Embodied Practice for Educators

recharge your teacher’s tool-kit for Personal & Student Wellbeing & Mental Health

Educators have always been innovative and adaptive, never more so than during this ongoing pandemic. The extraordinary speed at which educators activated online learning is unprecedented. On the one hand, homeschooling has shown people how skilled and challenging the act of teaching is and has garnered new found respect for educators from the community at large. On the other hand, this speedy pivot has taken its toll on educators and has put great strain on their capacity to continually find new ways of engaging learners. The demand for new and innovative teaching materials is never-ending. So, whether you are an early years, primary, secondary or tertiary educator we can recharge your teacher’s tool-kit with embodied techniques for classroom management, supporting the well-being of your students, initiating creativity in your curriculum while supporting your own mental health. Gathering these techniques for your teaching practice has the added benefit of growing a personalised embodied practice for your own self-care.

We draw on a range of body-oriented practices that are playful and transformative. These practices can support you and your students to:

• listen to embodied intelligence

• cultivate readiness for learning/teaching

• modulate sensory responses

• manage stress & anxiety

• rejuvenate creativity

• reduce anti-social behaviour

• foster intellectual engagement & self-awareness

Taking an embodied approach to consciously noticing sensations and regulating related emotions is a highly effective form of learning, living with others and thriving on this planet. It grows emotional intelligence, resilience, wellbeing and care.

OUR AIM

Our aim is to galvanise conscious embodied living in mainstream education and embed it in the connective tissue of our communities. Human intelligence exceeds what is used and valued in our culture & education systems. We want to change this.

Credentials

Our experiential work draws on the proven benefits of arts and movement-based learning, somatic experiencing, mindfulness, play-based inquiry, improvisation, Qigong and physical learning tools. It is underpinned by a range of fields including body-mind philosophy and psychotherapy, neurophysiology, experiential anatomy and neurodevelopment therapy (Body-Mind Centering, Alexander Technique), movement ecology, somatics, multi-sensory learning, multiple intelligence theory and art therapy.

Interested?

We run virtual and in-person professional development sessions for educators and health professionals. We provide a supportive environment for you to explore learning and experiencing that is initiated from your cells and how this process increases clarity, self-determination, creativity, health and wellbeing. We explore how these techniques can translate effectively into your teaching practice.

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