Want to Stop Managing Behaviour and Start Restoring Creativity & Flow ?
KidSoma gives you a clear map to help children move from stress, overwhelm and disconnection toward participation, adaptability and creative engagement in groups and 1:1 work.
Behaviour management and "talking about it" alone will not help you respond to the challenges children bring into classrooms, therapy rooms and family systems today.
KidSoma helps educators and therapists become more confident in their day-to-day work.
If you want more clarity in complex situations, easier session guidance, stronger participation from children, less overwhelm and better communication, you need a clear map that helps you understand what is happening and what to do next.
About KidSoma
KidSoma was created by Alé Duarte to help educators, therapists and professionals better understand what children are trying to organize beneath behaviour — and support them with more clarity, adaptability and connection.
Over more than 30 years, Alé has worked internationally with schools, hospitals, humanitarian organizations, therapists and educational institutions, developing practical approaches that combine play, somatic tracking, developmental observation and relational organization.
At the heart of KidSoma is Flowland — a shared developmental language that helps children and adults recognize stress, strengths, participation and creative capacity without reducing children to labels or diagnoses.
Today, KidSoma frameworks are used by professionals around the world who are looking for more practical orientation and more human ways of supporting children in complex times.
A New Developmental Language for Working with Children
What began in 2004 in the rubbles the Tsunami in Thailand has grown into a living exchange between educators, therapists, developmental practitioners and children themselves — shaping many of the principles and relational approaches that now form the foundation of the KidSoma Method and the Universe of Flowland.
The work with KidSoma often creates a remarkable shift in how children relate to themselves and how professionals organize support.
Many children become:
- more independent
- more collaborative
- more flexible in learning
- better able to regulate themselves
- more connected to what matters to them
- more capable of resting and engaging with better timing
- less overwhelmed in social and learning environments
At the same time, professionals frequently describe a deep sense of relief and orientation — finally having a practical framework that helps them understand and organize what is happening internally and relationally in real time.
What makes KidSoma unique
One of the core aspects of the KidSoma method is the use of playful developmental companions and organizing principles that help both children and adults create shared reference points for understanding experience.
Rather than reducing children to behaviours or diagnoses, KidSoma offers a relational and symbolic language through which strengths, challenges, impulses, overwhelm and developmental needs can be explored together.
KidSoma introduces the Universe of Flowland, where the makers live. These are characters representing constructive functions and developmental forces that help children organize participation, adaptability, creativity, timing, rest, engagement and connection.
When one of these companions becomes overactive, disconnected or “sleepy,” both children and adults gain playful and practical ways to recognize what support may be needed without shame, labeling or unnecessary pathologizing.
About Alé
Alé Duarte is a somatic educator and consultant with over 30 years of international experience. He is the creator of the KidSoma® Method and a pioneer in somatic developmental work across therapeutic, educational, and social contexts.
Known for his capacity to bring deep nervous system work into accessible and practical form, Alé has taught in over 28 countries. His is a keynote speaker at international trauma and embodiment conferences in Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and across Latin America an Asia.
His approach integrates body-based intelligence, subtle perception, and constructive attunement — making him a trusted mentor to professionals supporting children and adults in times of challenge and transformation.
Alé’s methodology is not theoretical — it’s forged in the field.
He has led long-term interventions in post-disaster zones, refugee contexts, and marginalized schools, including humanitarian programs in Thailand, India, Syria, Brazil, Sri Lanka, and the Middle East. His work has helped rebuild emotional resilience and reestablish developmental trajectories for children and communities recovering from systemic shock and trauma.
With a Master’s Degree in Innovation in Education and Entrepreneurship from Oulu University of Applied Sciences and advanced graduate studies in Body Psychology and Body Psychotherapy at the University of East London, Alé integrates traditional neuroaffective science with innovative somatic disciplines.
“The KidSoma method elevated my work to another level.
Today, my practice feels more precise, more grounded and, at the same time, much deeper. The client is no longer guided only through words, but supported through the body — and that changes everything.
There is more presence, more regulation and more autonomy in the therapeutic process.
I recommend this work for professionals who are not looking for just another technique, but who want to sustain a living, consistent and truly transformative practice.”
— Luiza B., Somatic Therapist
Study with Alé Duarte
Choose Your Learning Path
Two clear pathways for professionals who want to deepen their somatic practice with children or adults.
I work with children
Explore KidSoma: practical frameworks for supporting regulation, creativity, resilience, and development in children ages 4–12.
Path 2I work with adults
Explore SomaCompass: somatic frameworks for presence, self-organization, expression, adaptability, and meaningful growth.
