2025 Annual Conference Schedule

Schedule Subject To Change

 

Sunday, 19 October

8am-5pm: Pre-Day

6pm: Dinner For All

7:15pm: Welcome & Orientation

8:15pm: Music 


 

Monday, 20 October

9am: Opening Circle

10am: Tea/Exchange

10:30am-12pm: Workshops

  • Working with Activity- The 4 W's, Bob Lada
  • Working on Different Time Scales, Rachel Prabhakar

12pm-1pm: Lunch

1pm-2pm: Free Time/Exchange

2pm-3pm: Growing Our Teaching, Growing Our Profession with Continuing Education Committee

3pm-4pm: Tea

4pm-5:30pm: Workshops

  • Teaching from a Unified Self: Withholding Definition as a path towards Confidence, Corinne Cassini and Harry Hobbs
  • Micro-Lessons, Macro-Impact: Reclaiming Wholeness in Fleeting Moments, Joy Arcolano

6pm-7pm: Dinner

7pm: Keynote with Robyn Avalon 


 

Tuesday, 21 October 

7am-7:45am: Early Morning Practice

  • Jump In With Your Whole Self!, Morgan Brunketurner and Eric Kidlow

7:30am-8:30am: Breakfast

9am-10am: Meet the Sponsors

10am-11am: Exchange/Free Time

11am-12pm: Board and Treasurer Reports

12pm-1pm: Lunch

1pm-2pm: Workshops

  • Alexander Technique, Trauma, and the Regulation of the Nervous System, Imogen Ragone
  • Rooted in Soul, Free to Create: The Alexander Technique as a Path to Purposeful Artistry, Joseph Arnold

2pm-3:30pm: Honoring our Legacy with Meade Andrews

3:30pm-4pm: Tea

4pm-5pm: Workshops

  • Alexander Technique: Mono- or Multitasking? Exploring the connections between the Alexander Technique and the Corporate world, Amy Hack & Gaby Minnes Brandes
  • Explorations in Expansion and Energy-Infused Alexander Exchanges, Renee Jackson

5pm-6pm: Exchange/Free Time

6pm: Banquet & Awards

8pm: Musical Performance!


Wednesday, 22 October

7am-7:45am: Early Morning Practice

  • Strolling with the “Ministry of Silly Walks”, Sara Goldstein

7:30am-8:30am: Breakfast

8:30am-10:30am: Committee Fair

10:30-11am-: Tea/Exchange

11am-12pm: Workshop

  • Hybrid Teaching Panel Discussion, Debi Adams

12pm-1pm: Lunch

12pm-7pm: Explore Local Sites or Exchange

6pm: Dinner

7pm: Community Event & West Coast Swing


Thursday, 23 October

7am-7:45am: Early Morning Practice

7:30am-8:30am: Breakfast

9am-10am: Workshops

  • Embodying Progressive Values, Ariel Weiss
  • A flutist and an Alexander teacher making music together: Applying Alexander principles in the context of playing an instrument, Gaby Minnes Brandes and Francesca Arnone

10am-10:30am: Tea/Exchange

10:30am-12pm: Workshops

  • I Am Enough: Teaching Wholeness to Performers, Jana Tift
  • How You Use Yourself is Who You Are, Tommy Thompson

12pm-1pm: Lunch

1pm-2pm: Exchange

2pm-3pm: Workshops

  • The Expanded Field of Attention: A Source for Clarity in our hands-on work / A Resource for Calm in this crazy world, Clara Sandler
  • Starting Life Whole, Jennifer Kellow

3:30-4pm: Tea

4pm-5:30pm: Workshops

  • What are the best tools we have to heal from traumatic injuries?, Sarah Barker
  • Alexander in Education: Teaching Young People, Gabrielle Czaja and Corinne Cassini

5:30-6pm: Exchange/Free Time

6pm-7pm: Dinner

7:30pm: No Talent Show 


 

Friday, 24 October 

7:30am-8:30am: Breakfast

10am: Latest Check Out Time from Pendle Hill

10am-11am: Workshops

  • Offer and Receive, Robin Gilmore
  • Jump In With Your Whole Self!, Morgan Brunketurner and Eric Kidlow

11:15am-12pm: Closing Circle

12pm: Depart Pendle Hill