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 was completed in 2025.

• The process 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 was 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 2026 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.

To be eligible to apply, you will need to have participated in a Moving Pieces workshop. There is an opportunity to attend a half day Taster workshop on July 11th, which can be attended online or in person. Click here for more information about the Taster Workshop. Click here for more information

When?
The Level 1 training will run over 4 weekends in 2026 –in September, October, November and December.

Where?
This next training will be offered online only.

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.)

How to apply
For those interested in applying, I will also be offering a Q&A Zoom session on Wed July 8th from 5-6pm. This will include further information about the training content and an opportunity to ask questions.

Please let me know if you would like to be added to the list as interested in participating.

Places are limited to 12 participants.

Deadline for applying July 31st.

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

Provisional Summary of Course Content

Module 1: September 26/27

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

Module 2: October 24/25

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: November 21/22

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

Module 4: December 12/13

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

Charlie Blowers is now offering consultancy and workshops to other drama schools and applied theatre trainings. Charlie is an experienced movement and mental health specialist. She supports and informs work within the areas of education, training, mental health and performance. In particular, she offers:

• Group based Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement classes to students to support movement efficiency

• One to one Feldenkrais Functional Integration sessions tailored to individual need to support movement efficiency

• One to one sessions to support movement efficiency and mental health for more vulnerable students

• Consultancy and training to staff members and students in relation to integrating skills to support self-regulation into a learning environment and devising process.

• Supervision of projects based on devising work from personal story

• Supervision of projects with more vulnerable groups.

Her approach is an integration of skills from the Feldenkrais Method, body psychotherapy and Le Coq based physical theatre approaches.

She has previously worked at Lispa supporting performers to devise work from personal story, The National Theatre of Wales on the experience of PTSD and most recently Concept Theatre on a performance based on the experience of OCD.​​

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

Charlie is offering consultancy and workshops to theatre companies devising work based on personal narrative and themes relating to mental health. 

This is an opportunity to learn ways to create safety in a rehearsal and devising process, optimising access to material to shape for performance. 

It is also an opportunity to explore ways to embody movement qualities often associated with different emotional and mental health states as a way into characterisation and effective transmission of experience. 

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