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In this issue
* Not everyone is Brilliant...
* Feldenkrais on Air
* The Competency Project
* The Academy Coordinator
* Links in this Newsletter
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Dear friends,
Welcome to our first issue of IFF Academy News. We hope that this will remind you of the great depth of work that has gone into the IFF Academy. And for those who are unfamiliar with the IFF Academy, perhaps this will be an interesting introduction!
The academic world (Universities, Colleges) always discovers perspectives that we unfolded in our community years ago! Recently, the phrase, "a Community of Learners" caught fire, and colleges were re-branding themselves as such. The richness in the concept is the understanding that learning is continuous; that a college is a community that grows the learning, and thus it is itself a community of learners. The Feldenkrais community has always understood the autopoetic nature of learning-as-action.
The IFF Academy is a resource, a community, a virtual environment, a space to create processes that promote the community of learners, for within this community we develop our practice.
In finishing, we encourage you to reflect on your journey of learning, and we invite you to participate in the IFF Academy at a level that assists your development. The articles referenced in this newsletter will speak to you on others' paths of learning, and may inspire you to join as well.
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by Naomi Doron
It was in the sixties in Israel. I was a physical education teacher and curious about a lot of methods. Twice a week I used to go and take lessons in different methods to try them out. A friend told me about Moshé Feldenkrais giving a workshop to physical education teachers, and I went and he gave us a lecture. Later I started to also go to his classes at Alexander Yanai Street. I still tried out other methods, but in the end I was only interested in the Feldenkrais method. I felt it was the most creative method of them all.
Naomi Doron is a past president of the Israeli Feldenkrais Qualified Practitioners Association. In this article for the IFF Portrait Project, she describes attending the ATM classes at Alexaner Yanai. Her story is one of 14 in the IFF Representatives Portrait Project. Click to read more in English; or click to read in German.
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Feldenkrais on Air - a powerful means of communicating with the learner’s nervous system ....
In 1994 I worked with a young cancer patient who was afraid of all physical contact and could no longer rely on her left leg. Becky’s greatest wish was to be able to dance once again and we found a way: While listening to her favourite dance music with her back supported by two inflatable “egg” balls and her feet standing on the floor, Becky was being “remusicked” (Oliver Sachs) as I gently applied rhythmical pressure to the air cushions. Soon all fear of being touched had vanished; there was fresh zest in Becky’s life as her leg “miraculously” recovered strength and stability; and one day she spontaneously started dancing just as she used to before her illness.
Find our what Ilana Neville did with this discovery, go to the AIR Workshops
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Following the 2006 Assembly an enormous amount of work came to fruition with the Training Workshop for Facilitators of the Working Draft of the IFF Competency Profile held in The Netherlands in late January 2007. Practitioners from member organisations joined with members of the retiring Competency Team and the continuing Competency Team in a 3-day workshop to prepare them to take the Profile back into their own Organisations and to their peer colleagues.
Six years since the initial concepts and ideas were mandated by the IFF Assembly in 2001, we would like to acknowledge with deep gratitude the voluntary gifts of time, knowledge and expertise that all involved have contributed to this point and support for those continuing. Feedback since the workshop has been very positive and already several workshops have taken this out further to practitioners in our Member Organisations with more planned. It is truly a gift to have our very own Competency Profile to continue learning and developing with; increasing our understanding of how we do what we do.
Click here to read the recent report
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Readers in Euope especially, warmly remember Marie-Christine Schmoetzer, our past Academy Coordinator. Marie-Christine has decided to move on to other projects (while still actively contributing to the IFF).
Recently Ritz Wood has agreed to step into the role. Ritz is from New Zealand, but recently moved to Seattle. Ritz has a warm sense of humour and a great deal of enthusiasm for all things "Feldenkrais".
As the Academy Coordinator, Ritz can help you with your questions on setting up a Local Academy foot, or guide you with your interests in the Academy.
To contact Ritz by e-mail: academy@feldenkrais-method.org
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We are having technical difficulties with the newsletter function, and so, if the hot links above did not work for you, you can put the following URL's in the address line of your favorite browser:
Naomi Doron
English: http://www.feldenkrais-method.org/en/node/1267
German: http://www.feldenkrais-method.org/en/node/1438
Feldenkrais On Air http://www.feldenkrais-method.org/en/node/1582
Competency Project http://www.feldenkrais-method.org/en/node/1207
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In closing, we hope you find this newsletter interesting and informative.
Warmly,
The members of the Academy Committee: Rob Black, Daniel Clenin, Barbara Pieper and Janie Randerson.
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