Brain Gym in Schools

Brain Gym for Schools, Colleges, Universities and Adult Education

Brain Gym is used in the learning environment every day around the world to help make learning easier, more enjoyable and successful for all students of any age and ability. Brain Gym movements improve communication throughout the mind and body quickly.

How can Brain Gym achieve this?

This programme develops the physical aspects of how learning takes place in the brain and body using our Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Motor and Vestibular senses that most other learning interventions don’t address. Using specific movements is the key to improving the senses naturally and in a much shorter time period with lasting results.

Special Needs:
Adults and children professionally diagnosed with having Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Behavioural challenges/ADHD and Autistic Spectrum Disorders can find wonderful support from using the Brain Gym programme. It also supports the “Gifted and Talented” as well.

The following are a few areas where Brain Gym offers wonderful support -

How can I help your learning environment?

I offer :

• Half day or full day training on the benefits of Brain Gym in education.
• Twilight staff training to meet your requirements on specific difficulties
• Staff training sessions to improve self development
• Training in emotional stress release techniques giving immediate results In-school consultancy
• One to one sessions or group work to clear difficulties.

I will tailor-make a programme to suit your needs that will include :

• Techniques to develop the skills of your teaching staff
• How to reduce stress at exam time for students to obtain their best results
• Understanding the principles of Brain Gym
• How the areas of the mind and body relate to learning
• How stress affects the learning potential and communication within the brain
• Effective techniques to reduce stress in the students and /or staff quickly and easily
• How the different learning styles can benefit from the movements
• Movements to change behaviour positively and quickly
• Techniques to reduce stress and raise morale amongst staff
• How and when to introduce Brain Gym into the classroom
• A number of specific movements that can be used in the next class
• Assessment of Learning Dominance.
  This is extremely useful and will explain why a student may have difficulty in certain areas of learning and not others and to put a simple programme of movements together to help the student overcome their difficulties quickly and easily. This can be very beneficial for teachers too.
• Experience the benefits of the movements yourself and notice the changes you can bring to your pupils.

Brain Gym can improve your end of year statistics significantly.

Brain Gym® is a registered trademark of the Educational Kinesiology Foundation. www.braingym.org