Intro to the Tamalpa Life Art Process®
A one day introduction workshop to the Tamalpa Life Art Process® with Lian Wilson MSMT/MSME and Sofia Conforti
Tamalpa UK returns to South East Dance to run a one day Tamalpa Life Art Process® workshop, with Lian Wilson MSMT/MSME and Sofia Conforti.
The introduction day is geared towards participants who wish to explore the wisdom their own body has to offer.
No movement or dance experience is necessary. The day is also for participants who have an established movement practice and are curious to discover how specific Tamalpa tools can deepen or develop their practice further.
Discover for yourself in an embodied way the value of the Tamalpa Life Art Process® and how others are using it to transform their lives personally, as well as professionally by implementing the Tamalpa work to further their careers as Registered Somatic Movement Educators, Registered Somatic Movement Therapists, Expressive Art Therapists, Coaches and Psychotherapists.
The Tamalpa Life /Art Process® pronounced TA_MAL_PA is an internationally recognised expressive arts approach, which combines movement, visual art, and creative writing to access the innate wisdom of the body and the transformative power of the imagination. It is an approach that has been finely tuned for over 50 years by the Co-Founders Anna and Daria Halprin at the Tamalpa Institute in California.
The Tamalpa work supports personal, interpersonal and social change, teaching new models of health, education, psychology and art.
During the one day introduction workshop participants will have the opportunity to connect with their physical, emotional and mental body through the Psychokinetic Imagery Process in a safe and encouraging way. Participants will be led through a number of Tamalpa Life Art Process® activities introducing them to some of our basic Tamalpa tools and guiding principles.
The workshop supports an embodied and somatic experience of how the Tamalpa Life Art Process® works, allowing participants the opportunity to discover for themselves how the Tamalpa tools can be used for personal & professional development in a transformative and creative way. Bridging Life and Art.
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About the Facilitators
Lian Wilson is the Creative Director of Tamalpa UK and established Tamalpa Practitioner. She has spent over 28 years working in the field of somatic movement, arts and health. Lian is a Master Somatic Movement Therapist MSMT and Master Somatic Movement Educator MSME with ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association).
One of her core interests is in the development of health and wellbeing in individuals and diverse communities through the participation and education of the benefits of dance and movement based expressive arts, notably through the Tamalpa Life Art Process®. She has worked with the Kensington & Chelsea’s Mental Health Carers Support Network and with Folkestone Mind’s mental health wellbeing programme, facilitating Tamalpa Life Art classes.
Alongside Tamalpa UK Lian also worked with the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, Canterbury Christ Church University as a Research Assistant from from 2012 – 2019. Notable projects were a 2-year collaboration with Green Candle Dance Company researching the benefits of dance for people with dementia and more recently researching ‘Dance to Health’, a falls prevention dance project commissioned by Aesop.
She had a key role in assisting Professors Stephen Clift and Paul M Camic in their role as editors of the Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health and Wellbeing published in 2016.
Lian also sat on the Royal Society for Public Health’s Arts, Health and Wellbeing Special Interest Group steering committee from 2015-2018.
Sofia Conforti – originally from Argentina, where her journey into somatics and bodywork began. After leaving her psychology studies at university in search of a more embodied approach, she discovered bioenergetic therapy, which led her to explore other energetic practices such as yoga and meditation. Deeply interested in artistic and creative practices as well, Sofia sought a way to integrate all her passions.
After becoming a mother and moving to London, she found the Tamalpa Institute and Tamalpa UK , a program that brought together her interests in movement, creativity, and self-expression. Sofia graduated as a Tamalpa practitioner in 2023, completing her fieldwork project at a community venue in Southwest London, where she now resides.
Currently, she facilitates workshops and offers one-to-one sessions, creating spaces for movement, art, and self-expression. Sofia also works with children of all ages and abilities, delivering movement and art-based sessions that encourage creativity, self-awareness, and personal growth.