Moave - Psychology in Movement - The Desert - Somatic Compass of Resiliance

What is it about? 

The desert, vast and quiet, evokes the personal moments of emptiness, pause, and stillness that often precede transformation. Within its silence lies both challenge and potential: the absence of familiar paths becomes an invitation to rediscover resilience, creativity, and connection.

By weaving symbolic, embodied, and creative approaches together, this training empowers youth workers and facilitators to become skilled companions in life’s transitional spaces. Those they support will gain resilience, inner resources, and creative ways of meaning-making.

This project explores the Desert, a Somatic Compass as a guiding force for navigating life’s storms with compassion rooted in the body. Just like the pendulum movement, which swings between extremes before finding balance, our bodies and emotions continuously shift in response to life’s challenges. By cultivating awareness of these natural rhythms, participants will learn to return to a state of centred resilience.

Main questions for this training: 

• What are the 7+ senses, and how do they shape our perception?
• How do sensations influence our relational field and capacity for connection?
• How can we use our senses to cultivate a felt sense of belonging within nature?
• What practices can help us expand our awareness and listen more deeply to ourselves and the world?
• How does an ecosomatic approach help us shift from individual presence to relational presence?

Methodology:

Somatics  - Ecopsychology - Movement

Through the combined lenses of ecopsychology, somatic practices, and movement, this training explores how the “inner desert” can be embodied, felt, and understood.

• Somatic practices: Somatic practices focus on increasing awareness of bodily sensations, movements, and patterns to enhance overall well-being and self-awareness. This work emphasizes the body's internal physical perception and experience. 
• Ecopsychology: explores the relationship between human beings and the natural world through ecological and psychological principles. It seeks to understand and address the psychological underpinnings of environmental issues, proposing that the health of the planet is intrinsically linked to human mental health. It emphasizes the importance of reconnecting with nature to foster emotional well-being and a sense of ecological responsibility.
• Dance  Improvisation is a spontaneous and intuitive practice where movement emerge in the moment, without a predetermined structure. It allows mover to explore their physicality, emotions, and creativity while responding to various stimuli such as rhythm, breath, sound, and space.