Professional Development

*** Coming soon***
A free Workshop ‘Working with Pain and what AT has to offer’ March 17th. 10 to 1pm 

Everyone is welcome to an in-person free Morning’s work share and discussion, ‘Talking about working with Pain and what Alexander has to offer’. We will be a group of teachers sharing information, ideas and strategies on the subject of pain. Facilitated by Roger Kidd, Judith Kleinman, Loretta Manson, Martin Underwood. Event on 17/03/24 from 10am to 1pm at LCATT, 137 Grosvenor Ave, London, N5 2NH. To book a place please contact lcattinfo@gmail.com

Alumni Workshares

Once a term alumni and training course teachers get together at LCATT to share work.  This offers the opportunity for graduates to work with the LCATT community of teachers and to present ideas and work to the group.
Dates to come soon.

Workshares for All Teachers

The next workshare will be on May 26th 11 to 1pm.  Its will be facilitated by Polly Waterfield  ‘Embracing Reciprocity – a playful enquiry into our habits of work exchange’.

After graduating from LCATT in 2006 I created the AT department at Uppingham school where I worked for 17 years. As a new teacher with no idea what I was doing I learned by listening to my teenage pupils – and the surprise and delight of hearing their experiences has fuelled my teaching. I am interested in how we listen, interact and share with each other as teachers. Underlying this is my curiosity about how our work could be part of a new relational paradigm emerging through the upheavals of our world situation.

*Please note – this workshare will be followed by an Interesting Talk.
If you are attending both morning and afternoon sessions you may bring bring a packed lunch.

The 19th Interesting Talk at LCATT will be by Flurina Thali on the Story of the Embryo and how it can nurture our practice.

Flurina plans to introduce the concept of bi and trilaminar disc and then the emergence of a first midline and notochord and how this grows up and its relation to AT direction … there will be practical work as well as presentation. Flurina is an Osteopath, coach, lecturer, researcher, dancer, artist and mother of the podcast «The Breathing Body». She initially trained as a dancer in Denmark and the Netherlands. During this time she encountered many somatic practices, in particular the Alexander Technique and Ideokinesis which continuously taught her as a facilitator about the art of creating space and finding ease in movement by using images and imagination. The wish to engage her hands in care for others led her to gain a Masters` degree at the European School of Osteopathy. She is currently practicing in private clinics in Kent and London, as well as working for the Osteopathic Center for Children in London and lecturing for various osteopathic colleges across the UK.

The talk will take place on 26th May, 2.00-4.00pm at LCATT, 137 Grosvenor Avenue, London N5 2NH – in person only, with space for 15 participants.
Teachers £10. Students £7.
Email judithkleinman@gmail.com to book
Payment via Paypal (in-person attendees can pay with cash)
Paypal link
https://paypal.me/judithkleinman?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB

All teachers are welcome to the workshares at LCATT. You can just drop in or contact Roger – kidd.roger@gmail.com for more details.

Workshops and Talks

LCATT organises regular activities including talks from other disciplines that may relate to the Alexander Technique, forums with presentations about inspiring work being done within the Alexander Technique and workshops for visiting teachers from abroad. (See below for further information).

WORKSHOPS FOR TEACHERS

 FINDING QUIET STRENGTH IN MOVEMENT.
A fresh look at Dart incorporating the ideas of the Polyvagal theory with Judith Kleinman at LCATT
30th 10 to 1pm:

Judith teaches Alexander and Yoga at The Royal College of Music and is co head of Training at LCATT. She co wrote The Alexander Technique for Musicians with Peter Buckoke and is co-director of the Developing Self project alongside Sue Merry. Judith’s latest book Finding Quiet Strength suggests that Alexander can be be a central part of a practice for finding freedom in movement and stillness, helping us have a practice of resilience and quiet strength. In the workshop we will look at how Thought, Touch, Movement and Breath can help us find a calm, confident and co ordinated sense of Time, Space and Ease.

