Movement is central to learning & in my case key to all communcation as a kinesthetic learner.
Movement is a key part of our learning facilitation at Creativity, Culture and Education, as you can see from this clip of our workshop in Dublin on Monday with Creative Ireland. But why? When Marily Oppezzo, a behavioural and learning scientist at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, compared the impact on creativity of walking on a treadmill with walking outdoors. The cleverly designed experiment also compared walking with sitting still inside and outside, and with being pushed in a wheelchair outdoors (to delineate between the effects of being outside and moving the body). “I thought walking outside would blow everything out of the water but walking on a treadmill in a small, boring room still had strong results,” she says. Walking, whether it was inside or outside, raised subjects’ creative output by 60% on average, compared with sitting still, regardless of location. This demonstrates once again that the act of movement itself is the crucial factor. From ‘All it takes is a quick walk’: how a few minutes’ exercise can unleash creativity – even if you hate it, The Guardian, March 4, 2024 p.s we often go outside too but where's Spring? #Creativity #Movement #EmbodiedLearning Tania Banotti