Alexander Technique Teacher Training Program

Teacher Training is an opportunity for individuals to develop profound mastery of their own use of themselves. People work with us to develop a highly informed understanding of human functioning.  They experience transformational change in how they move, think and feel. The emphasis of our training is your process. Visiting teachers from diverse fields will make your training balanced and complete. 

Start date:

Training involves completing 12 modules to achieve certification. Blue Mountains Alexander Technique offers flexible training times over four terms each year. You can join training at the beginning of a term.

Time Commitment:

Under a new proposed training model, the trainee will negotiate a schedule of training with the AUSTAT Approved Teacher Trainer. Although the Volume of Learning is aproximately 1600 hours, the trainee can balance their paid work with their commitment to the Alexander Technique teacher training.

Delivery:

Delivery is a combination of face-to-face and online. Face to face training will be delivered at Leura in the Blue Mountains.  We believe that the quality of our training and our fee structure will make the journey to Leura a feasible one for students located in Sydney and beyond.

Cost:

The cost is $2000 +gst per term, to be paid in advance each term.  This covers all tuition and insurances. The full course cost is $24,000+gst, over 12 terms.  Some costs, such as reference books, AUSTAT student registration and residentials may be extra to this fee.

Accreditation Body:

In Australia, the Australian Society of Alexander Technique Teachers (AUSTAT) is the peak body that represents and accredits Alexander Technique teachers. By choosing to learn with Blue Mountains Alexander Technique, you will work with Michael Shellshear, the current Chair of the AUSTAT and Jane Shellshear current Chair of the training course standing committee AUSTAT.

Why Study AT With Us

Michael and Jane bring a depth of practical experience and profound understanding of Alexander’s work. Adult Education qualifications, advocates for learning through activity; experience presenting to groups, thousands of individual lessons, experience delivering to corporate clients, experience giving workshops to large and small groups of public, public speaking, experience training. We are placed to deliver innovative, empowering training that combines embodied and cognitive elements for a unique Alexander training. Highly experienced faculty. Small school for one-to-one training plus a keen pool of locals for group work, student lessons and demonstration teaching.

What You Will Learn

“General system theory, therefore, is a general science of wholeness… The meaning of the somewhat mystical expression, “The whole is more than the sum of its parts” is simply that constitutive characteristics are not explainable from the characteristics of the isolated parts. The characteristics of the complex, therefore, appear as new or emergent…” –

Ludwig von Bertalanffy-early developer of systems theory

Trainees are taught to develop an extended awareness of themselves and their environment.

There are 4 levels of development for a trainee. These are:

• • • Self-awareness
    • How to talk on Alexander Technique
    • Instruction
    • Professional Identity.

Each level is influenced and focused by three developmental strands

• • • Work on the self (especially in stage 1)
    • work with students (stage 2 & 3)
    • work within the community (stage 3)

We will milestone your process of investigation and provide you with instructional and communication skills, so that, should you wish, you will be accredited to teach others this extraordinary technique.

In addition to the above… we also prepare you to run your own business, taking on your own clients and providing mentoring through the process.