£ 20 for teachers £10 for students, limited numbers to book please contact juditkleinman@gmail.com

Past teacher’s workshops have included one with Missy Vineyard, author of a ‘How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live’; Lucia Walker, dance teacher and specialist in improvisation and many others.

We also offer workshops run by our LCATT team of teachers on different topics, often related to the theme we are working on in the training course, so that they can, for interest, be combined with a visit to the school.
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Teachers workshop with Missy Vineyard
‘INTERESTING TALKS’

LCATT hosts a series of interesting talks linking with other disciplines. See the list below of the ones we have already enjoyed. They have been really successful so far, so do come and join us for the next one. 

The 19th Interesting Talk at LCATT will be by

The 19th Interesting Talk at LCATT will be by Flurina Thali on the Story of the Embryo and how it can nurture our practice.

Flurina plans to introduce the concept of bi and trilaminar disc and then the emergence of a first midline and notochord and how this grows up and its relation to AT direction … there will be practical work as well as presentation. Flurina is an Osteopath, coach, lecturer, researcher, dancer, artist and mother of the podcast «The Breathing Body». She initially trained as a dancer in Denmark and the Netherlands. During this time she encountered many somatic practices, in particular the Alexander Technique and Ideokinesis which continuously taught her as a facilitator about the art of creating space and finding ease in movement by using images and imagination. The wish to engage her hands in care for others led her to gain a Masters` degree at the European School of Osteopathy. She is currently practicing in private clinics in Kent and London, as well as working for the Osteopathic Center for Children in London and lecturing for various osteopathic colleges across the UK.

The talk will take place on 26th May, 2.00-4.00pm at LCATT, 137 Grosvenor Avenue, London N5 2NH – in person only, with space for 15 participants.
Teachers £10. Students £7.
Email judithkleinman@gmail.com to book
Payment via Paypal (in-person attendees can pay with cash)
Paypal link
https://paypal.me/judithkleinman?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB

.Daniela Sangiorgio on Buteyko breathing method

The talk will take place on 12th October at LCATT, 137 Grosvenor Avenue, London N5 2NH – in person only, with space for 15 participants.
Teachers £10. Students £7.

Email judithkleinman@gmail.com to book.
Payment via Paypal
https://paypal.me/judithkleinman?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB
In-person attendees can pay cash.

Attendees please follow LCATT’s Covid safety protocol at the bottom of this link. https://www.lcatt.org.uk/training-course/


We have had wonderful talks by
Leon Baugh on the ‘Anatomy in Motion’ system.
Colin Farquharson on ‘How the Mind changes the Body and working with dyslexia’.
Liz Kalinowska and Daska Hatton on the relationship between cranio-sacral therapy and Alexander Technique.
Emma Alter, an introduction to Feldenkrais with information on his life and a taste of his work.
Maggie Sawkins, mediator, on ‘Listening and Responding’  – an amazing, valuable experience for AT teachers!
Elizabeth Wallfisch on ‘The Practice of Safe Practice’ – for musicians on how to play without risk to body or mind.
Sylvia Gray on ‘Bones for Life’
Lotte Bredt on ‘Moving and being moved – a psychoanalytic perspective’
Josephine Horder and Anita Morrison on ‘Awareness through Movement for Children’
Josie Geddes on “What is CBT and IAPT, and how do they treat anxiety and depression?”
Carolyn Davies on ‘Non-Violent Communication’ (NVC).
Josie Geddes on ‘Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing’ (EMDR).
Sarah Stein Lubrano on ‘Pedagogy and Emotion’
Lizzie May on the ‘Psychology of Sight’
Ilana Machover on ‘An Introduction to Medau Rhythmic Movement’
Jane Staggs on Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE)
Penny Spawforth on the role spoken communication plays in helping our students learn – ways that increase connection and learning.
Daniela Sangiorgio on Buteyko breathing method

See reviews of them in past STAT News.