Conference schedule

Surprises and Opening speech from the President of Breakthroughs International.

Objective: to raise awareness and experience how our physical posture influences our Life, our perception and our Presence to ourselves.

It influences our inner weather, how we perceive ourselves, how we perceive our environment and others, how we transmit and receive information, our relationship, the access to our resources, our own voice!

Live and measure the impact and the type of influence that our posture generates.
To live and feel, then, the importance and the impact that the 3 axes of the 3 dimensions of Brain Gym have on our Posture of life, our Presence, our Power, our Openness, etc...

Let's place our axes directly and our Royalty opens.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

Is it easy for you to listen to yourself, your body, your needs, or your intuition?

I propose you to explore this listening to yourself in a playful and creative way. Let’s experience the AMSTAR technique (Amazingly simple trauma release), so simple that even a child can learn and use it.

Through a short and easy balance, you will be guided to feel a discomfort in your body, visualise it, communicate with it and dissolve it in a respectful manner.

The use of the canopy during the balance increases the power of the healing process.

You will enjoy this simple yet powerful method to balance your own energy and align body, heart and mind.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

In January 2018, life invited me to experience a major challenge : breast cancer.

While I deeply believe in the gifts hidden through the trials we encounter, the magnitude of this one impresses me much. How can I cope and maintain my balance every day when the big medical battery goes off ?

Edu K has been an invaluable resource in this initiatory course….. of treatment !

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

The Edu-K In Depth manual was updated in 2022.

While there are many new clarifications, metaphors, and language, this conference session will focus the Emotional Realm.

Within this realm, there are 2 branches: Receptive focuses on internal processing of feelings, whereas the Expressive focuses on external processing.

In this session, explore why the Emotional menu is visually arranged as flowers.

Prerequisite: have taken the 7D courses
Langage: English + French translation

We are often taught how to draw out from our students and clients and follow their innate intelligence.

When working with adults and children who are differently able we come across different situations: can the child speak, make sense of what they are seeing, understanding what you are asking them to do?
Or does he know where his body is, or how to use his arms and legs deliberately?

Many questions come to us when we work with differently able people, the main one being what is the priority.
How do I communicate with them if I they cannot talk?
What is that they need the most?

Many time I visit schools were children are requested to sit and write when they are not capable of sitting still or letting go of an object.

Is that something that would bring the kid the opportunity to be more independent, to be happier?

In this presentation I would like to share with you the program that Cecilia Koester developed to be the reason why someone smiles today.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English + French translation

This workshop proposes a meeting between Brain Gym and Qi gong (chinese energetic gymnastics) and asks us about the different tempos of movement, from immobility to mobility, through slowness.

In Qi Gong, we like to say that we must "find the dynamic in the static and the static in the dynamic", according to the famous principle of Yin and Yang.
In Brain Gym®, we move to learn, even if the movement is sometimes done internally, as in the ECAP "drinking water".

By practising movements from both disciplines together, we will experience these different tempos and how they can coexist within us to give us a better balance.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

Have you ever experienced the vowel and syllable bath?
Now is the time to try it.
Youhou!

This workshop offers to experience anchoring, breathing and resonance through the energy and power of vowels and syllables, combined with Brain Gym® movements.

It is in the absence of materiality, in the experience of vibration, that the journey begins and that you can appreciate the density of the breath of life.

This experience begins in silence, the connection of its depths and its environment to radiate in Joy.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

In this presentation, we will discuss our recently published booklet guiding the user in a 21-day program of good habits to practice.

While these habits are useful always, they are specially geared towards the times we feel we need a little support to face stressful moments that appear in our lives.

The idea of writing this booklet came from a direct experience we had at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic with the skills of Brain Gym® being preciously helpful.

In this presentation we will share the experience, the opportunity we had to create something good out of a very difficult moment, and practice together some of the activities found in the book.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English + French translation

We have all been able to observe that sometimes our creativity flows naturally and that at other times everything seems complicated and laborious.

What if it had something to do with the cycle of creativity? And its own rhythm? How to deploy my creative wings in a fluid and light way?

During this workshop we will discover the natural cycle of creativity.
We will also observe in which phase we are in our projects.
To finally discover how we can enter into a dance with our creativity so that the rhythms agree.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

Do you ever feel the need to set clear boundaries in some situations ?
Do you ever feel violated by people ?
Do you feel that they don't respect you vital space ?
Do you wonder about the appropriate distance to keep, or the right attitude towards people?
Could being in relationship with people be made easy and comfortable by learning how to own your space?

