Feeling Your Feelings: A Movement & Art-Based Exploration
Emotional exploration through movement and art
This experiential workshop invites participants to gently explore their emotions through embodied movement and creative art-making. Using guided somatic practices, expressive movement, and intuitive art processes, you’ll learn to recognise, name, and safely move through your feelings with…
Body Scan & Body Awareness
Creating Visual Art
Creative Activity
Dancing / Expressive Movement
Nervous System Regulation Practice
Workshop
Description
This experiential workshop invites participants to gently explore their emotions through embodied movement and creative art-making. Using guided somatic practices, expressive movement, and intuitive art processes, you’ll learn to recognise, name, and safely move through your feelings with more compassion and clarity. This workshop offers a supportive space to reconnect with your emotional world, release tension, and express what words alone can’t capture. No dance or art experience needed.
They will have a therapeutic space to feel and process their present emotion, and have tools for self-regulation to bring into their personal practice beyond this workshop.
Benefits
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Greater emotional awareness by tuning into the body’s signals and sensations.
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Healthy emotional expression through movement and art, providing nonverbal pathways for release.
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Improved emotional regulation as participants learn embodied tools for grounding and processing feelings.
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Increased self-compassion by approaching emotions with curiosity rather than judgment.
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Enhanced mind-body connection supporting long-term wellbeing and resilience.
Hosted by Cathy Williams
About the Host
I am a trail-blazer in the world of body based healing and creative arts therapy, known for my empowering compassionate approach. I have 17 years experience in Community Development, facilitating a variety of capacity-building and wellbeing, personal growth and development focused workshops and programs for communities, individuals, corporations – people who have experienced burn out, anxiety, stress and disconnection from their body. I am an award-winning author, trainer and facilitator – specialising in Movement & Expressive Arts Therapy. My work is about supporting people to rekindle their relationship with their bodies and re-learn how to listen to, trust in and follow their intuition. I am trauma-informed in my approach, encouraging people to have agency in their body autonomy and learn the language of their body and what it is communicating with them so they can learn to work in partnership with their body. As a Creative Arts Therapist I am skilled in creative innovation, tailoring sessions and workshops to themes and life-challenges, and coming up with creative avenues for exploration and discovery.
Certifications & Credentials
I have Public Liability Insurance and qualifications in – Masters of Social Science, Certifications in Somatic, Movement & Expressive Arts Therapy, Group Work facilitation and Trauma in the Body
Client Requirements
Depending if the session is body-based or creative focused, the clients might need space to move freely/comfortably, access to speaker for good sound, and access to creative materials - most commonly A3 paper and drawing pencils and pastels.
Focus Areas
Creative/CultureWell-being/Health
Location
Melbourne VIC, Australia
Languages
English
Corporate Experience
Significant
Session Types Offered
Interactive & Passive
Past Experience Doing Sessions
Yes - Interactive
Past Clients
Sydney Centre for Creative Change, Melbourne Centre for Women's Mental health, DB Results
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