Sensory Integration for Development & Wellbeing
Wellbeing is more than just being well!
Wider than commonly supposed, the range of the senses consists of twelve ways of perceiving, spanning the three layers : body, soul and spirit.
Wellbeing is more than being well. Nowadays we can speak of it as necessarily including a healthy body and a healthy soul-life.
Yet in everyone there is something still deeper, an eternal spirit, the individuality of the human being, who we are.
In this course, in addition to practical activities for body and soul, we’ll approach the question ‘How can I find this innermost part of myself ?’
In each session participants are invited to do step-by-step exercises that deepen and strengthen our senses, that can later be practised alone.
Equally important is to receive insight, to build an understanding toward a picture that makes a whole from the many parts, itself a kind of wellbeing.
From movement-coordination exercises that complete the pattern of laterality and help us master the world of space, through listening tasks that build-up the capacity to focus, in spite of distractions, also activities that meet and release stress, we’ll progress to cognitive aspects of wellbeing.
These include such things as a simple but effective way to deal with forgetfulness : ‘ Where did I put those keys ? ’.
In this way, from the inner pole of our consciousness, a human being weaves the fabric of their own subtle body of life-forces, making it strong.
We’ll experience techniques to deliberately carry the tasks of relaxation, of going into sleep and of managing the rhythms of the day.
Increasingly today, anxiety and fear rise up and come toward us and we find ourselves in need of a ground, and of inner strength and courage.
In wakeful techniques of observation, practising the act of attention, we work upon a hygiene of soul and spirit .. toward wellbeing.
Practical Information
Term 3, 6 sessions. Thursdays, 31 July – 4 September, 7 – 9 pm
An online short course. All sessions will be recorded and made available until the end of the term
Gordon Woolard
At intervals along the way, Gordon’s trainings include university Physics, the Foundation and Education years at Emerson College, the Wynstones Science Teachers’ course, the Michael Hall Kindergarten training, Joinery and Cabinet Making, a post gradraduate teaching diploma for SpLD (Dyslexia) and Audrey McAllen’s Extra Lesson training.
Applying the Extra Lesson methods to help children who struggle with
literacy, numeracy, the school environment and the spatial world – he seeks to throw light on this work out of Rudolf Steiner’s insights on the senses.
On a quest for the roots of arithmetic, he tries to unravel the lower
senses’ developments of early childhood – as Rudolf Steiner indicated – and his experience as teacher and educator spans from kindergarten to class 12.
For the past twenty years in Europe and Asia Gordon has given training
to teachers working in Waldorf and in mainstream education – inspired by
anthroposophy – and brings workshops that link the kindred themes of projective geometry, the Philosophy of Freedom and the observation of plants.
Fees: $465 for the term.
Withdrawing and refunds
· If you withdraw prior to course beginning we will refund any fees paid less a $100 enrolment processing fee.
· If you withdraw after the first session of the course, we will refund any fees paid, less $155 administration fee.
· If you withdraw after the second week, no refunds can be given.
Each session is live streamed and recorded. Participants will receive a Certificate of Professional Development upon completion, subject to 100% attendance (live participation or catching up on recordings).
This course does not lead to a qualification.
