A Webinar with Joanne Elphinston

Webinar Description: Please join us as the wonderful Joanne Elphinston, creator of the JEMS approach, presents our next online Webinar event Moving the Brain, Changing the Game: Beyond Exercise into Meaningful Movement.

Mind over matter – does this established mantra stand up in the light of modern neuroscience? And is movement just “motor”?

As rehabilitation or movement practitioners, we are engaged in helping our patients or clients into a process of change, from wherever they are now, to somewhere closer to where they would like to be.

Change is tricky though – mind over matter frequently doesn’t yield the results we expect no matter how many repetitions the patient performs.

It turns out that movement is an emergence borne of multiple influences, & many of these are not in the body.

Through predictive processing, the brain predicts the future based on its past experiences & associations, creating an intriguing challenge –how do we open the possibility for change in a movement when the brain has completed it before it has physically begun?

Far from being a barrier to change however, understanding predictive processing can be used to influence the way we shape the interaction, introduce & cue a movement, & the timing, frequency & content of our feedback. 

When we expand our communication skills based on an understanding of the relationships between brain function, autonomic state & motor learning, we can more effectively enable an individual to learn, adapt & perform movement with greater ease. 

This interactive lecture is an exploration of this phenomenon, exploring the interface of embodiment, emotion & intention with biomechanics, neuromuscular patterning & the experience of being a moving human.

When we talk to the brain in a language that it understands, our treatments become individualised & highly specific creative processes, motivating for us & meaningful to our patients.

If you want to get great at change, you need to know how to move the brain.

Introducing Joanne Elphinston

Joanne Elphinston is the creator of JEMS, a transformative approach to rehabilitation, performance movement & clinician wellbeing taught around the world for over twenty years. 

Joanne’s deep enchantment with the humanity & privilege of working with movement is underpinned by more than thirty years in clinical practice as a physiotherapist, author, performance movement consultant & coach. 

From chronic pain management through to performance consultancy for a wide range of international level athletes & performing artists, Joanne’s unusual breadth of experience, mixed with her coaching & philosophy background, has led to a uniquely unified perspective on our experience as humans moving, across the functional spectrum.    

Through JEMS, Joanne supports clinicians to find a greater sense of ease & inspiration in their work, as they in turn learn to inspire their patients. 

Her work has underpinned a range of research projects, from falls prevention to hypermobility, & she is the author of a number of popular books, including Stability, Sport & Performance Movement: Great Technique without Injury (2013),  &  “The Power & the Grace: A Professional’s Guide to Ease & Efficiency in Functional Movement” (2019)