COMPANION

Alexander Technique Affiliated Societies

The Alexander Technique Affiliated Societies (ATAS) consists at present of 18 national societies of teachers of the Alexander Technique. They recognise each others’ professional qualifications and agree to maintain the same standards for the training and professional conduct of Alexander Technique teachers worldwide.

(AMMAS is a sister-organisation to ATAS, see below).

Meetings of societies for the formation of ATAS started in the 1990s.

Articles and reports on ATAS

  • ‘Report of meeing in Sydney’ (no author).[1]
  • ‘International liason’ by Dorothea Magonet reports on a meeting of the International Affiliated Societies in June 1997.[2]
  • ‘A procedure for changes to the international agreement among the affiliated societies of teachers of the Alexander Technique’ by Elisabeth Sigurdsson.[3]
  • ‘Affiliation takes shape’ by Jamie McDowell.[4]
  • ‘Affiliated Societies reprensentatives meet in Germany’ by Jamie McDowell.[5]
  • ‘Report of Affiliated Societies reprensentatives meeting’ by Sue Holladay.[6]
  • ‘Affiliated Societies meeting, 2008’ by Jamie McDowell.[7]
  • ‘Affiliated Societies report’ by Brita Forsstrom.[8]
  • ‘Report from the ATAS meeting, Holland, April 2012’ by Brita Forsstrom.[9]
  • ‘Sharing diverse practices’ by Sue Fleming.[10]
  • ‘Sharing summit’ by Sue Fleming.[11]
  • ‘A summit on sharing’ by Sue Fleming.[12]

Membership

1985 membership information (this is before the creation of ATAS and many national societies did not exist).[13]

 

Country

Teachers

Australia

18

Brazil

1

Canada

17

Denmark

12

Eire

1

France

10

Great Britain

246

India

1

Israel

28

Italy

1

Netherlands

5

Norway

2

Pakistan

1

South Africa

7

Spain

2

Sweden

5

Switzerland

38

USA

59

West Germany

12

TOTAL

466

 

2017 membership information as presented at a AMMAS meeting.[14]

 

2017

Teachers

Students

AUSTAT

28

21

Belgium

34

–

Brazil

26

2

CANSTAT

60

25

Denmark

38

4

Finland

34

8

France

75

25

Germany

390

61

Israel

113

–

Netherlands

79

–

New Zealand

25

–

Norway

12

–

South Africa

29

7

Spain

64

10

Switzerland

153

10

STAT

753

118

AmSAT

522

162

Austria

36

8

TOTALS

2471

461

 

Website

http://www.alexandertechniqueworldwide.org/

AMMAS

AMMAS is a sister-organisation to AMAS, being Annual Meeting of Teaching Members of the Affiliated Societies. It is a week-long residential, informal, non-profit meeting and is restricted to about 50 teachers. Its first meeting was in 2001 in Denmark. It has since taken place in Austria, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland.[15] [16]

Articles and reports on AMMAS

  • ‘Tenth annual meeting of teaching members of the affilaited societies’ by Marion Israel.[17]
  • ‘Professional development in the sun’ (no author).[18]

Website

http://www.ammas.info/

References

[1] ‘Report of meeing in Sydney’ (no author) in STATNews vol. 4, no. 11 edited by Malcolm Williamson (STAT, January 1995), p. 16.
[2] ‘International liason’ by Dorothea Magonet in STATNews vol. 4, no. 19 edited by Malcolm Williamson (STAT, September 1997), p. 6.
[3] ‘A procedure for changes to the international agreement among the affiliated societies of teachers of the Alexander Technique’ by Elisabeth Sigurdsson in STATNews vol. 4, no. 17 edited by Malcolm Williamson (STAT, January 1997), pp. 15–17.
[4] ‘Affiliation takes shape’ by Jamie McDowell in STATNews vol. 6, no. 5 edited by Ann James (STAT, September 2001), p. 5.
[5] ‘Affiliated Societies reprensentatives meet in Germany’ by Jamie McDowell in STATNews vol. 6, no. 11 edited by Ann James (STAT, September 2003), p. 5.
[6] ‘Report of Affiliated Societies reprensentatives meeting’ by Sue Holladay in STATNews vol. 6, no. 16 edited by Ann James (STAT, June 2005), p. 7.
[7] ‘Affiliated Societies meeting, 2008’ by Jamie McDowell in STATNews vol. 6, no. 27 edited by Ann James (STAT, January 2009), p. 22.
[8] ‘Affiliated Societies report’ by Brita Forsstrom in STATNews vol. 7, no. 5 edited by Ann James (STAT, May 2011), p. 8.
[9] ‘Report from the ATAS meeting, Holland, April 2012’ by Brita Forsstrom in STATNews vol. 7, no. 8 edited by Jamie McDowell (STAT, September 2012), p. 12.
[10] ‘Sharing diverse practices’ by Sue Fleming in STATNews vol. 9, no. 5 edited by Jamie McDowell (STAT, September 2016), pp. 7–8.
[11] ‘Sharing summit’ by Sue Fleming in STATNews vol. 9, no. 8 edited by Jamie McDowell (STAT, September 2017), p. 12.
[12] ‘A summit on sharing’ by Sue Fleming in STATNews vol. 9, no. 11 edited by Jamie McDowell (STAT, September 2018), p. 9.
[13] STATNews vol. 1, June 1985 edited by Adam Nott (STAT, June 1985), p. 16.
[14] ‘Sharing summit’ by Sue Fleming in STATNews vol. 9, no. 8 edited by Jamie McDowell (STAT, September 2017), p. 12.
[15] ‘AMMAS’ (no author) in STATNews vol. 9, no. 5 edited by Jamie McDowell (STAT, September 2016), p. 8.
[16] ‘AMMAS and its 16-year history’ by Irmel Weber in STATNews vol. 9, no. 5 edited by Jamie McDowell (STAT, September 2016), p. 8.
[17] ‘Tenth annual meeting of teaching members of the affilaited societies’ by Marion Israel in STATNews vol. 7, no. 1 edited by Ann James (STAT, January 2010), p. 21.
[18] ‘Professional development in the sun’ (no author) in STATNews vol. 8, no. 1 edited by Jamie McDowell (STAT, September 2012), pp. 14.
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