BG Workshops

This workshop opens the way for you to check your own ideas and bring them into balance. It makes it possible to question your still unfulfilled desires for children and gently address related emotional issues such as more responsibility, performance or the courage to live more dynamically and stress-free. The clarification of perceptual questions can be e.g. to strengthen your decision-making, your ability to actively shape your life and your “feeling welcome” again.

This course in for Licensed Brain Gym® Instructor/Consultants who are interested in learning ways of working with seniors. The goal of the work is to provide people with a toolbox of inner resources and simple, enjoyable movements they can use anytime, anywhere to improve their brain-body connections and awareness, their balance, coordination and mobility, and to move with ease and joy.
Participants will learn from exploring the architecture of the human body, from movement and somatic experiences and by learning specific exercises and techniques.
This course will focus on movement seated and standing. These methods have been used with success in community continuing education programs as well as private sessions and as a fall prevention program at a senior residence.

More information and registration can be found at:
https://www.bougerpourapprendre.com/chronique-decouverte/articles/equilibre-corps-esprit-niveau-1
Payment in Canada and the US can be made by e-transfer or PayPal to: dana.luebke@sunergos.com

Interested in rapidly improving your ability to organize, focus, and communicate? Want some tools to share with your family or your students? In this active introductory workshop (which is the first day of "Brain Gym 104") learn how to use specially designed physical movements for relaxed alertness and sharp concentration. Brain Gym is a powerful, effective, and safe program leading to Peak Performance for all of our important moments!

Is burnout really solely due to excessive work behaviour ? Nature provides that it is the child who regulates the closeness and distance to the person in the relationship and to the environment. When the baby is ready, it initiates childbirth, and also continues to move away in motor development at his own pace. It is the curiosity, the desire to grow and experience something as well as the basic need for freedom that inspires these steps. If this self-control is interfered with too much, there is not enough room to conquer the environment. The consequence may be a deep sense of longing and un-fulfillment. What does this fact have to do with the modern phenomenon of burnout ? The longing reflex is the invisible umbilical cord, it is almost the long leash that offers me security from the dangers that I cannot yet assess myself. At the heart of this first of four courses of relationship reflexes is the longing reflex. We long for freedom, adventure, the special, for recognition and love. We can invite the environment to give us this through our joy, openness, curiosity and good charisma. But why are we doing this ? Why don’t we just give it to ourselves and let ourselves overflow with it. This is a workshop that brings surprising insights. It offers integrative balances for courage and energy in everyday life.

Experience a sequence of safe and simple activities especially for relieving stress. This includes several relaxing Brain Gym movements and a gentle acupressure-tapping technique frequently used to defuse the pain of extreme stress. The 90-minute session is designed to be immediately helpful and can be repeated on your own independently as often as needed afterwards, using the free follow-up materials. Saturdays 10:00 AM Central. Dates and times are negotiable.

Is it possible to live and learn with full sensory participation? We believe so. A day full of ideas, games and information that will enhance your sensory perception: Perception, feeling, smell, taste, sight, hearing and balance. Our senses lead us into the world and at the same time bring it to us. They enrich our lives, secure and shape our learning and serve our health and well-being. They give a meaning to our life and make it alive. Let’s playfully face our everyday stress, time pressure and maybe even burnout in this workshop.

• levels of perception • development of vestibular system, self-perception, feeling, hearing, sight, smell and taste • balances

Workshop founder: Renate Wennekes

Le Brain Gym® s’articule autour de 26 mouvements qui se basent sur le développement moteur de la prime enfance, époque où nous apprenons naturellement à coordonner nos canaux sensoriels via des schémas moteurs innés (réflexes primitifs). Cette journée vise à apprendre en bougeant pour explorer les liens entre ces étapes pré ou post natales et les mouvements coordonnés subtils que nous choisissons d’accomplir au quotidien. Si cette journée aborde bien sûr les réflexes, elle vise avant tout à (re)découvrir combien les simples mouvements ciblés du Brain Gym® parlent en profondeur au système nerveux. Cette journée est recertifiante pour les instructeurs/consultants Brain Gym® (12 points de crédits)

В този полудневен семинар, ще се запознаем с основите на BrainGym, какво прави и как помага за интеграцията и по-лесното учене и концентрация в училище. Какво може да научите от BrainGym 104 и как може да въвлечете програмата в ежедневния си живот.

Professional Development Classes for Early Childhood Educators

These classes are PDIS approved (https://www.coloradoshinespdis.com/s/pdislogin?language=en_US) for licensing credit.

This hands-on, interactive 2 hour introductive class will provide you with take away tools for you to use right away with staff, and children of all ages. This course is an overview and introduction to why movement-based learning develops the WHOLE BRAIN and why whole brain activation is critical for optimal physical, emotional, and cognitive development in the most critical window of child development-infant-age 5.

Cost: $50.00 Fee : Email info@integratedlearningacademy.com for payment submission.

This class can be held via Zoom or in person in Boulder, CO.

Dive into the world of your own pregnancy and experience the curiosity, the wonder and the joy. Recognise patterns that have existed at this crucial moment and continue to appear again and again in your life to this day. In this workshop you will work on two levels: On the one hand, you come into contact with your curiosity and fascination of your own incarnation. On the other level, you will receive information on how to accompany and support pregnant women. In addition, you will receive relevant information on dealing with adopted children, foster children, as well as their families of origin.

• awareness from the beginning • mother/fatherhood • support during pregnancy • stages of pregnancy and the period after it • early bonding • balances

Workshop founder: Renate Wennekes

Looking back on our early childhood, we rediscover some of our unconscious belief systems and programs. What have I copied, what have I accepted or created myself and what inhibits my happiness, my success and my ability to experience and perform ? Attitudes, values, behaviours of the family of origin, society and own experiences determine the framework in which I live. A journey to openness, truth, development and compassion. What am I holding on to ? With what rigid expectations do I try to impose my will on myself or others ?

The early childhood reflexes form the basis for physical, emotional and cognitive development. The reflexes provide us with the first movement experiences, control our birth and ensure our survival in the first months after birth. Experience this on your own body and discover what influence a lack of integration or inhibition of natural development can have on your posture, movement or reactions in everyday life, on learning and on relationships. Use this workshop to work on your posture and movement patterns and to support the development of the children.

• reflexes and reactions as the foundation of our development • protective, grasp and postural reflexes • balances

Workshop founder: Renate Wennekes

Take a loving look at your own birth and experience once again how this fundamental change felt coming to this world. Explore how you deal with changes in your everyday life today. How does your birth experience affect your life in our modern, fast-paced world ? How can we prepare to “give birth” to something new ? In this workshop you will learn about childbirth and how you can support yourself and others in preparing for the birth process.

• preparation for childbirth • phases of birth • bonding • to be welcome and customise • balances

Workshop Founder: Renate Wennekes

Our ability to adapt to constantly changing circumstances depends heavily on the fact that someone is there for us who understands us and fulfils all our dreams. Who was able to receive all this ? The disappointment, the feeling of being left alone and the feeling of being separated casts a shadow on our adult love life, our partnership and our relationships. The early childhood bond during pregnancy, childbirth and in the months immediately after birth allows us to experience security, trust and closeness to the mother’s body. The bonding reflex is an essential support in rediscovering closeness to oneself and to others. Restore your natural ability to love and engage in relationships. The bonding reflex is a great help to rediscover the closeness within self and others. How connected am I within myself and others in relationship ? How do I feel about relationships ? Where do I lose energy ? How do I feel with closeness and distance ?

Workshop founder: Renate Wennekes