EMBODIED LANGUAGE COACH

Language Educator Professional Development

Training · Mentoring

A self-paced course for language educators to question, unlearn and decolonize education, languages, and business. 

Led by María Ortega García.

Are you looking to deepen your self-awareness as an educator, improve your teaching, and expand your understanding of embodied pedagogy?

Join us on a journey to lean deeper into who you are as an educator. explore the nuances that shift Your teaching paradigm from one which OFTEN doES unconscious harm to one of conscious relating. Embrace embodied learning and cultural sensitivity.

THIS TRAINING WILL ENABLE YOU TO:

  • Deepen your understanding of yourself and how you show up as an educator
  • Expand your awareness of learning styles based on personality type, neurodiversity, trauma, cultural differences, etc.
  • Explore the decolonisation of language and language learning
  • Deepen your knowledge of embodied pedagogy
  • Explore the link between language learning, creativity and self-expression
  • Discover conscious business and leadership practices 
"Maria is an artist with real substance. Throughout the course I was impressed by the amount of thoughtfulness, research, creativity and variation in the content and exercises within both the self-paced and live course components. I'm still gaining value from the contents of the course and I know its lessons will continue to inform decisions in my language coaching business for years to come. Maria has a way of bringing out the best in people, or perhaps simply of attracting wonderful, supportive people into her programme. On the live calls she facilitated powerful exploration into both deeper and lighter topics (often the former) - with a great focus on being present and exploring some poem or topic together without judgment. Some of the lessons this course has taught me include: The importance of living with embodiment and integrity, and ways to integrate my true motivations with my work and my language coaching business; how to use poetry to consolidate ideas, opinions and experiences; how to 'stand in my power' and dare to differentiate myself and my way of working. I may also consider bringing poetry into my language coaching calls - to be continued!"
Hedvig Sandbu Language and Learning Coach. Founder of Abundate Language Learning

Information & Applications

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As teachers, we have the enormous privilege of helping people expand who they are and how they experience the world. 

We are catalysts for change, which means we’re engaging with people who are in a vulnerable position; it is our responsibility to ensure that we accompany our students with the greatest emotional and cultural sensitivity and to make the process an empowering one.

The educational playing field is shifting as society becomes increasingly aware of the harm that can be caused by perpetuating limiting attitudes, approaches and assumptions from the framework of education that we’ve inherited, as well as the impact of limited learning models that exclude the body.

We are being called to cocreate a culture that is much more emotionally literate, embodied and holistic. One that fosters somatic awareness and involves the body in learning and relating. 

Teaching is not just about transmitting information, it’s about creating shifts in awareness, opening doors to new experiences, offering glimpses of previously unknown possibilities.

Learning is empowerment.

And to be able to do that for our students we need to be able to deeply understand ourselves and our biases as well as our students and the ways they respond due to their particular makeup and enculturation.

Detailed Program

CYCLE ONE: Emotional Literacy

CYCLE TWO: Catalyst for Growth

CYCLE THREE: Alternative Learning Methods for Individualised Learning

CYCLE FOUR: Teacher as an Artist

CYCLE FIVE: Change Maker

CYCLE SIX: Embodied Integration

Click here to access the full curriculum.

"Maria's training marked a bold before and after in my teaching style, business but also in my personal evolution. Beside excellent contents to align my job to a more sustainable and integrative approach, the last 6 months were a time I gave to myself for a deep inner dialogue and reflection. Sharing the experience with great people from different countries has been another pro of the course. I always felt in a safe space both during 1:1 and group sessions. The creative writing ones have been definitely my favourites, especially for the inspirational insights that came out. Every piece of advice Maria sahred with the group or personally were so precise and resonate with me loudly! Since august 2022, when the training started, I have lived a constant evolution, I have been putting step by step what came out in my teaching and coaching business and I can daily prove how this benefits both me and people who I work with. Maria is an empathic and profound coach and teacher, who gives you the space you need in order to be comfortable along the path. With so much gratitude I can say she is inspiring and generous in sharing what she is and knows. A great mentor!"
Giulia Tosolini Spanish Language Coach. Founder of En Cuerpo y Alma

COURSE INCLUDES

  • Materials 
    • Video classes
    • PDF (theory + practice) + Video classes + Audios specifically created for each cycle.
    • Reading materials (book + articles), podcasts, interviews and talks.
    • Movement sessions, practical embodiment, guided meditations, voice, toning, peer group poetry therapy, creativity sessions…
    • Click this link for the full curriculum.
  • Guided expressive writing sessions.
  • Email support

ADDITIONAL

  • Reading list (books, articles) and talks, podcasts and interviews on every topic in the curriculum.
  • Bonus classes with experts in different areas related to embodiment, leadership, language learning, mindfulness, coaching, creative writing, poetry, marketing…

Don't you think it's time to change the face of language education and learning?

Click below to register your interest and book a chat to understand if this unique training is what you need to get to the next level.

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"I recently completed the embodied language coaching course with Maria. I found this course deeply insightful, I discovered a lot about myself as a person and teacher and it opened my eyes to holding space for others within a classroom. Maria is a fantastic teacher, offering beautiful connections through her group work and 1 to 1 sessions. she has really helped me as a teacher, boosted my confidence to open my own business and has been a lovely support throughout this experience. Maria created such a safe space for expression and discovery. I really enjoyed the creative writing and poetry, it was beautiful to share and express within a judgement free zone and connect with others in the space Maria faciltated. I would recommend this course not just for development as a teacher but for self development also."
Elaoise Smyth English ESL Teacher

Q&A

The training is self-paced, so you can complete it at your own rhythm. The audiovisual materials make up around 10-hours. The basic reading materials (PDFs, articles, etc…) amount to another 5-6 hours. The reflective and practice materials can be completed between 6 to 8 hours.

The additional reading list adds over 20 hours.

No. This is not a course designed to train teachers in traditional foreign language education nor the ropes to start your own online business as a language teacher.

I am available over email. 

If you need a more personalised support, you can work with me in the 1:1 professional development & support mentoring.

Digitally. You will receive pre-training resources & all of the lessons are delivered in our secure online course platform over video & audio. Resources will be provided in PDF form. 

Yes. This training is for anyone interested in a more embodied use of language, be it in the classroom, at work or in their personal, creative expression in the artistic realm. 

Yes! Email me at [email protected]

About me

¡Hola! I’m a certified language as a foreign language teacher, a facilitator, host, writer and poetry therapy practitioner, with a background in Humanities and applied languages.

I have over 15 years experience teaching languages and 10 running my own education business. This business has pushed me to keep growing and acquiring skills in the realm of personal development, embodiment, creativity, leadership and business.

I believe the current language learning world is lacking heart. What is more, it’s definitely lacking body and the experiential expression that comes with it. It lacks nuance, emotion and self-awareness. I believe language is cultural and social, but also personal and political.

Us, language workers, are responsible from facilitating a language that fosters empathy, connection, understanding.

Training Investment

Full cost: 400€

Payment plans available.

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