Student Wellbeing Tokyo
Practical TaiChi based methods for grounding & self care, stress & productivity management
Want the best for your students and youth now & in the future?
Stress and fatigue in school reduces productivity, critical thinking and negatively impacts grades and exam results. TaiChi principles can be developed and employed to support the reduction of stress and burnout for students.
Is lack of physical and mental wellbeing contributing to sickness, absences, tiredness or low productivity in school?
TaiChi is based on the release of muscular tension and aims to employ continuous relaxed movement. Training movement in this way supports us to overcome the flight / flight response and to spend more time in the parasympathetic state. Of course we know that this state of ‘rest and digest’ is invaluable to quality of life and wellbeing. TaiChi also promotes integration of a sustained state of active relaxation. The ideal is to remain actively engaged without accumulating unnecessary habitual states of physical and mental tension that can impact productivity and emotional stability.
Are problematic behaviours impacting on the class room environment?
Adolescence is a time of striving for independence, identity and meaning. Along with the pressures of school and study this can lead to stress, anxiety and depression. All of which can be features of the normal adolescent experience. At times an inability to recognise, understand and manage negative mental states can lead to disruptive and challenging behaviours. TaiChi principles can be applied to identify escalating mental & emotional states and bring about calm using simple breath, body and movement methods.
Are students facing high demand and feeling stressed?
Letting go of stress and tension is a skill that can be taught and maintained. Students can learn the skill of release: Programs can be facilitated online or in-person.
Stress, influence and intrigue can lead to problematic behaviours including substance misuse.
Are students prepared for the challenges of the real world here and abroad? We work with young people, students and staff to provide practical information and methods to encourage understanding of problematic behaviours, making smart choices and self-care. The aim is to reduce harm and build resilience across all domains of wellbeing.
Poor posture causing pain or injury?
We have extensive experience working to promote postural correction in professional and educational environments such as in schools and offices for whom the modern ‘text neck’ is most prevalent and of impact on wellbeing, health and productivity. Postural corrective techniques can be taught without need for hands on manual manipulation. Therefore these are ideal methods for working with individual students and school groups alike.
Facilitation is tailored for individuals, small or large groups.
In-person services are available in Tokyo, Japan. Online services are available anywhere in the world. Additional video content is available to support live in-person or online sessions and provide continuity, congruence and meaning to regular or one-off school sessions.
Contact us to find out how we can tailor services for your school today.
Youth Wellbeing Facilitator
Paul McIntyre
TaiChi instructor
Paul is owner, manager and senior instructor of the Melbourne and Tokyo HME International TaiChi branch schools. He has taught TaiChi for many years from local to international group classes, private tuition and workshops, and including via an online format with an audience of thousands of subscribers.
Paul has worked closely with students and young people as individuals and in groups to deliver self-care methods based on TaiChi principles for many years. He has a passion for working with young people from a broad range of backgrounds, from high achievers, athletes and academics to the mentally and physically impaired and those struggling with problematic behaviours.
‘‘Paul, thanks again for all your wonderful work on this series, it was such a fantastic collaboration’’ - Anna Paterson, MMW Co-ordinator, City of Melbourne
Youth work expertise
Paul McIntyre draws on a wealth of experience in youth work services in the Alcohol and Other Drug service sector (AOD) in Melbourne, Australia. He worked for Victoria’s leading State wide agency, the Youth Support & Advocacy Service (YSAS) for well over 15 years from 2003 - 2020.
Paul was employed across a vast scope of roles from direct client counselling, outreach & residential withdrawal support, to program, site and staff management. He has facilitated staff training, program development and strategic planning.
Paul has been an industry consultant for implementation of health and wellbeing strategies for professionals and young people.
As a result, he has a unique capacity to understand, teach and to implement effective strategies for supporting students and young people to navigate, understand and manage the stresses and challenges of adolescence in school and in life more broadly.
Qualified AOD educator
Paul is a qualified and experienced AOD youth worker. On top of 15+ years work in the field he undertook YSAS induction training and continual professional development modules throughout his employment. He holds a Diploma of Youth Work and Cert IV AOD from Victoria University.
Paul was hand-picked as a member of the YSAS training and research team and played a key roll in staff AOD training within the organisation and state wide across the service sector in Victoria, Australia.
Paul has presented on self-care strategies and delivered AOD education and training on how to work with young people & problematic drug use in an array of settings and with a dynamic of people and professionals from young people and students, office workers & executive management through to front-line youth workers, emergency department staff and medical professionals in hospitals, residential medical withdrawal units and in schools.
Drawing on the principles of TaiChi, Paul has presented and facilitated on the subject of self-care for national health conferences (Australian YouthAOD Conference), state wide agency forums, strategic development meetings and team building days.
TaiChi instructor, wellbeing coach, & qualified AOD Youth Worker - Paul McIntyre
Paul facilitating for the city of Melbourne 2021
HME founder Sifu Adam Mizner talks about TaiChi
Participants at Melbourne Music Week 2021
Video series ‘52 Weeks - TaiChi Principles for Student Wellness coming soon. Contact us to stay updated