2.

1 WHY YOU WANT TO RUN YOUR OWN BUSINESS

-I realised that engineering is not for me.

-9 to 5 job is not for me

-Did not like being part of the 'rat race'

-I did not want to study another degree in order to change my professional career, as I already studied 7
years at uni. I do not want to be a studient anymore.

-I wanted to use my natural skills and abilities, like sympathy and understanding for others, playful,
energetic, good at encouraging others, creative, curiousity.

-I have the experience and knowledge (practice 5 rhythms at least once a week, I work as a support
worker, where I am with people with learning disabilities)

-I want to live my life in my own terms

-I want to see that what I do for a living helps people directly and that I contribute to society in a way

2.2 PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE

-volunteering work

-support worker

2.3 QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION

-Engineering degree (7 years)- perseverance to achieve my goals. Hard-working

-Basic qualifications gained while working as a support worker

2.4 TRAINING

-understanding of different types of learning disabilities, and what to expect from these people?

-ecstatic dance training as a teacher

2.6 HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

-5 RHYTHMS crew member

-interested in personal development: continuousluy learning how the mind works through DVDs, books,

3.1 WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO SELL

-Ecstatic dance classes for people with learning disabilities (Service)

3.2 DESCRIBE THE BASIC SERVICE YOU ARE GOING TO SELL

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For parents with people with learning disabilities.

-a)Exercise for L.D

-b)place to be yourself, and express yourself and realise your potential through your body for LD

-c)Healing for LD

d) Space where parents social carers can socialise while their children practice or time to relax and do
their own thing.

Tone muscles & exercise.

- Build endurance & increase flexibility.
- Get a constructive release from daily stress & tension.
- Increase sense of balance & self-confidence.
- Overcome self-conscious feelings about your body & the way you move.
- Connect with your inner self & experience a sense of peace.
- Experience a sense of community by interacting with like-minded people.
Increasing self-awareness,
self-esteem and personal autonomy.
Experiencing links between thought, feelings and actions.
Expressing and managing overwhelming feelings or thoughts.
Maximising resources of communication.
Contacting inner resources through contained creative movement play.
Testing the impact of self on others.
Testing inner with outer reality.
Initiating physical, emotional and/or cognitive shifts.
Helps with focus & concentration.
Increase creativity.
Improved learning ability and memory.
Developing a trusting relationship.
Manage feelings that interrupt learning.
Enhancing social interaction skills.
Enhances energy, strength and vigor.
Increased productivity.
Greater communication between the two brain hemispheres.
Less aggressiveness.
Advises people suffering from verbal communication, or coping with traumatic experiences,
proximity issues and many others.
Gives composure to act in considered & constructive ways.
Helps you discover your purpose.
Increased acceptance of oneself.
Helps living in the present moment.
Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego.
Helps co-ordinate physical movements in individuals with any kind of physical impairment.
Able to cope with the ups and downs of work and home life.

3.3 DESCRIBE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SERVICE YOU ARE GOING TO BE SELLING
-Ecstatic dance. Combination of activities where different objects are used to express our souls
through our bodies (parachuting, hullahop, )
-space where parents can socialise
3.4IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO SELL ALL YOUR SERVCES AT THE START OF YOUR
BUSINESS, EXPLAIN WHY NOT AND WHEN YOU WILL START SELLING THEM
4.1 EXPLAIN WHETHER YOUR CUSTOMERS ARE BUSINESS OR INDIVIDUALS
My customers will be business and individuals.
-Business will be charities that work with people with learning disabilities, centers where people
with LD are taken care of for a period of time, dance centres, centres for support with parents
with learning disabilities, School Action Plus