Voice Movement Therapy: Embodying Your Sovereign Voice

Voice Movement Therapy: Embodying Your Sovereign Voice

Do you ever sense that sound or movement could be helpful in your work with others, but feel unsure how to begin exploring it together?

This experiential workshop will support psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers and mental health practitioners to explore how to work with sound and movement in your practice and assist you to:

• Understand the organic relationship between voice, soma (body), breath and psyche

• Support and enhance curiosity and awareness in practice through grounded embodied vocal experimentation.

• Offer insight into how and why we might facilitate movement and vocal play in the therapy context

• Giving expression to and befriending the hidden, forbidden voices of the shadow

• Using active imagination to create safe vocal play and ease of movement that is integrative and healing

• Allow vocal expression and movement to release emotional, physical and psychological constriction

  Discover how songs can act as containers for unresolved and inexpressible longings; lullabies and laments that cradle

• Work with care and sensitivity with diverse presentations

• Learn how to safely track and support the body in process

During this workshop you will discover the transformative energetic potential of embodied vocal play to access insight, freedom and joy.

You will become more confident in working with your own stuckness, movement and vocal edges; and discover the power of embodied wisdom in your work with clients.

Workshop Presenters 

Patricia Watts

Warrane, Sydney & Mulubinba, Newcastle

Trish believes passionately that ‘Every life can SING!’ 

She is a registered Voice Movement Therapy (VMT) Practitioner and studied with the Norma Canner Foundation Training, USA. 

Her love of travel and different cultures led her to facilitate VMT workshops and courses in Australia, India, Cambodia & New Zealand. Also offering vocal programs with Afghani and Iranian women as a volunteer for STARTTS- Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture & Trauma Survivors in Sydney.

Trish co-founded Willow (Music) Publishing & is a published songwriter and recording artist. She has a Diploma in Music Education & is an accredited Singing & Piano teacher with the NSW Conservatorium of Music.

Directing a cappella choirs is part of her life-blood. Choirs include ‘Colla Voce’- a vocal multi-cultural ensemble; the Sydney and Cambodian Threshold Choirs (bedside singing in palliative care and recovery); & the Music Arts School Community Choir of Phnom Penh. She sang with the woman’s Crocus Quartet and Café of the Gate of Salvation Gospel Choir.

For the past 40yrs, Trish has worked as a freelance artist, workshop & retreat facilitator affording her the freedom of a creative path. She has a strong grounding in sacred, spirited communal song.

She is a trained InterPlay ® facilitator -an improvisation based community arts practice in USA- and co-founded InterPlay Australia over 35yrs ago. Her work is anchored in the bedrock of ‘play!’.

'Your signature sound is worthy of appreciation. Together we will create a feast of rhythm, melody and song that nourishes your soul and helps you step up with confidence’.

For more info: www.trishwatts.com

Alee Lee - Heartwork

She/Her/They

Masters of Gestalt Therapy (GTB)

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Queensland College of Arts, Griffith University)

Artist, Psychotherapist, Supervisor, InterPlay Leader and Trainer

Gubbi Gubbi Country, Sunshine Coast

Alee Lee has more than 30 years experience working in the community as an artist, therapist, group facilitator, registered supervisor and trainer.

Specialising in the field of trauma, recovery and community, Alee's practice style has evolved organically through her love of Yoga, InterPlay, Art and Expressive Therapies.

Alee encounters the body as a site of courage, imagination, belonging and renewal. Through her compassionate work and care for those she works with, she fosters self determination, collaboration and creativity.

Through an intimate, dialogic, somatic approach Alee supports awareness of the innate power that each person possesses to transform pain, isolation and suffering through human connection, self expression and co-creation. 

http://heartworklife.com.au/