bothmer-movement-international
http://www.bothmer-movement.eu
From September 2005 there will be a new four year part time training in Bothmer Gymnastics.
bothmer-movement-international is an amalgamation of the current international training centres (England, France, Sweden, Hungary, Germany and Romania). The founding of new training centres in Germany, England, Scotland, Holland, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia and Russia is planned and they will be incorporated in the new International School. The training centres will start their courses at the same time, so that an interchange of both students and teaching staff can be possible depending on geographical and personal circumstances.
Through the founding of bothmer-movement-international the different streams that have developed through the cultural and personal identity of the people carrying them are being brought together for the first time in the history of Bothmer Gymnastics. bothmer-movement-international embraces all training directions that have been developed in Bothmer Gymnastics. This will strengthen the quality of the training and the students will greatly benefit.
To ensure the quality of the training there will be regular exchange amongst all teaching staff and new developments in the field of Bothmer Gymnastics will be included in the course. There will be an administrative and an educational leadership of the school and also a Supervisory Board. The International School is integrated into the International Professional Association for Bothmer Gymnastics.
The aim of the International School for Bothmer
Gymnastics is to train people to professionally work with Bothmer
Gymnastics. Through the understanding of the human organisation in its
many levels, as practically experienced through Bothmer Gymnastics, a
qualitative enhancement in the various professional fields in which
people work with Bothmer Gymnastics will be possible.
Structure of the International School
Educational leadership:
The leadership with regard to the educational content is held by Martin Baker (GB) and Paul Harnischfeger (AUS/D). Both school leaders are experienced gymnasts and they both work mainly in training or teaching situations in England, Hungary and Germany.
It is the task of the school leadership to "train the new trainers" and to supervise the quality of the quality of the training and therefore to guarantee high standards of training.
Administrative leadership:
The technical, organisational leadership of the school
lies with Stephan Thilo (D), chairman of the International Professional
Association for Bothmer Gymnasts.
Target group
The offered training courses are aimed at people, who
either already work with movement (sports teacher, teachers,
physiotherapist, curative educators etc.), who are looking for a new
approach towards their profession through an additional qualification
(architects, artists, consultants) or people who would like to further
their professional development by completing this training.
Structure of the training:
The training consists of a four year part time training course (10 weekends per year). Twice a year there will be an intensive week organised in the form of a camp. The teaching programme in the various centres will be coordinated in modules to enable students to move from one programme to another one. Regionally there will be cooperation with other seminars, so that each training centre can develop its own special character.
Study content:
The four year part time training embraces next to its practical, artistic and theoretical subjects,
an intensive schooling of the perception of one's own movement and ability to move.
The human being learns to move consciously within then field of the internal and external forces and thus through movement is able to form a connection to the world through which the spiritual origins may be reached again. The movement organism thus becomes an instrument of conscious individuality.
Primary subject : Bothmer Gymnastics
Supporting subjects (vary from school to school):