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Auckland, Summary of Workshop

Auckland, Summary of Workshop

Workshop Presenters:
Janie Randerson and Pamela Russell Date of workshop:
November 9, 2002 - 9:00am Workshop Location:
Auckland Workshop Evaluation:

 

 

 

SUMMARY OF GROUP RESPONSES TO PRISMA 6.2

 

INSTRUCTION:

 

Please note what it was like to observe, or have to observe, on 2 levels at once – the familiar ATM process and simultaneously the chosen criterion.

 

 


GROUP #1

GROUP #2

GROUP #3

 

 

CHOSEN CRITERIA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

·         Confident and flexible to adapt

 

·         Exploration

 

 

 

·         Connection with teacher and group

 

·         Enjoyment

 

·         Connection with teacher and group

 

·         Exploration

 

 

 

RESPONSES

 

 

 

 

 

 

·         Playful

 

·         Extend and explore around the lesson – presented lesson as self exploration

 

·         Curiosity

 

·         Risk taking

 

·         Improvisational

 

·         Being interested

 

·         Enjoyment

 

·         Felt the connection between myself and the group stronger as I was much more aware of it

 

·         Difficult! I found the primary need was to know what was going to teach next and the criteria went out the window

 

·         Needed a longer time in order to gauge any response and rapport

 

·         When a lesson succeeds all of the criteria come together

 

·         At first difficult – content, environment, shift focus to other things

 

·         Difficult to concentrate on 2 things at once

 

·         Aware of other groups (while giving and getting)

 

·         Took time for first person to become engaged

 

·         Needed more time to get into it

 

·         Good opportunity to be less interested in the lesson getting somewhere and more in the process

 

·         Realised how much we depend on the material

 

·         Good opportunity to wing it, and experience the not having a specific foundation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2002 11 09

 


SUMMARY OF GROUP RESPONSES TO PRISMA 12

 

 


Compilation of answers and outcome

 

 

 

 

Look for similarities with your perceptions during the lesson and write them down: choose one or two that interest you, and – as an additional task – observe these criteria while continuing the F.I.

 

 

 

 

 

 

GROUP #1

GROUP #2

GROUP #3

·         All observed familiarity of head and shoulder relationship

 

·         New explorations of shoulder trajectories based in previous ATM

 

·         Supported in habitual tension pattern – created breathing release

 

·         Client familiar with aspects but interested in the new challenges going on at the same time

 

·         Practitioner clear about intentions – yes, there were changes

 

·         Time limit a constraint

 

·         A moment where the lesson transformed from finding a way in, to a real connection

 

·         Threshold where lesson takes on a real sense of engagement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUMMARY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How could the abilities just experienced be reformulated in terms of competencies? Write down what you have jointly discovered.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GROUP #1

GROUP #2

GROUP #3

·         The ability to explore movement patterns with the feeling of safety for the client

 

·         Using attentive observation to guide the process / lesson

 

·         Creating a learning environment for the client through listening to the client’s response using differentiation, breathing and a variety of constraints.

 

·         Observation of the client by practitioner i.e. breathing, swallowing

 

·         The competency of being aware of yourself, the client and the process, and the relationship (which is constantly in flux) between these.

 

·         Doing Vs being

 

·         Thinking Vs feeling