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FICHO Institute/Extensive Online Course / Dance Alchemy Teacher Training
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  • €750 or 3 monthly payments of €266

Extensive Online Course / Dance Alchemy Teacher Training

  • 70+ set of easy-to-apply tools, games, and exercises from Dance and Contact improvisation, Dance therapy, Body-mind-spirit practice for Teaching, Coaching, and Working with the groups / lifetime access
  • Creative freedom – Dance Alchemy tools work so well, it makes it easy for anyone to implement, replicate or upgrade for their own needs or the needs of their students or clients
  • Tools that work across different cultures and bodies and be used for creation, classes, workshops, sessions, retreats, therapy, coaching, leadership, personal growth, and more
  • Solid ground and teaching framework with a simple 8 step structure that supports your unique skills and competencies, while at the same time enhancing your existing work or moving in a new direction
  • Reverse-Engineering approach to lesson planning
  • Holistic approach, playful process, and an inclusive environment. Any-body can do it!
  • BONUS: Economic Sustainability – Basic Kit
  • 14 days Money Back Guarantee
  • Ficho institute Certificate of completion of the course

For the personalised support and 1-1 mentorship with Goran Bogdanovski
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Discover our proprietary Dance Alchemy Tools to Inspire, Structure, Shape and Lead your Facilitations with Confidence to Create more Powerful Embodied and Transformational Results

DANCE ACHEMY EMBODIMENT

  • 70+ set of easy-to-apply tools, games, and exercises from Dance improvisation, Contact improvisation, Dance therapy, and Body-mind-spirit practice for facilitating, teaching, coaching, and working with groups
  • Tools that support your unique skills and competencies, while at the same time enhancing your existing work or moving in a new direction
  • Grow your ability to work in different settings, including mainstream ones. Tools that work across different cultures and bodies and can be used for creation, classes, workshops, sessions, retreats, team building, therapy, coaching, leadership, personal growth, and more
  • ​Creative freedom – Dance Alchemy facilitation tools (16 years tested) work so well, it makes it easy for anyone to implement, replicate or upgrade for their own needs or the needs of their students or clients

GAIN CONFIDENCE TO FACILITATE IN A HOLISTIC, PLAYFUL AND INCLUSIVE WAY

  • Reverse-engineering approach to lesson planning and proven 8 step structure to shape and lead your facilitations with confidence to create more powerful embodied and transformational results
  • Gain a new embodied teaching & leadership skill set with higher emotional intelligence and grow your confidence to effortlessly lead, teach and facilitate
  • Gain new holistic knowledge and ingenious ways to inspire and sustain a tribe

We believe in supporting individuals who are committed to using their unique gifts to make a positive impact on the world. Our program is designed for a diverse range of individuals, including:

  • Dance artists and teachers who are passionate about sharing the joy and transformative power of movement with others

  • Yoga and meditation teachers who wish to expand their offerings and integrate movement into their practice

  • Healers, therapy practitioners, and psychologists who recognize the importance of the mind-body connection in achieving holistic wellness

  • Practitioners of yoga, martial arts, and dance therapy who want to deepen their knowledge and skills in these areas

  • Change leaders and heart-centered individuals who want to use movement as a tool for personal and societal transformation

  • Team leaders with some sense of body awareness who want to improve their leadership skills through movement-based practices

  • Practitioners who already teach, facilitate, or heal and wish to enhance their practice with the addition of movement and dance

  • Individuals who love dance and movement and want to turn their passion into a meaningful career.

FAQs

When does the course start and finish?

Online teachers course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course. You decide when you start and when you finish.

How long do I have access to online course?

How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course far as long as you like.

I’m so busy already. How much time will I need to commit to this program? What if I fall behind?

I believe that person being “too busy” is just a myth and it’s just an excuse. People make time for the things that are really important to them. And the truth about time is you can’t have time, you can’t own time, time is, it always is:)

Online course is deep, intense, and a lot of fun, and it's completely self-paced.

