Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do · Seoul National University Taehwasan Research Forest
Daytime participation on Nov 14 is free (dinner KRW 12,000). Overnight package KRW 50,000, including lodging and meals, first come, first served.
Hosted by K-Mirae Clinic, SNU Taehwasan Research Forest, and Healing News. Registration and details are in Korean.
A program for experiencing and observing, through the body, the interactions that keep repeating between people.
We usually explain what happens in a relationship by someone’s personality or attitude. But when two people are together, one person’s action shapes the other’s response — and that response, in turn, shapes the first person.
WOORI Movement explores the patterns in between that this process creates. Woori, Korean for “we,” is not simply a sum of individuals. It is a way of seeing the interaction people create together as a single unit.
Because in relationships, the body responds before we think.
When someone comes close, we tense up. Under pressure, we push or pull back. When the other person changes speed or direction, our own movement changes too. In WOORI Movement, we observe these responses while moving slowly.
Notice your tension, breath, and center.
Perceive their speed, direction, distance, and pressure.
See how your response and theirs are connected.
Experience possibilities beyond your automatic reactions.
WOORI Movement is a participatory wellness program in which you move together with others and rediscover your body, your senses, and your connection to people. Going a step beyond practices like yoga or meditation that turn inward, it explores how your body changes when you are with someone else.
A light first encounter with your body, your senses, and your connection to others.
Expands from your own senses to the other person, to interaction, and to moving among many.
Seeing yourself clearly begins in the space between you and someone who sees you.
We do not learn to see ourselves alone. We come to know ourselves little by little through being seen — through someone who pays attention to our experience and waits while we find words for what we feel.
WOORI 1:1 is time to discover what you actually see, feel, and experience — through movement and sensory awareness, writing, and conversation — and to put it into your own words. The facilitator does not interpret or evaluate your experience for you.
When you can see yourself clearly, you can see others and the world more clearly too.
WOORI Movement is a relational leadership program in which leaders and teams experience, through the body, the interaction patterns that appear under pressure, in conflict, and in collaboration. Rather than assessing individual personalities or skills, we look not at who the problem is, but at what we keep repeating together.
Outcomes vary by organization and participants. Through consultation in advance, we adapt the structure and emphasis to your organization’s situation.
Leadership events, culture programs, and team workshops.
Your own reactions → one-on-one interaction → moving as a team.
Through repeated experiences of respecting and being respected, participants build new response patterns in the body.
In leadership education outside Korea, the movement principles of aikido have mainly been used in the context of conflict management.
Runs a conflict workshop titled “Conflict and You: The Power of Aikido.”
leadership.wharton.upenn.edu →Professor Clawson brought aikido into an MBA leadership course and documented the experience of running it 15 times in a paper (1996).
A program developed by Wendy Palmer from aikido principles. Talks have been given at companies including Google France (2015) and Orange, and it is still offered in many countries.
Google France conference video →An institute for embodied leadership education grounded in aikido.
strozziinstitute.org →Jessica Connor Kennedy explains how to respond in conflict through the principles of aikido — the talk closest to what WOORI Movement explores. (TEDxBells Beach, 2025)
Watch the talk (14 min) →The movements are simple.
We walk, move closer and farther apart, change direction, follow a partner’s movement, and exchange gentle pressure. Simple movements reveal complex interactions.
Notice your tension, breath, and center. Before changing anything, first see the state you are in now.
Perceive their speed, direction, distance, and pressure. Read with the body before hearing with the ears.
See how your response and theirs are connected. This is where woori — “we” — takes shape.
Experience possibilities beyond automatic reactions. There is a place where you neither push back nor get pulled along.
WOORI Movement grew out of long-standing research into understanding people not as isolated individuals, but within their relationships. Jungyoon Kim studied human development and has spent 16 years exploring how people develop and relate. That work led to a growing conviction that human experience cannot be explained by the individual alone — and to a hands-on exploration, through Feldenkrais and aikido, of how the body responds and changes in relationship.
Could we go beyond understanding the interactions between people in our heads — and experience them directly, through the body?
WOORI Movement began with this question. Drawing on research in human development and relationships, the sensory exploration of the Feldenkrais Method, and the relational movement of aikido, it is being developed into a program for directly experiencing the interaction that forms between you, the other person, and the space in between.
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