‘the gift of our understanding’

A Career and Life Enhancement Training course currently offered as an online Zoom class since April 2020

Greetings Everyone,

Since the beginnings of the Pandemic, from March 2020, I have offered online Zoom classes which have been based loosely on my recently published book Touching Presence. Both my experience and the class participants’ experience has been quite positive. Our understanding was that it is possible to convey online, through discussion, observation, coaching and theme-based exercises the essence of hands-on teaching. 

In each class a theme relevant to Alexander’s teachings would be introduced, then explored through guided practical application both individually sometimes in breakout rooms or on screen collectively. During the ensuing week before the next class, each participant incorporated when possible the fruits of our exploration in their daily life. This would often include practicing teaching online and what eventually might translate to teaching in-person. Their practice was based upon material we had covered the previous week in class. Subsequently all this became topic for group discussion in the next class before a new theme was introduced.

My principle reason for offering online sessions stems from a quote by Neale Donald Walsh: “Only through the full expression of who we are, will we have the experience of who we are. Conversely, when denied the full expression of who we are, we will be denied the experience of who we are.” Consequently, as teachers and those who are training to teach, only through the full expression of what we teach will we experience what we teach. When denied this we will have less of who we are as a teacher available to teach what we need to learn. Basically, when teaching we give to others the Gift of our Understanding.

You have only to think of any artist, any dancer, physician, scientist, athlete, anyone who has chosen some way of life as an expression of who they are, and who when denied that expression by external circumstance beyond one’s control they will be denied the experience of who they are. This is to live a life not chosen. And this what is being presented to us by the Pandemic: denial through circumstance. 

By all reasonable accounts, this pandemic has affected our lives personally and professionally for an indeterminate length of time. Primarily for this reason, I will continue to offer Zoom classes hoping that all teachers who wish to explore their teaching in a manner in which they are allowed, can do so successfully; with confidence and good feeling about what they have to offer.

The class structure will include some segments from my book Touching Presence and will also spin off into concurrent exploration based on the book I am writing now, An Awakened Life: Evolution of A Teacher.

This online career and life enhancement course is for teachers, trainees, and in addition to professionals from any health, science, education, or creative and performing arts discipline who have already realized the value of incorporating the principles and concepts of the Alexander Technique in their own lives and who wish to communicate them within their own professional field.