1. Mandate: developing quality and competency tools for practitioners

”The mission of the IFF is to realise the full potential of the Feldenkrais Method throughout the world” (adopted at the 2003 Annual General Assembly). To make this happen successful practitioners are needed. One could say: the Method meets the world in each and every practitioner. Therefore the IFF put the practitioners at the centre of attention. The IFF started a joint venture with its Member Organisations to become active in areas where the IFF has political power to initiate and implement concrete action. Allocations of its financial resources and wo/men power have been directed to the professional realm of the Feldenkrais Method and its practise.

Examples illustrating this policy

§       Empowering practitioners by providing quality and competency tools that could enable practitioners in turn to empower themselves.

§       The tools are designed for further development by those using them.

§       A core group (“Committee”) was composed and annually appointed by the IFF Board with respect to special expertise, self commitment to the task, willingness and ability to work in a team and a passion for the mission statement.

Personal experiences

• The mandate was a huge step forward in the evolution of the Feldenkrais Method’s application worldwide. We were thrilled and felt honoured being invited to participate in this unique process. We felt bound to this mandate and responsible to take action.
• It was embarrassing to notice that some people and Member Organisations sometimes forgot about the mandate and assumed the IFF Academy to be a more personal interest of Academy Committee members.