This page shows an excerpt from the TECT Participant Questionnaire 2021.
​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

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.