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Index to Events
Events and Opportunities
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Post-Certification Offerings for Alexander Technique Teachers
Events and Opportunities for the Public
ACAT's Alexander Technique Health and Well Being Intensive Course
We are pleased to offer dedicated students of the Alexander Technique the opportunity to undertake an intensive course of study for personal health and well-being within the ACAT Teacher Certification Program. Intensive students participate in the training class, receiving hands-on instruction from the faculty, and covering the material from the first year curriculum which focuses on use of the self. Intensive students may also have the opportunity to work with third students in the program receiving hands-on work; and will join in group and partner explorations. Intensive participants are not instructed in hands-on or other teaching skills.
Schedule
Daytime Classes meet Mondays - Fridays, 10:35 - 1:35 for three 10-week terms per year (September through June)
Starting January 2011, Evening/Weekend classes will meet: Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays, 5:45 - 9:15 and Saturdays, 10 am - 2 pm for 3 ten-week terms per year (September - June)
Fees
Weekly: $325/week
Weekly attendance one day per week for 10 weeks: $650 x number of days per week
($850 for Saturday attendance)
Full time: $3000 per term
*Optional Private Lesson Package: Ten 30-minute lessons for $450
*Must be enrolled in intensive concurrently
Application Fee: $25
Admissions Lesson with TCP Director: $55
Admission
To arrange to participate in ACAT's Health and Well Being Intensive, please contact Brooke Lieb, Director of Training, at brookelieb@mindspring.com; or by phone at (212) 633-2229, Ext. 3.
The pre-requisite is a minimum of 10 lessons (exceptions can be made on a case-by-case basis). The admission process includes completing the Intensive Course Application, submitting
a letter from your primary teacher and a personal interview lesson with the Director of The Teacher Certification Program. Admission is at the discretion of the TCP Director and is contingent on space in the program.
To open and download the Health and Well Being brochure and application form, please go to http://acatnyc.org/PublicDownloads.cfm
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Fifth Annual Annual Summer Intensive - July 2011 in the Big Apple
July 18 - 22, 2011
New and experienced students of the Alexander Technique are invited to join us for this opportunity to study with Faculty Members of ACAT, North America's Oldest Teacher Certification Program.
ACAT's annual week-long Summer Intensive is open to new and experienced students who wish to deepen their exploration of the Alexander Technique with ACAT's highly skilled faculty. Students will come together to learn in a rich group setting. Each participant will also receive one private lesson as part of the program. Daily classes will embody the rigor and focus of the teacher training setting, addressing the individual's needs and interests of each participant. We will delve into the Alexander Technique principles, as well as explore application to the activities of daily living.
The student to teacher ratio will be 7:1 or less.
Faculty
Members of ACAT's Teacher Certification Faculty will be teaching on the course. Additional Faculty from the ACAT teaching community will join us as needed. Faculty is subject to change without notice. For biographical information on the ACAT Faculty, please visit www.acatnyc.org.
Schedule
Daily group classes: 9:00 am - 12:00 noon
Monday, July 18 - Friday, July 22, 2010
Each participant will be scheduled for 1 private lesson during the program. Lessons will take place at 12:30 or 1:15 one day after class.
Fee
Associate Members: $400
Non-Members: $450
Registration
To secure your space, please send a deposit of $100 (includes a $25 non-refundable registration fee) to:
The Summer Intensive @ ACAT
39 West 14th Street, Rm. #507
New York, NY 10011
Questions? Please contact office manager Krissa Cavouras via email.
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Post-Certification Offerings for Alexander Technique Teachers
Click here for General Refund Policy on all ACAT events.
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Brooke Lieb's 5-Month Group Class Teaching and Presentation Lab:
"From Soup to Nuts - Design and Delivery"
Classes meet the following Mondays at ACAT from 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm: September 20; October 18; November 8; December 13; January 10
This monthly group will cover the elements of designing and delivering group classes. Participants will receive ideas, support, and feedback from the group, and coaching from Brooke on their presentation skills and content development. The course begins with helping each participant find her or his most effective presentation style. We will also cover how to design the components of group classes, including lectures, Q & A, demonstrations, leading group explorations and partner work, setting up discovery learning, and developing supporting materials (hand-outs, powerpoint presentations, illustrations and use of props).
Monthly assignments will give participants time to prepare materials, have them reviewed and then present their material for feedback and coaching. (Participants will have a present at least 2 times during the course).
