Amelia Terrapin is a choreographer, facilitator and coach who uses a blend of movement and systems thinking to help leaders build the powerful teams that can make bold, systems-changing moves together. She spent the first 15 years of her career as a modern dancer, learning how to cultivate healthy ensembles while generating aliveness and joy as a performer, teacher and administrator. As a teaching artist in public schools for many years, she built a curriculum for teaching K-12 science standards through movement. Amelia continued integrating her love for art and science by studying systems thinking in an Industrial Systems Design program with ZERI (Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives). Through this experience, she realized that movement was an incredibly efficient learning tool not just for kids but for adults too! She developed a movement-based curriculum for teaching systems concepts to purpose-driven leaders working within complex systems.
Amelia founded Mobius Method to answer the question: What kind of world could purpose-driven people build if they felt free to connect and create like dance ensembles do? Mobius Method supports students, business leaders, public servants and activists in building bold, powerful ensembles. Amelia has taught systems thinking to Fortune 500 companies, city government leaders, educators and artists. She has developed curriculum for school districts, STEM programs, leadership development programs and public health initiatives. Since 2011 Amelia has been a mentor with Byron Fellowship, where she nourishes a growing community of generative leaders.
She has led keynote presentations for the Bioneers by the Bay conference, Engineers Without Borders Canada, various STEM conferences, and the EPA. What Amelia has learned from working with thousands of purpose-driven people is that getting bodies moving and spirits soaring on your team unleashes a cascade of benefits. She has seen time and time again how bringing body, mind and spirit together allows you to tap into the deep well of care, presence and aliveness necessary to sustain world-changing work. Amelia is here to create the conditions for our most empowered, most creative selves to coalesce into collaborative bodies that can co-create a life-giving, emergent future together.
- Leadership Development Movement-based Facilitation Systems
- Thinking & Systems Awareness for Teams
- Coaching
- Ensemble Leaders Choreography
- Integration of Body, Mind & Spirit for Social Change
- Founder of Mobius Method
- Blueprint of We Facilitator
- ZERI (Zero Emissions Research & Initiatives) Systems Designer
- Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, University of Minnesota
Amelia Terrapin is a choreographer, facilitator and coach who uses a blend of movement and systems thinking to help leaders build the powerful teams that can make bold, systems-changing moves together.
Amelia lives in Philadelphia with her family of 3 humans, 1 cat and 1 dog. She can often be found hiking in the woods near her house. Occasionally she can be found basking in the delight of teaching tap dance to seniors, the older the better!