Joy matters.
How you feel shapes how you move, think and connect with other people.
My work explores the science and practice of emotion in movement, learning and life.
Hi — I’m Flynn
I'm a British educator and researcher living in Istria, Croatia. Decades of parkour taught me that anxiety, confidence and joy — not technique — constrain what we can do. I've spent eight years in research and practice, exploring science, movement and contemplative practice to create a body of work for feeling good and doing good.
Emotions are the sum of your relations to what you value in a given moment.
What emotions do.
Emotions organise your whole body; affecting how you move, how you think and how you feel. Emotions are attuned to what you care about, so that you feel light when things are going your way, and heavy when they are not.
How to work with emotions.
Emotions respond to many different things. Changes in perspective are just as relevant as changes in muscle tone. By getting a grasp on what emotions influence, you also know what influences them.
How emotions are made.
Emotions are the sum of your relations to what you value in a given moment — your bracing against, your warmth towards, your heaviness about… They are the body's enactment of everything happening inside, outside and in between.
Teacher Training
Joy Study
An eight-month training in the science and practice of emotion in learning.
Four modules — Mind, Movement, Communication and Design — teach you to design, deliver and assess emotion-centred teaching in your own field.
Live it first: 14 day challenges to experience the emotions and teaching labs with feedback on how you teach.
Starts October 5th · 16 live sessions · 20 places · €1,464
Confidence Practices
Confidence is the felt sense of certainty. Through progressive exposure to the conditions that make us uncertain, the Confidence Practices build this sense from the inside.
Collisions — Build the muscle, bone and coordination to absorb force.
Dynamics — Develop rate of motion: flexibility at speed.
Mind and Body — Explore the states that support and disrupt confident movement.
Falling — Learn to fall smoothly, reflexively and without fear.
€450 for three months. First cohort opening early 2027.