program overview & directors
About this Program
 This
experiential workshop educates participants in the integration
of the Developmental Movement Patterns. It is designed to
refine observation skills and increase your movement repertoire
by exploring the elements that coordinate these movement
patterns in babies and in adults.
Recent research shows that our children have become increasingly
inactive. This rising problem doesn’t begin at age
3, 4 or 5 years of age - it begins in the very first year
of life! During this amazingly formative time babies are
eager to move, explore, communicate and learn. FloorPlay
is essential for babies to move and interact with gravity
to strengthen their body and develop new movement skills.
When parents and caregivers bond in play at the baby’s
level, a baby learns to take the lead as an active participant
in social interactions. When you create an environment that
values a baby’s freedom to move, you will encourage
a self-motivated explorer who can create action plans and
make their own discoveries – creating self-confident
attitudes and motivation that lasts a lifetime.
In this workshop you will learn how these movement patterns
unfold in a baby’s first year of life. As you follow
a baby’s natural movement progression you will learn
how these developmental movement patterns are organized
into four basic groups that form the dynamic foundation
for our body image, spatial orientation, communication and
learning. These developmental movement patterns can be integrated
at every age for improved performance in any function and
expressive movement activity – babies and children
in play, adults engaged in yoga, dance, music and sports.
Program
Directors
- Beverly Stokes, BMC, CMA, MPA
is Founder/Director of CEL
Center for Experiential Learning, dedicated to developing
body-mind movement programs and communication training,
certified by (HRDC) as an educational institution established
in 1985
- Dr. Louis Stokes, Ph.D., C.
Psych. is the Administrative Director
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