But it requires a serious commitment to get through, like everything in life, the more you put in, the more you’ll get out. 

If you put a regular work, you can go through the program in 12 weeks.

With that said ... Work at your own pace you can manage and apply knowledge into your own practice and daily life.

Is there a 100% money back guarantee?

Absolutely! And it's 14 days. Go through the course, use everything and if for some reason you don't like the program just send an email to goran@fichoinstitute.com with a reason and you'll get a refund.

Are there any payment plans?

Yes, there is a payment plan available.
  • 750 eur one-time payment
  • or 3 monthly payments of 266 eur

Can I stop my payment plan?

No. This is not a membership. 

What about refunds?

Due to the nature of the content (digital sessions) and the large amount of material that is accessible to you upon enrolment, we do NOT offer refunds. Zero exceptions. But there is a 14 days Money back guarantee policy, so you have plenty of time to see if this program fits your needs.

Still have questions?

Email me at goran@fichoinstitute.com and I'll get back to you as soon as possible!

Contents

Welcome

  • A Letter from Goran
  • How to use this online course? 
A Letter from Goran
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How to use this online course?
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Program Overview



Program Overview
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STEP #0: Preparation for leading a session, class, workshop...

Define the goal of the teaching
Set up an 8-step structure
Set up your musical playlist
Preparation ritual

STEP #1: Begin the Session

Create a safe space, Open the session & Set your rules

STEP #2: Ways of Establishing Trust, Quick Connection, Playfulness and Flow in the Group

Here are few modalities that could help you at the beginning to create trust, connection, playfulness and flow in the group. You can also use some of these modalities for the end of the session.
Calling the Tribe
How Do I Feel?
Three Funny Icebreakers / 1. Meeting the white bear, Breath of the lamb, Duck walking up the spine and Revenge of the pig
2. Passing the clap
3. Celebrating with QUEEN (songs by the rock group QUEEN)
Can we all sit on each other’s lap at the same time?

STEP #3: Energizers – Warming Up the Body and Lifting up the Energy and Spirit

We have to become physically fast to calm down the mind!
What to do if somebody in the group doesn’t want to cooperate or is like a “trouble child”?
Clear information, Emptying the body (of fear) & Absorbing the impact
Playful Catching/Tagging Game
Floor Football
Alignment
Happy Feet Folk Dance
Over-Under-Around
Pressing Down / Lifting Up

STEP #4: Breathing as carrier of the awareness

How to use the breath?
Core Energy activation and working within flow of the energy
Exercise: Core Energy activation and working within flow of the energy
Another video: Core Energy activation and working within flow of the energy
*** What to do if some participants get afraid, dizzy … and want to quit the exercise?

STEP #5: Dynamic muscles warm up & Dynamic stretch meditation

“Guide your attention from inside of your breath, through muscles, mind and emotion to balance your body, mind and spirit and to find piece and harmony inside of yourself. See your soul. Hear your silence.”

Prepare yourself and participants for dance! :)

It’s very important to be totally present and to really consciously engage ourselves through breathing into our muscles,while warming up or stretching. With conscious work you can progress and see results much faster, not to mention that in being present you can move from point A to point B with acceptance, understanding, and sincerity … preparing your body, mind and emotions for the dance that could happen through you. 
Guide your attention from inside of your breath, through muscles, mind, and emotion to balance your body, mind, and spirit
Dynamic muscles warm up
Dynamic stretch & yoga meditation
Dynamic muscles warm up & Dynamic yoga meditation

