Motor and cerebral dynamics®
Individual functioning and its consequences
We are pre-programmed to act and react. Each individual functions according to their own motor and cerebral coordination.
From a very young age, teachers, coaches and trainers teach us techniques. Some of these techniques have proven their value and have become benchmarks. But how do we know which of these techniques are relevant to our specific dynamic? Taking reference from our internal system allows us to more easily adapt to existing techniques and sustainably develop new skills. The person first, the technique second!
An observable reality inherited from human evolution
Evolution has given us an exceptional brain for one reason: to anticipate and coordinate the extremely complex movements humans are capable of. This is why observing the way each individual constructs movement provides access to the nature of their brain functioning.
Awareness of your motor and brain preferences provides:
We are pre-programmed to act and react. Each individual functions according to their own motor and cerebral coordination.
From a very young age, teachers, coaches and trainers teach us techniques. Some of these techniques have proven their value and have become benchmarks. But how do we know which of these techniques are relevant to our specific dynamic? Taking reference from our internal system allows us to more easily adapt to existing techniques and sustainably develop new skills. The person first, the technique second!
An observable reality inherited from human evolution
Evolution has given us an exceptional brain for one reason: to anticipate and coordinate the extremely complex movements humans are capable of. This is why observing the way each individual constructs movement provides access to the nature of their brain functioning.
Awareness of your motor and brain preferences provides:
- Understanding of your natural pattern of functioning
- Appropriation of its strengths to gain energy and pleasure
- Referencing from natural resources to gain performance
- Better understand others and accept differences
In the corporate world, discovering your motor and cerebral dynamics provides you with practical solutions to adapt to all situations and all types of conversation partners in an agile and serene manner.
ActionTypes® profiling
The ActionTypes® (or ATA®) approach is based on 30 years of experience in assisting high-level athletes and numerous projects that have resulted in medals at the Olympic Games. It helps identify and understand natural patterns of physical functioning to avoid injuries and amplify individual performance.
Developed by Bertrand Théraulaz and Ralph Hippolyte, it emerged from a series of field observations linked to the daily collaboration with international level athletes:
The ActionTypes® (or ATA®) approach is based on 30 years of experience in assisting high-level athletes and numerous projects that have resulted in medals at the Olympic Games. It helps identify and understand natural patterns of physical functioning to avoid injuries and amplify individual performance.
Developed by Bertrand Théraulaz and Ralph Hippolyte, it emerged from a series of field observations linked to the daily collaboration with international level athletes:
- The highest achievers demonstrate equivalent effectiveness with different techniques for the same intention,
- This observation paved the way to detect several specific motor profiles whose adaptive dynamics are stable for each individual,
- Finally, relationships emerged between these motor signatures and individual cognitive preferences as established by Carl Gustav Jung and published in 1921.
Bertrand Théraulaz highlighted the first relationship between types of walking and perceptual functions. His collaboration with Ralph Hippolyte resulted in many additional discoveries compiled in 2021 in La Bible des préférences motrices published by Amphora (french only).
Pioneering the field of motor preferences for business and sport
Axel is one of the very first distributors of the ActionTypes® approach. Since 2005, we have been developing concrete adaptations on the ground for business and for sport.
While ActionTypes® focuses on the development of people, Axel® is also committed to the transformation of practices to better manage, collaborate, communicate, negotiate or support people in the professional context.
Our newest area of practical use of motor preferences opens up the possibility of speaking English more fluently and effortlessly by drawing on the binary reflexes that all humans have.
In 2021, Axel became one of the small number of companies labeled Human by ActionTypes® in recognition of the competence, ethics and values that we have tirelessly embodied since day one.
Axel is one of the very first distributors of the ActionTypes® approach. Since 2005, we have been developing concrete adaptations on the ground for business and for sport.
While ActionTypes® focuses on the development of people, Axel® is also committed to the transformation of practices to better manage, collaborate, communicate, negotiate or support people in the professional context.
Our newest area of practical use of motor preferences opens up the possibility of speaking English more fluently and effortlessly by drawing on the binary reflexes that all humans have.
In 2021, Axel became one of the small number of companies labeled Human by ActionTypes® in recognition of the competence, ethics and values that we have tirelessly embodied since day one.