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As we all know, most people have the tendency to concentrate on something by ‘zooming in’: by excluding the awareness of the rest of themselves and the space around them. Even when our AT students have learned to inhibit and direct this can still happen; very subtly our students can ‘zoom in’ to inhibit and direct, start to focus on a detail, on a particular change, zoom in on parts that are ‘still tense, different or painful’, or zoom in on the teachers hands.
In this way their attention becomes like a ball in a pinball machine, shifting rapidly from detail to detail. 

As teachers we can help to prevent this from happening. We can teach our students how to ‘zoom out’ and show them how to observe the feelings/changes/details from wholeness and spatial awareness. 

The benefits are big: students will experience more freedom of movement, more connection to themselves and the world, a wonderful sense of wholeness and ease, more curiosity, more eagerness to explore, less judgment and less ‘trying to get it right’.

This is a practical workshop in which we will explore how to tell the difference between zooming in and out, both in ourselves and our students.
We will talk about the difference between ‘input’ and ‘output’.
We will explore what language to use to incorporate a detail into wholeness/spatial awareness.
We will explore how we can use our hands in such a way that we can help the student stay connected to wholeness.
And we’ll talk about the differences between observing, checking and feeling and how to explain these differences to our students. 

Let’s have some fun by experimenting and exploring this together!