Health is understood as a dynamic balance between body, mind, and emotions, but maintaining it during the healing process is complex. Approaches from integrative medicine, body awareness practices like Feldenkrais, and art therapy contribute to this goal, especially when integrated with traditional healthcare interventions in a multidisciplinary perspective. The professional world has been enriched by many specialized figures, but are they ready to collaborate efficiently and productively?
The Feldenkrais4Life project survey shows that more than half of Feldenkrais practitioners (56.4%) are not accustomed to collaborating with other professionals; only a minority (2–4%) work regularly in multidisciplinary teams. The most frequent interactions occur with physiotherapists (27.6%), psychologists (21.3%), osteopaths (20.1%), psychotherapists (18.7%), and, in the educational sector, teachers and coaches (20.7%).
On the entrepreneurial level, Feldenkrais practitioners demonstrate openness and the ability to seize opportunities, but finding resources and turning ideas into concrete actions is another matter. Only half feel sufficiently confident in financial management (55%) and in engaging others (57%). Although open to collaborations and learning from others, insecurity remains in managing interdisciplinary collaborations (46.5%) and in dialogue with a specialized healthcare audience, as also emerged in the joint training pilot that Feldenkrais4Life proposed to a group of physicians and Feldenkrais teachers.
It is worth exploring how the synergies already initiated have developed and function concretely. The ability to network and work in multidisciplinary teams emerges, in fact, as an essential skill for the Feldenkrais practitioner to integrate into a sustainable health model, truly attentive to the needs of the individual.
📊 A total of 776 questionnaires were collected from Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands, and other countries. To outline the qualitative profile of the Feldenkrais professional in terms of entrepreneurial, personal, social, and lifelong learning skills, the survey used questions designed based on the European frameworks EntreComp and LifeComp.👉 Report available on the website: https://feldenkrais4life.eu/international-survey/
