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Pedagogical  Principles  (learning principles) Shirley Gutkowski’s varied knowledge base includes ways to help people learn. And people learn best, not by sitting and listening, but by laughing and moving. Shirley’s courses have always had audience members laughing, she’s engaging and finds a funny way to bring concepts to life. New for 2014 was movement. Not big movements but a chance to engage large muscles to release the most physiological toxins, release endorphins and other hormones. As we learn more about the proinflammatory effects of sitting, many audience members will choose to stand during all or part of the course. And new for 2016 standing tables. The last two rows of tables are replaced with high tops for healthful standing for those who choose to stand during the program or take a standing break. Don’t leave your audiences in the hands of anyone else.