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Nothing Makes Perfect#4 Chris Ruffolo: Physical Education"Kids know so much about these games, but they don’t know anything about themselves.”Chris Ruffolo is a High School Health & PE teacher in Oregon. Someone who seeks to understand the person or persons in front of her.In this episode, we talk about the selfishness of athletics, post-competitive divorce, saying yes to kids, and questioning the way things have been.Connect with ChrisIG: @ruffolous, @optionsandabilityPostCompetitiveInsight.comThinkMovement.netAbout the ShowHey, I'm your host, Jeremy Fein (FeinMovement.com). I'm a coach who helps clien...
2022-09-2658 min
Thinkmovement#23 - Coaches Needing CoachesJeremy Fein, Jenn Pilotti, and Chris Ruffolo discuss whether they believe coaches need coaches. Hard answers soften as multiple sides are presented.
2022-01-1041 min
Thinkmovement#22 - Articulation Games 2: Combining Skillsets and Engaging KidsFanny and Zeynep combine their skillsets (play and pain/ problem solving) to create an engaging activity for 12-14 year olds. We discuss their process for figuring out needs/ wants, how they would handle the "I'm not doing it" crowd, and they offer up a collaborative game to fit the situation. [The Articulation Games is a series of teaching challenges. Video of these interactions can be found on the Thinkmovement YouTube page.]
2021-08-2148 minThinkmovement#21 - Finding Common Ground: Life Coach or Personal Trainer?Zeynep, Sam, and Chris discuss labels, problem solving, credibility, and trusting your intuition. We find that we all do the same thing and struggle with the labels in which to call it.
2021-08-1750 minThinkmovement#20 - Adarian BarrA conversation with Adarian Barr on being different, seeing the whole picture, crossing contexts, rotation, retraction, and global vs. local movements.
2021-03-2446 minThinkmovement#19 - Personal Trainer or Life CoachGary, Jenn, Zeynep, Fanny, Chris, and Jeremy discuss on whether there is a distinction between life coach and personal trainer. We get into ideas of psychologists on gym floors, sensory educators, client responsibility, language bias, autonomy being bad for business, and how it's hard to find the right words to translate and/or communicate what it is that we do.
2021-03-1442 minThinkmovement#18 - Knowing What You Need (HS PE)Audio from a zoom class asking kids how they know what they need. Split between being told and figuring it out on their own, this translates into blindly accepting vs. being skeptical and asking questions. The first step in the process of getting what you need.
2021-01-1021 minThinkmovement#17 - An Update on IncontinenceChris and Zeynep recap finding's that have helped curb (cure?) Chris's incontinence issues. [See 'A Session with Zeynep: Magic Breathing on thinkmovement.net]. The key was not in studying the pelvic floor, but the above xiphoid. Altering rib position at rest created space for air/ pressure to go elsewhere than down. *Video with balloon visual can be found on our YouTube page (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz_ZtGRJmNBPxsDtTNthBhg)
2020-11-2912 minThinkmovement#16 High Schoolers talk about CareAnother from actual online Phys Ed. Care looks like many things to many people. What if it were talked about and discussed? Could it act as a learned and useful skill? We specifically talk about the selfishness dilemma and assumptions which lead to frustration. Care = spending time with and paying attention to. It is a form of active listening and adjusting.
2020-11-1236 minThinkmovement#15 - High Schoolers talking about Depression & AnxietySince school has started and I don't have any peer conversations to post, I thought I would give insight into how I'm starting with thinking and feeling in regards to Online PE. This discussion is asking kids why they seem to be more affected by depression and anxiety than their peers. (Self-reported).
2020-09-2324 minThinkmovement#14 - Articulation Games, Day 2Final segment taking a peek into the 2020 Thinkmovement Articulation Games. Team Coasts and Bay discuss their group project, and Cat Cowey and Rufus Nicoll give solo presentations on hypermobility and open handed listening, respectively.
2020-09-011h 22Thinkmovement#13 - Art Games Group AssignmentTeam Turkey talks about how they created a mental health + physical practice campaign, why they targeted women, and how doing less might be the answer to what ails us.
