Title

Mindfulness, wellness and wholeness

Workshop description

This Studio will take us a step towards a deeper understanding of ourselves and how we can practice wellbeing through drama, yoga and mindfulness. We will breathe and move together in a multi-sensorial, mind, body and heart experience. The goal for the day is to nurture and inspire teachers and other adults with fun and practical techniques on how to embed social-emotional learning into the classroom, curriculum and in young people’s lives.

Target audience

Teachers, facilitators and parents interested to integrate social-emotional learning (SEL) into their school, classroom, subject areas, curricular work or home life through play, drama, mindfulness and/or yoga. 

Learning outcomes

Learn from yoga, mindfulness and theatre expert Hannah Northcott and enjoy a unique, enlightening and restorative day that will enable you to build your ‘wholeness’ toolbox and leave with a whole host of activities and strategies to bring into your work with young people applicable to a variety of settings. The outcomes for learning will cover:

Self-awareness

• Self-perception: physical awareness, vocal awareness and spatial awareness
• Recognizing strengths
• Self-confidence
• Self-efficacy

Social awareness

• Perspective-taking
• Empathy
• Respect for others

Relationship skills (through play)

• Communication
• Teamwork (collaboration)

About your workshop leader

I live in leggings and drive a three-wheeled tuktuk in Shunyi, a suburb of Beijing, where my husband, Steve, and our two daughters – Catalina Joy (6years old) and Ariella Rose (3 years old) reside. We’re a third culture family who has been living overseas for over a decade. We balance our holidays between driving through Canada in our RV and playing at the soft sandy beaches of Southeast Asia.

I received a BA in Broadcast Communication, a masters degree in Imaginative Education at Simon Fraser University, a master yoga instructor certification and drama training at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York and in Meyerhold’s biomechanics at Kuala Lumpur.

Although I’m still on the happy side of 40, I feel like I’ve lived multiple lives. I hosted a television car show, djayed the graveyard shift of a radio programme, directed and acted in theatre productions (in Manila, New York, and Kuala Lumpur), and hosted live shows like Nickelodeon’s Let’s Just Play, an event where I accidentally amputated Sponge Bob in front of thousands of people. After traumatizing an unsuspecting young audience with Sponge Bob’s flying arm, I decided to shift careers from entertaining an audience to empowering people through through yoga, theatre, and drama education.

While in Manila, I was a spokesperson for Women’s Wellness where I shared hundreds of empowering talks in various corporate settings. Couple that with over a decade of teaching and I have been communicating for 18 years and have gained more than 10,000 hours of experience in public speaking. I share my passion for drama, woman empowerment, health and wholeness, through workshops, ISTA theatre festivals, APAC Theatre and Dance Festivals, wellness retreats, and teaching conferences around the world. As an advocate for healthy living, I have recently partnered with healthy food provider, Doko Beijing, as their brand ambassador.

Steve, on the other hand, teaches art, creates graffiti murals, produces music documentaries, and plays in a band. From busking in our wedding outfits on Broadway to teaching middle school drama and art at the International School of Beijing in China, we live our art.