TRAIN WITH US

 

LEVEL 1 INTRODUCTORY TRAINING

 
 

An Evidence Based Practice?

  • Moving Pieces is an approach that combines embodied, creative, trauma informed ways of working with performance practice.

  • Research into the efficacy of the Moving Pieces approach for people living with medically unexplained symptoms will be completed early in 2025.

  • The process has involved 14 months of practice-based research and gathering of data for a range of outcomes including physiological markers of heart rate variability (HRV), interoception scores, individual/ group testimonial and performative practice.

  • The research is based on an interdisciplinary feminist perspective with particular interest in the potential for the approach to support regulation of the nervous system, safe connection to symptoms and multilayered storytelling to reveal implicit memory and life experience. Moving Pieces is excited to announce that we will be offering a Level 1 Training in the Moving Pieces approach which will run in 2025 over four weekends.

Who is the Training for?

  • For therapists and counsellors already working with clients who are interested in enriching their practice with trauma informed, embodied, creative and performative practice. Performative practice includes consideration of the impact of the therapist as a witness to a client’s creative process.

  • Performing arts practitioners experienced in working with vulnerable groups and within education are also welcome to apply.

Pre-requisites

  • To have attended at least one Moving Pieces workshop

  • A recognized therapy or counselling qualification OR

  • Experience as an artist of working with vulnerable individuals/groups in a community or educational setting.

  • Completed a statement of interest detailing your motivation to attend the training.

When?

The Level 1 training will run over 4 weekends in 2025 –in June, July September and culminate in October 2025 (specific dates to be confirmed shortly)

Where?

All training weekends will be offered at: The Moving Pieces Studio –60A Weston St, London Bridge, SE1 3QJ

Cost

£640.0 for the course of four training weekend workshops.

Payments can be made in installments with prior arrangement.
(Commitment to attending the whole course is required).

Provisional Summary of Course Content

Module 1: June

I.Creating a Poetic Space
II.The Body as a Safe Container: Rebalancing, Mutual Regulation, and Embodied Empathy

Module 2: July

I.Sensation to Image Making as an Implicit Basis for Self-Knowledge
II.Attention to Polarities as they Emerge through the Body, Movement, and Imagination

Module 3: September

I.Performative Sharing: Audience /Practitioner as Witness and Collaborator
II.Bridging Implicit to Explicit Experience, Assimilation, and Ending

Module 4: October

I.Supervised Practice and Assessment
II.Consideration of Application in different Contexts.

Please contact charlieblowers@movingpieces.co.uk to express interest