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Expressive Movement Facilitator Program

Next Course: February 14th – November 30th 2025

HOURS: 250 hours over 10 months
TIME: See Program Details
LOCATION: Online & In Person
INSTRUCTOR: Instructors are members of The Movement Arc’s teaching staff.

A 10 month 250 hour (non-clinical) certificate program, which offers skills training for professionals in the facilitation of expressive movement, dance and embodiment practices for community applications. Open to dance teachers/artists, therapists, healthcare professionals, yoga and other movement teachers and educators. You will need to be invited to register after the admissions process.

If you have not been accepted please apply now.

This 250-hour intensive program is a unique personal development journey designed to help you:

A 10-month long 250 hour training culminating in receiving an Expressive Movement Facilitator Certificate from The Movement Arc. (This is a non-clinical training). With successful completion of the 250hour program requirements, you are also eligible for ISMETA credentialing as an ASMP.
1/1 support from instructors to help you apply the curricula to your practice area.
Connection to a growing global community of Expressive Movement Facilitators and allied somatic movement practitioners, as well as ISMETA’s global community of ASMP’s and others.

$6,570.00

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What you’ll gain:

The Movement Arc 7-Stage Expressive Movement Facilitation process
Understanding movement’s important role in human development through the life-span
Experiencing the natural intelligence of the Body-Mind including exploration of experiential anatomy, the body systems and developmental movement patterning and progressions
Facilitating expressive movement for children, teens, adults, and elders
Facilitating somatic movement explorations for individuals and groups
Introductory Movement Observation using Laban/Bartenieff principles/framework
Deepening your own embodiment and movement “repertoire”
Understanding processes and portals for embodiment practice
Understanding and utilizing a specifically Somatic approach to movement
Using dance for rites of passage, ceremony and ritual potentially
Embodiment for self-regulation and self-care
Trauma informed practices and awareness
How to bring expressive movement into different environments (community centres, seniors homes, classrooms, and hospitals)
Engaging different abilities and developmental differences
Cross-cultural considerations, ethics and being in right relationship to power and privilege

Who teaches this course?
This course is led by experienced Somatic Movement practitioners (instructors may vary each year).

Why join us?
Somatic and Expressive Movement are forms of wellness practice that engage body awareness and movement in order to increase well-being, self-understanding, embodiment and connection. The Movement Arc is offering a very unique program taught by expert and inspiring teachers.