In this workshop, through direct experience, you will discover how important awareness, movement, experimentation, challenge, and pleasure are to cognition, pride in learning, and classroom management.
Somatic Education is a means for tapping into the organizing power of the sensory motor system. Through curiosity, felt sense, awareness, and action the brain can, and often does, reorganize to a higher level of function in both the physical and emotional domains.
Drawing on movement lessons, lectures on sensory motor theory and somatic education principles, discussion and teamwork, you will expand awareness of your own unique learning process and use that knowledge to work effectively with a range of children’s needs in the classroom. Movements will be done on mats and chairs and in standing. We will create a safe, enjoyable environment in which you can explore this exciting subject.
This workshop will be co-taught by a multidisciplinary team under the direction of Integrative Learning Center of Mid America
Cynthia M. Allen is a leading somatic educator in Cincinnati. In her private practice she enjoys working with people who just want to move with ease throughout their daily life. Allen is a certified Feldenkrais Method® practitioner and Bones for Life® trainer. She travels throughout the United States to train others in somatics. She has over 25 years of experience in wellness and medical programming, organizational consulting, and training. Over the past few years she has had a number of teachers or professionals who work with special needs children share how the work they had done with her for personal health has increased their outcomes with students. This feedback has been key in her desire to assemble a team and create programming for Xavier University.
Eileen Frechette has been an educator of children, parents, and teachers for over 40 years. She has worked with pre school through adult education in classrooms, workshop settings and as a mentor. Her 20-year involvement with Waldorf education and her certificate in Therapeutic Remedial Education has further broadened her approach to working with developmental needs in education. She works with parents to support their children’s healthy learning and development.
Kathy Krebs has worked as an Occupational Therapist for 13 years, specializing in Autism Spectrum Disorders for the past seven years. Working as a part of a multidisciplinary team at The Kelly O’Leary Center of Children’s Hospital, her primary role has been to educate families and therapists through direct training, consultation and lectures in the Cincinnati area. Her personal experience with Bones for Life® and the Feldenkrais Method® has influenced and benefitted her professional work so much that she is working to make this information accessible to other professionals and to the families she serves.
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