This page shows testimonies from the TECTU 2024 summer school participants.
Many thanks to all the participants that where willing to provide us with valuable feedback.
Many thanks to all the participants that where willing to provide us with valuable feedback.
Major insights
What the felt sense of felt sensing is The experiential richness of (my) life — it’s meaningful beauty — is more than valid and relevant for (my) (any) research project. May I let it unfold organically and may it inspire me deeply. Meaning is not created trust the praxis Embodied It’s not about just feeling the feeling How a spectrum setting can change my experiences so much, Mitwelt |
The experiential richness of (my) life — it’s meaningful beauty — is more than valid and relevant for (my) (any) research project. May I let it unfold organically and may it inspire me deeply. THE POWER OF CONNECTION IF WE PAUSE AND LISTEN TO EACH EACH OTHER I am happy Holding and creating Listening attentively opens up possibilities I hope that the systems formed by human beings can be nicer to all beings in the world. Life is an “I AM AND WE ARE Academia is a huge rock threatening and protecting experiential thinking processes |
The impersonal life-force that runs through my project, We are already there, I know how to be more compassionate towards myself and others Recognition As the mind cannot be isolated from the body, a person from their environment, the academia from the embodied interconnected quality of being human in this world. listening - with All of the TECTU basics, methods and ideas do not only make sense to me, but also to others The importance of taking time to listen to myself When LOVE is experienced*, the hope of Community prevails. Playing together with the world. Those who do not move |
What I will pass on
Attentiveness to experience to be connected with different people who are in the same spirit The alternative to violence and oppression — rebuilding our sense of connection, fining new words to describe it. Really trying to make space and take space — in my calendar and in my interactions an environment that all the encounter of objects to experience each other(ness) in a felt dimension.
Revolutionising the research/doing in our looking, thinking with and from is acting we need action BE MORE SILENT TO BE ABLE TO LISTEN TO MYSELF AND OTHERS I WISH TO SHARE THE RESEARCH STRENGTH I EXPERIENCE MOVING IN WHEN OPENING MYSELF AND MY WORK UP TO EMBODIED CRITICAL THINKIING Radical acceptance of the other / Cognitive empathy Passing on |
I want to take home this space for thinking with reflexive care and the peace, creativity and playfulness I felt while practicing it I want to pass on love, friendly intention and my ear for hearing some other curious questions The courage and the space to experience the body and the environment / to be experiencing. [drawing of a heart] To be more attentive/aware towards situations where we closely and actively listen and talk to each other. I want to pass on attentiveness by firstly practicing it on my own. I want to ask ourselves when something is only satiating and when it is nuturing Giving myself space and time. Pay attention to my feelings and continue to strengthen dyads First step realization Active listening and ability to create an open safe place for anything to might arise. More authentic relationally. I want to pass on the confidence and sense of curiosity, of wonder in thinking and writing from embodied experience. COMMUNITY connection I can only control my own actions and attitude — having learnt from others Awareness of the silence and the pauses. |
What I need to do / What is needed
Space and time for what sustains and cares for me. Zeit CONFIDENCE TO BE IN THE AWKWARDNESS AND ALLOWING FOR THINGS TO EMERGE AND UNFOLD Courage, patience, and good listening skills. THE VILLAGE Accountability is the glue that the pro tire to stick. mattering [drawing of a heart and a drop] |
Courage I need to remember to listen deeply, too befriend the uncomfortable uncertainty, the feeling of “being stuck”, by taking pauses, going in nature, thinking with the landscape and have fun, wonder and awe in the process Courage Hold the silence Attentiveness to the openings in-between, People with whom I can talk about the project in person Time for mown practice What I need is to put some time aside to focus on opening up the space for the process of thinking -> To believe and visualize ,in a stubborn, persistent way, that iwi is possible. I need to be nice, patient and brace to explore the world |
It’s OK to need things — let others help. Continuous exchange with such wonderful people as here find ways to apply this knowledge/embodied experience in my practical research output. building community, Community for doing, community for support, and community for building Courage to speak, to listen, to practice, Let the felt sense strengthen my intuition in my future action on my study field career. The awareness for when I am closely and attentively listening and talking to others, to gain exemplary situations and habitualize my own behaviour. Patience with myself, gentleness towards myself, space for vulnerability |
Below is an excerpt from the TECT Participant Questionnaire 2021.
Many thanks to all the participants that where willing to provide us with valuable feedback.
Many thanks to all the participants that where willing to provide us with valuable feedback.
What was the main thing you learned from the webinar?
