1999: Beginning of the Project

Articulate core of competencies

1. Move quickly forward to unify a good organized community with high standards;

2. Develop a common form that acknowledges that there needs to be variation in different countries;

3. Clarify whether competence is or involves: levels, essence, minimums (base level), or all three.

Action:

1. IFF start now in collaboration with all the Guilds to complete a competence development process. (Go fast but don't hurry).
2. Look at other professions, approaches.
3. Utilize the resources identified in this Assembly; for example: "Berufsbild" (vocational profile developed by the German Gilde), IFF Standards of Practice, Moshe's books and training materials, and trainers.
4. Explore how the process can take formation in a Feldenkrais way. Specific examples for a process of developing competencies:
   

1. Gather all the ideas that came out of the process that pertain to competencies: find ways of measuring or observing and assessing — what are the important elements, work out different possibilities and processes for assessment at different moments.
2. Develop a list of measurable or observable sensory adjectives for competence.
3. There are several philosophies to assessment:
1. Do we treasure only one way?
2. Do we have several forms of assessment that are equal?
3. Can they be integrated or are they separate?

(from: 1999 Assembly Report. printed in IFF Newsletter)