Kinetic Awareness® Teacher Training Program 1/2
Prerequisites and Application Procedure
1. Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.
2. Teaching experience in any field (minimum: 2 years)
3. Cultural or social service volunteer work:
• minimum: 1 day/week for one year
4. Knowledge of Child Development (minimum 1 semester, or equivalent)
5. Kinetic Awareness experience:
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Introductory Course *
• 10 private sessions *
• 1 Intensive course
6. Individual psychotherapy: 50 sessions
7. Documents to be sent to four members of the certifying committee
a) written recommendation by a certified KA teacher
b) Letter from the candidate, stating:
1) completion of prerequisites (with whom and when)
2) name of KA teacher who will write the recommendation
3) reasons for wanting to join the program
4) resume
When the Board has received the above documents they will confer, and if the candidate is accepted:
8. Choice of and consultation with a master KA teacher as advisor on
certifying committee. This first meeting reviews and honors the
student’s areas of experience and training, establishes a working
relationship between advisor and student, and outlines the training.
NOTE: courses marked * can be followed with any Certified Teacher
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"There
are many applications and levels of Summers' Kinetic Awareness work.
Most individuals,including those who eventually incorporate Kinetic
Awareness into their own work, initially come to study because they
have an injury or other problem with their bodies. Training and
maintaining the body is the central concern of dancers and the reason
why many major dancers in New York have ended up on Summers' floor. KA
does not substitute one system of movement for another, but by learning
how the body works-physically, physiologically and
psychologically---students can reclaim their bodies as their own.
…Trisha Brown believes all dancers should study with Summers because of
the sensitivity to the body Summers' training imparts and Summers'
ability to analyze error in dance movement.
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-By Ann-Sargent Wooster
The Drama Review DANCE/MOVEMENT ISSUE VOL. 24 #4 |
"Summers uses anatomy and kinesiology to help students connect their subjective experiences with objective understanding of physical structure and
function…. KINETIC. AWARENESS should find a place in every body
therapist's library and in the classrooms of movement educators…".
-Prof. Martha Myers, book review of "Kinetic Awareness: Discovering Your Body/Mind"
by Ellen Saltonstall, in KINESIOLOGY AND MEDICINE FOR DANCE
Spring-Fall, 1991 |
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