Movement as a Path of Transformation (MAPT) is the umbrella organization founded by Maureen Curran to foster physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health through movement activities and exercises . MAPT offers a range of courses for adults and children.

MAPT evolved out of Maureen's twenty plus years of work as a teacher. During her years in Waldorf education teaching pre school to grade twelve, and also trainings of large number of movement teachers across the United States and abroad. Her experiences gave Maureen an opportunity to observe the toll heavy workloads and stress took on her and her colleagues. At faculty meetings, conferences and retreats she began bringing movement activities to renew and rejuvenate her fellow teachers. Soon this work became a staple in faculty gatherings, and Maureen was inspired to develop a program that would help others to maintain a healthy lifestyle. This led Maureen on a multi-year journey to articulate the principals which govern her work. The result is MAPT.

The workshops, trainings and courses at MAPT are founded on a connection to the natural world. Much of the actual learning occurs in the outdoors- on lakes, in the woods, in the mountains and the jungle, as much as in the classroom and gymnasium. Maureen believes that having a strong relationship to the natural world is the first step to creating a healthy lifestyle.

MAPT training also places a heavy emphasis on cultivating individual artistic creativity as an aid to rejuvenate and re inspire. Participants are assisted in developing their creativity in workshops with MAPT staff and a group of select local artists. And as in all MAPT work, the movement of the activity is explored: i.e. what is the movement that encourages creativity and what movement is engaged in each creative endeavor?

Whether it is paddling in the ocean , working in the garden , tending the animals, carving a canoe, or dancing under the stars, all of the workshops, courses and trainings at MAPT have the goal of developing in the participant a strong , flexible, resilient body, soul and spirit.