Alexander Colleagues,
Teacher Trainees and Friends -
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FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION is the theme of this event and emphasizes the importance of passing on Alexander’s principles. In attendance will be Elisabeth Walker, from Oxford England. She is one of the last senior Alexander Teachers trained by F.M. Alexander. Elisabeth will present a keynote address at the Congress and will give master classes.


CONTINUOUS LEARNING – opportunities each morning from 9 - 10.30h  - will also address this generational shift. More than 25 Senior Alexander Teachers from many different countries, representing many streams of our work, will be teaching daily classes and you can study with 3 of them for two consecutive days.


The topics throughout the week are:

* CONSCIOUSNESS AND PLASTICITY OF THE BRAIN
* MAKING A LIVING AS AN ALEXANDER TEACHER
* EXPLORING THE SPIRIT OF OUR WORK


* Keynote Address by MARSHALL B. ROSENBERG PhD - founder of Non Violent Communication

* Releasing the Natural Voice with KRISTIN LINKLATER - Internationally recognized voice teacher; author of 'Freeing the Natural Voice' and 'Freeing Shakespeare's Voice'

* KEVAN MARTIN  DPhil - Director of The Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich will be hosting the Daily Plenary Sessions:

* The Plastic Brain - BARONESS SUSAN GREENFIELD DPhil - Distinguished scientist, broadcaster, writer and best selling author of 'The Human Brain' and 'Brain Story'

* The Neural Correlates of Consciousness - CHRISTOF KOCH PhD - Professor of cognitive and behavioral biology at the California Institute of Technology and author of 'The Quest for Consciousness'

* The Creative Brain - IDAN SEGEV PhD - David & Inez Myers Professor in Computational Neuroscience and former director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation (ICNC) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

* Empathy and the Brain - TANIA SINGER - Assistant Professor of Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics at the Center for the Study of Social and Neural Systems at the University of Zürich



Please register soon and join us for this rare opportunity to share our work and our love for "The Technique". You are sure to have both a rewarding and illuminating professional experience.

Please note that August is holiday season in Lugano, so early booking of accomodation is highly recommended.



With best wishes from
Michael D. Frederick, Jule Gartzke, Rosa Luisa Rossi & Judy Stern

Board of Directors: Michael D. Frederick (Chairman), Rivka Cohen, Doris Dietschy, Peter Ribeaux, Michael Fortwängler, Ora & Shmuel Nelken, Frank Ottiwell, Lucia Walker