Motional Literacy

ARD’s Motional Literacy Workshop offers movement vocabulary and experientials for use by individuals and groups to work through stressors, physical & emotional pain, collaboration & inclusion efforts, and creative blocks. Motional Literacy works to enhance felt empowerment and embrace self-care. ARD’s program introduces a simple “Motional Literacy” movement experience and vocabulary and helps participants apply its benefits to personal and professional development. This workshop offers skills and tools to allow the individual to show up completely and achieve an “embodied vulnerability.”

Team Building          |             Self- Care           |          Empowerment 

ARD’s introductory workshop introduces the entirety of the Motional Literacy approach and provides participants with practice and guidelines for implementing the techniques. More focused workshops delve into a subset of Motional Literacy elements as applied to a particular environment, personal need, or professional obstacle and can be tailored to incorporate various movement experientials if desired. 

Team Building, Self- care, and Empowerment are three focused workshops that use the elements of Motional Literacy to provide a physical experience, felt exploration, and skill development of the theme.

Motional Literacy Elements

1. Open: Practice how to fully “show up,” embrace an open mindset, and achieve a posture of inclusion and understanding.

2. Lengthen: Use simple alignment techniques and movement efficiency to activate an individual’s internal resources and innate strengths.

3. Make Space: Tools and exercises to help find space for mental and creative growth.

4. Yield: Use physicality and awareness to better navigate our community or work environment.

5. Reset: Tools for regrounding and tips to turn attention back to the self.

Curated workshops can focus on any subset of Motional Literacy elements, and can incorporate movement experientials based in classical, educational, medical, and therapeutic techniques.