HEALTHY MOVES DANCE PROGRAMS
Healthy Moves: Dance for Physical and Mental Wellbeing
Online self-paced course
Price $750 incl. GST per Educator
This ten part online program equips Kindergarten educators with practical tools to enhance children's wellbeing, physicality, and emotional and social development while engaging through active learning. Developed in collaboration between Allied Health and Creative Art professionals, it blends creative dance with evidence-based movement techniques, empowering educators to deliver safe, engaging dance activities that support both physical and mental wellbeing.
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Session 1: The role of Dance in Early Childhood Development
Session 2: Movement Fundamentals for Healthy Development
Session 3: Enhancing Coordination and Motor Skills through Dance & Play
Session 4: Dance and Rhythm and it's Impact on Cognitive Development
Session 5: Dance as a Tool for Relaxation and Emotional Health
Session 6: Storytelling and Expressive Movement for Emotional Growth
Session 7: Building Social Skills and Teamwork through Dance
Session 8: Dance for Physical Fitness and Healthy Habits
Session 9: Cultural Awareness through Dance
Session 10: Reflecting on Progress and Celebrating Success
This program offers an online professional learning experience for Early Childhood Educators to support children to develop a strong sense of wellbeing including:
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Building and increasing autonomy and resilience
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Engaging with ways to be healthy and safe
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Building physical wellbeing
While encouraging Kindergarten children to become confident and involved learners through:
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Building positive dispositions toward learning
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Showing confidence and involvement in learning
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Engaging with technologies for learning and communication
Global Moves: Celebrating Diversity Through Dance
4 part Workshop series
$550* incl GST per Workshop
In person in the Greater Brisbane Metropolitan area or online via Zoom.
*Additional travel costs if > 10km outside the Brisbane CBD.
This workshop series offers Kindergarten educators four diverse dance styles that have been co-designed with Creative Artists —Flamenco, Hip Hop, Contemporary, Bollywood—to explore culture, diversity, and connectedness through movement. Choose 1-4 Workshops depending on your Kindergarten's needs and interests. Each session includes a 30-minute instructor-led student workshop focused on, evidence based and age appropriate, healthy movement followed by 30 minutes of educator coaching, equipping educators to design and deliver interactive, culturally enriched dance experiences for Kindergarten aged children.
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1. Hip Hop Workshop
Introduce young children to the world of Hip Hop through fun, rhythmic movements that encourage self-expression and physical coordination. This high-energy workshop promotes active learning, develops gross motor skills, and builds confidence as children explore the beats and movements of urban dance culture.
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2. Bollywood Workshop
Celebrate the vibrant energy of Bollywood with colorful, expressive movements that embrace cultural diversity. Children will learn playful, rhythmic steps inspired by traditional and modern Indian dance, promoting wellbeing, social-emotional development, and an appreciation for global cultures.
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3. Flamenco Workshop
Introduce children to the passionate art of Flamenco, where rhythmic clapping, footwork, and dramatic expression come together. This workshop nurtures physicality, encourages emotional expression, and fosters cultural awareness as children explore the proud traditions of Latin American dance.
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4. Contemporary Workshop
Explore the fluid and creative movements of Contemporary dance, encouraging children to connect their bodies and emotions. Through guided improvisation, children will develop emotional resilience, physical coordination, and self-expression, all while engaging in active learning and movement exploration.
We design and deliver evidence based programs: Learn more about the health and learning benefits of Dancing in the Early Years.
Preschoolers should be physically active for at least 3 hours per day, with at least one of those hours being ‘energetic play’ which includes Dancing (Australian Government)
Physical movement coupled with novel pretend imagery can help with attention, speed, retention, and enjoyment of learning (Sacha & Ross, 2006)
Dance is a feasible alternative to traditional physical activity and dance provides physiological and psychological benefits to healthy and medically compromised children and youth populations (Tao. D et al 2022).
Movement and music experiences integrated within a preschool curriculum can also reinforce math and logic concepts through rhythm and patterns of beat and tempo (Shilling, 2002).
Physical activity provides young children physical and mental health benefits and delivers preventative effects for chronic disease (WHO, 2020).
In young people, dance appears to be superior to other exercise in lessening the impact of somatization. (Yan, et al 2024).
Dance movement has been demonstrated to improve children’s life functioning, duration of sleep, emotional and behavioural difficulties when used in a therapeutic contexts in children (Moula et al, 2022)
A preschool movement through dance program is a way to open the door to numerous benefits and opportunities. Creating new contexts for learning enrich young children and offer them different opportunities to understand and negotiate the world (Lorenzo-Lasa et al 2007)
Meet your Facilitator
Carmen
With a Bachelor of Applied Science (Physiotherapy) and over 10 years of experience as a Workplace Trainer, Carmen brings a unique blend of expertise in physical health and injury prevention to our kindy dance programs. As a Registered Physiotherapist with AHPRA, her deep understanding of biomechanics, movement, and overall well-being ensures that this program is grounded in safe, effective practices that promote both physical and mental health. Carmen holds a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, and has led corporate wellness and injury prevention programs for over a decade, providing her with a strong foundation in developing and delivering engaging and educational content. Having three young children of her own, 6, 4 and 2 Carmen noticed an opportunity to design and deliver, engaging programs that empower young people with the evidence based health benefits of the creative arts including Dance. As a movement expert, Carmen has collaborated with diverse, creative artists to design and lead extra-curricular dance programs for school-aged children, blending her health-focused background with artistic expression. The Early Education dance program series is designed is to not only foster creativity and movement in young children aged 3-5 but also to align with health-focused principles that support their long-term physical development and well-being
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