The Story of ECA
The ECA was founded in 2004 in Budapest by the countries Austria, UK, Germany, Hungary and Sweden. The driving person and founder of ECA was Helga Keil who was also the first president of ECA.
Today the ECA is represented in more than ten countries spread over Europe and the world.
Through close collaboration and monitoring by the András Petö faculty in Hungary, the ECA is linked to the pulse of Conductive Education.
The ECA has made it their business to establish Conductive Education as an inherent part of the professional world serving children and adults with neurological movement disorders.
It is the ECAs strongest belief that Conductive Education must run under ONE unmistakable term to define its identity.
In a modern and tolerant world, it is time for the recognition of Conductive Education as a complex holistic system for neurologically impaired people that can improve life. Bureaucratic curtains and old patterns must give way! At the same time, it must also become common knowledge that Conductive Education can serve as a pedagogical concept with focus on movement, sports and music for the education of any child, disabled or not, from toddlers age onwards to adolescence.
Development of Conductive Education and Story of ECA – Timeline 1945 till today
1945
Hungary
Origin of CE by
Andras Petö
1963
Hungary
First Conductor
Training
1968
Austria
Foundation
Keil Institute
1985
UK
BBC Programme
CE Breakthrough
1987
UK
Foundation NICE
1990
Hungary
1st CE World
Congress
1992
Belgium
Conductive
Association
ABPC – BVCP
1995
Germany
Foundation
Phoenix School
CE Centre
1997
Sweden
Foundation
Move & Walk
2004
Hungary
Foundation of ECA
ECA Vision
Worldwide
Acceptance & Training possi-bilities of CE