For Movement Leaders Serving Older Adults
AGEnts of Movement supports people who lead physical activity with older adults—and the organizations that support them. Explore practical resources for your own sessions, or training and consulting for your team, to create experiences that build confidence, connection, and possibility.
Lead. Move. Connect.
Two ways to grow with AOM
For movement leaders
For physical activity instructors, personal trainers, and activity leaders working with older adults. Explore the book, podcast, newsletter, and practical resources to build confidence, choice, and connection in your sessions.
Explore leader resources ↗For organizations
For gym owners, managers, and leadership staff at senior living communities, recreation centers, and fitness centers. Invest in training and consulting shaped around your team, programs, and participant experience.
Discuss your team’s needs ↗Why AGEnts of Movement exists
Too many older adult movement programs follow a familiar formula. The people leading them may care deeply, yet lack the tools, resources, and support to try something different.
Staff education often focuses on what to teach: which exercises to include, what to avoid, and how to adjust the challenge. Those skills matter. So does the experience of the person taking part.
Does someone feel seen? Are they discovering what they’re capable of? Is there space for fun, friendship, and working through fears about movement or falling?
These are the experiences people look forward to, tell their friends about, and want to return to. AOM gives movement leaders practical resources to build those experiences—and helps organizational leaders equip their teams to do the same.
For organizations · Training & consulting
For gym owners and managers, recreation directors, senior living activity and wellness directors, and other leaders responsible for active aging programs and staff development.
Discuss your staff training needs ↗Help staff put a human approach into practice within a single session: welcome people, offer choice and challenge, respond to fear, make room for fun, and create opportunities to connect. Training draws on the situations your team encounters.
Work through what your team needs to move beyond familiar routines. Explore your program design, participant conversations, and class environment, then identify practical changes that help people feel seen, capable, and connected.
Bring your leadership team, staff, or professional community together to rethink age-based assumptions and explore confidence, belonging, and fall resilience in active aging programs.
For the leaders supporting the people who lead
For owners, managers, and fitness directors developing instructors and trainers who work with older adults.
For recreation leadership, active adult program managers, and community center teams strengthening their movement offerings.
For activity directors, resident engagement and wellness leaders, and other active aging organizations investing in staff education.
Start here · Free Language Guide
Find a starting point for more supportive conversations in your own movement sessions. The Movement Leader’s Language Guide offers practical ways to build confidence, support choice, and emphasize what’s possible for older adults.
Subscribe to the AGEnts of Movement newsletter and receive a free resource to put into practice. Leading a team? Use it to start a conversation with your staff.
Get the free Language Guide ↗The perspective behind the practice
We can’t design meaningful movement experiences without a human approach. People need to know they matter, their experience counts, and someone sees what they’re capable of. As movement leaders, we can help people build confidence, work through fear, continue the activities they love, and make friends—within the experience of a single session.
For movement leaders · Books, podcasts & ongoing learning
Resources to help you create meaningful movement experiences. Whether you lead a class, coach an individual, or facilitate group activities with older adults, find ideas you can use through the book, podcast, newsletter, and Learning Library.
Bring language, choice, belonging, and fall resilience into your own practice with the Modern Guide to Movement Leadership for Older Adults. A practical reference for instructors, trainers, and activity leaders.
Deepen your practice with on-demand conversations and education on movement, aging, and connection, available through a paid AOM subscription.
Your subscription also includes The Modern Guide to Movement Leadership for Older Adults.
Explore the Learning Library ↗A one-hour online introduction to Movement Experience Design for older adults. Explore choice, challenge, and connection, and leave with one practical change to try. Coming January 2027; date to be announced.
Explore the online workshop ↗Good conversations move us forward
Conversations for the people leading movement with older adults. Hear from practitioners rethinking play, confidence, community, and healthy aging—and take fresh ideas into your next session.
Explore all podcast episodes ↗
Meet the founder
I’m Erin Eleu, an educator, movement instructor, and founder of AGEnts of Movement. My background in kinesiology and work with older adults have shaped a simple belief: the way we lead movement can change how people experience aging.
I created AOM because people who lead movement deserve support with more than exercise selection. Through my book, podcast, and newsletter, I share ideas for everyday practice. Through training and consulting, I help gym owners and organizational leaders equip their teams to create experiences where older adults feel seen, discover possibility, connect with others, and want to return.
I’ve presented for the International Council on Active Aging, American Council on Exercise, Medical Fitness Association, and Wisconsin Institute of Healthy Aging. My writing has appeared in publications from the American Society on Aging, the Journal on Active Aging, and Next Avenue.
I’m a recipient of the Mather Institute’s 2025 Promising Practices Award, recognizing innovative contributions to the aging field.
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