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Consultant Psychologist : Founder Esprit Concrete : PhD in Burnout in Parkour

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We are thrilled to share this amazing video by @bbcnews featuring one of our classes! 🙌

Esprit Concrete Group has a unique way of combining movement, psychology, and self-expression to help people overcome their challenges and unleash their potential. 💯

Our students learn to face their fears, trust themselves, and connect with others through parkour. 🤸‍♂️

We are so proud of their progress and their courage to share their stories with the world. 🌎

Thank you BBC News for this wonderful opportunity and for spreading the word about our work. 🙏

And thank you to all our supporters, donors, and volunteers who make this possible. You are the best! ❤️

If you want to learn more about what we do and how you can get involved, check out our website or follow us on Facebook. 🙌

Let’s keep moving, growing, and healing together! 🌱

Video by Robert Taylor
https://espritconcrete.com/esprit-concrete-fyi/#contactdonate

#espritconcrete #parkourtherapy #movementtoempower #bbcnews #artdudeplacement #freerunning #psychology #mentalhealth #wellbeing #community taken in Canada Water • London, Southwark by @dr.ktorchia1

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3 years ago

For the last 6 years Esprit Concrete have been growing our collaboration with EmLyon Business School (@emlyonbschool)
This is a video from one of our workshops we did, Now delivered by our Esprit Concrete Academy. Enjoy

Their Master's program sees between 50-70 eager students travel all over the world for hands on experience and exposure to their industry and we had the privilege of sharing a day with them in Autumn. We have created a bespoke experience for them that takes their learning outdoors, is representational and personal and an experience that many describe as unparallel and uniquely insightful.

They come to confront things about themselves, harness their strengths and adapt their goals to incorporate new findings that they feel need work in the future to help reach their desired destinations within their professional journeys.

We mirror their emotions, consistently experiencing this process as hugely thrilling, somewhat scary at times but so invigorating that we do have plans to integrate this approach further into their curriculum over the coming years if the stars align and the powers at be allow.

Thank you to all of you who attended this year.

Our deepest gratitude to @just_jasper73, @antoinehaincourt and historical Bernice brniceloi for their relentless support of this strange and wonderful avenue of learning and a huge show of praise to @roni_sidhu_photography bluelama_photography www.bluelama.co.uk and Ruth who blew us away with how amazingly they portrayed our work.

If you are interested to know more or would like to get in touch about an integrative workshop for your own clientele, please email us at contact@espritconcrete.com - we can't wait to meet you!

@dr.ktorchia @yao_gog @ceb_ecfyi @louiseannewong @v_irth
@jacobofearth @alxpkgrunta @zealfitnessbristol
#artdudeplacement #espritconcrete #movementtoempower #innovation #outsideoftheboxteaching #newmethods #reflexivityinpractice #lecture #openourminds #strength #vulnerability #integration #buisness #commerce #sport
#appliedmovement #appliedtherapy #counsellingpsychology #lackofprogressionmodel #prevention #notreaction #reflection #embodiedmovemen taken in Kentish Town by @dr.ktorchia1

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3 years ago

Join us on January 7th for a delightful return to Cuban Sundays at Juju’s Bar & Stage. Experience the joy of Timba music and dance with the fantastic Maikel Mota lesson from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Following that, let DJ Javier La Máquina De Cuba enchant you with the best Cuban music from 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm. We look forward to welcoming you back to this vibrant event. by @dr.ktorchia1

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This story generated really healthy discussion in the ADD, PK and Freerunning Community- I’m always up for a solid, wholesome, reflective, respectful chat. We don’t have to agree but I do believe we need to keep talking - #survivorpeace #crimeprevention #restoritivejustice #positivereform #humanity @parkourearth @parkouruk @esprit_concrete_group by @dr.ktorchia1

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5 months ago

Here we are again! Baby steps. Small experiments. Lots of love. A large dose of trial and error! At least it’s evidence based I tell myself. Then doubt kicks in when voices from all sides come at me and I think who’s evidence! Maybe they’re right! Maybe I’m wrong. To this day though I’ll say this - I continue to try to trust my intuition with someone I helped grow :) - someone who lived my life with me every second for 9 months odd - someone who instantly soothes when I’m with him. Then I look at my other child through this transition having meltdown after meltdown and yes, I doubt YET AGAIN!!! 😂😂😂 - parenthood is a bumpy road that fills you up both with joy and fear in my experience but I LOVE IT! I feel humbled and privileged everyday to step up to the challenge- the only one of 2 in my mind that are life long ☺️🙏🏽 - this time though it’s not COVID, I have amazing, truly supportive friends and luckily a child that has yet to truly test me - bring it on though bubs - we got you! ❤️😍🥹

#motherhood #secondtimeround #siblingrivalry #takesavillage #matleave by @dr.ktorchia1

