The Instructor's workshop are a regular feature of the Academy training.

They are not so much didactic set pieces as much as peer review and mutual support groups. Instructors and would be instructors come together with Don Spargo acting as the facilitator to discuss the teaching particularly of the forms and The Form. 

This particular workshop focussed on teaching the eight week beginner course, what it entailed, how to approach it, what and how to teach for the course.

The deeper purpose of the workshop is to ensure instructors are all teaching the same thing and that the teaching is uniform, but not a robotic repetition of a script. This way we endeavour to keep up the standard of the teaching and at the same time share our problems and concerns in an open forum that is free of ego, argument or rancour.

Assistant Instructor Neville taking Steve and John through the form "Grasp Bird's Tail", viewed from both sides. On one side Mal and Roy are observing,on the other side Richard and Sangeeta observing. Feedback and criticism is given afterwards by the observers and people receiving the tuition. We can use the video projection facilities to consult the 108 Form DVD of Master Wu playing the form to see if our teaching method and style measures up to his rendition of the form and the way he teaches.