Join this workshop and learn more about how to feel more empowered by filling your personal space.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

Karen and Lisa continue their exploration of the integration of Brain Gym® with Polyvagal Theory - the notion of deeply tuning into our nervous system in order to move from protection (disconnection) to connection.

This involves shifting our natural instinctive awareness from cues of danger towards the ability to identify and recognize glimmers of safety.

How will we meet this new post-pandemic world?
How do we access resilience, gentleness and lightness with ease and creativity?
How will we meet this new post-pandemic world?
How do we access resilience, gentleness and lightness with ease and creativity?
How do we cultivate connection with ourselves and with others, which is so essential during these uncertain times?
How do we regain the ability to reconnect with the world from a coherent heart-mind-body system so that we can live bravely and joyfully?

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English + French translation

We will build games and create activities to have fun with Braingym®.

Games wich children can build by themselves to get the Braingym® activities interesting and cooperative.

All with support of music, creating situations of joy, vitality and communication.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English + French translation

All parts of work and life benefit from bringing joy, creativity and sensory nourishment.
There are creative ways to infuse music, movement, and visual arts into every aspect of your business.

We’ll explore :
- Creating a Joyful Working Environment
- Your Personal Music Library to spark Creativity
- Systems that Nourish Creativity and Play
- Scheduling for Dance Breaks and Expressive Arts

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English + French translation

The emergence of your acting potential by using acting and body movement, will awaken your senses and your neurons, your creative ability to interpret-incarnate a character: awakening to learning with the heart and in confidence.

The practice of Brain Gym® represents a specific and valuable contribution for any learning by providing you with tools for stress management, muscle relaxation and optimization of concentration in a fun and energizing way.

"A movement performed in relaxation and play develops a centralized consciousness based on stability, balance and attention" Carla Hannaford -La gymnastics des neurones-1997

Goals :
- Connect to your creative power
- Observe your body/mind/heart functioning
- Find your personal rhythm
- Promote the emergence of sensory memory
- Play and connect your inner child with joy

Join Paul and Gail Dennison in this online presentation as they share central ideas at the heart of reading. Experience novel ways to use games and Brain Gym® activities to guide a reader to become the writer, retelling the story in their own voice. Use the polarities of reading to draw out and interweave essential skills of thinking, speaking, and exploring. Enjoy using movement to free the voice, centralize vision and awareness, and activate the love of language.

Surprises are to be expected!

1+1= 1 is the effective result when we enter into a deep relationship. It doesn't matter if I am me with me, if I am me with the other, or if I am me with a group: it is always a unique and irreplaceable relationship if the quality of listening and observation is done with the whole body and these deep essences, without conditionings, memories and expectations.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

I propose a session around the discovery of the Roberval balance.
I realised it this year in CP class through several games.

In pre-activity:
- The balance on a finger: with a stick, in sensation, I create the movement and the balance of the balance in my body
- Tic and toc, which is the heaviest? I appropriate the notion of weight and balance through a game of listening and balance.

The Brain Gym® learning menu feeds my experiences and enriches my sensory and spatial perceptions.

Children have the joy of discovering that they can use objects in balance, help each other and discover their own balance.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

Playing games, putting people in situations, encouraging pleasure are fundamental keys to give learners confidence and allow them to learn more easily.
In this practical workshop, I will propose to several participants to experience an assessment session to discover the essential keys of ReEDUK'action. The manipulation of the proposed tools will highlight the intuitive and conscious mechanisms at play in learning.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

From the beginning of Edu-K Renate Wennekes has been there and built this phantastic method to a strong branch of Kinesiology in Europe, International and in her country.

The unique principles of Edu-K (the Five-Step-Learning Model, noticing, muscle checking, age regression and deepening attitudes) are presented and experienced in this talk.

This gives a key to exploring yourself, the world and your future.
Edu-K is a professional well defined program and on the same connected to everyday life.

Come and enjoy this wonderful opportunity to grow and experience life.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English + French translation

My teachers used to say thay I was “an average pupil, lacking of self-confidence”, and though I was an exceptional child. During fourteen years as a school teacher, I have always committed to allowing my pupils work with pleasure and confidence! How could I allow everyone reach their full potential?
When I discovered Brain Gym®, it was like a revelation. I’ve been learning it and created class balances, specific to my pupils’ needs.
Today, I am using this experience to accompany teachers in order to allow them to introduce movement and pleasure of learning in their classrooms.
In this workshop, I propose that we build a writing supported by the movement.

