
Explore how body and movement based learning fosters creativity, confidence, and entrepreneurial mindset through insights from Latvian instructors in embodied education, artivism, and non-formal youth work.
Explore embodied learning, its benefits and risks, and learn to create a safe space for participants to learn and enjoy the process. Apply embodied learning more in your work.
Define embodied learning by placing the body at the center of learning, engaging multiple senses, and connecting body experiences to real life to practice change now.
Explore three principles of embodied learning: body as means of awareness, change, and connection. Learn to observe sensations and emotions to inform behavior and create meaningful change.
Experience the benefits of embodied learning: it feels pleasurable, sticks with you, and aligns you with your true self by listening to body signals and senses.
Establish the voluntary principle and consent to create a safe container for embodied learning, enabling participants to choose their engagement level and participate inclusively with awareness of touch and safety.
Explore embodied learning as a tool to develop youth initiative, entrepreneurship, creativity, and social-emotional skills through movement-based practices like acroyoga, improvisation, and circus.
Create a safe, inclusive embodied learning environment by ensuring a comfortable physical space, voluntary participation, consent, and respectful language to balance body and mind and support mutual trust.
Engage in multi-sensory learning and two creative writing exercises exploring bodily sensations and external senses to support diverse learning styles.
Design embodied learning programs by structuring experiences around senses, starting with sight and touch, while introducing embodied learning, ensuring safety, and reflecting to raise awareness and comfort.
Apply the three bodies framework (physical, social, and political) to use the body as a learning resource, shaping healthy environments, culture, and education through embodied practices.
Explore the benefits of embodied learning and how to apply its concepts in your practice. Design safe spaces that encourage open sharing and awareness of risks in the learning process.
Apply embodiment methods to develop initiative, entrepreneurship, and social and civic competencies. Use embodiment to know ourselves and others, and address creativity, fear, mistakes, team dynamics, and leadership.
Daring to fail helps release fear of mistakes by awakening the body and letting go of self-imposed expectations. By embracing play and free expression, we reveal our best possible self.
Explore ambiguity and change through contact improvisation, free improvisation, and a one-word-at-a-time story, tuning the body to shared gravity via touch and weight.
Foster belonging through embodied learning by aligning with our physical presence, connecting with others through our bodies, and embracing diverse communities as a unified whole.
Explore how embodied practices connect how we feel to how we move, revealing team dynamics and leadership shifts through body responses and impulses to be seen or unseen.
Reconnect with your body through embodied learning to observe signals, build self-confidence, and trust your body to guide action.
Embrace constraint to spark creativity by narrowing tools, space, and options, awakening inner resources and revealing new movement patterns when following defined rules.
Prepare participants for body and movement based learning by guiding dress, footwear, and health considerations, and sharing activity structure and safety to foster a safe, welcoming space.
Apply embodied learning by using the body as a learning tool to reflect and evaluate experiences through space, movement, and interpersonally expressed feedback.
Close embodied activities with nurturing touch and consent, celebrating participants' experiences and feelings. Pack up the body to provide closure, emotional grounding, and a safe, present transition.
Embodied change teaches using the body to access inner resources for creativity, fear, and emotions, enhancing how we work with others, and transforming learning with deeper knowledge and playful growth.
Embodied learning provides methods and tools to become a skillful facilitator, develop competencies for embodied activities, and tune in, observe, and listen while handling triggers and self-care at work.
Tune in with a body-based approach to awaken presence, sense body signals, and observe the room and others, guiding next steps toward calmness, commitment, or excitement.
Develop embodied listening by engaging the whole body, observing speaker and self through body cues and emotions, and listening to both sides without interruptions, unsolicited advice, or comparisons.
Focus on bodily signals to understand what you feel, need, want, and who you are. Grow self-awareness and empathy through embodied learning by noticing others and environments.
Prioritize supervision, boundaries, and daily embodied practice to sustain your well-being as a facilitator. Move daily, honor sleep and nourishment, and model energy balance to hold space for participants.
Explore embodied learning to name emotions, sense bodily sensations, and observe how posture, breathing, and eye relaxation influence how we feel and respond to triggers.
Warm up your voice before sessions with belly breathing, jaw relaxation, and simple sounds like sss, shh, and mmm to project clearly and avoid neck tension.
Engage with embodied learning to boost body acceptance by creating inclusive, diverse movement spaces where simple activities reveal body capabilities and foster compassion, authenticity, and nonjudgmental support.
Explore how embodied learning uses movement and body-based activities to influence educational practice. Start by building connection with your own body to guide learners through their body journeys.
Explore how new technologies reshape our relationship to our bodies and how we learn with apps and augmented and virtual reality, using digital tools to foster sustainability and social change.
Discover how digital tools reshape our bodies, from wearables and health data to surgical advances and virtual reality, and explore how embodied learning evolves in a connected digital era.
Explore embodied learning in the digital age through VR and AR, avatars, and motion-tracking tools that blend body and tech to enhance pedagogy and engage multisensory learning.
Discover apps you can use today to connect with your body and health, from mindfulness and anatomy tools to habit trackers and fitness watches for learning.
Explore how embodied learning reveals the interdependence between our physicality, others, and the world, guiding us to act for sustainable living and to care for people and the environment.
Explore how embodied learning connects personal sensations and emotions to social change, guiding reflective activities, mindful eating, and metta practices that nourish communities and compassion.
Explore how the digital era reshapes learning through our bodies with apps, augmented and virtual reality, unlocking new potential for sustainable, socially transformative learning.
Explore movement and body practices you can apply in your job, and learn about Youthpass, the Erasmus Plus certificate for work with youth and non-profits; email info@piepildi.org to receive yours.
Are you working with young people or in the field of education? Looking for ideas and inspiration on how to bring in more movement, playfulness and impact into your educational work? This online course is for you!
We will introduce you to the main elements and principles of embodied learning – a contemporary pedagogical theory of learning, which emphasizes the use of the body in educational practice. In the embodied learning process, one's body becomes a laboratory through which one learns – through movement, touch, drawing, journal writing, reflection and other activities.
Embodied learning is a powerful tool to develop young people's social and emotional skills, sense of initiative and entrepreneurial mindsets and also to build more peaceful, connected and responsible communities. Moreover, the education that connects us with our bodies, gives us power – the ability to trust ourselves, navigate through difficult situations and changes, to know how to learn and bring to life our learning.
The course has been prepared by an international team of trainers, who will share their experiences and the best practices of delivering body awareness, learning and movement based on non-formal learning programs, for both young people and adults.
The learning content is structured in four modules:
Introduction to the concepts and principles of embodied learning.
Embodied learning methods that help to develop social and civic skills, entrepreneurship and initiative.
Tools and tips to improve facilitation skills and boost professional achievements.
Insight into the future, where instructors will explore the newest developments that combine embodied learning and technologies, for the sake of learning.
The course includes brief inputs from instructors, links to useful resources and methods that can be adapted for your work, and practical assignments. As you will discover, there are no right or wrong answers to the assignments - their purpose is to deepen an understanding of the topic, to encourage reflection and to develop and share ideas with other learners that will prove useful in your work.
Upon successful completion of the course, you can receive a Youthpass certificate, which is a recognition instrument for projects supported by Erasmus+ program. The Youthpass Certificate is recognized and respected internationally and can be helpful when looking for job opportunities, especially in youth, non-formal education and the non-governmental sector. Please, note that in order to request Youthpass, all the assignments must be completed.
The project Embodied Change is financed with the support of European Commission's Erasmus+: Youth in Action, administered in Latvia by the Agency for International Programs for Youth. The European Commission's support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents, which reflect the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.