The Art of practice 2009
with Cliff Smyth and Deborah Bowes
From May to November 2009 Deborah and Cliff will offer their acclaimed Art of Practice program for newer practitioners.
This is a comprehensive mentorship program like no other, based on your needs as a learner. We begin with processes to help identify your needs and then design the curriculum to meet them.
Always included are ATM lessons from the Alexander Yanai materials and time to analyse them and discuss how they can be taught, adapted, understood and used in FI.
FI covers what you need: review of basic and advanced techniques. It includes all the aspects of successful professional practice, including talking with clients, progressing them through a series of lessons and engaging them in the learning process. We bring in whatever else you need to allow you to effectively work with clients, teach classes and talk about the Method.
The program includes six weekends of intensive study with the best teacher-student ratio you will probably ever experience (1 to 6).There is no waiting to have your questions answered in FI practice. You can learn directly from experiencing our touch. You can ask any question you like.
In addition, The Art of Practice offers you:
• an individual FI time of at least one and a half hours to use for any kind of FI practice and feedback you would like
• up to two days observation in our private practice
• negotiated feedback on your public ATM teaching (we either visit your class or we can work with a recording of your teaching)
• phone consultation during the program
• if you are interested, we offer a practitioner practicum
• study with a cohort – study groups from our earlier programs continue to meet to this day.
We have designed the continuing education program we would have liked to have taken!
Cliff Smyth teaching an advanced training in Melbourne
The Art of Practice is an educational program that goes from the practical to the conceptual, from technical skill to professional action. We are committed to improving the quality of your practice of the Feldenkrais Method. We want to see Feldenkrais everywhere taught by confident, competent and happy practitioners!
Deborah Bowes teaching at the Feldenkrais Insititute of New York
Dates for 2009 are:
• May 16 & 17
• June 13 & 14
• July 11 & 12
• September 12 & 13
• October 10 & 11
• November 7 & 8.
The fee for the 12 day program – along with the individual FI time, FI observation and ATM feedback – is $1,500. We would be happy to talk with you about payment plans.
Please call us any time for more information and to talk about the program: 415.826.3680.
For a copy of The Art of Practice application form please click here.
Additional information
- For a copy of our brochure you can download a .pdf here: Art of Practice brochure (PDF 384kb). Brochure download requires free Adobe Reader. Download free Adobe Reader now.) Or call us on 415.826.3680 and we can send you a copy in the mail.
- Read the testimonials from other practitioners who have benefitted from The Art of Practice.
- For a review of Deborah and Cliff's teaching of one of their Primary Image workshops taught in Australia in 2007 please click here. The article is written by Zoran Kovich, MA, Assistant Trainer, former AUS TAB Chair, and appeared in a recent issue of the Australian Feldenkrais Guild newsletter Contact.
- Deborah, is a Feldenkrais Trainer who has been in private practice for 20 years and Cliff is an Assistant Trainer has been practicing for 16. Both have taught advanced trainings aroung the world and at home in San Francisco – including teaching The Art of Practice together twice before. Click on the links to find out more about us.
We look forward to hearing from you and are excited to work with you,
Deborah Bowes and Cliff Smyth.