Creating to Learn, Learning to Create
Drawing from her many years of experience in Feldenkrais, Formative Psychology™, Aikido and Dance, Sonja developed Creative Learning through Movement (CLTM) — a somatic approach to working with elementary school children. Classes include group movement explorations and dynamic games which integrate motor, cognitive, and social emotional learning. By grounding problem solving, emotional exploration and creative thinking in physical experience and expression, CLTM fosters the relationship between oneʼs actions, feelings, thinking and sensations.
Creative Learning Through Movement (CLTM)
In CLTM classes the children solve movement puzzles, generate and develop ideas through doing and invent movement solutions. They play dynamic games that increase spatial awareness and develop interpersonal skills through nonverbal collaborations. They explore the anatomy of emotions and how they shape their feelings and their behavior. Classes encourage experiential learning– exploring, researching, developing and creating through movement. They translate classroom curriculum into experiential education, making it tangible and personal.
Long before verbal and cognitive development take center stage, we learn through our actions — through how we react to and interact with our environment and ourselves. By introducing and guiding developmentally appropriate movement explorations, CLTM not only taps into these early learning patterns, but also inherited ancient evolutionary patterns. This makes it a powerful and potent tool for learning.
Our classes foster creativity, spark curiosity, encourage group participation and cooperation, enhance body/mind awareness, develop personal and interpersonal skills and create a lifelong love for moving and learning.
Creative Learning Through Movement encourages children to recognize, develop and grow into their inherent capacity and to fill their potential — to learn, think and live creatively and to share this with others.
Sonja’s article, Creative Learning Through Movement with Children was published by the Feldenkrais Educational Foundation of N.A.
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For 13 years Sonja taught CLTM at a private elementary school, click here to see the the archive of the program.
