OUR VISION:
DEI-Centered AT for everyone

ATLP’s 5 CORE VALUES

Embodied Connection:
empathy, communication, capacity

Compassion:
healing, vulnerability, love, trust, curiosity, taking time

Pragmatic Action:
productive, supporting each other as we develop, rigor and honesty, relevant, responsive

Responsibility:
to beloved community and to the organization as well as the individual,  bravery

Generativity:
resilience, growth, exchanging new ideas, shared joy, fun, fulfilling, sustainability, creativity

  • Explore and advocate innovative somatic education models that support personal and collective freedom by centering anti-oppression in practice.

  • Provide opportunities to engage in rigorous conversations on diversity, equity and inclusion 

  • Decolonize the practice and teaching of the Alexander Technique by providing support for initiatives toward unearthing overt and implicit biases. We assist those developing Alexander Technique programs that de-center the white, patriarchal Western European lens of its origins.

OUR MISSION

Meet some of the volunteers on the AT Liberation Project team, listen to our stories and learn about why we got involved.

  • The AT Liberation Project started in 2016 after the 2015 International Congress in Ireland where the lack of diversity among the attendees and on the main stage was very stark. Six Alexander Technique teachers in the New York City, USA area began meeting biweekly to discuss what could be done, and how to move the work of DEI forward in the AT world. Presentations were made at ATI and AmSAT conferences and at the 2018 International Congress.

    The ATLP has been continuously working since 2016. Coming together to learn more about DEI has deepened our commitment to the practice of AT as a process for change. The ATLP welcomes you to participate, too. Join us!Listening is an essential part of this group. In the fall of 2020 we undertook a four-month project to define our values, vision and mission. Listening was at the heart of our process, and continues to be as our mission grows and changes. 

    We met with Restorative Justice, Nonviolent Communications facilitators, and gathered in Council circles. We listened and surveyed participants in affinity groups to better understand what matters most when building a sense of belonging. From these listening sessions we created a few mind-maps to see the big picture of the DEI work needed in the Alexander Technique community and in the work itself. We did this so that we could gather together in a way that was safer and more productive for everyone. 

  • The AT Liberation Project aspires to connect with, support, empower, and advocate equitable access for all those who seek embodied freedom.


    We look to advance AT as an anti-oppression tool to promote Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), Justice and Belonging.


    We commit to decolonizing* the practice and teaching of the Alexander Technique internally, interpersonally, institutionally, and structurally in order to eradicate oppression and foster Beloved Community and joy.



    *Decolonize, in this context, is to unearth and bring into conscious awareness the overt and subtle biases that influence our lives and teaching practices, understanding that our shared practice stems from a white, patriarchal Western European lens. From a renewed conscious awareness, action and direction can be initiated to end oppressive ways of teaching and develop new methods based upon DEI, Justice, and Belonging.

  • ATLP is run by volunteers who are dedicated to the advancement of DEI-centered AT. VOT members meet weekly to organize, plan and implement.

    Some current and former volunteers who have spearheaded, guided and supported this project include…

    Aik Hooi Lee
    Alice MacDonald
    Ally Yancey (Website)
    Allyna Steinberg
    Ariel Carson
    Ariel Weiss
    Audre Wirtanen
    Belinda Mello
    Catherine Kettrick
    Corinne Cassini
    Constance Clare-Newman
    Erik Gundersen
    Ian Jorgensen
    James Peck
    Jared Negley
    Jess Lemmertz
    Joan Gavaler
    Karin Heisecke
    Kim Jessor
    Korina Biggs
    Kristin Mozeiko
    Laura 'L" Tuthall
    Manuelle Borgel
    Monika Gross
    Pyeng Threadgill
    Rebecca Tuffey
    Renee Schneider
    Robyn Avalon
    Sarah White-Ayòn
    Tracy Einstein
    Vanessa Justice