How well the different approaches presented complimented each other, how we all yearn for this kind of thinking in our academic and professional practice, how many different strands of this kind of work are out there (not only presented in course but also among the participants). I learned that there is much potential for exploring the ´edge´ in the academic field (which excites me with great hope) and that the attention to the embodied thinking and lived experience is the perhaps the new academia. To practice listening and to try out small parts of the methods we learned about. To learn about the amazing practices of all of you who lead the course and to get a little bit to know participants. |
The importance of a different epistemology for the future of our planet. The two main tools that I gained from the webinar are Focusing and the MP interview techniques. More generally, I learned about what embodiment is and how it can be employed to widen my thinking horizons. The deep listening, thinking with the body, letting room for the unformulated, thinking as a situated and embodied activity. I knew the theory of embodied cognition, but this time I had the opportunity to experience it and understand what it is. |
What part of the TECT webinar course did you like best and why?
The practices and exercises since they provide a direct experience of embodiment and mindfulness as well as tools we can further use. The people leading the course from a place of such passion and 'adventure'. Inspiring! The exercises - they allowed us to listen deeply and have our intimate space to 'play' with the course contents. Exercises but of course they were only possible because they followed very insightful inputs and lectures. |
Still frame from TECT Webinar 2021
I liked many aspects of the course - the lectures, the exercises, the reading material. The best part of the course was the exercises that involved the other participants. I loved it most because it was very exciting to meet wonderful, open people from around the world, to share with them my thoughts and to give them a space to do the same. It felt really rewarding! |
How did you experience the ECT moves (birthing, formulating key sentences, dropping & dipping, instancing & relevanting, crossing, core structure A=B=C)?
The structure was well prepared, especially with the movement exercises in between. It was an clear ongoing movement.
Each move is incredibly rich and worth doing it. It helped me A LOT to advance my project. I was lucky enough to work with an extraordinary co-worker, who was really listening to me and took me further in my understanding. I experienced each of the moves as a giant step that not only took me further, but also gave substance and shape to my thinking. But it was very demanding.
For me it was such a generous process, it was very important to try this in such a way on my own skin in both roles of listening and thinking. I want to keep on practicing this so it stays in my body. I was very pleasantly surprised to find that the process was very much in my body but also in some volume or mass (felt space) around us, very sculptural for me.
Insightful and valuable. To stay with the projects key sentence and give it body, gave new insights and made the project more alive and fun! More body relation. Also the practical demonstrations were helpful, for understanding the ECT moves.
I had difficulties in the beginning finding faith in myself being able to adapt to the new methods. With the time and guidance of the group and the teachers I became more and more aware that I do have the safety of relying on my felt sense and that it doesn't get lost so easily in the process. However there where moves I could lean into right away (like birthing, dropping+dipping, crossing) and others that I couldn't "befriend" as easily (instancing+relevanting, core structure). But I decided to trust the experience in Iceland from day one and not reject anything in order to be able to make my own decisions on how and what to take further into my (work)life afterwards.
They were very well taught and explained and most of them 'did the job' and gave me the tools for things to come and happen. Sometimes it was too constructive and slow but still it's good to know the path and moves for future work.
I found it very interesting and I have returned home with a different (better) grounding in my own work.
My co-worker was really supportive. The teachers also, because they offered help when I was struck and it helped me get out of the dead end in which I was struck. The demonstrations were also really helpful because it helped me to calibrate the interview. We had the opportunity to see several of the teacher and to appreciate their differences. It was also very helpful: to see that the method is not a fixed one and that it can be adapted to each person.
It was very well planned, the exercises were truly helpful for my thinking process but they were also somehow fresh.
What is the main thing you think you will take with you from the summer school academically?
A lot of insight and motivation to keep going, and the courage I realized I am lacking to actually write and produce something from my thoughts. The certainty to being able to rely on my felt sense and myself even more. Being more bold and brave and not let the imposter syndrome come in the way. Taking time to reflect on the topics Coming up and having some methodology to "shorten" the track to an idea or nudge a thought process. The summer school gave me proof that I can use creative methods to widen my thought process in the academy. I will definitely try to incorporate at least some of the moves and practices we did during the summer school into my academic work. The felt sense of what the contact with nature/embodiment can mean for research and science. |
TECT Summer School Iceland, 2021
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Anything else?
I cannot stress enough how important this course was to me the passing year and how much it opened my eyes and heart! For that I am forever greatfull!! 
TECT Summer School Iceland, 2021
I really like the team a lot. They complemented each other wonderfully and were extremely friendly and supportive. |
I think that this training will be an important step in my academic life. I hope it will be. My main concern is about keeping alive what manifested itself during the course, in spite of all the dull duties that university work requires from me. I am thinking about stratagems to keep it alive, and it all has to do with giving time to myself and building a safe space in which I can think and feel. It matters to me, and it is up to me to be strong enough to defend it against the "to do lists" that take on our lives. Overall, I found all the instructors and teacher very attentive, supportive and insightful. Each one contributed in a different way to the course and as a whole I felt in good hands. All of them were great, engaged and patience, willing to listen and support and in a good vibe. I was surprised by the level of connectedness that was created throughout the course, between participants. |