What if writing became child’s play?!

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

Today, we are living in an age when people, especially children and teenagers, are more stressed than before. Due to extreme competitiveness in every aspect of life, there is always a lack of time, feeling not good enough and even feeling not having enough. This then leads to high level of anxiety, mental tension and of course, the feeling of dissatisfaction. You will witness how a teacher used the 3P.L.A.Y. to win over a stressful situation faced by a 10-year-old Ally, who has Autism Spectrum Disorder. While attending an online class at home, Ally turned from being bored and daydreaming to someone who is motivated and self-initiated learner.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English + French translation

This workshop is aimed to let you know how it feels like to be a professional, for whom the activity requires specific skills (physicals, cognitives, psycho-social) and discover how Brain Gym® can help to optimise their potential.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

In the musical field, we are, sometimes, more comfortable learning certain elements of music and less for others.

We are going to experiment and experience musical challenges together: listening to music, rhythm, games... without panic! T

he use of kinesthetic education movements will help us and take us in a good mood to discover our potential during this musical and fun workshop.

Get your sneakers ready to move to music!

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

Ideally in relationship, we seek to experience a co-creative atmosphere, filled with respect and honour for one another's personal needs.
Stress patterns learned or observed in childhood can result in co-dependent behaviours.

In this session, you will learn strategies for creating a safe place to identify personal needs and wants of each individual.
Create a collaborative space for the collective goal to be manifested.

Modified pre and post activities will be shared during the presentation.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English + French translation

Nursery rhymes are frequently used in early childhood. They combine words and gestures and are practised regularly. Some nursery rhymes are used to obtain silence from children, in particular by closing the various sensory organs

In this practical workshop, you will experience a journey of opening up sensory perceptions and speech through movement and verbalization. You will experiment with two ReEDUK’action activities including two opening rhymes.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

Do you feel awkward in movement and play?
Or to feel comfortable while alone or with others? Being able to flow into creating with enthusiasm?
Do you yearn to naturally, and confidently be yourself?

In life we experience the ebb and flow of inspiration, confident action, or being reflective and calm. Other times we may not feel either of those.

Receive this opportunity to utilise the nurturing and support of the elements within you for transformation.
Travel the paths within in any direction you choose to attain your goals. Physical movement, with pausing points along the way, for realisation.

Bring anything that you feel drawn to, paper, pencils, musical instruments, etc., or just yourself!
Let's go on this journey!

Prerequisite: to have taken BG101 & basic Touch for Health (or equivalents)
Langage: English + French translation

This workshop explores a set of Brain Gym® Activities in connection with Kinesiology concepts and different areas of the Musculo Skeletal structure giving background information to bring additional perspectives to the Brain Gym® Activities. We will be exploring and experiencing some of the muscles that are dynamically involved when doing a Brain Gym® Activity. At the same time, looking at the Kinesiology connections including Gathering Points (Alarm points), emotions, related Kinesiology systems and behaviour responses, with a short balance, which you can use with other people. I will be sharing examples of how I use Brain Gym® to enable clients to follow up on their chiropractic treatments, bearing in mind that chiropractic is working on the Musculo Skeletal level.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English + French translation

Gail and Paul Dennison will lead a set of Brain Gym® movements and variations that can be used when working with tools (pen, book, cell phone…) that call for near-point focus.

The Ergo Flow supports eye-hand coordination, visual relaxation and range of motion, and dynamic sitting and body positioning based on standards of ergonomics. Variations of the flow, done to music or children’s songs, will be included.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English + French translation

Surprises are to be expected!

We know Movement is essential and that Brain Gym® offers many movement opportunities.

Let’s explore how bringing awareness to the WAY we use time, space, energy and flow affect the quality of our movement.
The dynamic qualities of our movement reflect our attitude toward time, space and energy and vice versa.
This impacts our goals and how we balance and noticing these elements of movement is useful in facilitating balances as well as refining movement performance.

Come and explore – and maybe expand – your experience of movement.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

Active retained early and primitive reflexes are often the underlying cause of
many common observations and issues in clinical practice. In this paper, I
discuss my kinesiology and retained primitive reflex experience from over 26 years working in clinical practice and some ways of identifying people with retained early and primitive reflexes. I will focus on observations and
difficulties, including hydration and muscle monitoring issues, difficulties
speaking/participating in a session, persistent under- or over-energy,
switching, and how to identify active reflexes when doing some of the Brain
Gym® movements.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English + French translation

The presentation will explain the energetic physiology of childhood reflexes.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English + French translation

The main tool of a caretaker is themself.

