Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Just a quick note to both my readers (only joking!)  in between preparing for tomorrow and wrapping parcels, to say that I wish you a happy and restful Christmas.

Let's hope that 2012 is a good year for Conductive Education and us all.

Conductive Education World Congress, 8, 2013 - latest information

It is a year now since the 7th World Congress for Conductive Education, that was held in Hong Kong, and the German hosts of the 8th Congress, to be held in 2013, are starting to get organised and prepared for it.

 A website was established earlier in the year
   http://www.ce-worldcongress2013.org/

 announcing the basic details and information to come with a very colourful logo. Since then an English language flyer has been posted on Phoenix Konductive Forderung's website:

 

http://www.phoenix-kf.de/pdf/foerderzentrum/wcce_2013_flyer_english.pdf

This has produced some comments online:

•  Andrew Sutton's Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/conductive.world?ref=tn_tnmn#!/conductive.world/posts/203261606424343 where he points out that the English is not as good as it could be,
• and on Norman Perin's blog at http://paces.typepad.com/paces/2011/12/conductive-education-is-so-much-more.html where Norman expresses surprise at the description of Conductive Education.

On reading the leaflet I am inclined to agree with both of them.

  

Running and organising the Congress must entail a huge amount of work, and be a massive management and administrative operation, especially if all the documentation, flyers, programme, letters etc are needed in what is not the first language of the host country. The first Congress to have a website, I believe, was the 6th . .Those involved in organising this put together a website containing all the necessary information that would be required in good English:

 

http://www.ce-congress2007.com/v1/content/1/start.html?lang=en&sub=1
 

SAHK in Hong Kong became the hosts of the 7th Congress. I attended this one and was very impressed by all the material produced, the pre-Congress administration, the organisation of the whole event and of course their amazing website – all in English. A hard act to follow. 

 http://www.ce-congress2010.org/CE/

  

The Germans have to follow this and I don't envy them the task! It is important for them and those wanting to find out information about the event that the language is right, and it is vital for the reputation of Conductive Education. The International Pető Association oversees the event so perhaps this can offer some help with this from its membership so that after the next 22 months of preparation the organisers will present a Congress they, and the whole of Conductive Education will be proud of.

Internet News December 2011

 This is the latest list of news items about CE on the internet over thew past few weeks. Again, it is mostly about fund raising events and nothing really substantial.

I would be grateful if anyone finds this list useful that they would let me know!
http://parkinsons-disease.co/videos/conductive-education-closeup-television-one/
Film about children at CE Centre in New Zealand

http://www.theadvertiserseries.co.uk/news/darlington/9344004.Rare_guitar_signed_by_Sting_up_for_auction/
Rare guitar signed by Sting given to auction for CE Centre

http://www.urbanacitizen.com/main.asp?SectionID=3&SubSectionID=5&ArticleID=158516
Brighter Beginnings CE Center Ohio, now into its second year of operations.


http://www.stepscentre.org.uk/events/the-police-pay-steps-a-visit.aspx.aspx
Police pay visit to Steps Centre to talk to the children about emergency services


http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1111/S00054/sbs-bank-customers-vote-for-conductive-education-southern.htm
CE centre in New Zealand is voted to receive funds raised by bank customers


http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/5925553/Christmas-comes-early
Money raised on Christmas Parade will benefit Southland branch of the New Zealand Foundation for Conductive Education.


http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/yoursay/wirralletters/9352652.Thanks_to_Wirral_Sainsbury_s_staff_for_their_help/
Local branch of Sainsbury's helps raise money for Stick'n'Step CE Centre, UK


http://www.thecolumbiastar.com/news/2011-11-11/Front_Page/Unexpected_challenges_yield_extraordinary_feats.html
Mother writes play to raise funds for CE in Columbia, SC, US.


http://www.scope.org.uk/news/ingfield-manor-expansion?style=blue
Ingfield Manor School in UK is expanding to take pupils 16-19


http://www.cominofoundation.org.uk/PDF/PACE.pdf
Comino Foundation reviews its support of Pace Centre, Aylesbury, UK since 1996.


http://stepscentre.org.uk/about
Steps Centre, UK has been operating for 17 years with link to our story video celebrating the fact.


http://www.hawkesbaytoday.co.nz/news/help-for-lochie-therapeutic-for-all/1176819/
News report of success of CE with little boy in Auckland, New Zealand.


