BTi Connect Speakers
Across three days, BTi's program instructors and guest facilitators from around the world share hands-on tools for self-regulation, movement, and connection. Two workshops run side by side in each block — choose the room that calls you.
Stress changes how we see, focus, and process the world. An interactive, movement-based session with tools you can use immediately.
Have you ever searched for something right in front of you, or walked into a room and forgotten why? Under stress, our vision and attention shift — we overlook the obvious, feel overwhelmed by visual input, or scan constantly. In this interactive session you'll discover how stress impacts vision and experience practical movement activities that support focus, visual comfort, and learning. No experience needed — just curiosity and a willingness to move.
International Brain Gym® Faculty Cindy Goldade has a Master’s in Education. She homeschooled her three children while learning Touch for Health, Brain Gym® and reflex modalities. She teaches in the Montessori graduate and early childhood undergraduate programs at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. As International Faculty she enjoys facilitating courses to a worldwide audience. She has a gift for weaving storytelling with theory, and balancing it all with intentional physical activities. Cindy actively volunteers at 4-H and her church, as well as for Breakthroughs International. She helped shift to online learning at the onset of the pandemic, assisted in the writing of the Movement Facilitator track, and collaborated on updating the Edu-K In Depth course manual. Wearing many hats as a lifelong learner, her new hat as Grandma is her favorite to date!.
When everything feels like too much, movement, creativity, and writing help you rediscover your flow. Come as you are.
There are moments when everything feels like too much — too many emotions, demands, thoughts. This experimental workshop helps you rediscover your flow and take back control by trusting your body and the creative process. Everyone is welcome; we are all creative from birth.
A kinesiologist since 2014, Coraline gently supports each person through Educational Kinesiology®, the creative process, astrology, and movement meditation. A creative soul currently traveling around Europe, she teaches, runs workshops, and holds private sessions — an expert in "thinking outside the box."
Please bring: paper, pens, and tape.
When you're overwhelmed, the body turns rigid. Restore full range and freedom of movement through the traditional movements of different cultures.
When you're overwhelmed, your brain goes into survival mode. This often makes body language rigid and limited to familiar patterns. This experiential workshop helps you restore full range and freedom of movement by tapping into the traditional movements of different cultures. You will leave refreshed, energized, and with an expanded movement vocabulary.
International Faculty Emerita and a Brain Gym® instructor since 1985, Paula has presented at nearly every conference and has been in private practice for over 30 years in New York City, teaching proprietary workshops on movement and emotions.
What happens when Brain Gym® meets music? Movement comes alive. Experience a Flow set to music, plus a simple Flow Balance to take home.
What happens when Brain Gym® meets music? Movement comes alive. In this session you'll experience a Flow — a sequence of Brain Gym®, Vision Gym®, and integrated movements set to music, designed to deepen your practice and lift your spirit. You'll also learn a simple Flow Balance you can take home and use immediately. No experience needed. Come ready to move.
This session is offered in loving memory of Gilly Johnson — a beloved pioneer of Brain Gym® in Australia and dedicated Movement Dynamics teacher, who passed away in early 2026. It is a celebration of her legacy, and of what happens when movement becomes joy.
Margaret Underwood, from New Zealand, was a student and friend of Gilly's, learning a huge amount from her over many years of friendship. Originally trained in Mendl Creative Dance, she has been studying and teaching Tai Chi Chuan for over 40 years and working with Brain Gym® since the late 1990s. Now International Faculty and a Movement Dynamics Teacher Trainer, she had the privilege of co-teaching with Gilly on her final course.
What if your everyday reactions to stress, learning, and movement are shaped by reflexes you were born with? Explore primitive reflexes and gentle techniques for greater resilience and balance.
What if some of your everyday reactions to stress, learning, movement, and relationships are influenced by reflexes you were born with? Primitive reflexes are automatic survival responses that play an essential role in early development. When they remain active beyond infancy, they can continue to affect how we think, feel, move, and respond to the world around us.