Week 1: Getting on Your Feet: Each participant will spend time onstage, receiving coaching to find her or his authentic style as a presenter and polishing presentation skills.
Week 2: Introducing Concepts: Participants bring a prepared 7-minute teaching module about one of the main concepts of the Alexander Technique. Some or all members of the group will present their module and get coaching.
Week 3: Using Q & A to teach concepts; managing groups: some or all members of the group will have a chance to demonstrate with someone, and explore how we keep the whole group engaged. We will also discuss instructional materials, and use of visual aids.
Week 4: Leading the group in discovery learning: participants will each develop a group activity that can teach a concept of the Alexander Technique, or build skills in applying the work. Some or all participants will lead the group in the activity they prepared.
Week 5: How to lead an engaging demonstration: Working with everyone while working on one person. Some or all members of the group will have a chance to give a demonstration while including the whole group.
COURSE DETAILS
Dates: Mondays, September 20; October 18; November 8; December 13; January 10
Time: 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: ACAT, 39 West 14th Street, Room #507, between Broadway and Riverside Drive
Class minimum 4; maximum 8
Course Fee: $150 for members; $235 for non-members (includes a non-refundable $25 registration fee)
To Register: To reserve your space, email the office manager (Subject: REGISTERING FOR GROUP CLASS LAB) and/or send the full course fee (includes a $25 registration fee) by Friday, September 3, 2010.
This course satisfies 12 hours of Continuing Education hours for AmSAT's continuing education reguirements.
Brooke Lieb, Director of ACAT's Teacher Certification Program, brings over 20 years experience as a Speaker and Workshop Leader in the areas of Creativity, Self-Development, Entrepreneurship, Presentation Skills, Stress Management, Communication, Ergonomics and Coaching. She has worked one-on-one and in group settings with executives, managers, educators, the financial sector, mental health professionals, physicians, sales people and performing artists, coaching them on presentation skills, and helping them design presentation and programming.
At TAI Resources/The Actors Institute, Brooke designed and delivered creativity and leadership training programs, addressing communication skills, management practices and team building issues using acting and improvisation skills to allow participants to move beyond dialog about the problem into role playing and dealing with the real issues in the training room. Clients of TAI included the Boston Consulting Group, Lucent Technologies, Mt. Sinai Hospital Financial Division, New York University’s School Of Business, Bankers Trust, and The New York City Board of Education.
Barbara Kent Post Certification Class: Initiating Movement
Saturday, November 6 and Sunday, November 7, 2010, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm both days
In order to help the student meet the stimulus to move while continuing to inhibit and direct we take an active role in initiating their movement both with our words and with our hands. This is quite a challenge as it requires us to withhold consent to our own habitual response to moving as well as keeping a strong focus on the internal direction we wish for our student. We can always use a little practice in sharpening our skills to meet this challenge. This workshop will be an opportunity to explore our response to that 'crucial moment'.
COURSE DETAILS
Date: Saturday and Sunday, November 6 & 7, 2010
Time: 10 am to 4 pm both days
Course Fee: $300 members/$385 non-members (includes a $25 non-refundable registration fee).
Registration: To reserve your space, email the office manager and send a deposit of $125 (includes a $25 registration fee) by Monday, September 13, 2010.
The balance of $175 members/$235 non-members is due on or before Friday, October 8, 2010.
This course satisfies 10hours of Continuing Education hours for AmSAT's continuing education reguirements.
Class is limited to 12 participants.
Barbara Kent earned her B.A. in Music at California State University in 1959, studied voice at the Juilliard School from 1960-61, and received her MA in Music from Brooklyn College in 1971. Her singing led her to the Alexander Technique in the early 60's, and she was certified by ACAT in 1971. Barbara has been a faculty member of ACAT since 1972, and served as ACAT’s TCP Director from 1982-87, and 1996-2001. A long time faculty of the Sweet Briar Residential Course, Barbara has presented at a number of International Congresses; and for the New York Singing Teachers' Association and the Rubenfeld Synergy International Association. Barbara offers the Post Certification Program "Progress, Not Perfection" through ACAT. She studied with Carl Stough and integrates the principles of Breathing Coordination into her work; she is also certified in the Rubenfeld Synergy Method. Barbara maintains a private practice in NYC and Sag Harbor, NY.
