Movement

Movement has more than one solution.

WIDE looks beyond whether somebody can or cannot complete a movement. It asks what possibilities are available, how they change with the situation and what remains afterwards.

A movement does not happen by itself.

A person moves in relationship with the world around them.

A chair can matter. A floor can matter. An object can matter. Timing, expectation and what happened immediately beforehand can matter.

WIDE looks at the whole situation in which movement becomes possible.

There isn't always one right way.

Human beings are adaptable. We can often accomplish the same task in different ways.

If only one solution remains available, life can begin to become fragile around it. If several workable possibilities remain available, a person may have more ways to respond when the world changes.

What solution is this person using?

What else is genuinely available?

What does each possibility make possible in real life?

WIDE can stay with what is already there.

Change is not always the next helpful step.

WIDE may help someone notice something about their existing movement. At another moment, making a small difference available may be useful.

If the person's response changes, WIDE's next response can change too.

That is why WIDE is intended to feel less like being given a sequence of exercises and more like an evolving conversation about movement.

Movement Possibility Window

The window is personal, contextual and changing.

WIDE can explore not only how large that window is, but its character: which possibilities are easy to enter, difficult to leave, survive demand, depend on support, return later or lead naturally into what the person wants to do next.

The important question is what those possibilities make available in life.

Afterwards matters.

The return matters. The settling matters. The next beginning matters.

Something which makes one movement look better but leaves the next movement harder may not have helped very much.

Bring something that matters.

WIDE can begin with a movement, an activity, or something you want to get back to doing.

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