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 

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

 

 

 

 

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). 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.

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 June 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

‘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 20th Interesting Talk at LCATT will be by Ellen Casey BMus PGDip MSc MSTAT, on ‘Researching the Alexander Technique in the Context of Music education and practice’. 

Ellen Casey is a cellist and AT teacher, she completed her AT teacher trainin,g with Merran Poplar at the Centro de Técnica Alexander Buenos Aires. Ellen is currently undertaking a PhD in music education at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Ellen will talk about the state of existing AT-musician research and give an overview of her ongoing research exploring AT training in music education.

Introduction The perception that AT lacks sufficient evidence is hindering the development of AT provision within higher music education. The preliminary stage of Ellen’s PhD research involved collating and evaluating existing AT-musician research, and in this talk she will present a synthesis of this body of work and share some examples of strong and weak research from a variety of paradigms. She will then give an overview of her ongoing ethnographic research exploring AT training within music education, which aims to uncover the characteristics of AT training in this specific context and illuminate the process of skill transfer from AT training into musical practice.

The talk will take place on Thursday June 13th 7pm to 8.30pm. £10 for teachers and £7 for students.  To book please contact; judithkleinman@gmail.com,

Attendees please follow LCATT’s Health and 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.
Flurina Thali on the Story of the Embryo and how it can nurture our practice

 

See reviews of them in past STAT News.