Emotions are more than feelings
They shape how you move, how you think, how you bond with other people — and they respond to practice.
Join an education in emotion, for coaches, clinicians and practitioners who work with the body.
Hi — I’m Flynn
I'm a British educator and researcher living in Istria, Croatia. Decades of parkour taught me that fear and confidence — not technique — constrain what we can do. I've spent eight years researching why, across movement science, psychology and contemplative practice. Everything on this page comes from that work.
Emotions are the sum of your relationships in a given moment; the body's enactment of everything happening inside, outside and in between.
What emotions do.
When your emotions change, so does everything else. Your freedom of movement. Your energy to pursue goals. Your ability to relate to other people. Everything you value lies on the other side of your state.
How to work with emotions.
To change an emotion, it helps to be in it. Part of this work is offering safe enough contexts to shape and explore strong emotions. Knowing the conditions and resources of different emotional states also helps you align state and goal.
How emotions are made.
Emotions are the sum of your relationships 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: 21-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.
€150/month for three months. First cohort opening early 2027.