Following are ten SmartStrategies™ from my Multiple Intelligence Toolbox. I've included these to give you some instant ways to incorporate BodySmart into the mentoring, coaching, and training you provide.

The basic process for doing this is . . .

1. Name the content or information you want to teach. Get very clear on the specific concepts, ideas, processes, skills, etc. that you want to get across in your mentoring, coaching, or training session.

2. Write down the learning objective(s) you have for the mentoring, coaching, or training session. What do you want your participants to be crystal clear on at the end of the mentoring, coaching, or training session?

3. Look over the SmartStrategies™ below and select a couple of strategies you believe can help participants understand what you're teaching more fully in an BodySmart way. Basically you'll be asking them to in some way create "visual representations" of the content you're teaching.

4. Outline your teaching plan, incorporating the SmartStrategies™ you've chosen into your mentoring, coaching, or training. You'll likely be teaching something you've taught before, but this time in a new way – accessing your and your participants BodySmart.

[NOTE: The descriptions I've provided of the various tools are merely to help you get started working with this intelligence in your mentoring, coaching, or training. Feel free to redefine any of the tools I've provided and to add additional strategies to the toolbox!]

• Folk dance/creative dance—choreograph a dance which demonstrates something learned or taught.

• Role playing/mime—show understanding of different concepts through skits and charades.

• Kinesthetic rehearsal—perform a task with your body, do it in your mind, then do it again with the body.

• Physical exercise—teach others something by creating routines of physical activity.

• Body language—embody meaning, interpretation, or understanding in physical movement, gestures, or facial expressions.

• Inventing—make or build a model to show how something works or to show a process.

• Physical games—create a contest/game based on specific knowledge about a topic.

• Movement scenarios—design an orchestrated flow of physical movement which embodies relationships of a topic.

• Human graph—stand along a continuum to express agreement/understanding of a concept, idea, or process.

• Body sculpture/tableaus—arrange a group to express an idea, concept, or process.

• Demonstrations—show how to do something then others mimic the doing.

• Impersonations—pretend to be someone else in words, deeds, actions, posture, and facial expressions.

• Dramatic enactment—create a mini-drama which shows the dynamic interplay of various factors, processes, or ideas.

• Mind/body connection—use mental imagery to change the body and vice versa.

• Body image/awareness—intensify awareness of how the body moves and functions performing everyday activities.

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