Bering a co-creative guide, is being creative in their daily life.
It means being able to integrate the capacity to stand their position, to respect and enforce their personal space

In order to do so, we may use the basic principles and mouvements of Kinesthetic Education

This is what I may share, especially a specific PACE aimed to develop Co-Creative Intelligence (ICC).

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

Creativity is key to our growth as it is a combination of curiosity, problem solving, novelty and positivity.

Thus, nurturing our creativity requires nurturing our ability to enjoy our state of curiosity with patience, calm and by trusting the process of problem solving.
We may reset our vision each time, to enjoy our experiences with the of the beginner and finally expand the energies that channelise our positivity into our system throughout the creative process.

These four essentials are deep internal processes, and they are best anchored through attachment.
Attachment keeps the interplay of these components alive and active throughout the process of creativity, being in stillness or in motion.

The focus of the presentation will be the neurobiology of attachment.
We will see examples of practical implications that depict it as a powerful engine, that drives creativity.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English + French translation

In this creative workshop on "singing together", "movement" will be understood in the sense of inside/outside (I dare, I express myself), but also in the sense of sharing (I draw closer to other people they come to me in a pleasant and enriching common experience).

We will PACE as a vocal warm-up, then sing a song in unison and polyphony.

Specific Brain Gym® movements will be offered to facilitate our learning.

This workshop is fun and joyful. Through singing and a strong common experience, we approach the notion of place, pleasure, doing things together, daring.

Brain Gym® is a great support in this experience.
It opens the field of possibilities by connecting us to our feelings at each stage of learning.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

I'm 100!
I know you don't believe me but I'm 100!

What remains of the movement when we are almost 100 years old?

Imagine: each person with their almost 100-year-old story, in their feet, on their backs, in their stomachs, in their hearts, in their heads...

I invite you to a funny experience or rather a fun experience.

I invite you to experience a "Simone and Co" balancing, in regards and in crossed movements with those who experience the end of the road.

A balance co-inspired by the meetings, every week for 3 years, with Simone, Thérèse, Odette, Emile, Dolorès, Michel, Madeleine, Lisa, Adèle, Gildas, Yvette, Jeanine and Geneviève.
Average age: 86 years old!

They walked, ran, worked, moved mountains.
Today, satisfied and tired, they welcome the slowing down of life.

Their magic potion: movement.

Take up the challenge of this meeting with these superheroes from the end of the road!

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

This workshop will present the multiple intelligences, as well as the latest work on this topic.

It will mention the educational tools and pedagogical books written by de Claudine Chevalier et Véronique Garas.

And it will also invit you to some games and discoveries of one's learning intelligences, with the intelligence star cards and/or by the questionnaire.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

The goal is to relaunch everyone's creativity to co-create their lives.

Along the way we will discover some plexus - chakras, acting at the heart of the Kinesthetic Education movements.
At the same time we will experiment variants, new sequences.
As a bonus we will get a taste of the tantric symbolism.

Why not get a hint of humour and demystification along the way.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

Joy, this vital impetus is what makes us move mountains, overcome obstacles and assign us great plans.

Attribute of childhood and sign of a youthful soul, the enthusiasm, component of optimism, incites us to joy.
It is a euphoria spiced with candor and allows a few racing hearts where reason channels them.
Not to mention that the enthusiasm is contagious.

The program.. addresses several aspects: bodily expression through dance, emotional exploration to improve self-knowledge, symbolism related to traditional Chinese medicine as well as other forms of expression (writing, reflection, drawing, speech).

What do these internships bring you?

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

« When we watch youngsters at play, we can see what natural learners they are... sustaining a point of focus with their attention and whole body. »
- Dr. Paul E. Dennison
- Brain Gym® and Me : Reclaiming the Pleasure of Learningn

Why Play?
How will be prepare ourselves for a world filled with uncertainty?
What happens when we play?
Come and experience an energized, connected, integrated state through fun and spontaneous activities, all while exploring your relationship with the 3 dimensions of movement as well as reinforcing the feeling of being grounded, resilient and present in a playful way.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

We have created nine pieces of intergenerational sharing from the chapters "Tales of the Rainbow" by Lise Bartoli.
Each chapter is associated with a theme, a symbol that we explore through
movement and mirror sketching.
This workshop invites you to open the door to an inner journey by rediscovering your breathing in a creative and playful way.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

An evening to feed our eyes with an enchanting show
An evening to nourish our body with good things
An evening to nourish our heart with connection and words
An evening to feed our vital momentum with music and dance
An evening to celebrate because Life is a Feast!