Pre- and Post-AGM workshops
Friday February 4 and Sunday, February 6, 2011
Pre-AGM Workshops: Friday, February 4, 2010
Judy Stern
Shaping a Lesson
Friday, Feb. 4, 2011
4 pm – 5:30 pm
To be effective, an Alexander lesson must have a beginning, a middle, and an end. In this workshop you will learn to develop a theme, teach it experientially as well as verbally, and reinforce the concepts taught. The shorthand for this is - "Tell them what they will learn - teach them - then tell them what they learned ". Come and experience the "ease of teaching" with Judy.
Joan Frost
The Becoming-Bearable Lightness of Being
Friday, February 4, 2011
6:30 - 8:00pm
The lightness and sense of emptiness we experience in our work is a developed tolerance when it comes to living it as a state of being. We will explore procedures and hone our thinking in semi-supine, sitting, moving about and in handling objects, both in the role of student and in that of teacher.
Post AGM Workshops: Sunday, February 6, 2011
Michael Hanko
TWIN SELECT PROCEDURES: Some ways to elicit antagonistic action for singing
Sunday, February 6, 2011
10:00 am - 11:30 am
As Alexander teachers, we recognize the importance of eliciting the body's system of antagonistic muscular action in activity. We also know how futile are direct efforts to bring about these conditions; we have to take advantage of indirect procedures to activate our students' coordination.
In this "mini-master-class," Michael will demonstrate some of the indirect procedures he uses to help his voice students improve their whole-body and laryngeal coordination. Specifically, he will focus on using 1) the Murrays' Dart-style chairwork to elicit healthy antagonistic action between the muscle groups responsible for fetal and secondary curves and 2) Cornelius Reid's octave exercise variations to elicit healthy antagonistic action between the muscle groups responsible for chest and head voice.
This class is aimed at giving Alexander Teachers ideas on how to apply the Alexander Principles to singing, whether for yourself or as a way to assist your students.. The format will comprise two on-stage voice lessons followed by Q&A. Please contact Michael at michaelhanko.nyc@gmail.com if you are taking the workshop and are interested in being one of the demo students — any level of vocal experience is fine as long as you can accurately match pitches.
Brooke Lieb
“Am I Thinking, Sensing, or Doing?”
Sunday, February 6, 2011
1:00 – 2:30pm
We will work with a simple model, “Am I thinking, feeling, or doing?. Clarity about these distinctions, and how and when they overlap, is one way to effectively work with the AT principles. This simplicity can provide a platform from which to make discoveries, and explore ways of being in the work and in life. The model is effective for self-work, and in lessons, as a foundation to develop the art of teaching.
Cynthia Reynolds
Working with Actors
Sunday, February 6, 2011
1:00 – 2:30pm
Cynthia will share her expertise working in the group setting with actors, with strategies for master class/workshop formats, as well as developing a semester, year-long, or multi-year structure to integrate Alexander Technique with on-going training.
Registration Information
Friday Courses: $65
Sunday Courses: $95
Both Days: $130
To reserve your space, please send payment in full, payable to "ACAT", to ACAT, 39 West 14th Street, Room #507. The registration deadline is Monday, December 21, 2010.
All classes are limited to 12 participants.
Ruth Rootberg: Inhibiting and Directing your Jaw, Tongue and Soft Palate
Saturday, April 2, 2011, 9 am - 4 pm
The jaw, tongue and soft palate are intricately connected to voice, articulation, and Primary Control. Can we free these parts sufficiently by improving Primary Control and practicing
thoughtful whispered “ah’s”? Or can we move them thoughtfully to improve Primary Control—and the voice? This class will explore the interplay using Linklater “channel” exercises with Alexandrian thought and procedures.
COURSE DETAILS
Dates: Saturday, April 2, 2011
Times: 9 am - 4 pm
Location: ACAT, 39 West 14th Street, Room #507, NYC 10011
Course Fee: $160 members/$245 non-members (includes a $25 non-refundable registration fee).
Registration: To reserve your space, email the office manager and send a deposit of $80 members/$165 non-members (includes a $25 registration fee) by Friday, February 4, 2011.
The balance of $80 members/$80 non-members is due on or before Friday, March 4, 2011.
This course satisfies 6 hours in Category 1 of AmSAT's Continuing Education requirement.
Course is limited to 12 participants.
Ruth Rootberg, M.AmSAT (ATSNE, Missy Vineyard) is also a designated Linklater voice teacher and Laban Movement Analyst. In 2009 Ruth
presented results of a pilot study conducted in collaboration with Molly Johnson, M.AmSAT, Phd, and Mary Andrianopolis, CCC-SLP, Phd, on “Voice and the Alexander Technique” at the Voice Foundation’s annual Care of the Professional Voice Symposium. Ruth has presented workshops at AmSAT AGM’s, the Voice Foundation, college campuses, and in her local town of Amherst, Massachusetts, where she teaches privately. Publication: Teaching Breathing: Results of a Survey (2002).
