Early Steps

The beginning of Movemental was shaped around a simple question: What do people truly need to be emotionally well?

After years in the counselling profession, Shi Han found herself searching for answers beyond traditional approaches to mental health. While counselling offered valuable insight, she sensed that healing involved more than words alone, especially in a world saturated with stimuli and emotional demands. It was through her lifelong connection with dance that she began to find some answers.

Through movement, Shi Han found a contained journey into depths of emotion which allowed her to explore the many tints, shades and tones that make up the human condition, whereupon the resurfacing was often felt as greater sense of wholeness and integrity. What began as personal exploration eventually led her to pursue advanced training in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and dedicate her work to helping others experience the same possibilities for growth and healing.

Movemental was born from that journey.

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Our Mission

Movemental seeks to shift the frame of what constitutes and enables mental health. We are dedicated to exploring, creating and delivering experiences that centre around dance and movement practices for emotional wellbeing. Connection is at the heart of our mission. By weaving relationships between body and mind, integrating psychotherapeutic, art and healing modalities, and drawing people and communities together, we embrace interconnectedness as an antidote against individual and societal fragmentation. We are committed to evolving our knowledge and skills through reading and research, continuing education and affiliation with professional associations.

The Movemental Frame

The Movemental Frame represents a commitment to the integrity of our work. Here we invite you behind-the-scenes to understand the principles that drive what we do.

1. A Living Canvas

The body is a living canvas for emotions to play out in material form and be felt at once: The power lies with the immediacy in being acquainted with our emotions. 

2. Emotional Landscape

All movement, no matter how small or great, exert an impact on our emotional landscape. 

3. Increasing Awareness

Increasing awareness of how our body movement and emotions are intricately coupled, provides a passage to emotional proficiency.

4. Regulation

Movement, when done meaningfully, can be a mechanism that supports, regulates and transforms emotions.

5. Being with the Other

Movement physically makes possible the drive towards communion and “being with the other”.

6. Universal Language

Movement is a universal language that unites us across our differences.

7. Creating Self-Identities

Movement empowers and supports self-determination by enacting our purpose and creating self-identities through tangible action.

8. Emotional Colour

Being easefully and creatively in touch with our body movement supports feelings of joy, happiness, interest, contentment and gratitude.

9. Flow

Self-expressive movement draws upon, and reinforces creativity and flow.