Workshop Evaluation

Introduction: The Workshop Concept

Feldenkrais teachers mainly understand their work as practical implementation of an art.  Nevertheless scientific concepts influence their practice and play a part in determining perception, thinking, and actions – often without this being recognised.  At the 2005 IFF Academy Day in Berlin we offered a day workshop confronting ourselves with the challenge of giving participants an opportunity of exploring in their own bodies how scientific concepts influence “Awareness through Movement” (ATM) and “Functional Integration” (FI).

First steps to a science of the Feldenkrais-Method

Facilitated by Werner Schacker(D), Daniel Clénin(CH) and Barbara Pieper(D)

A dialogue on science and research focusing on the question how to proceed to achieve  an adequate Feldenkrais specific scientific approach providing a theoretical understanding of the Feldenkrais Method and helping to cooperate with other disciplines.
To approach this ambitious and complex matter, we would like to experience exemplary within an ATM lesson
- how different scientific concepts have an effect on the use of the Feldenkrais-Method
- how these differences accordingly can be experienced/ observed/ presented and how the focus is respectively guided
- how we can learn from the different concepts and
- what it could mean to find an own language to express our experiences unreduced and appropriate, being capable for dialogue and connection with the diverse scientific discourses, that are important for us.

Ankündigungstext im Programmheft  
„Lernen lernen“ – Körperwahrnehmung, Bildung, Selbstentfaltung
Feldenkrais-Gilde Deutschland e.V.
Jahrestagung 2006, Stuttgart 9.-12. März

Some issues take care of themselves:

• Why should I think about the quality and competence of my work?
• I am a good Feldenkrais practitioner and that's it. Or maybe not?
• How can I as a Feldenkrais practitioner deal with rising demands - no matter in which field?
• Anyhow: Do quality standards and competency profiles go together with Feldenkrais work
• Above all: what do quality and competency mean to me?