Zoltán Grecsó
Blum teacher
Dancer, dance educator, and choreographer. In the Blum program, he teaches the Movement Competence and Artistic Play Space module.
For more than fifteen years, he has been teaching contemporary dance and improvisation. In his experience, when a person moves freely and improvises, their movements begin to reveal the underlying patterns of how they function and the range of solutions they tend to choose.
In the Blum Movement Competence module, educators experience how they can confidently use their own bodies as part of their pedagogical practice. The emphasis is on the fundamentals: the relationship between breathing and movement, coordination, functional movement, and integrated body awareness.
Participants observe how attention travels through the body and how physical presence, attention, and connection become linked.
This is not sport, not dance technique, and not a skills-based training. Rather, it is the development of authentic presence.
Melinda Gonda-Bőke
Blum teacher
Conductor (conductive education specialist). In the Blum program, she leads the Movement Competence and Musical Play Space module.
Building on her experience as a conductor trained at the Pető Institute, she combines movement, music, and the tools of creative drama in her work. In the Blum trainings, she demonstrates how movement and music can become a natural part of the artistic play space. She believes that the arts are accessible to every child and can reach children who follow diverse developmental paths.
Anna Arendt
Blum teacher
Kindergarten and school psychologist, and trainee integrative child therapist. In the Blum program, she teaches the Reflective Practice and Professional Wellbeing module.
In the Blum trainings, she represents a supervision approach grounded in collaboration and mutual respect. Within this process, educators’ experiences and perspectives are given particular value. Shared reflection supports the understanding of professional situations, encourages new perspectives on challenges, and helps develop solutions together.
Dr. Erzsébet Bácskai
Blum teacher
Educator, creative drama facilitator, and communication and mental health professional. In the Blum program, she leads the Reflective Practice and Professional Wellbeing module.
In her work, she brings together pedagogical experience, the tools of creative drama, and the power of community-based learning. In the Blum trainings, she applies the perspective of Reflexive Supervision/Consultation (RS/C). Reflection is the practice of consciously attending to one’s feelings—recognizing that emotions and beliefs related to professional work influence the ways we connect with others.
Dr. Anita Patonay
Blum teacher
Actor, drama educator, and teacher. In the Blum program, she teaches the Creative Drama and Artistic Play Space module.
In the Blum trainings, she teaches the pedagogical application of narrative thinking, taking into account group dynamics and the process of collaborative story creation. Together with educators, she examines the steps involved in planning, implementing, and reflecting on play-based projects.
During the training, she introduces the tools of creative drama and demonstrates how adult instructions shape the artistic play space. A central element of her approach is the belief that playfulness is a developable competence and can become a defining part of an educator’s professional toolkit.
Mónika Gruber
Blum teacher
Conductor (conductive education specialist), special education teacher, neuropsychologist, counselling psychologist, and master teacher. In the Blum program, she leads the Neurodiversity and Child Development module.
For more than four decades, she has worked with children with special educational needs at the Pető Institute. Her work focuses on understanding children’s neurological development and supporting families. As a neuropsychologist, she emphasizes the importance of neuroplasticity, as well as sensitive observation in early childhood and the interpretation of developmental signals. In the Blum trainings, she approaches child development from a family systems perspective.
Réka Kassai
Blum teacher
Music teacher, mental health professional, and chamber musician. In the Blum program, she teaches the Musical Play Space and Narrative Story Module.
Her work focuses on the narrative worlds of music and storytelling. In the Blum trainings, she demonstrates how music supports the recognition and expression of emotions, and how it connects to narrative thinking within shared play situations.
Story narrative and the story-state create an artistic play space where stories, sounds, and movements shape understanding and the experience of connection through bodily perception.
