Learn what the body knows, the mind doesn’t.
WTM: Wellness Through Movement
GSA: Get Sensational Attention program
What is WTM about?
Children learn to discover an extraordinary sense labelled here as the “Sensory Body (SB).” By harmonizing the oppositions of body’s inclinations and thinking, the SB empowers how to navigate through life and be guided through the space of the heart.
What age is WTM geared?
Children ages 5 to 10 years old, however, the lessons are for all ages if young at heart
Finding the Sensory Body (SB) is like finding a best friend, and it’s easier during the ages of five to ten years old. The Sensory Body guides awareness when things get tough.
The SB is learned by feeling it. “We are feeling creatures that thinks. Not thinking creatures that feel.” Neurologist, Jill Bolte-Taylor explains. Why can’t we feel it? Learning the Sensory Body takes training.
How does WTM work?
The sensitive children are our gifts to the world. For them, they feel “movement” as not just an action, it is a call for support.
Once the senses, actions, and thoughts unite in awareness, children learn to utilize their unique sensitivities and gifts. Movement and sensory observation, together, become the teacher.
How does WTM help children?
Parents report the enhancement of their children’s overall well-being.
Principal Danny Garcia from our pilot school praises the improvement in social-emotional behavior and elimination of bullying.
Moreover, teachers affirm that it boost academic achievement.
However, WTM is not about getting good grades, stopping bullying, or improving health. WTM is about learning from a place in the heart.
Does it sound too good to be true?
Scientists globally report that qualities of motion are brain function (Harvard, the “Movement Is” conference, 2018). WTM closes this massive gap between scientists and community by giving tangible ways to experience these theories.
Humans are designed to find unity.
Were the WTM techniques tested?
Yes.
For thirteen years, Catherine Rosasco-Mitchell and a team of educators, administrators, and child development specialists collaborated to refine and test the techniques with children.
Four elementary schools participated. A special thanks to the Kohala Elementary School (our pilot school) and their team (2008 to 2016). And a special mahalo to the Hawaii Preparatory Academy’s lower school, Susie Jones, Parker Elementary School, Donna Rohr, and the Waldorf School of Hawaii.
Watch the video for an overview of WTM?
Chapters of Video (click chapter)
Introduction – Ages & Background
WTM Program – Main Idea, Results, Examples
Developing Intelligence– Foundation to Learning
Missing Key to Traditional Education– Adding the Other Half of Learning
Attention – Example of Internal and External Attention that Changed Learning
Internal & External– The Vessel that Learns
Home Breath– The Process and Science
Long Term Anecdotes– Sustainability
Conclusion– Helping Adults Too
Where do we begin?
Experience a Lesson Feel it! (Highly recommended before you begin)
Ages 11 years old & up: lesson
Ages 5-10 years old: lesson
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Find your Audience: Click on the picture below which best shows you.
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Go right to the Introductory Program for groups of children
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