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My colleague Bob Britton, who I shared my teacher-training course with, relayed an interesting networking story to me. He knew that I had a special construction vehicle that used to regularly break down ( it was built onto an ancient VW bug frame) during the time I was attending our Alexander Technique teacher-training classes. At the time, I used to live in Bolinas, CA (to which I still return for a few months a year from where I live now on the Big Island of Hawaii.) It was an hour and fifteen minutes by car from Bolinas into San Francisco where the class was held, when the wind was blowing the right direction. I had to hitchhike along Highway One to get to class each day whenever the car would break down - which was quite a bit more often than I really would have preferred. Of course, people who picked me up would ask me where I was going. So it gave me the perfect chance to talk about the Alexander Technique on a regular basis. This was the late seventies, at a time when the prevailing attitude about talking about the Alexander Technique was something people did not do. Because - obviously, it was a discipline that had to be experienced.

Bob had gone to a wedding which attracted all of the Alexander Technique community. At the reception, many teachers were standing around talking about a curious change in the climate of how well the Alexander Technique was known. The teachers commented how it used to be that nobody knew what it was they did. But now, people were coming out with, "I have heard of the Alexander Technique. It's a way to change your habitual reactions that's taught through moving easier, right?"

"The most curious thing," these Alexander teachers mused, "was that when pressed to reveal where they had found out such a thing, it was uncovered that a woman hitchhiking on Highway One had told them all about it." Bob Britton laughed, "I know who that hitchhiker was."

That was only one person - me - who ended up informing the entire San Francisco Bay Area about what was Alexander Technique by talking about it. Just many, many one-on-one conversations did the trick. Imagine what a Twitter project could do for the rest of the world!!

Careful not to "sell it short"! Alexander Technique is not just a remedial emergency solution of last resort - it's an educational discipline of creative thinking as well that educates the 5/6th of the brain that is non-conscious. Credit people with the intelligence to rise to the challenge - by telling them the most amazing things the Alexander Technique has done for you. People want to hear your stories! Talk about what you know best. The personal becomes the universal, as you tell your own story.

@ATpoise & @learnCreativity on Twitter

franis_engel@yahoo.com

blog: http://myhalfof.wordpress.com

website: http://www.franis.org/Alexander

On the Big Island of Hawaii, Kamuela-Waimea: 808 756-9264

In Bolinas, in Marin, CA 415 868-0420 during November each year

Private, shared and group lessons in Alexander Technique.

Specialties: creative thinking skills, juggling, ideation, hobbist in brain research tips, classroom participation, writing, speaking, graphic recording for live groups and taped talks.

Articles, interviews, website content, illustrations, podcasts and coming e-book: "Alexander Technique for Fast Learners"

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