Momentum 2027 Somatic Programme - Module One

Growing agency and understanding - inside and between us

MOMENTUM 2027 has a new format to make it more accessible to those that travel from further away, and more sustainable for members of the team. It is 3 modules of 5 days plus online meetings and mentoring sessions.

THE INVITATION
COME JOIN US for this exploration into movement and systemic understanding - an opportunity to land deep inside your dancing being and somatic intelligence, while gaining a greater understanding of how your system speaks to itself and the world around you.

This is a 6-month dive into resource and support for our individual agency, while expanding our capacity in how we relate and respond to others, the environment and world we are part of. Working with Movement Medicine® combined with Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Processwork (Arnold & Amy Mindell), this somatic, systemic and creative weave supports kindness and understanding alongside expression and integration.

Constantly returning to movement and dance as the ground of holding and connection for our time together, we will create enough safety to make space for fiery edges as well as the tender softening. Rooted deep inside somatic practices and the resource of the body in motion, we lean into IFS and Processwork to explore both resource and challenge. Bringing a relational place of greater choice and health; allowing the tides and rhythms of our own nature while meeting the tides and rhythms of life around us.

We will include mark making and other creative expression to gather information, integrate processes and enagage the fullness of who we are. This is not about making good images; it is a way of reclaiming the resource of visual creative expression, allowing our hands to dance with colour, shape and form in all its light and dark.

THE PRACTICES

Movement Medicine
Weaves the liberation of free dance with the awareness of mindfulness, the depth of therapeutic understanding and the intelligence of shamanic practice. It is a trauma informed modality that supports us to explore our humanity with compassion, creativity and curiosity. This is somatic practice for the times we live in, rooted in our connection to the natural world and the cycles of life. Dance as a practice is highly efficient for processing our experiences, traversing our emotions, and getting to know ourselves better.

Internal Family Systems
With moving, embodied IFS we dance to welcome and understand our inner world better. Dancing with the protective and exiled places in us, held by the presence of self and the spirit of the dance. Parts of us that are longing to be known are met with inclusion and appreciation, supported in their activation and seen in their goodness; thereby enabled to move from compulsion to choice, from overwhelm and overstretch to agency and capacity.

Processwork
With Processwork practices we learn from both safety and disturbance, also exploring the collective roles we inhabit, encouraging them into understanding and relationship. In group explorations, all of us become more ‘for’ each role and what it brings attention to, so we can collectively move from activation and othering to agency and understanding.

These combined practices, supported by creative integration, help us to grow personal and collective resilience in these demanding times.

THE BENEFITS
This programme can bring huge benefits, whether you are an experienced dancer, have worked with IFS or are simply drawn here. Those harvested by past participants include:

Increased trust in yourself: all parts of you are welcomed, whether you are moving, resting, speaking, creating or simply being - the power of kindness and inclusion.
Support for your nervous system: allowing movement and systemic understanding to increase regulation, resilience and aliveness.
Growing your personal agency: bringing understanding and movement to over-burdened places in you so they can act from choice rather than compulsion.
Enriching your relationships and community capacity: giving attention and care to the roles we have, so we can make choices and stand up for what we believe in.
Knowing that you have a place: through trustworthy connection in a group setting where you can show up as you are, be genuinely seen and supported.
Reclaiming your wholeness: receiving skilled, compassionate facilitation and mentoring as you navigate deeper terrains and realign with your goodness and dignity.
Resource in demanding work and life roles: gathering support, sustenance and inspiration for working with, and caring for others in these stretching times.

This pioneering 6-month programme offers ground and growth on a personal level. Although it is not a training it will also be useful for professional development; cultivating your own somatic, systemic practice to support and influence your work with others.

"So many things that felt heavy, stuck or unseen have shifted for me as a result of taking part in Momentum. I am more curious about the world; I am more at home in my own life; I don’t just feel more connected to people, I actually am more connected to people; I have even felt able to change career. In a world in flux, this programme has given me a way to be with it all.”
Natalia Whately - Momentum 2025

PRACTICALS

Dates:
IN PERSON MODULES:
11am Saturday - 4pm Wednesday
Module One 17 - 21 April 2027
Module Two 10 - 14 July 2027
Module Three 9 - 13 October 2027
Exact times for each day of the modules to be confirmed

ONLINE INTER-MODULE SESSIONS:
Tuesday 18th May 7pm-9pm
Tuesday 15th June 7pm-9pm
Tuesday 27 July 7pm-9pm
Tuesday 7th September 7pm-9pm

Mentoring times and dates to be arranged individually with the mentors

In person venue:
Studio 6, Lower Close Studios, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EN, UK
In these times of flux we might need to change the venue. We hope not to have to but if we do it will be with plenty of warning (several months in advance) and will be local to Dartington with amenities and accommodation within walking distance.

Mentoring
You will also receive 5 one to one mentoring support sessions. 4 of which will be with with one of the course movement mentors, this is an opportunity to discuss how things are going with a mentor and get 1:1 support for your process on the programme. The other will be a creative mentoring session with one of the creativity mentors to get support to make the most use of the art/making creativity element of the programme.

The programme will include:
15 days in person (over 100 hours)
4 x inter-module online sessions (these will be 2 hour long evening sessions on zoom)
5 x 60 minute mentoring sessions
Free access to over 60 hours of online home practice recordings - before during and after the programme
Peer practice support

The richness and care within the group is a vital ingredient of the programme. Alongside the mentoring support, we strongly encourage participants to meet with peers and use the home practice recordings between modules

Financial commitment
3 tier pricing please pay responsibly according to your means:
Supported: £1800 (money is tight) 
Regular: £2000 (money is comfortable)
Supportive: £2200 (money is relatively plentiful)

Pricing structure:
We have a three tier system in recognition of the wide disparities in our access to financial resources. If those who have more contribute more, this helps make the programme accessible to those with less money. Please consider the wider context and use your integrity in choosing what amount you pay. Thank you.

Places at the lowest rate are limited. So if you are able, please pay the middle or higher rate, leaving the lower rate places for those who really need them.

If the lowest rate is out of reach for you we have a limited number of bursary places available, please contact us to apply. If you are on a low cost place from us you can also apply for extra support from the Movement Medicine Sponsorship fund to help with travel and accomodation costs. Anyone inspired to make this programme and others like it more accessible to all can also contribute to this charity here mm-sf.org