This past weekend, MOVE founder Daniel Ludevig gave an interactive keynote lecture at the London Natural Leaders-Now conference. A total first, Daniel opened his presentation with a swing lindy-hop performance with his dance partner Claire Chen. He then went on to give a 45 minute masterclass lecture on the topic of embodiment and presence in leadership. He explained his definition of leadership as not just having the capacity to see the whole but also to care for it. His experiential talk invited the mixed audience of leaders, grassroots activists, business people, established change agents and simply curious participants to stand up and move throughout the auditorium where the conference was held. They experimented and felt into the exploration of presence and intelligence within movement and our bodies and engaged with new possibilities for understanding leadership. For a longer length clip click here. 

Directly following a full-out lindy-hop swing dance performance, Daniel Ludevig offers a 1-hour Master Class entitled: “What does embodiment feel like? Many of us use our bodies as taxis for our minds, and often miss what our physical presence is trying to tell us. Daniel works with companies and individuals to help them access their intuition – allowing movement, mindfulness and awareness to shape their understanding of their personal and professional energy. By opening up to trust and moving into our bodies, Daniel will briefly introduce a way to communicate and listen through our somatic selves, allowing for us to access insights and uncover the creative potential we often fail to hear. To seek to embody our version of authenticity, we will come to understand that it is only possible if we have a mix of the mental, the emotional, the physical and the heart.