Surprises are to be expected!

“Change your mind, and your life will be changed.”
We want to always have a healthy perspective.

But sometimes anxiety, fear, or anger paralysed our self and blurred our dreams.
Brain Gym®, through Balance Process – 5 steps to move toward the Goal - may help us to access new perspectives and create harmony in our feelings.

In this class we will experience two Balance Process, move toward a major goal: Creating a Better Me.
- The first balance: “New Me, New Dreams” will be aiming to understand our blockage in setting up dreams and how to make a breakthrough.
- And the second one, called “Things I Want to Hear” will be talking about our fear of rejection and self-encouragement.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English +French translation

We will explore the developmental kinesiology with an insight of the seven courses on offer: from conception to pregnancy and birth, our senses, the reflexes, their reactions to motor development in early years an up to speech and hand dexterity.

Those seven steps will be put in relation to our behaviour as in the grown up world.

“Development for and at any age”.

Developmental Kinesiology is a recognised branch of Breakthroughs International, as well as in Europe as an advanced training courses for aspiring Brain Gym® instructors, as well as for re-licensing.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English + French translation

What is going on in our mind and body when we are creative?
And why we need creative movement more than ever during these uncertain times?

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English +French translation

Each day is unique, according to our tasks to be performed, our decisions to be made, our emotions and our thoughts.
We can disconnect several times a day.
If we don't take care to reconnect before falling asleep, we may wake up still disconnected. We can also disconnect during the night and start a day without resources.

Before falling asleep, I offer myself a pacifying, reassuring and benevolent balance. I do the same before getting out of bed in the morning. What moves to make? I will share with you my experience and the movements made according to the messages of my body, my thoughts, my emotions. We will do a balancing while lying down. What a great new experience!

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

What is your relation with water?
Does water invite you to be in exploration, contemplation or vigilance?
Do we have to give it a significance?
In our life and in our world?

Join me in that immersive workshop and become an undersea explorer to find out the joy of being like a duck to water.

Don't forget your swimsuit, mask and snorkel!

Prerequisite: know how to swim
Langage: French + English translation

Dance through the Movement Alphabet, and learn the connected visual symbolic re-presentation.
Play with creating movement, recording it on paper, and dancing and sharing our movement “scores” with each other.

No dance or notation experience is necessary.
Though I will focus on working with children, the activities can be adapted to and enjoyed by all ages.

This workshop is based on over 30 years experience teaching dance, movement and Brain Gym® in schools and pre-schools.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: French + English translation

What if you could make all your decisions easily, delightful and self-confident in all areas of your life?
What if you could set the framework for all your undertakings and feel welcome and comfortable everywhere?

In this workshop you have the opportunity to work on your personal topic with a specific balance from the first course of developmental kinesiology (DevKi) : "integration of conception and decision".

Your own conception is not only a physical, but also a mental key to your life on earth, since it represents your first decision and determines therefore, your ability to make decisions for the rest of your life.

In this workshop you will become familiar with the DevKi process and experience its specific learning menu.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English + French translation

We all have our patterns of movement in our daily lives. These patterns both support and limit us. By taking the time to explore our habits through the Laban lens of weight, space, time and flow, we can gain great insight into ou rmovement signatures. Once we are grounded in ourselves we can then joyfully expand our range of expression and interaction with the world. This gives us greater options for response and much more capactity to adapt and discover creative solutions. How we move is who we are. To be fully who we are, we need to embrace movement diversity. Exploring contrasts in weight and time is a fantastic beginning with delicious rewards.
Please check out Mariah-Jane's TEDx talk: "Your Movement Habits Create Your Life."

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English + French translation

What if your last 30, 40 or 50 years had been very different because you could have talked to your parents during your pregnancy?
If you could have balanced your challenges from the beginning?

That's what I want to talk about in this lecture.
What moves unborn babies, how can they communicate through kinesiology?

When preparing for birth, many people think about the mothers, but what about the unborn children?
They too have fears, difficulties in the family system or emotional challenges and they want to express their love above all.

The holistic approach of developmental kinesiology helps with a gentle start into life with lifelong positive effects. And of course, it offers support even if your start in life is decades ago.

Prerequisite: none
Langage: English + French translation