The Frame of the IFF Academy - Rights and Responsibilities

Local Academy Foot/Team (LAF/T) activities take place within the frame of the IFF Academy.

We expect  you

• to quote this source whatever you take from the IFF Academy
• to inform the IFF Academy committee about the activities of your LA/TF and
• to evaluate your activities and report back this evaluation to the peers (other LAF/T and the Academy committee)

We offer you

• to publish your workshops on the IFF Academy website
• to share and distribute your experience within the worldwide community of Feldenkrais practitioners to develop quality material for your own practice
• to use IFF Academy materials for workshops in your own neighbourhood

That means:

The offer of the IFF Academy is embedded in the "right" to use IFF Academy material as well as it is part of the "responsibility" to evaluate and report back. LAF/T Activities are designed and meant to be an ongoing process of presenting, evaluating, sharing, re-designing, presenting etc.

A Process of Continuous Development

You will discover that LAF/T activities are organic open-ended processes carried by and for practitioners. The LAF/T will be responsible for its actions. Within such a model mistakes may happen. As in Feldenkrais lessons we regard mistakes as a build-in chance of trial and error, followed up by new means for new action.

The Value of Evaluation

Value is imbedded in the word, "E-value-ation". To feed back the diverse experiences into the design of Academy workshops and similar activities, it is essential to have some relevant feedback from its applications. To give you an idea of our understanding of evaluation, we give you a short hint of how we have used this. What we did was rather a sort of "organic approach": Our intention was to look at whatever we could find to use for improving the facilitated workshop, no matter if it was subjective or at the first view even judgmental. Our intention was not to mirror reality or to match "validity" in a scientific way. We found it a very interesting experience after having facilitated the workshop to look at how it went and what is shown in the outcomes.

The IFF Academy will provide you with a brief guidance of ideas how to evaluate IFF Academy workshops.

The Academy model is meant to be an exchange of ongoing taking and giving among practitioners interested in participating in a process aiming at raising the quality of the use of the Feldenkrais Method within a developing professional field.