Learn what the body knows, the mind doesn’t.
What is Wellness Through Movement?
Learning the physical dimension that fuels vibrant qualities of all development.
regardless of the child’s condition.
WTM > Wellness Through Movement
GSA > Get Sensational Attention program
SB > Sensory Body
What is WTM about?
When the body and mind are harmoniously aware and working together, both function at their best. Children naturally discover an extraordinary sense, referred to here as the “Sensory Body” (SB), which transcends the traditional five senses. By integrating subtle physical inclinations with conscious thought, the SB enables individuals to navigate life through an enhanced interplay of internal and external awareness. This refined faculty of perception is attuned to the inner dimensions of physical experience. By blending insights from physics, neuroscience, psychology, and the innate joy children experience, WTM invites you to understand and embrace this unique perspective.
What age is WTM geared?
How does WTM work?
The sensitivity of children are their greatest gifts, if you show them a new operating system. For them, they feel “movement” as not just an action, it is a call of guidance and insight.
Once the senses, actions, and thoughts unite in sensory perception, children learn to utilize their uniqueness. Motion of sensory impulses, together with attention, become their teacher.
How has WTM helped children?
After twenty years of research and testing in elementary schools…
Parents report an enhancement of their children’s overall well-being.
Principal Danny Garcia, from our pilot school, praises about the improvement in social-emotional behavior and the elimination of bullying school wide.
Moreover, teachers academic performance boosted.
However, WTM is not about getting good grades, stopping bullying, or improving health. WTM is about learning from a place of the heart.
Does it sound too good to be true? Scientists globally shared reports (at the Harvard, Movement Is conference, 2018) that qualities of motion are brain functions. There is a massive gap between research and what we do in education and child rearing. WTM is one way to build a bridge between science and community, giving tangible ways to experience these theories and support children’s future.
Were the WTM techniques tested?
Yes. There was twenty years of research and testing of the WTM program.
For forty years studying mind-body connections and thirteen years in and out of schools, Catherine Mitchell and a team of educators, administrators, and child development specialists collaborated, refined, and tested the techniques with children.
Four elementary schools participated. Specifically, Kohala Elementary School (our pilot school) (2008 to 2016) and Hawaii Preparatory Academy’s (HPA) lower school were foundational in helping test the program.
Listen to Principal Garcia’s Testimonial
Watch the video for an overview of WTM
Joe Webster interviews Catherine Mitchell on WTM
Chapters to the video above (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?
Feel it!
How do you engage an adult brain to recognize the differences in your children’s brains or ways of perceiving? Before you begin, experience the feeling of a lesson. Your body will show so much more than words can explain. Keep in mind this lesson is just a small introductory slice to the program.
Experience a Lesson Lessons for adults and children
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