Webinar Description

LIVE 90-minute webinar

Learn the ways movement can be an avenue for connection, with Movement & Expressive Arts Facilitator, Cathy Williams.

In this introductory 90-minute workshop, you will explore a series of embodiment and shared movement practices to foster connection and relationship.

We all move. Every body moves, in unique and beautiful ways. We don’t have to consider ourselves a ‘dancer’ to move. Movement can be playful, movement can be light. Movement can be deep, movement can be connective. Movement can be insightful, movement can be shared. Movement can be expressive, movement can be supportive. 

Sharing a series of creative dance movement activities, you will experience the playful possibilities this modality invites. This can be adapted for use with children, young people, partnership dynamics (i.e. parent/child; couples) and in small to large group programs. 

Experience the ways movement can be woven into your client work as ice-breakers, to bring presence and awareness; as an entry point for feeling and vulnerability, for sharing and intimate holding; for playful imaginative expression and deeper connection.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the webinar you will have the opportunity to:

• Be inspired with ideas and practical activities to begin weaving movement into your work with clients and groups.
  
• Explore creative ways to foster play, imagination, depth and understanding of the body, through movement.
  
• Understand the many possibilities available in using movement as an entry point and creative avenue for connection in partner work and for small to larger groups.
  
• Feel more confident and manage your own self-consciousness in your own embodiment and connection with your body.

Who Should Attend 

Mental health practitioners seeking ways to understand how movement exercises can be used for connection and relationship building.
Counsellors, social workers, psychologists and those in the healing, health & well-being sector working with clients in dyads, small or large group settings.
Practitioners desiring more experiences of body-based practices.
Practitioners seeking to weave movement and creative therapies into their community work.
Practitioners working with children, young people, parent-children dynamics and adult groups.

Learning Methods

• Interactive and practical presentation
• Body-based connection
• Somatic touch and movement-based methods
• Creative Dance Therapy Scores
• Group work techniques
• Drama based techniques

Dates and Times

Live webinar will be run on:

Wednesday 18th June 2025, 7pm - 8:30pm AEST

or

Friday 7th November 2025, 10:30am - 12pm AEDT

Numbers limited to 20 people.

Attending from interstate or internationally?

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Presenter - Cathy Williams
		Masters in Social Science, Movement Based Somatic Therapy Cathy Williams is a Movement and Expressive Arts Therapy Facilitator. She has 16 years experience in the Community Work field co-designing and facilitating a number of grassroots community, youth and social justice programs focused on capacity building. She is well versed in the Group Work space, building rapport and connection group members.  Since 2016, her offerings under her business ’Intuitive Self’ encourages clients agency and creative self-discovery. Cathy guides individuals and community groups through movement and creative art modality experiences. She has offered movement for connection with kindergarten and primary-school age children, at-risk young people, parent-child dynamics, and adult community groups.  Her award-winning book: ‘Body Wisdom ~ A guide to connecting with your Intuitive Self’ advocates for the use of Movement and Expressive Arts to connect deeply with self, so that you can connect deeply with others and the world around you.

Cost

$80

Work Paying?

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Send us an email requesting an invoice via the contact page with your name, the dates and name of course/courses you'd like to do and the name of your organisation who you want us to invoice and we will send you an organisational invoice and a registration form. 

Participant Preparation

You will need:

• Please be in a private space where you can be fully present to engage and move freely
• Journal/paper to write