User:Matthew McNatt

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Personally and professionally, Matthew comes alive helping people find delight in the wonder of not yet knowing, the leverage of clear distinctions, and the palpable development and distribution of power guided by love.

As a learning and development specialist (a creative), Matthew crafts curricula and conducts trainings that incorporate experiential learning; facilitate mindful decision-making; and net increased efficiencies, participation, and consent in organizational governance.

As a movement-based educator (a clinician) and co-founder of the Eugene Alliance for Somatic Education, Matthew equips people of all ages to direct their attention, coordinate their movements, and develop their intelligence. He is blessed to routinely, in the words of Moshe Feldenkrais, make “the impossible possible, the possible easy, and the easy elegant.”

Matthew relishes experiential education—playing games, partaking in rituals, sharing stories, reflecting on learning and, through it all, co-creating conditions for celebration. He is blessed to see, every week, that as people organize their bodies in movement, they discover connections between intention and action, opportunities for coordinated movement, and the possibility of realizing their unavowed dreams.

Matthew’s professional background includes founding and directing an educational organization for 14 years in the Illinois Valley, where he invented software to give students feedback about their attention; developed fonts to improve reading speed; and created the 8 Questions™, a transformational heuristic that improves decision-making and group cohesion by clarifying commitments, preserving awareness of needs, and establishing a common, reorienting practice.

Personally, Matthew enjoys passing time in nature with his wife and children, hearing about their days over dinner, and building things and playing board games with them. Matthew keeps fit through hiking, swimming, Aikido, bodyweight exercise, and somatic education lessons. Matthew's current projects include writing practical philosophy, children’s books, and coaching material related to the 8 Questions, as well as nurturing a robust network of participatory enterprises in Lane County, Oregon. He also collects board games and is an active member of St. John the Wonderworker Orthodox Church in Eugene, Oregon.