Embodied Education
Session Description
The Big Sister Experience delivers interactive workshops that utilise the felt experience to support student wellbeing. For the MOVE Conference, we propose running a workshop for attendees, so they too can experience how incorporating motion enhances learning.
This session challenges traditional, passive approaches to wellbeing delivery by demonstrating how movement-based strategies create deeper emotional connection, retention, and impact. Participants will experience a range of practical techniques used in school workshops, including icebreakers, “check-in” activities, and embodied learning exercises designed to get students out of their seats and into meaningful participation.
Rather than positioning movement as separate from wellbeing, this session highlights how physical engagement can support emotional regulation, increase psychological safety, and improve students’ ability to absorb and apply key concepts. Attendees will gain insight into how movement supports diverse learning styles and helps translate abstract wellbeing concepts into lived, felt experiences.
Through active participation, reflection, and discussion, educators will explore how to adapt these strategies within their own contexts—whether in classrooms, wellbeing programs, or whole-school initiatives.
This session is ideal for educators and wellbeing professionals seeking practical, inclusive approaches to increase engagement and deepen the impact of their work with young people.
Learning Outcomes
- Experience practical, movement-based strategies that support mental health education
- Learn how to incorporate “embodied learning” techniques into their own teaching or facilitation
- Be able to adapt interactive activities (e.g. icebreakers, brain breaks, check-ins) to enhance participation and retention
- Gain confidence in moving beyond passive delivery to more dynamic, student-centred approaches
- Learn how to incorporate “embodied learning” techniques into their own teaching or facilitation
- Be able to adapt interactive activities (e.g. icebreakers, brain breaks, check-ins) to enhance participation and retention
- Gain confidence in moving beyond passive delivery to more dynamic, student-centred approaches
Curriculum Level
7 - 12
Keywords
Mental Health and Wellbeing, Student Engagement, Student Voice and Agency
Presentation Type
Practical Workshop
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