John Nicholls’ series of weekends for teachers, originally called The Carrington Way of Working, which has run very successfully for 8 years, will continue in 2012-2013. See below for dates and further details. If you are interested in participating, please complete and send in the simple form included in the Full Details document. If you have any questions after reading that document, please contact John by email or phone.
John Nicholls’ Teacher Refresher Course
John Nicholls offers a teacher refresher course based on his highly acclaimed weekend program: “The Carrington Way of Working”. In it he presents his synthesis of the fundamental elements of the Carrington approach to Alexander teaching in a way that can be assimilated and used by teachers trained outside of that tradition.
Historical Background
In the last years of his life, FM Alexander entrusted to Walter Carrington the running of his teacher training course. Walter (later together with his wife Dilys) went on to train around 300 teachers. John Nicholls worked for eleven years as assistant to Walter and Dilys Carrington, teaching daily alongside them, and was a founder and initial coordinator of the separate first year program they introduced into their training in 1981.
The Course will address questions such as:
- How do we give clear experiences of improved use combined with clear understanding of how such experiences have been brought about – ensuring that our students will have both the necessary experience and the understanding to consciously facilitate these changes themselves.
- How do we communicate quickly and easily that at the heart of our work lies the primary co-ordination of postural support, breathing and movement.
- How do we ensure that in using our hands and voice to encourage expansion in a student, we are not squeezing ourselves and thereby creating disharmony between the message and the messenger?
Structure
The program comprises six weekends over an eight month period, with an option of adding six sessions of individual work at a heavily discounted fee. Each weekend has a theme, forming a structured progression through the months.
The group explores each theme with a combination of theory and practice. The practical work involves all participants putting hands on each other following a guided program designed to quickly build new teaching skills.
Dates & Times
Saturday and Sunday 10.30am to 4.30pm the following weekends:
Sept. 15-16, 2012
Oct. 27-28, 2012
Dec. 8-9, 2012
Jan. 19-20, 2013
Mar. 9-10, 2013
Apr. 27-28, 2013
Location
- Weekends at : 330 West 38th Street, Suite 805 (between 8th & 9th Avenues)
- Lessons at: 310 Riverside Drive #815, New York, NY 10025