Luciana Siguelboim

Beyond sport, schools have long understood what they call “physical education” as a set of inexpressive, isolating, competitive, repetitive and mechanical bodily exercises, divided by gender and imposed homogeneously on each of our singularities. And it has always devoted most hours a week to intellectual learning about how different aspects of the world work... with little thought to learning how we ourselves work. Today, we know that there are different types of intelligence, that emotional connection and play are the basis of deep learning, that the mind is inconceivable without psycho-corporal structuring, that we build ourselves in relationships and the quality of our relationships determines our quality of life. The French education system has begun to offer spaces for learning about ourselves, and this is where I come in, coordinating verbal and non-verbal spaces for the discovery, development and respectful, creative and fun sharing of our psycho-social skills.

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What are emotions for, how can we understand them and live them better? What are our needs, capacities and resources for individual and collective fulfillment? Why and how do we experience certain conflicts? How can we respectfully manage our limits and limitations? How can we move beyond body-appearance to inhabit the body, feel its power and experience movement as an extension of our needs and values? How can we nurture empathic communication and emotional responsibility? How can we learn to love ourselves and build the meaningful world we want to create?

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The education I dream of, and to which I like to contribute, takes care of our sensitivities and promotes psycho-corporal wholeness.