practice · all tools
Body Awareness
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharednone
Across multiple sessions, participants train attention to their bodily and affective responses inside real learning and work situations — where concentration lives, how tension shapes communication, what the body knows before the mind reports it — with sketchbook notes between sessions.
Hold with care
- Interoceptive attention can activate trauma histories — offer outer-sense anchors and pause rights, as with any body-based practice
Practical
- Time
- 60-150 min
- Group
- 1–6 · individual, small-group
- Settings
- in-person, self-guided
- Materials
- Notepad or sketchbook
- Mechanisms
- somatic-awareness, open-awareness, life-embedding
- Change scope
- skill · recurring-practice
Instructions
- Where
- transitionmakers.nl/tool/body-awareness — Transition Makers Toolbox, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 per the Transition Makers footer; its badge links CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — variant unresolved, see source record
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Timothy Bland, Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA) — Somatic awareness / embodied learning
In this directory via Transition Makers Toolbox
Related: Body Scan Meditation (pairs-with)
status: checked · added 2026-08-25