The Move into Life Project Group

Wootton Fitzpaine, West Dorset 

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, autobiographical installation, a workshop/educational material (OR you may have an inkling but be looking for the shape or form). 
  • 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 and to a wider audience towards the close of the course .
  • 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. 

There will be some weekly one-hour Zoom sessions incorporated as part of the course.
Participants are also encouraged to meet in pairs/small groups/as a whole group outside of group weekends. 


Course requirements:

The intention for the year is to bring into life a creative project with each person taking responsibility for their personal process.

This course is for those with considerable experience of Move into Life work, which should include at least Strata or the Ecological Body workshop. Please contact me if you have any queries.

There will be a maximum of 12 people. 

Usual Project Group ​Dates and Structure:

November weekend - Ingredients
December weekend - Ingredients
February weekend - Cooking
March weekend -  Cooking
June five days - Cooking
August weekend - Final Touches (self-guided weekend, without me)
September week - The Feast (Crystallisation)
November weekend - Digestion (Consolidation and Application)

For further details, please contact me: [email protected]
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Here are some testimonials from previous Project Groups: (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

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

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

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

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