Expressive Movement Facilitator Program (EARLY BIRD)

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.