ATI Award Winners

During our annual conference, we come together to learn, to make decisions, and to celebrate the community of ATI. Part of the celebration includes recognition of exceptional service to ATI as an organization.

This includes two types of awards:

  • Every few years ATI has a Cauliflower Award. This award honors ATI members for committing to an idea, process or project for a significant period of time; tending to it and caring for it. It is based on a quote from A. R. Alexander: “Be patient; stick to principle; and it will all open up like a great cauliflower.” 
  • The Distinguished Service Award recognizes exceptional accomplishments and service provided to ATI during the past year. 

In 2024, the board decided to provide Letters of Special Recognition for work done by committees and working groups.


Cauliflower Awards

2024

  • Bill Conable
  • Diane Foust
  • Dr. Maria Weiss

2023

  • Debi Adams
  • Jennifer Mizenko
  • Sarah Barker
  • Eric Rentmeister
  • David Mills
  • Diana Bradley

 


Distinguished Service Awards

2024

  • Dana Calvey
  • Tania Canas
  • Teresa Lee
  • Dani Loesch

2023

  • Rosa Luisa Rossi
  • Rewrite ATI's Bylaws Group: David Mills, Catherine Kettrick, and Gabriella Minnes Brandes
  • Jamee Culbertson
  • Rachel Prabhakar
  • Linda Hein
  • Corinne Cassini
  • Just Inclusion Group

 


 

2024 Letters of Special Recognition

Policies & Procedures Working Group

The ATI Board of Directors wishes to recognize the contributions of the members of the Policies and Procedures Working Group. These members have worked countless hours reviewing, checking and updating the Policies and Procedures Document. This updated document will serve ATI, its board, committees and members for the coming years.

  • Marya Spring Cordes
  • Maria Weiss
  • Debi Adams
  • Julie Mulvihill 

 

Professional Development Committee

The ATI Board of Directors wishes to recognize all the work that has been done by the Professional Development Committee since the inception of ATI in developing the teaching of the Alexander Technique as a profession. All Professional Development Committee members from 1992 to 2024, whose work includes establishing a theory and body of knowledge; an examination of how the Technique is used and taught; definitions for commonly used terms; the ATI Criteria; and the prompts for the three Demonstrations of Knowledge.

In this work they continually asked members for feedback; led workshops for members, teacher trainers and ATI Sponsors on the content of the prompts, and the process for responding to each. They administered the Pilot Project for the Demonstrations of Knowledge, and that work led to the proposal we have today.

The ATI Board of Directors appreciates the many hours and efforts that have been devoted to this process that reflects ATI’s values around the certification of new teachers.

  • Antoinette Kranenburg
  • Bruce Fertman
  • Catherine Kettrick
  • Cathy Madden
  • Cirsten Verleger
  • Claudia Vess
  • David Mills
  • Davis Hill
  • Debbie Young
  • Diana Bradley
  • Dorrit Vered
  • Gaby Minnes Brandes
  • Holly Cinnamon
  • Joel Kendall
  • John Macy  
  • Joseph Kaplan
  • Kanae Tsuneki
  • Keith Moss
  • Kirika Rotermund
  • Morgan Brunketurner
  • Pat NIcholson
  • Robert Bushong
  • Tommy Thompson
  • Yuuka Shibayama