For your practice
The Modern Guide to Movement Leadership for Older Adults
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Practical ways to support confidence, choice, and connection in your sessions.
Buy the guidebook ↗For Movement Leaders Serving Older Adults and the Organizations That Support Them
Create movement experiences
people want to return to.
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
Your practice. Your team.
Find your next step.
For your team
Movement Experience Design Staff Workshop
Give your staff four hours of hands-on learning to design movement experiences that help older adults feel capable, connected, and ready to return.
Explore the staff workshop ↗For movement leaders
Fresh ideas for the experiences you lead.
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
Support the people who lead your programs.
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
More than a class
on the schedule.
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
Your team brings the care.
AOM helps build the practice.
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 ↗Staff training & workshops
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.
Program & experience consulting
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.
Leadership education & speaking
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
Your setting. Your staff.
A more intentional approach.
Gyms & fitness centers
For owners, managers, and fitness directors developing instructors and trainers who work with older adults.
Parks & recreation
For recreation leadership, active adult program managers, and community center teams strengthening their movement offerings.
Senior living & aging services
For activity directors, resident engagement and wellness leaders, and other active aging organizations investing in staff education.
The perspective behind the practice
See the person.
Expand the possibilities.
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.
- Ability before assumptions.See the person’s abilities, interests, and possibilities. Recognize what someone can do and what matters to them.
- Choice creates ownership.Offer meaningful options and appropriate challenge. Help people build confidence and have a say in their movement experience.
- Belonging is part of the experience.Make room for fun, friendship, and contribution. Help people feel noticed, valued, and part of the group.
For movement leaders · Podcasts & ongoing learning
Fresh thinking.
Put into practice.
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 Learning Library, podcast, and newsletter.
The Learning Library
Keep your curiosity moving.
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 ↗THE PODCAST
Lead. Move. Connect.
Good conversations move us forward
A different conversation
about movement & aging.
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 ↗
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Meet the founder
Hi, I’m Erin.
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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