21st of June - 7th, LAST day

To conclude our work...

We start the day with movement. There are 2 classes proposed:

1. Valentina- about embryology. 

The group goes through the different phases of development of the embryo. Working in couples; one is the mother, the other the embryo. The process turnes into an improvisation with the mesoderm, from which develops the structure of the body: bones, muscles, fluids (blood). 

"Challenge your structure" is the key instruction that creates a dynamic movement improvisation of the group.

2. Katja, - yoga lesson. 

We work basically with different variations of the sun salutation for 40 minutes. She gives us specific focuses within the body.

Before lunch we have a 20 min. open space.

Lunch brake

Today we have a special lunch: we do a food meditation introduced by Defne. 

This is the last day of Budapest T.T.T. 2013. To conclude our work I do interviews with the participants about how do we interpret what happened during the last week.  This is kind of an overview about what one experienced during this 7 days. 

Valentina de Piante

Katja Mustonen

Tamás Bakó

Defne Erdur

The closing event

The closing event was a very fruitful experience for me.

At the beginning I was asking myself how will we able to share or present what we did this week. We didn’t have a well defined structure that would lead us to a simple score for the presentation. It was a very organic process that had many many different aspects involving different layers about teaching, learning, art (making), Life itself and also dealing with the relationship between these central topics. We created a beautiful net and I found it challenging how to demonstrate its essence in front of a public.

At the end I was surprised how faithfully we could mirror the whole week’s research trough this event:

We decide to use some elements, practices, the materials we created during our research and we make an installation out of it:

-          We use the big papers on which we were gathering our ideas in as a decoration on the walls

-          We  set a sound installation out of the discussions I recorded

-          We make a reading corner with different books that we shared with each other

We give 10 minutes of arriving time for the public to get familiar with this context and then we offer them to join us in the space in which we retraced the core of our common practice:

Everyone becomes a student & everyone become a teacher at the same time:

we can all ask for a teaching or propose something we want to teach, we can be taught by someone, we can join a teaching… or we can just witness the space or be a free mover.

We introduce this open space with our well known ball game. First –as we did with the international group- by just showing the game, without saying any instructions, then for the 2^nd round we explain that the timing of ball must stay the same, keeping the rhythm of the passing.

We played together with the participants and we create like this a common space with the “audience”.

After this game we open the space and we just start to use it as playground where knowledge is free to be exchanged.

To be honest, before the presentation I was quite septic if this will work with people joining us, if we will be able to create this playground with does who didn’t take part of this intensive research week and didn’t merge into this context of open structure. Maybe this open space will be intimidating for them… bla bla bla…

During the presentation I understand so many things!

It is all about trust and

being present,

following my interest,

feeling the needs of the space and

enjoying the sharing and being together!

I really had fun, I learned new things and transmitted information too.

I was deeply touched by this togetherness!

I would like to that Workshop Foundation for making this whole event possible! I believe that TTT 2013 Budapest was a very nourishing and inspiring experience for all of the participants. I personally feel that I got a lot of key inputs to continue my teaching practice and found artful presence in what I do.

I’m looking forward to share the video of this event with you. It will appear here soon!

Till then let me share the writings of the participants about this event, the conclusion of TTT 2012 Budapest (you can also read the complete reports of the international group members by click -ing on their name in the menu!!) :

Defne

"Towards the end of the week, as we prepared to share the results of our week’s research with the public, we returned to the topics of “teaching performance and the performance aspect of teaching itself”. Interestingly, due to the open and non-hierarchical structure we were working with, the “result” also happened to reflect this approach. We ended up creating a playful, trust-based, receiver-driven sharing environment. All the material we used (books, sketches, audio recordings, music, games and instructional excerpts) were presented to the audience, and the audience was invited to choose from these as we went along. This way, any possible stress was lifted from the presenter’s shoulders. The emphasis was on horizontal sharing. By the end, we realized that the audience was a bit lost and stressed at first, since this non-hierarchical structure (the sharing-harvesting circle) was new to them. Yet, as they found their own ways to relate to the material, they relaxed and even started to enjoy the process…"

Tamás & Viki

"The closing event of the week created another open learning format, model. Preparing the presentation of our conclusions for a wider circle, we were looking for a format that mirrors in the most faithful way the experiences of our research.

We wanted to create such a structure where we let the participants experience the result of our research and in which everyone -according to his/her own interest- can freely connect to what happens in the space.

The space was an installation of sounds, images, books, as well as a performing space and a playground for open learning structures.

This experimental way of creating contact let an open space for active participation, for creative self-expression, for receiving, interaction, and experiencing several way of learning."

Iscra:

"As part of the process we had a presentation/sharing which took place the last day of the TTT meeting. We shared our process with the local audience in Budapest. As part of the presentation we practiced exchange of knowledge within an open structure that we were dealing in the frame of this meeting. Therefore the presentation showed the practical outcome of the process and thus became a reflective artistic sharing. "