2020-08-2651 minThinkmovement#12 Articulation Games, Day 120min presentations from Sevinc Gurmen, Selen Gurmen, Jenn Pilotti, and Brandon Chien. Two challenges each. These audio tracks wil be the only public offerings of the event.
2020-08-202h 00Thinkmovement#11 - TM+ PEMichael Ryan and Chris Ruffolo welcome yoga teacher, IT analyst, non-profit leader, and bicycle enthusiast David Zundel to talk about where Phys Ed is lacking, the assumption of health and ability, and the opportunity that distance learning presents.
2020-08-051h 28Thinkmovement#10 - Pelvic Dysfunction (Male Perspective)Kyle Pringle and Rufus Nicoll dive deep into ALL the holes, the trouble finding resources of a non-sexual nature that dig into these topics, and why being sensitive to what's happening in the pubic region can be as fundamentally significant as breathing.Resource book Kyle recommended: Recognizing and Treating Breathing Disorders by Thomas Meyers (Anatomy Trains)
2020-07-2941 minThinkmovement#9 - Pelvic Dysfunction (Female Perspective)Physiotherapist Zeynep Seyran discusses her work with pelvic dysfunction as a whole and in working with the specific post-birth issues of Sevinc Gurmen, a pole athlete. The simplest solution is often difficult to implement because our bodies war with our egos. (Described 'magic exercise' to be posted to thinkmovement.net this Friday, July 24, 2020).
2020-07-2259 minThinkmovement#8 - TM+ PainThe episode that changed everything. We welcome 'outsider' Zeynep Seyran (physiotherapist who specializes in pelvic issues) to talk with Sevinc Gurman, Jenn Pilotti, Fanny Tulloch, Jenn Pilotti, and Chris Ruffolo about the need to keep pain a mystery.
2020-07-141h 08Thinkmovement#7 - Finding Common Ground: Environmental ImportanceAn urban scholar and a woodsy forager agree to disagree on how the environments in which we reside shape us and form movement habits.
2020-07-071h 03Thinkmovement#6 - Privilege and Movement CultureJenn Pilotti, Gary Stockdale, and Chris Ruffolo discuss the barriers surrounding movement culture and how it's existence is a sifting and socio-cultural marker of privilege.
2020-07-0156 minThinkmovement#5 - Deregulation and Disassociation of the Nervous SystemDare Sohei takes the group toward sensing deregulation of the nervous system, the coping patterns we fall into, and ultimately, how one may right the ship to get back to calm and steady waters.
2020-06-251h 29Thinkmovement#4 - Defining Your Crossroads and Determining ValueJeremy Fein, Cat Cowey, Chris Ruffolo, and Gary Stockdale discuss the different worlds in which they reside in and how they put a cost value on their services. Alternative title is 'Chris gets a therapy session on her aversion to selling."
2020-06-171h 00Thinkmovement#3 - Finding Common Ground: Pride vs. EgoPart 2 of Mike and Rufus, the fisherman and the fighter go deeper into kittens vs. killers, definitions, needs, learning, and finding balance.
2020-06-091h 17Thinkmovement#2 - Finding Common Ground : Masculinity & EgoA sensitive fisherman and a competitive fighter discuss masculinity and ego.
2020-06-091h 30Thinkmovement#1 - Developing Training PersonasGary Stockdale (aquatics/ locomotion), Cat Cowey (hypermobility), Chris Ruffolo (pain/ phys ed), Jereme Sanders (parkour), and Sevinc and Selen Gurman (pole) discuss the training identities one takes on while practicing their craft, from sexy to fearless.
2020-06-0757 min
The Daily PracticeChris Ruffolo - Think MovementChris Ruffolo is a physical educator based out of Oregon. She provides the space and framework for her students to explore their creativity and physicality through roughhousing and inventing new rules for classic games such as basketball. My favorite part of our discussion was around victimhood mentality with the children she teaches. Take a listen to see how Chris is working around this and providing a space where her kids can get out of these limiting ideas. Some topics we discussed: - Similarities and differences between teaching older and younger populations - Victimhood and Identity in children - Roughhousing...
2018-12-2754 min