The Project Group 2016-2017

The Project Group is a one year movement-based course which is facilitated and guided by me but very much self-directed by the participants. It offers you the opportunity:

  • to find a sustained focus and structure for your creativity and movement for the year within a closed group.
  • to bring into life a creative project - it may be one you'd love to materialise but have never got round to: film, performance, writing, music, photography, interdisciplinary, research, workshop/educational, daily life practice OR, like several people last year, you may have no idea yet what shape it would take. 
  • to be among colleagues with whom  you can try out scores, tasks, ideas, and/or who will offer you honest and involved feedback on your work in progress.
  • to be supported (and to support the others) in carving out time and space to fulfil a project with a clear deadline and to present it to the group towards the close of the course (and to a wider audience, should you so wish).
  • to pay sustained attention to your movement practice as an intrinsic part of daily life which in itself can become a gateway into creative life.
  • to immerse yourself in a collaborative, embodied, creative process that will enrich other areas of your life and work. 
  • to explore in  movement the relationship between individual needs, group dynamics and the affordances of the environment.

Practical details:

Dates: 
8/9 October, 2016
3/4 December, 2016
4/5 February, 2017
1/2 April, 2017
10-14 June, 2017
5-6 August, 2017 (group members only)
4-11 September, 2017
11/12 November, 2017

Participants are also encouraged to meet in pairs /small groups/as a whole group outside of these dates

Cost: £1,225. This fee does not include accommodation - but I do try to arrange convenient, low-cost accommodation in nearby houses for group members who need it.
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Course requirements:

This course is for those with considerable experience of Move into Life. This could be my annual movement cycle or participating in a workshop like Strata or Ecological Body.

This group is now full.
Here are some testimonials from last year: (with thanks to those participants)

The Project group was the most stimulating programme I have ever been involved in. All the three strands - Sandra’s guiding and teaching, other participants’ projects and my own project all intertwined to provide a wonderfully rich embracing ground from which to blossom. Months later it is still reverberating through my practice and my life. KB

A profoundly insightful and transformative experience of the power of embodied, collaborative creative process. AC

The Project Group has supported and sustained me in a creative process that just keeps going!  Embodied creative processing - what could be better. MB

For about 40 weeks, interestingly, I wrestled with the delight, joy, despair, resistances, old habits, new rituals, constraints and structures that arose in the Project Group. It offered me the context and holding for what was probably the most creative year of my life yet. At the end of it, I gave birth to a book and took part in a dozen other labours. Wonderful. It was wonderful. ATC

I found the project group with Sandra to be challenging, exhilarating and at times very confusing – which was not always a bad thing! Both the group and Sandra’s leadership gave me a creative, safe and very supportive arena in which to develop talents and skills that had lain dormant in me for many years. The work I pursued in this group has developed into what is now my primary movement performance practice. This is a completely new arena I never had the courage to enter before – but which I now regard as my home. CH