Gitte Dollerup Fjordbo holds an M.A. in Audiologopedics from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (UCD). She had the Alexander Technique acknowledged as a subject separate to and beyond her M.A. - and she's thus the first to have the AT approved on it's own at an academic level.
Gitte trained as a Neuro-developmental Therapist and has worked for many years with sound therapy. She is a certified Philosophical Counsellor i.e. counselling from a Soul-based Psychology. For many years Gitte has worked within the field of shock, trauma and stress. She is a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and was certified as an Alexander Technique teacher in 1992.
Gitte wrote two theses for the UCD both of which have been distributed within the Alexander-community. The titles are :
1) On the Development of Habit: from the viewpoint of the Alexander Technique and early neuromotor patterns of development.
2) Why we have to crawl: On Human Development; motor and communicative skills - aberrations and inter-connections. The first has recently been re-printed with forewords by training-course directors Walter Carrington and Ray Evans (also a Neuro-developmental Therapist) and by neuro-scientist Lucy Brown.
On the De-rotation Approach - the Technique and the nervous system.(as mentioned in the interview)CLICK HERE
Some of the areas we covered in this 35 minute chat include:
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What are the challenges you feel face the AT profession?
- How did you come to know about AT?
- Letting go of habitual compensatory patterns is not necessarily helpful for people with underlying neurological challenges
- Where does AT fit in the spectrum of things people can do to address life challenges?
- PLUS...more thoughts and insights.
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