workshop Version 6, LAF Vienna by Ruth Haiden and Viktoria Anreiter 30 of April 2006

- Netherlands: PRISMA blue Version 6, 29 of May held by  Rineke Brinkhof & Anna Verberne;  Amsterdam, in Dutch.

 - Germany:

- Susanne Mertner and Anne Baur - Feldenkrais for Geriatric  Nurses. (decision still pending).

- Charlotte Rehbock-Walter, Uta Milz and Liane von Beesten have established the Local Academy Foot “Feldenkrais and Psychology” and presented it at the annual Assembly of the Feldenkrais Verband Deutschland e.V.

- Ellen Engelkamp and Stephanie Hornung have  established the Local Academy Foot “Feldenkrais for Horse and  Rider”. The workshop was presented it at the annual Assembly of the Feldenkrais Verband Deutschland e.V.

- Heide Schöne Ingrid Brandes-Scherer Traudl Schmollinger-Marchand Sylvia Weise Postersession LAF HITS-Questionnaire for clients of Feldenkrais ATM Classes

- Daniel Clénin and Barbara Pieper PRISMA blue Version 8, LAF Munich –Berne,   Jan 21 and 22 2006,Hamburg :

Daniel Clénin and Barbara Pieper, LAF PRISMA Munich-Berne, presented their latest version (V.8) of the PRISMA blue workshop January 2006 in Hamburg/ Germany: "Six perspectives fostering the quality enhancement of your Feldenkrais practice". In addition to preceding PRISMA blue workshops, new specific processes had been developed to evaluate and cluster Feldenkrais Practitioners´ discovered capabilities. These were experienced and brought into language during the workshop´s process in a new three - dimensional way.

• Initiate the translation of the IFF Academy Flyer into Hebrew (Gaby Munzberg), proof read by Eitan Sarig.

• Work with the Feldenkrais Verband Deutschland e.V. office in Munich to offer the IFF Academy Workshops and have them listed in the German Assembly Program as IFF Academy Workshops. 5 IFF Academy Workshops have been offered at this occasion. 4 took place.

• Plan and realize the IFF Info Point at the annual Assembly of the Feldenkrais Verband Deutschland e.V.(Germany) March 09^th – 12^th 2006 in Stuttgart in conjunction with the Annual Gathering of the other two German speaking Member organisations (Austria and Switzerland) For this task I got the support and assistance in preparation, evaluation and attendance at the Info point from Gudrun Lenz-Neumeier (German Feldenkrais Practitioner) who has been staffed as IFF Info Point Coordinator for this joint venture. This included sending the Info Point material to Switzerland and Austria and support to these organizations of an IFF Info Point at the yearly Feldenkrais Assemblies in these two countries.

• Resulting from the cooperation with Gudrun, we have developed a concept, called “IFF PR Set” which will help member organisations as well as practitioners to organize and install an Info Point for different purposes (assemblies, conferences, info day in their practice etc…) The PR Set contains a material list (some of the items can be borrowed from the IFF Academy Coordinator) a manual and the evaluation of the Info Point in Stuttgart. The concept includes documentation of the Annual Assembly of the Feldenkrais Verband Deutschland e.V March 09^th – 12^th 2006 in Stuttgart with film and photos.
• Also resulting of the experiences of the German Assembly in Stuttgart, we have produced a compilation of IFF Rep Portraits which have been edited in the Feldenkrais Forum (Germany) written by Uta Ruge. This booklet was available (free of charge) at the Annual Assembly of the Feldenkrais Verband Deutschland e.V March 09^th – 12^th 2006 in Stuttgart,Vienna and Zurich. Out of this activity derived the idea to publish all portraits in German and English on the IFF Website and a DVD for the IFF member organisations with kind permission from the German Guild (FVD).

• Collected and produced information material in form of a DVD for the Assembly 2006 in Soesterberg. (IFF PR Set documents, IFF Representative portraits, Professional Field 3D Model in 6 languages) together with IFF Board members Barbara Pieper, Janie Randerson, paid staff and a large group of helpers. The DVD, resulting in contributions of about 40 to 50 practitioners (and some non practitioners), can indeed be regarded as an example of the professional field’s liveliness in applying and reflecting the Feldenkrais Method.

• Different translation works into German, English and French.

Marie-Christine Schmoetzer

Academy Coordinator

academy@feldenkrais-method.org

May 8^th 2006