Each business is unique: from operations and management, to the tools and methods of production, and the individuals that make up your labor force. Labor-Movement offers to work with your business and crew to suit business needs and culture.
Movement Workshop: 2 hours. Discuss movement health + wellness from an athletic perspective in order to increase work productivity and help decrease workplace injuries. Time will be spent learning tips on managing food, fluid, sleep, and stress related to athletic performance over long days and seasons, followed by moving through four basic movement patterns: hinge, squat, push and pull, along with the importance of core stability, with group and individual coaching opportunities. Each participant will leave with tips focused on ways to improve their overall movement patterning and work-related well-being. Q&A session.
Contact Cynthia to schedule at your farm's location, or see Workshop Registration page for open registration workshops in your area.
Athletes in Overalls: Movement Health + Self-Advocacy: (via Zoom) 2 hours. Movement health + wellness from an athletic perspective. Discussion of how athleticism fits into physical labor and what movement self-advocacy is. Learn tips on managing food, fluid, sleep, and stress for best performance over long days and seasons. We will discuss: hinges and squats; movement considerations to reduce low back pain or injury; moving and carrying loads; and more. Q&A.
*Content in this online session includes content that is covered in in-person Movement Workshops. Given the limitations of the delivery method, there will not be opportunity for movement practice with coaching. While focus is directed toward agriculture, any BODY can utilize this information for any of the work you do, and anybody is welcome to participate unless otherwise indicated.
Athletes in Overalls: Injury Risk Management (4-part Zoom series) Each session: 60 minutes. For those interested in in-depth coverage of risk avoidance and management of musculoskeletal injuries. Information will include movement self-advocacy and considerations for implementing change within a farm's strategies.
All sessions on Thursdays at 4:30 pm PST/6:30 pm EST
March 20: Movement Health, Self-Advocacy, and Athletic Performance of Farmers and Industrial Athletes
March 27: Food, Fluid, Sleep, and Stress are Foundations of Injury Risk Management
April 3: Body Mechanics and Movement Patterns: Squats, Hinges, and Carries
April 10: Injuries: Prehab vs Rehab?, Rest + Recovery
Each session will have time for 15-20 minutes for Q&A, depending on content length. Video will be recorded and attendees will be sent a link with time-limited access.
Register for all 4 sessions or Pick-and-Choose.
Movement Workshop II: 2 hours. This workshop option is currently available at farm locations that have a 60-75% return rate of crew that have previously participated in a Movement Workshop or Coaching Day with Labor-Movement. Workshop II will be a continuation of where the Movement Workshop left off with "picking things up and putting them down." We will refresh the principles of health and function, then spend the majority of time working on the skill of movement related to farm tasks. This is an opportunity to ask specific questions and practice movement mechanics as a group in a controlled setting.
Farm Coaching days (half or full day) are a natural progression after a Safe Labor Movement Workshop. Typically held 6-8 weeks after a workshop, during a normal workday.
Coaching - In-person: Labor-Movement is available for in-person training at your business location (3-4 hours). A coaching day allows interaction with your crew during the work day, in real vs ideal settings and situations. Movement strategies given in real time.
Coaching - Subscription 3 month, 6 month, Yearly. Bundle it all together for continuity through one or all of the seasons. Coaching is an add-on for those that have gone through Safe Labor Movement Workshop and/or Movement Assessments training.
Individuals or Small Groups (5 or less)
Any of the above offerings can be tailored to individuals or a smaller group size!
For most, the ideal location would be your work setting. For those that may need a separate location, please contact Cynthia for info.
* Locations more than 100 miles round trip (RT) from Freeport, ME will incur 2024 Federal mileage charge: $0.67/mile.
Scheduling Group or Individual Workshops
Labor-Movement knows that farming - land + sea - can be unpredictable for a variety of reasons. That is why workshops and trainings are offered at your location, on your schedule. Please contact Cynthia directly.
Group size is limited to 15. Farms and individuals that wish to plan and participate together are welcome to do so. For any group or individual that wishes, facility use in Falmouth, ME is available.
Scheduling Outside of Maine
Labor-Movement is mobile and will to travel to your location.
Some organizations and farms have set up multiple workshops - different sites are okay - in order to help with associated travel costs. Please reach out to discuss these possibilities. Labor-Movement exists to support farmers and farmworkers - land + sea, agricultural service providers and industrial athletes, near or far. Virtual options available.
