John Nicholls' series of weekends for teachers, originally called The Carrington Way of Working, will not be available for 2010-2011. The program has run very successfully for the past 7 years and will resume in 2011-2012. If you would be interested in participating then, please contact John by email or phone.

In the meantime John will be offering some "one off" weekend refreshers for teachers both in New York and in some other places. Keep checking here and on our Calendar page

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, and six sessions of individual work.  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.

Private Lessons

• Several private lessons with John initially
• The remaining lessons with a classmate supervised by John or with a student or volunteer supervised by John

Dates & Times

Saturday and Sunday 9.30am to 3.30pm the following weekends:

Sept. 19-20, 2009
Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 2009
Dec. 12-13, 2009
Jan. 23-24, 2010
Mar. 13-14, 2010
May 1-2, 2010

Location

• Weekends at : 330 West 38th Street, Suite 805 (between 8th & 9th Avenues)
• Lessons at: 310 Riverside Drive #815, New York, NY 10025
  
  (Some lessons may take place on the Sat. and Sun after the class at W. 38th Street)
   

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