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Archive for October, 2009

About Conditioning

Posted in assumptions, conditioning, introductory, learning as loss, questioning on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Conditioning solves a need with the ability to adapt. Conditioning is establishing a program or routine to solve an anticipated routine situation. The situation is that a question or problem is repeating that supposedly requires a solution. In conditioning, automating a series of physical actions is the solution. As the situation itself is recognized, the [...]

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Respecting Patrick MacDonald’s Legacy

Posted in core experience, history, imprinting, personal on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been lucky to have experienced the late Alexander teacher Patrick MacDonald’s work first-hand a number of times. It was because of my having been connected to (and later a trainee of the teacher-training class of ) Ottiwell/Pincas where MacDonald was a visiting master teacher.  MacDonald was the one to personally determine that I was [...]

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