C.E. Jottings

We do things differently in conductive education, it seems

West Ham beat Newcastle Untied 2-0 at the weekend. I watched the first half on TV. To be honest, I wasn’t terribly interested in either side and it wasn’t a top game. When West Ham went 2-0 up just before half-time, I switched the TV off. Nothing much happened in the second half, it seems. No goals anyway. Actually, I was only filling time, waiting for my grandson to contact me on FaceTime. He’d just got the results of an... Read more →

Proud to be an Honorary Conductor - but of what?

In the great scheme of things, it matters not a lot. But it matters to me. In 2013, at the 8th World Congress of Conductive Education in Munich, I was immensely proud (and not a little humbled) to be made an Honorary Conductor. Ever since, I have described myself (in my standard email signature, for instance) as an "Honorary Conductor of the Petö Andras College of Conductive Education". In a few days time, on the 1st August, the Petö Andras... Read more →

Honours and CE?

A friend of CE asked me today whether anyone else in the world of CE, other than Helen Somerset How, had ever received an Honour of any sort. The award to Helen was perhaps the first to include conductive education in the citation. My colleague, Karen Hague, the co-founder of Paces, and a parent, like myself and Helen, whose daughter is now 27, received an MBE in 2004, I think, but the citation did not specifically mention CE. The question... Read more →