All human life emerges out of our lived movement, and our animation constitutes the means by which we have a world. From foetal life onward, our tactile and kinaesthetic experiences are the experiential basis of our existence, and of our bodily life. Turning to the significance of movement in counselling and psychotherapy, the workshop will introduce you to core ideas in the existential-phenomenology of movement. We will also explore how these can be used within the therapeutic relationship to understand the questions, dilemmas and crises our clients have about their existence, and the ways they are living their lives. We will also consider how greater attunement to the intercorporeality of our movements can open us up to new depth and immediacy in the therapeutic relationship. Finally, we will delve into some common patterns of movement that occur within existential and phenomenological psychotherapy.

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