In this interactive, experiential session, you'll explore the fascinating connection between the Moro Reflex, Fear Paralysis Reflex, and Tonic Labyrinthine Reflex and their potential impact on daily life at any age. Through easy-to-understand explanations, real-life examples, and simple movement experiences, you'll gain practical insights into your nervous system and discover gentle techniques that may help support greater resilience, balance, and overall well-being.
Mari is a pediatric occupational therapist dedicated to helping children move through life with the greatest ease of movement and independent function. She works with learners of all ages and is a Licensed Brain Gym® Instructor, teaching other therapists and caregivers how to use the Brain Gym® modality with their own children and clients. A continual student, she is currently a Core Specialist-in-Training in the Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration® (MNRI) Method, and keeps learning from her daily work with children and fellow professionals.
Stress isn't the enemy — it's a messenger. Move from surviving your stress to working with it, using the Awarification Framework.
Through self-reflection, body-based experiences, and practical tools you can use immediately, you'll move from surviving your stress to understanding it — and finally to working with it. Using the Awarification Framework (Awareness, Fortification, Amplification), you'll leave with one small but meaningful action to take forward.
Inalize combines study across teaching, kinesiology (Brain Gym® facilitator and instructor since 1998, Touch for Health), and coaching (NeuroLeadership Institute, Gallup Strengths). Her Awarification Framework amplifies strengths that transform lack into healing, growth, and authentic agency.
Neuroscience reveals the cerebellum's role in emotional regulation — not just movement. Experience explorations that support re-regulation.
When we feel threatened, our movement changes; when we feel safe, it changes again. The cerebellum integrates emotional input and shapes how it's expressed through posture, timing, coordination, and relational presence — bridging primitive survival and social survival. This session offers a unifying lens: many emotional pathways, one organising movement system.
Jacque Mooney is an internationally renowned kinesiology practitioner, trainer, and keynote speaker with over 35 years of experience. A global instructor in Life Enhancement Acupressure Protocols (LEAP) Brain Integration and Applied Physiology, she is the author of Simply the Brain 1 and STB 2, and an AKA Faculty Member and Course Accreditation Board Chair.
The truth is we all cause harm — and every time we hide from accountability, we're allowing it to continue. Talking about harm isn't comfortable, but it's necessary for healing.
The truth is we all cause harm. And every time we hide from accountability in our own lives or in connection to those around us, we're allowing harm to continue. In this session we will expand our capacity for discomfort, because talking about harm isn't comfortable, but it's necessary for healing. The good news: when we expand our capacity for discomfort we also expand our capacity for joy and authentic communal connection.
Kelsey will share her own journey of becoming aware of the harm in the wellness world and her role in perpetuating that harm. She will also share tools and resources to help our bodies process the harm we're witnessing and experiencing and to help us expand our capacity to navigate, face and take accountability for harm.
Kelsey Fox Bennett Boyd, M.Ed., is an Educator, Author and Brain Gym® Consultant who specializes in working with Highly Sensitive People of all ages, helping them feel safe and capable through one-on-one consulting sessions, group workshops, and her children's picture book, Arya & Everyone Else's Feelings. She is a highly sensitive neurodivergent witch, born in a tiny town in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. She now lives and works in Queens, NYC with her husband and two daughters. She loves to dance, write, walk barefoot in the grass and talk to trees. Learn more at kelseyfoxbennettboyd.com or on Instagram @kelseyfoxbennettboyd.
Double Doodle — bilateral drawing that engages the whole body — captures your current dream through a Brain Gym® balance you can practice at home.
Double Doodle is one of the 26 Brain Gym® activities — a bilateral drawing movement that coordinates both sides, eyes, and hands, fostering spatial and physical awareness. In this shared session you'll experiment with Double Doodle to capture a current dream or desire through a five-step Brain Gym® balance, plus activities you can do at home.
Please bring: paper, coloured pencils or markers, tape, and a glass of water.
Céline is a Brain Gym® teacher, consultant, and international faculty. She lives on the west coast of France; her favourite things today are being in nature and doing Double Doodles — every day since December 2020.
