Movement Educators

Santa Fe 2000 Feldenkrais® Professional Training Program
Draft of Educational Chart (4 years - 8 segments)
©Yvan Joly/Educational Director 9/9/99
 
 Seg. Awareness Through
Movement® (ATM)
sequences		Teaching of
Awareness Through
Movement® (ATM)		Teaching of
Functional Integration®
(FI)		Presentations
& Research
Projects by
Trainees*		Topics of lectures,
experiements and
reading

Year 1

1
  • Amherst year 1
  • Sitting on floor series
  • ATM immersion (on-going)
  • ATM expression (on-going)
  • ATM analysis (on-going)
  • Floor manners #1, use of
         self working on floor
  • Touching and feeling
  • Focus position: side lying
  • Movement observation
    		• On-going
  • Somatic education
  • Learning principles of
         Feldenkrais Method ®
  • History of Feldenkrais Method ®
  • Experiential anatomy
  • Posture
    • 2
  • Developmental
         movements
  • Amherst year 1 cont.
  • Structures of ATM
  • Use of language in ATM
  • ATM teaching games
  • Voice
  • Floor manners #2
  • Moving the skeleton
  • Proximal distal
  • Focus position: supine
  • Movement observation
    		• On-going
  • Ontogenic development
  • Working with children
  • Experiential anatomy
  • Perception of patterns
  • Breathing physiology

    • Year 2

    3
  • Amherst year 2
  • Use of language
  • ATM teaching games
  • Structures of ATM
  • Voice
  • Table manners #1
         (use of self in working
         at the table)
  • Focus position: prone
  • Transposition of ATM to FI
    		• On-going
  • Functional Anatomy
  • Laban movement analysis
  • Working with dancers
  • Dynamic systems, chaos, fractals
    • 4
  • Amherst year 2
         (headstand & judo rolls)
  • ATM practicum #1
  • Voice
  • Transposition of ATM to FI
  • Table Manners #2
  • Focus position: kneeling
    		• On-going
  • Interviewing and other verbal skills
  • Business aspects
  • Ethical aspects (borders, transference)
  • Functional anatomy
  • Working with sports

    • Year 3

    5
  • Evolution of Motion
  • Bridging series:
         heels to sitzbones
  • ATM immersion (on-going)
  • ATM expression (on-going)
  • ATM analysis (on-going)
  • ATM teaching panels 
  • Transposition of ATM to FI
  • Focus position: sitting
  • Beginning lessons
    		• On-going
  • Phylogenetic development
  • Motor control
  • Working with clients in pain
  • Working with elders
  • Interviewing #2
    • 6
  • San Francisco year 2
  • ATM Practicum #2
  • Finishing lessons
  • Transitions
  • Focus position: standing
  • Composition of FI lessons
    		• On-going
  • Roots in martial arts
  • Working with clients with
         orthopedic difficulties
         i.e. back, joints, etc.
    •

    Year 4

    7
  • Chair series
  • San Francisco year 3
         (Kata)
  • ATM teaching panels 
    		•
  • Composition of FI lessons
  • Focus position: sitting
  • Transfer of learning
  • FI Practicum #1
    		• On-going
  • Mutual coaching
  • Working with clients with
         neurological difficulties
         i.e. CP, MS, Parkinsons, etc.
  • Application of FM with
         behavior, emotions
    •
    8
  • San Francisco year 3 cont.
  • Walking series
  • ATM teaching panels 
  • Composition of FI lessons
         (FI strategies)
  • FI Practicum #2
    		• On-going
  • Mutual coaching
  • Guild and community
  • Building a practice
  • Working with other professions
  • Ethical aspect of teaching FI
    •
     
    *Trainees will be invited to make presentations on topics of their competence.
        As the program progresses they will also be invited to present reports on their research-intervention projects.

    Note: This plan is indicative of the overall design of our program. There will be changes in many of the cell of the chart,
                 both in the timing and in the content. Please use this chart as a general reference.

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