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CREATIVE MOVEMENT FOR Learning Outcomes:
CONNECTION Participants will reaffirm the importance of
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2022 compassionate connections with our moving
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM bodies. They will learn why gross-motor
movement activities contribute to healthy child
Target audience: Educators and caregivers of youth development, with a focus on how they can
ages 3-8 years old. strengthen peer and student-educator
Strand(s): Transitional Kindergarten, ECE Education, relationships.
Afterschool Care, K-12 Education

Hosted by: Project Commotion

Presenter(s): Marion Reader/Culture and Curricula
Coordinator, Annie Aguilar/Community MOVE
Consultant
Coordinator: Marion Reader, Culture and Curricula
Coordinator
E-mail: marion@projectcommotion.org

Project Commotion's (PC) mission is to foster healthy
development in children of all abilities through
purposeful movement, play, and family and community
relationships! Through both active participation and
reflection, workshop attendees will learn how and why
gross-motor movement activities contribute to healthy
child development. Join us to explore connections
between intentional movement, social-emotional
development, and classroom relationships. PC’s
curriculum centers around the idea that helping young
people establish loving relationships with their moving
bodies requires that we, as caregivers and educators,

work towards the same goal. The workshop will begin
with a warm-up to breathe and cultivate
compassionate body awareness. Instructors will then
demonstrate developmental sequences that support
early communication skills and creative expression to
strengthen relational bonds. Participants will practice
and discuss the presented activities and create
achievable goals for incorporating relationship-based
movement into their classrooms. This workshop will be
experiential and accessible to participants of varied 14
movement abilities.