Feeling scattered or overwhelmed? Simple, powerful Movement Based Learning tools to calm your nervous system, sharpen focus, and bring you back to yourself.
Feeling scattered, overwhelmed, or disconnected? This session is your reset. Using simple, powerful tools from Movement Based Learning, you'll experience how the right movement at the right moment can calm your nervous system, sharpen your focus, and bring you back to yourself. From grounding your body to easing visual stress, you'll leave with practical tools you can use immediately — whether for yourself or the people you support. No experience needed. Just show up.
June Smith, OTR/L, has been an Occupational Therapist for over 49 years and is Sensory Integration certified. She worked full- and, more recently, part-time as a clinician and mentor at South Shore Therapies, a private sensory integration clinic. June was the first instructor certified by Cece Koester to teach the Brain Gym® for Children who have Special Needs (BG 170) course. She developed a Vision Clinic with Developmental Optometrists to promote visual efficiency in children and adults with learning challenges. June teaches across the country on Brain Gym®, Movement Based Learning, ocular-motor/vision, and balance to support stress-free learning and efficiency of the ocular-motor system.
How we listen and respond can create tension — or space. Learn practical strategies for a safe space that empowers others and fosters self-trust.
This workshop challenges participants to reimagine what it means to be present with others during moments of stress, crisis, or overwhelm. Holding space compassionately is a lifelong practice rooted in emotional intelligence — one that helps you and others feel steadier, safer, and more connected. You'll learn practical strategies for shaping a safe space that empowers others and fosters self-trust.
Kari Coady received her master's degree in teaching from National Louis University in Evanston, Illinois, and began her career as a teacher in Ojai, California. A Brain Gym® class she attended a few years later changed the course of her life — within six months, she became a Licensed Brain Gym® Instructor/Consultant, left teaching, and opened her own business, spending several years leading workshops, facilitating private sessions, and speaking. In 2007, Kari's passion for helping others and her commitment to effective stress-management tools led her to accept the ED/CEO position at what is now Breakthroughs International. She has since continued to serve and support the organization's international community, empowering others to thrive amidst life's challenges. Kari also continues to enjoy speaking engagements and facilitating trainings, staying connected to the hands-on work that first inspired her. Outside of work, Kari enjoys spending time with her husband and their beloved pups. She also serves as a board member for the SBC Animal Care Foundation, supporting the organization's animal welfare efforts.
Burnout and chronic stress as signals of a disrupted inner rhythm. How resilience emerges when longing, bonding, orientation, and confidence are integrated.
This presentation explores burnout, overwhelm, and chronic stress as signals of a disrupted inner rhythm rather than isolated problems. Human beings are designed for a natural balance between engagement, connection, and reconnection with ourselves, which supports regulation and resilience. When this rhythm is interrupted, the nervous system loses stability, often resulting in exhaustion and disconnection.
Drawing on principles of human development, the talk highlights how resilience emerges when the four fundamental components of life — longing, bonding, orientation, and confidence — are integrated. An extract from the Relationship Reflexes workshop series of Developmental Kinesiology (DevKi).
Brigitte has called Austria home again since 2017; before that she was internationally based, where she completed most of her kinesiology studies. Her dedication has gone to early-years development for over 20 years, following several degrees in international hotel management. A Licensed Brain Gym®, Touch for Health, and Developmental Kinesiology Instructor, International Faculty, and Head of Training, she works with individuals at her practice in Austria and regularly teaches parents, schools, and educational centres. She is a passionate international lecturer — in English and German, in person and online — on Brain Gym® 101, Double Doodle, Optimal Brain Organization, Vision Circles, From Head to Toes, Touch for Health, and Developmental Kinesiology. Learn more at balance-mind-body.com.
Two workshops run side by side in each block — Full Immersion pass holders choose one room per block. Keynotes with Slash Coleman and Amy Bonaduce-Gardner, plus daily movement breaks with Gail E. Dennison, Brain Gym® program co-creator, are open to all Explorer Pass and Full Immersion attendees.
Registration closes July 12 at midnight (PT).