Satir workshops

Our bodily and kinesthetic intelligence allows us to engage in sports, dancing, work and any area where agility is required. People with this driver installed enjoy trekking, swimming, sports, rough and tumble, handicrafts, sculpture and using hand gestures and stances to express themselves.

This intelligence has excellent timing, learns by moving and participation, remembers what was done rather than what was said or observed, doodles or plays with objects while listening and loves hugging.

We can observe this intelligence when we physically touch or handle something where such manipulation leads to greater understanding of the subject we have under scrutiny. This intelligence does not care much for systematically going through instruction manuals prior to entering new learning experiences.

Typical roles: Dancers, actors, athletes, sports people, mimics, surgeons, martial arts practitioners and teachers.

Mapped to the Sweet Medicine Wheel healing preferences, this would fit kinesthetic healing. Kinesthetic healers or healing uses hands to move energy. That doesn’t have to be a show, nor is it a mysterious Master or Mistress act. If done well, the body that is moved learns how to heal itself, and is not made dependent on the healer.

This preference can be stimulated by changing seats regularly; Using stories and metaphors, like in myths; Supportive tactile materials when learning, like in Montessori education; role play, improv and sculpting practices with for example Satir stances, and (re)designing and playing games.