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 next be offering the Level 1 Training in the Moving Pieces approach in 2027 over four weekends.

Who is the Training for?

• For therapists and counsellors already working with clients who are interested in enriching their practice with the most up to date 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

• 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.

When?
The Level 1 training will run over 4 weekends in 2027 –in February, March, April and May.

Where?
In person only at the Moving Pieces studio, Central London.

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 two Q&A Zoom sessions on:

Wed Nov 4th and Wed Dec 2nd from 5-6pm. This will include further information about the training content and an opportunity to ask questions.

Places are limited to 12 participants.

Deadline for applying Friday December 11th.

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

Provisional Summary of Course Content

Module 1: February 13/14

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

Module 2: March 13/14

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: April 17/18

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

Module 4: May 15/16

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