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6 months ago

And just like that I’m a mum of two!!! WHAT?!?! Haha!! I have never had a plan when it comes to bringing life into this world, yet they were both planned! I have always been conflicted with the idea; is it green; is it my nature; is it rational; is it self fulfilling; is it love blossoming. Diatribe aside, I 50 % created a human this year! Pops gifted thishuman and I a perfect placenta and the miracle that is now Naiden Kyran Torchia-Kintadi grew. Last time I was pregnant, it was COVID. If anyone gave birth then they’ll know it was traumatic if anything went less that optimally for various reasons. The common denominator though was me right? Wrong. I was surrounded then by a very strong advocacy panel for physical resilience as a means to mental resilience and so I dove in and trained my body to amour my mind. The result was not the presence I’d hoped. For me, as who I am, I prepared for battle I now realise. Not surrender. Thanks to @lizjambda and @popthatmumma and an incredibly loving, secure and peaceful @fortunaking_ , I affirmed, visualised and relaxed my body to receive pain gratefully not push through it and overcome it. The difference was life changing. I can honestly say I came face to face with my raw feminine poweress for the first time in my entire life. I felt every step of the process, felt my body change under every transition, felt it open to expel this miracle into the world and I led my process, accepting my fear humbly while believing in its necessity to safeguard me and my baby. (…Continue in comments…) by @dr.ktorchia1

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8 months ago

“Thank you, Roh, for being so thoughtful and taking care of me this morning”, I said. He smiled on his way out of my room and said “that’s okay mama. Thank you for .. umm…” - I waited in anticipation for what he possibly could thank me for because I felt I’d been lazy and self indulgent that morning (I had to stay in bed on doctors orders)- “… for appreciating me… I love you!”, he said. I tell you I chocked up so hard that I couldn’t even get the words “I love you too” out!!

There are no words to describe the whirlwind of emotions and thoughts that fly around like fireworks in these moments! This beautiful human blows me away every day - yes, he is trying and testing as he searches for self confidence/efficacy/identity, AND he also soothes/validates/empowers me just by breathing.

Every now and again though, he has taken my breath away with affirmations like this that are beyond my wildest imagination - he is maturing into the kind, strong and intelligent human I forever dream of and I am left in a heap of tears, heart pounding and oxytocin flowing in overdrive.

I hope this next chapter treats us kindly and I am grateful that I get to share it with you @aarohty . You rock my world and there is and will only ever be one of you.

Love, your mama x

#firstborn #son #motherhood #unconditional by @dr.ktorchia1

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8 months ago

That annoyingly fabulous 5 year old that yearns to be a grown man and still a 2 year old mum clinging baby - the “I cant’s” (when he can) & the “I can do it” (when he can’t). Each phase of parenting is beautiful, each is challenging, but for me this age is the one I’m enjoying the most so far because I see character formation with language development and I am tested with his curiosity and rational seeking. He has to trust me and I have to learn to start trusting him. We lock horns and we embrace. No two days are the same. But he calls me fair and that’s the most I can ask for, for we love each other always and now begin to like each other only mostly. #parenting #amazinglifewithaaroh #growth #change #halfadecade by @dr.ktorchia1

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a year ago

Alone in the Crowd
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From ‘The Rhythm of Connection’ - a project about the dynamics within London’s Cuban salsa community.
@jujusbar @sambroso_sambroso
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#TheRhythmOfConnection
#CubanSalsaLondon
#SocialDance
#DanceCommunity
#DocumentaryPhotography
#StreetDanceScene
#DanceInLondon
#VisualStorytelling
#BlackAndWhitePhotography by @dr.ktorchia1

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a year ago

We had a visit from @parkouruk last month at our Youth parkour session in Rowley way.
Thanks for coming to see us.
Here are some pictures they took.
@doddsfilm
#espritconcretemethod
#ChildrensMentalHealth #parkour #youth #climbing #fun
#EspritConcreteKids #movementtoempower taken in Rowley Way by @dr.ktorchia1

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a year ago

Parkour - Saturday Youth session - Archway

Winter is here but we keep moving. Here are a few clips of our students battling the cold to get physically and mentally stronger.

Led by Coach Dani @v_irth

#ChildrensMentalHealth #parkour #youth #climbing #fun
#EspritConcreteKids #movementtoempower #jump
@parkouruk taken in Archway, London by @dr.ktorchia1

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2 years ago

What if Parkour was part of the national curriculum?

@yao_gog traveled to @bbcradio4 to explain what we teach at schools interested in Parkour and even gave a visual demonstration 😭

Interested in bringing parkour to your school?

Email us at Contact@espritconcrete.com
To learn more and get started

@dr.ktorchia @ceb_ecfyi @louiseannewong @georgia_munroe_pk
@v_irth (Edit)
#parkour #school #learning #teaching #giveaddago taken in London by @dr.ktorchia1

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