You might wonder, what is the connection between a human body and its movement and improving soft skills. Recall a moment when weight was lifted off your shoulders! It felt good, right? Or, remember what it felt like when the world seemed wide open. What about the opposite, the feeling of not having space to breathe?

These experiences would not be possible without our bodies and us sensing ourselves. This ability is so self-evident that we hardly pay attention to it, but the MOSS team thinks it’s high time to acknowledge and value this resource. We live in, with and through our bodies, and somatic approach invites you to benefit from sensing, moving and giving shape to your goals in order to learn and thrive.

We understand somatics as an educational approach that prioritizes body and movement as the key dimension in developing soft skills. The mind exists within a living body. Movement experience is one of the sources of knowledge. By combining different movement activities with reflection, we increase awareness of our abilities and limitations, our patterns and tendencies. Many body experiences can be used as metaphors to understand better the processes and challenges we experience as professionals and as human beings - at work and in relationship with other beings.

Exposing ourselves to new body practices helps us to develop skills and change behavioural patterns. Movement gives us a chance to practice who we want to be and how we want to be. Therefore, it can be a much more powerful learning tool than books, lectures or discussions. Our approach seeks to acknowledge the value of the body, movement and our own experience as a way to continuously learn.

The soft skills we are addressing with MOSS cannot be learned from books, so what better way to dive into the skills than by moving, alone and with others!