The members of BRT, who are heirs of Rolando Toro, have in total 75.7% of all the rights over the Biodanza System, the copyrights, trademarks and all the intellectual and artistic property of Rolando Toro. We are currently in negotiations with the rest of the heirs to have an agreement that includes 100% of all hereditary rights.
2. What is BRT? How is it structured?
BRT is an international body that seeks to care for and to disseminate the Biodanza SRT (Rolando Toro System) in its original version both in its methodological aspects and in its deepest objectives. BRT was created at the end of 2018. It aims to look after the original Biodanza SRT approach. It currently works with two presidents, Claudete Sant’Anna and Rodrigo Toro, a Methodological Advisory Board that is made up of Claudete Sant’Anna, Eliane Matuk, Nadia Costa and Marcelo Mur, and finally with a Board of Directors that is made up of all School Directors who participate in coordination meetings online. Read more about BRT
3. How is it different from the recently created IBFed?
Mainly in its methodological aspects. BRT works with the "Methodological Advisory Board" appointed by Rolando Toro. This body is made up of Claudete Sant’Anna, Eliane Matuk, Nadia Costa and Marcelo Mur. They receive the proposals of the didactics and evaluate them according to the criteria proposed by Rolando Toro, which ensures that each change really is a contribution in strict accordance with the Theoretical Model. Another difference is that we work directly with the School Directors without the need for them to belong to Associations.
4. What is the plan for the relationship between BRT and the IBFed?
We seek a good relationship and a lot of coordination to avoid conflicts and to strengthen the Biodanza movement as a single global movement. We encourage didactic teachers, facilitators and participants to freely choose the vision of Biodanza with which they feel more affinity, but this does not mean being separated.
5. Where do the National and International Associations of Facilitators fit in?
BRT and IBFed were created mainly to coordinate and disseminate the Biodanza System through Training Schools that offer the Unique Training Program. Facilitators are free to associatiate to support each other in their local work and to strengthen their international ties. At BRT we hope to have a very good relationship with these associations so that the experience of the facilitators can be used to improve the training and the Biodanza methodology.
6. Should we be concerned about any legal issues of trademarks, copyrights, etc.?
Copyright and intellectual property rights are protected by international laws and these rights are currently in the heirs of Rolando Toro. The trademarks are managed in a particular way in each country and will be administered by a single body that will be made up of all the heirs of Rolando Toro. In most countries the trademarks are registered in the name of Rolando Toro, in others, as in the case of the United Kingdom, there are situations that need to be resolved in order to recover the legitimate ownership of the trademark for the heirs of Rolando Toro.
7. How should students in a school address concerns about their education?
All complaints regarding verbal, sexual or financial abuse must be reported according to their severity to the justice of each country and / or to the international organization to which that School belongs (BRT or IBFed). For BRT the Ethical aspect is fundamental and we cannot hide abusive and / or criminal situations.
8. How does BRT inform future Didactic teachers that the completion of the Didactic training does not guarantee that they will be invited to teach in schools?
The Didactic Training is a course to deepen the knowledge of Biodanza that enables Biodanza teachers to supervise classes and monographs and teach modules in Schools. The completion of the course does not constitute a guarantee of being invited by the Schools. During the Didactic Training participants are informed that to be invited and to be part of the teaching body of the Schools, it is essential to establish networks with a School, to collaborate with it, and progressively to take on more responsibilities in the delivery and coordination of the modules, and later, after complying with all the requirements, be a school director.
9. New Schools: What is the procedure for a didactic to open a School?
To open a School, two conditions must be met: that there is a need for a School and that there are people who can support it. A director must comply with both aspects of theoretical knowledge and integrated movement, as well as having a high level of human and ethical development. Finding all these aspects is a complex task. At BRT we primarily seek people of great humane and ethical qualities with the theoretical and movement aspects, which are also essential, and we seek to support and train the didactic teacher both before and also as a director. The more objective aspects are: being a didactic teacher, having experience in teaching, in coordinating a school, working regularly in the requested place for at least two years and having a group of people interested in training. Within the most subjective aspects, the movement and the humane and ethical qualities are evaluated in various individual and group encounters with the applicants.
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