Alexandra Mazek
Experiences from an AT Pilot Project at a grammar school
Alexander-Technique was taught to children of a first grade and a third grade class during a Pilot School Project which received 18000 Euro funding by various Austrian Sponsors. We would like to share some of the experiences and insights concerning:
how to apply successfully, fund raising and financing, evaluation;
and to discuss with you the project structure as well as the results.
A short video film which was made during the year will serve as an illustration.
Beate Mathois will present the information about the project structure and Alexandra Mazek will give you some useful hints about project application, management and evaluation practice.
Teaching materials and methods for a classroom setting
What would be more natural than teaching the Alexander-Technique to Kids at school, at the very place where our balance is so easily lost? But how can we convey basic concepts of the Alexander-Technique to a large group of children without forsaking the principles that are the foundation of our work? We would like to present some successful teaching materials, games and methods and will give you time to play around, experience and discuss.
Alexandra Mazek had her first lessons with Walter Carrington in 1990 and after that waited for 7 years for a training course to open at her native place Vienna in Austria. In the meanwhile she worked as a researcher and conducted an agricultural development project in Nepal. Holding a Ph.D. in agronomy she might not have come across the Alexander-Technique, had not a serious neurological illness shattered her outlook on life temporarily. She runs a full-time private teaching practice at Vienna and she was the initiator and manager of the Alexander-Technique Pilot-school-project “Aller Anfang ist leicht” from 2004-2006. Since 2006 she is co-director of “Leichtigkeit lernen”, an organization which offers Alexander-Technique projects for schools.
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