Meade Andrews
The Art of Group Teaching: Preparing the Receptive Field
Saturday and Sunday, May 21 and 22, 2010, 10 am - 4 pm each day
New material covered - open to new and returning participants!
This workshop is designed for new and experienced teachers, and teachers-in-training who wish to enhance their teaching skills in a group setting. Through a series of directed movement explorations, we will focus attention and awareness on creating an understanding of the “receptive field,” a condition of kinesthetic and cognitive alertness that enlivens the student/teacher learning relationship within a group class. As a result of this approach, the student is then more available and open to a lively, responsive interaction with the hands-on work of the teacher in front of the group. In addition, the group as a whole develops a more articulate and detailed approach to observation and awareness over the course of time. Through these shared learning experiences, students and teacher are united within the gestalt of the receptive field, increasing the learning possibilities inherent within the one-on-one subtleties of the Alexander Technique.
Topics for this year’s workshop will include:
Preparing the Receptive Field: Guided movement explorations in relation to Alexander principles which can be presented within the first 15 minutes of a group class, providing a coherent theme for the whole session and a collective focus for the students. This year we will explore the following etudes:
Having Our Backs: exploring the anatomy, movement, and direction of “lengthening, widening, and deepening” from Alexander’s perspective, and in relation to habitual thinking about having a “straight back.”
Balancing in the Gravitation Field: an exploration of the 3 Weight Centers, 3 Places of Poise, and structural and spatial 3-dimensionality in movement.
Review of the 6 Spheres of Attention: Examining new possibilities for developing the dynamic presence of the teacher as she works with her own thinking in relation to teaching in a group setting, while creating psychophysical unity between the teacher, student, and the entire group.
Course Details
Dates: Saturday and Sunday, May 21 & 22, 2011
Times: Saturday and Sunday, 10 am - 1 pm; 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: ACAT, 39 West 14th Street, Room #507, NYC 10011
Course Fee: $300 members/$385 non-members (includes a $25 non-refundable registration fee).
Registration: To reserve your space, email the office manager and send a deposit of $150 (includes a $25 registration fee) by Friday, March 25, 2011. The balance of $150 members/$235 non-members is due on or before Friday, April 22, 2011. All fees are payable to "ACAT".
This course satisfies 10 hours in Category 1 of AmSAT's Continuing Education requirement.
Course is limited to 14 participants.
Meade Andrews has been teaching, performing, and learning in group settings since she was 8 years old, and began her ballet training. She has taught and performed as an actor, dancer, choreographer, director, and movement coach for dance and theatre throughout her career. She trained at the Alexander Alliance (1983-86), and most recently completed a teacher refresher course with John Nicholls, in addition to attending Jessica Wolf’s course in The Art of Breathing. Meade has taught workshops in The Art of Group Teaching at the Oxford and Lugano Congresses. She has taught throughout the US, Europe, and Japan, and in the graduate acting program at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton for the past 8 years. This fall, she begins a new position as guest artist in theatre at Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey. She also travels to teach in NY and DC, where she continues to present workshops at the Studio Theatre.
10-Week Post-Certification Course
ACAT offers its successful 10-Week Post-Certification Course two to three times a year. Please check back in September for the Fall Post Certification Course Details!
Classes are scheduled one afternoon a week, are 2 and 1/2 hours and are scheduled to run concurrently with the term schedule of the Teacher Certification Program.
We invite two to four members of the Alexander community to offer two to four classes. Some teacher series include a new topic each week, while others go more in-depth into one topic over a number of classes.
Past faculty members include: Pearl Ausubel, Joan Frost, Barbara Kent, Kim Jessor, Daniel Singer, Vivien Schapera, Alexander Farkas, Nanette Walsh and Bill Connington.
Classes are held at ACAT, 39 West 14th Street, Room #507
Fees for 10 classes: For ACAT members 1st and 2nd year teachers $525, 3rd year + teachers $625; For non-members 1st and 2nd year teachers $600, 3rd year + teachers $700. (All fees include a non-refundable $25 registration fee.
Each class satisfies 2.5 continuing education hours in Category 1 for AmSAT requirements and is open to all ACAT and AmSAT Certified Teachers.
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