Introducing The Most Exciting, Revolutionary Program For School-Aged Students That Has Been Created To Date.

Our Storytelling Through Creative Movement Program was developed thanks to a request made to the Workforce Fitness Performance Center (WFPC) by a private school to help find an alternative to dance and gymnastics programs, where students were not expressing much interest. When students were asked, they expressed a greater interest in Professional Wrestling. With safety in mind, we created a purpose-driven and structured athletics program that met the board of education’s guidelines, such as not inverting students or performing any activity or movement that had the potential for injury yet still captures the student’s interests and imagination.

Our Storytelling Through Creative Movement Program is the first of its kind to be delivered on and off campus to private schools in and around Calgary.

At the WFPC we explore different elements of storytelling through creative movement by providing youth with the opportunity to physically participate in our program, enhancing students’ creativity, interest and attention span. By acting out stories through personal expression and critical thinking, youth will have the opportunity to consider how characters look, move, sound and develop the gestures and voices that make characters come to life. (e.g., character development, setting, pantomime, dramatic structure and psychology).

Our mission is to embrace students’ differences by ensuring they are treated with dignity and respect. By encouraging our youth with different beliefs, spiritual backgrounds, and diversity we give them the ability to communicate and express their character, identity, feelings and understanding of who they are through physical storytelling within a safe, integrated, tailored, high-performance, inclusive and respectful environment to foster personal growth.

Our vision is to see youth progress through our program where they will have the opportunity to integrate decision making through the art of Professional Wrestling. By developing their character through role-playing as the Hero or Baby Face (e.g., the Protagonist) and the Adversary or Heel (e.g., the Antagonist) we give students the opportunity to maintain a safe and healthy environment to learn and develop new skillsets. Our curriculum stresses the development and the integration of specific theatrical and athletic skills within a co-operative learning environment that is emphasized through self-expression, flexibility, self-confidence and self-discipline.

Our Storytelling through Creative Movement Program offers youth a continuum of experiences that move well beyond the introductory and exploratory foundational skills and activities outlined. The focus of our program is a full-scale performance of a scripted skillset.

Character Development

In Professional Wrestling, character development is the craft of giving a character a personality, depth and motivation that propels them through a storyline by simply amplifying their own personality, and how a character evolves throughout the course of that storyline.

Believable characters are unique and three-dimensional and not so different from real life. Our goal is to develop their character’s growth in the face of adversity, much like young people grow and adapt to their own real-life experiences. We will help youth establish a character’s motivations and goals, choose a voice, do a slow reveal, create a struggle, give a character’s backstory, describe the character’s personality in familiar terms and paint a physical picture of that character.

Psychology

The Psychology of Professional Wrestling is essentially a performers In-Ring ability to make a performance look like a real struggle. By understanding that the onlookers live vicariously through them (e.g., the worker), fans cheer the “Baby” who outperforms the “Heel”, who then must resort to less traditional movements to outdo the “Baby”. This then creates sympathy for the “Baby”, inspiring emotion for onlookers who start to cheer and support the “Baby” to see them achieve a victory, while simultaneously hoping for the defeat of the “Heel”.

When youth start to understand this concept of storytelling and apply it in their movements, it becomes an incredibly rewarding and satisfying form of expression through audience engagement!

In Closing

Not only will your youth acquire some of the most important life affirming skills that can be developed to aid them as they grow and mature, but once they are fully trained and have honed their craft, they will be able to gain employment with major international organizations like All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).

We believe that when one of your students has completed their training with us and gets some experience with one of our sister companies such as the Real Canadian Wrestling (RCW), or the CanAm Wrestling Federation, then secures a contract with one of the major wrestling organizations. It will propel your learning facilities’ reputation and status to heights reserved only for schools with some of the most established athletics programs in the country, such as, the Upper Canada College, Branksome Hall, Trinity College, St. George’s, and the Crescent School.

Let us work together to guide our youth to strive to reach their athletic and academic potential for years to come.

Many schools integrate our storytelling through creative movement program as part of their curriculum, and it has been seen to help develop language & literacy.

Here’s why it’s beneficial and how it’s used:

Early Literacy: Storytelling movement helps students connect stories with actions, making them easier to remember and understand.

Language Development: Movement can help express emotions and ideas, improving language skills.

Creativity & Imagination: Creative movement encourages students to explore and develop their own unique interpretations of stories.

Kinesthetic Learning: For students who learn best through movement, it’s a natural and effective way to engage with learning.

Social Skills: Sharing stories and responding to others through movement can foster social interaction and communication skills.

Examples of how it’s used:

Grades 1 to 12: Students might explore a story through pro wrestling for acting out scenes.

Art Programs: Creative movement can be used to inspire projects based on stories.

Artist-in-Residence Programs: Organizations often bring in athletes such as Pro Wrestlers who use movement to teach various subjects.

In summary, storytelling through creative movement is a common and effective pedagogical approach and many schools are now incorporating our program it into their curriculum!