http://lettertobarackobama.com/letters/national-conductive-education-day?page=8
North America CE Association (ACENA) sends letter to Barack Obama to inform him about Conductive Education and the Awareness Day in February 2012


http://www.brucepower.com/4852/community-blog/bruce-power-donates-20000-to-help-special-needs-kids-get-steps-ahead/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bruce-power-donates-20000-to-help-special-needs-kids-get-steps-ahead
Bruce Power nuclear generator partnership donates to S.T.E.P.S.( Ontario, Canada), summer camp fund.


http://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/lifestyle/culture/visual-arts/debut_art_exhibition_1_3267152
Art exhibition held in aid of centre offering principles of Conductive Education in Sussex, UK.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-nutcracker-sophia-1121-20111123,0,5297979.story

http://swnewsherald.com/child-with-special-needs-is-on-nutcracker-stage-p478-1.htm

http://southtownstar.suntimes.com/news/9188825-418/orland-girl-with-cp-gets-shot-at-joffreys-nutcracker.html
Girl who attends centre near Chicago performs in a ballet with another girl with cerebral palsy


http://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/local/star_opening_for_new_school_block_1_3280294
New block for Ingfield Manor opened by comedian, Richard Herring.


http://www.stepscentre.org.uk/events/children-in-need-2011.aspx
Video of piece re Steps Centre in Leicestershire shown on Children in Need programme


http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=150297
New Christmas song recorded and released to raise funds for child to go to Peto Institute


 http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/9422880.Cash_for_Wirral_charity_after_online_vote/
Stick 'n' Step centre gets money after online vote by local residents.


 http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/funding_setback_for_special_school_1_4064809
Paces High Green school in Sheffield faces funding set back.

Hong Kong hiccups cured

After posting  about the publication of Conductive Education Press' latest book , Last year in Hong Kong we discovered there were some  problems which meant copies could not be ordered.

This has now been rectified and you are now able to order copies from Blurb at http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2826466

Please do let us know what you think of it. All comments welcome!

New book On Conductive Education just published

Last Year in Hong Kong; four presentations made to the 7th World Congress for Conductive Education, Hong,Kong, December 2010.

Andrew Sutton

Conductive Education Press, December 2011
                          ISBN: 978-0-9569948-3-7


A brief introduction on the back cover reads:

In December 2010 the Seventh World Conductive Education Congress was organised by SAHK in Hong Kong. The theme of the Congress was ' East meets West: adaptation and development'.

Starting in Hong Kong but now across mainland China, 'Oriental Conductive Education' is making enormous, vigorous strides, not simply in terms of the numbers of children (and adults) and their families served, but also in research studies undertaken and apparent official and professional approval. Most significantly, this appears to be developing along a separate line from that of 'Western Conductive Education'.

This progress may have important lessons and implications not just for the future development of Conductive Education in the West but also for its further adaptation to the needs of the South

Andrew Sutton made four contributions to this conference, gathered together here in this single publication. In the Foreword, Ivan Su Yuen-Wang, Corporate Programme Coordinator, SAHK writes

'This Congress might have provoked controversy if those disposed to believe that there exists a new face of Conductive Education might have taken issue with others who think otherwise. We have to remember that change is not always easy. Time must elapse, to soften the animosities and deaden inertia. I recognise Andrew's creative intention to give balance to his views on Conductive Education in the 21st century by including the ‘China perspective’. Throughout, he has discussed what has been accomplished in the West, what has been done in the East, and what in his opinion should be done in the future. I cannot overemphasise the great importance of the forward-looking pragmatic aspect of his views, with its gems for bringing prosperity to the world of Conductive Education.'

This new book is now available  for £8.00 plus postage and packing from  Blurb at   http://www.blurb.com/books/2806207

Where does the time go?

A couple of weeks ago I said that I was working on the introduction to the virtual library catalogue. This is still not finished ( though I am still hoping for comments and suggestions to arrive) as I have been side-tracked by preparation for two books to be published by Conductive Education Press in the near future. One of these is a collection of papers presented by Andrew Sutton at the Hong Kong conference last December. The other ....you will have to wait and see!

This time last year I was in Hong Kong for the conference to receive my honorary conductor certificate, and this was an amazing, exciting time for me - doing the book has brought it all back. Then in the UK it was very cold  with lots of snow and my flight out of the country was not certain, but did take off, and on time!  Not like that this year, at least not yet. Hong Kong was warm, bright and a very exciting place to be. I met people who had just been names to me and made new contacts and, I hope, friends too.

Details of the new books will appear shortly with details for purchasing them. 

Watch this space.