on the IFF Academy Process 2000 to 2008

Open letter to IFF President Jenni Evans
on the IFF Academy Process 2000 to 2008

Perspectives from outgoing IFF Academy Committee

Rob Black, Daniel Clénin, Barbara Pieper, Janie Randerson

March 25, 2009

CC to George Krutz, IFF Board Liaison to Academy Review Group

Dear Jenni,

In this letter we respond to your request to share some insights into the IFF Academy process more on a level of personal reflections than a traditional report format.

• We have concentrated on twelve issues that are of ongoing significance for us to understand the IFF Academy's evolution and development within the IFF,
• accompanied by short examples illustrating how the task has been undertaken or a challenge met and
• personal experiences related to each issue.

We present some perspectives on how the IFF Academy has approached and performed its mission so far. Addressed are challenges that most organisations face, too, especially those emerging into a Professional Field. We regard the IFF Academy Process as a particular option in transforming visions and purposes into lively activities of personal and professional development and within an International organisation.

Significant issues of reflection on the IFF Academy

1.     Mandate: developing quality and competency tools for practitioners

2.     Emerging into a Professional Field

3.     The IFF Academy model - Feldenkrais Practitioners creating their professional culture

4.     Starting with a process: the functional approach

5.     Integrating different purposes into one process

6.     Long breathing

7.     Challenges of Technology (digital communication)

8.     Coping with finances

9.     Responses among practitioners, IFF and its Member Organisations

10.  Working together

11.  Improving through global and differentiated movements

12.  Going with the process

You will find links to Academy reports and other relevant documents for detailed information on the IFF Academy process in the Appendix together with contact links.

(note: the letter is attached in its entirety, if you wish to read it offline; it has also been divided into each section for ease of online reading)

Attachment	Size
2009 03 25 Open Letter to IFF President from 2008 RetiringFINAL.pdf	259.08 KB