Move to Learn: Leveraging brain-body connections to increase academic performance with Dr. Nyama McCarthy-Brown
August 22, 2025, Bates College
Includes: Light breakfast, lunch and reception snacks
Intellectual and somatic ways of knowing are intertwined. How can we leverage this connection to impact more significant learning? Many students today spend much of their time in a screen-dominant world. Our society’s heightened reliance on technology has caused many to become increasingly disembodied, and to mistrust one’s own senses. As a result, many are less attuned to their bodies than previous generations, which impacts overall wellness. This keynote workshop-presentation will explain, through demonstration, how learning and student engagement can be driven through the body. Through the use of embodied responses to questions and embodied narratives, participant-attendees will consider how minor tweaks to lesson plans can be adjusted to center mind-body connections. These shifts in teaching approach enhance learning and student engagement and can also uplift whole-body wellness.