STEP #6: SOLO dance improvisation tools

Three Universal Movement Qualities (3Q)
Understanding Circular–Rounded–Spiral (3Q)
Circular movement quality / awareness inside of movements (3Q)
Circular movement quality / awareness inside of movements and outside in actions (3Q)
Understanding Architectural... (3Q)
Architectural movement quality / awareness inside of movements & connecting mind with movement (3Q)
Architectural movement quality / awareness inside of movements & relation with the architecture and objects outside of you (3Q)
One example of what you can do by using Architectural quality (3Q)
Understanding Traveling through Space vs. Being on the Spot (3Q)
Understanding Stable (3Q)
Understanding Unstable-Off balance (3Q)
3Q Improvisation
TRACE - Training of Movement Perception
Trace for creating a choreography
Opposites as specific movement qualities
Impulse / impact
Fast / slow
Isolation / whole body
Finished / unfinished
Diagonal / same side
Opposite qualities in DUETS
Iintuitive opposites in DUETS
“Steal and integrate” to upgrade the quality of one's own movement capabilities and personal expression
The use of physical, emotional or thought dynamics as an experiencing or performing
Using one’s own habits for creation
Using one’s own habits for creation - Round #1
Using one’s own habits for creation - Collecting your own habits
Using one’s own habits for creation - Making a list of 3 habits that are repeating
Using one’s own habits for creation - Round #2 - Creating the opposite habits
Using one’s own habits for creation - Dancing the opposite habits
Using one’s own habits for creation - Conclusion
Surprise Breath, the connection of breath with movement and action
Surprise Breath - example improvisation performance

DUET dance improvisation tools

Decide – Respond
Leading & Following
Mirror / Leading–Following
Time, the expectations of the mind and the reaction time

CONTACT dance improvisation tools

About Contact Improvisation
Trust
Trust - example
Into My Water (elemental water)
Sensitive hands / The Samurai Way
Brush & Sculpture (elemental wind)
Dissolve & Build up
Shared Balance Dancing / 3 Centers + Switching between centers and using arms for transitions
Shared Balance Dancing / Rolling
Shared Balance Dancing / Tree & Leaf (Push and Pull)
Shared Balance Dancing / Going Down & Up / Using animal power and power of the floor
Shared Balance Dancing / Sliding & Resist the impulse in the slide
Shared Balance Dancing / Slide & Notice the opportunity when the lift can happen – The AHA! Moment
Shared Balance Dancing / Slide & Pendulum Weight
Give & Take the Weight in a Safe Way
Invite and Accept / Dance is in a Space Between
How much weight can you take?
“Dead” Weight and Protecting Your Lower Back
Climb on the Body & Support the Actions
Weight...for fun:)
“I want you here because of this.”
“I want you here because of that.” / example
Reading – Following – Adjusting
Loosening your head
“Dead Body” Playground
Flying the Angel
Q&A / Keeping your own dance in the contact dance
Q&A / I feel awkward in this exercise. What to do?
Q&A / While rolling, my breasts are touching my partner’s body. I feel uncomfortable. What can I do?
Q&A / The 8 Tool - My Space – Your Space
Q&A / Sometimes sexuality arises during contact improvisation, and people get confused and afraid. How to deal with that? What can you do?

some GROUP Improvisation Dance Tools

NetWork – Can a Network Operate without a Leader?
Three Events
Using Solo, Duet & Contact improvisation tools for a Group improvisation

STEP #7: Cooling Down

Short stretch, massage or meditation

STEP #8: Sharing & Closing the Session

Holding Space- The Art of Being Present with Others .pdf
Sharing
Sharing example 1
Sharing example 2
Sahring example 3
Closing the Session

Reverse-Engineering approach to lesson planning

Reverse-Engineering approach to lesson planning

BONUS: Economic Sustainability – Basic Kit



Treat your practice as a business
Mapping your "Business" DNA
Define your audience
Mission statement & Proprietary approach
Design your photos for Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, posters, flyers …
Where to get great royalty-free photos
E-mail automation
Design & Build an easy and free website, landing pages...
You need portal for your Online courses?
You need a funnel to create leads?
Zoom, Webinar...
Appointment scheduler
You want to turn your Gifts and Experience into a Thriving Transformational Online Business?

Congratulation you've reached the end of the course!

Ficho institute Certificate of completion of the course

Whats next?

12 days in-person Retreats & Teacher Training
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Dance Alchemy retreat -VIDEO trailer from previous years
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1 0N 1 PERSONALISED SUPPORT & COACHING with Goran
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