Report from Egypt, Sekem
07/03/10 19:17 Filed in: Information
I have
received precious report from Sekem, Egypt. Harald
has taken his "Eurythmy in Workplace Training" with
Annemarie Ehrlich, once in Summer 2009 in Den Haag,
and this time was his second module.
.........Now something about Sekem:
The time there was really great, after 2 days we felt as being there already 1 week as it was so intense.
We started with the processes - the exercises we prepared at home which we tried with the our own group.
We immediately visited the factories to see the workers: cloth makers, tea and food makers etc.
We developed small exercises we thought that they could help the workers to balance the one sideness of their work and make them "a whole being". It was a great pleasure that there were also 4 egyptians from the eurythmy school in sekem with us through the whole time. They were very creative and ambitious with preparing exercises and it was great to work together with them.
In between Annemarie taught us "focus exercises" - eurythmy exercises which train a special eurythmical ability and let this ability come to experience (e.g. straight and round). Each day of the first 2 weeks we also had half an hour of arabic, the colleges of the eurythmy school taught us. So the first week passed quickly, each day we went to a different factory to see the workers to finally decide where each of us will go to teach.
Friday is the only day of in Egypt (so it has this "sunday" feeling) and we made a tour to the pyramids in the desert (Saqqara and Dashur). It was a great experience as we also went in the big "red pyramid" throug the small corridor.
In Sekem we stayed in the brand new guest house - in the first weeks we were the only visitors there is this quite big house.
In the second week we finished our processes and each one prepared the exercise he wanted to do with the group of workers.
We tried out how we could lead step by step to slowly achieve the "end-picture" we set. We continued to work with other exercises and also started with the zodiac-exercises.
We also prepared a small presentation of a canon with the cassinic curve for 12 people we finally showed at the weekly performance at the school on thursday.
Institute for Eurythmy in Working Life –– Training / Transformation with Annemarie Ehrlich
22 January - 19 February 2010
Harald Kallinger
** If you would like to know more about the course please have a look at our "Path" page at Eurythmy in Workplace. I will upload more photos in Gallery hopefully. Thank you so much Harald to share your precious experience with us.
.........Now something about Sekem:
The time there was really great, after 2 days we felt as being there already 1 week as it was so intense.
We started with the processes - the exercises we prepared at home which we tried with the our own group.
We immediately visited the factories to see the workers: cloth makers, tea and food makers etc.
We developed small exercises we thought that they could help the workers to balance the one sideness of their work and make them "a whole being". It was a great pleasure that there were also 4 egyptians from the eurythmy school in sekem with us through the whole time. They were very creative and ambitious with preparing exercises and it was great to work together with them.
In between Annemarie taught us "focus exercises" - eurythmy exercises which train a special eurythmical ability and let this ability come to experience (e.g. straight and round). Each day of the first 2 weeks we also had half an hour of arabic, the colleges of the eurythmy school taught us. So the first week passed quickly, each day we went to a different factory to see the workers to finally decide where each of us will go to teach.
Friday is the only day of in Egypt (so it has this "sunday" feeling) and we made a tour to the pyramids in the desert (Saqqara and Dashur). It was a great experience as we also went in the big "red pyramid" throug the small corridor.
In Sekem we stayed in the brand new guest house - in the first weeks we were the only visitors there is this quite big house.
In the second week we finished our processes and each one prepared the exercise he wanted to do with the group of workers.
We tried out how we could lead step by step to slowly achieve the "end-picture" we set. We continued to work with other exercises and also started with the zodiac-exercises.
We also prepared a small presentation of a canon with the cassinic curve for 12 people we finally showed at the weekly performance at the school on thursday.
Institute for Eurythmy in Working Life –– Training / Transformation with Annemarie Ehrlich
22 January - 19 February 2010
Harald Kallinger
** If you would like to know more about the course please have a look at our "Path" page at Eurythmy in Workplace. I will upload more photos in Gallery hopefully. Thank you so much Harald to share your precious experience with us.