Bringing Dance Movement to Different Communities
Movemental brings movement-based wellbeing into a variety of settings. We seek to provide everybody-friendly and accessible services through deep understanding, strong professionalism and thoughtful collaboration and design to serve the unique needs of people.
Who We Support
Our services are not just for people seeking therapy or who struggle with mental health. We design programmes to meet people where they are at, taking into account all forms of emotional needs, aspirations and mobility levels.
Individuals
People attend individual Dance Movement Therapy for various reasons. Therapy sessions last an hour, and involve a combination of talk and movement. Within a supportive therapeutic relationship, we will work together to address your emotional needs and help you explore new ways of being.
Corporates
Our workshops are specially designed to support emotional wellbeing, creativity and unity in teams. Through a blend of embodied experiential processes and training, our workshops are effective in elevating essential soft skills that enable teams to thrive in a fast-paced world.
Non-profit Organisations
We conduct Dance Movement Therapy programs for organisations that make a difference. We also provide wellbeing programs for staff and caregivers to support resilience and transformation. We use the powerful language of movement to advance social missions and promote change.
Our Partners
Queensway Secondary School
Great Eastern
Stroke Support Station,
Art Science Museum
ART:DIS
Etonhouse Community Fund,
Millenia Walk
Metta Welfare Association,
Nike Singapore
Shopee Singapore
LASALLE College of the Arts
The Red Pencil (Singapore)
Bethesda Care Services
Shan You Wellness Community
St. Andrew’s Senior Care (Dover)
Northlight School
Teen Challenge (Singapore)
AMKFSC Community Services – Youth Infinity
Anglican Care Centre (Simei & Hougang)
Methodist Welfare Services Nursing Home
Methodist Welfare Services Girls’ Residence
Hear what they say
Client reviews
Participant, Group Dance Movement Therapy Workshop
I just love the workshop. Wish there are more workshops like this. Shi Han’s clear and highly relatable communication of concepts helped us to learn so much about DMT. Her warmth and sensitivity made it possible for us to encounter parts of ourselves that hadn’t been acknowledged in a while. Such a refreshing experience to find healing!
Participant, LASALLE Dance Movement Therapy Short Course
Cerise has beautiful qualities of empathy, warmth, sincerity and a touch of light- heartedness. These help participants feel safe so they can process their emotions authentically. As a facilitator, she is clear, grounded and in her body, so participants experience similar qualities in their bodies. As a result, her classes are deeply clarifying and transformative.
Nadirah, Medical social worker, Workshop participant
It was an excellent introductory workshop for one with curiosity of how dance and movement therapy can be an alternate expressive therapy. Enjoyed myself in the session and have deeper appreciation of the influence of movement on a person.
Lisa, Facilitator Training Workshop Participant
I really valued the opportunity to learn more about DMT and how it could be applied in group settings. Shi Han created a safe container for participants to learn from each other – a big thank you to Shi Han and my fellow participants!
Louisa, Facilitator Training Workshop Participant
The most valuable thing about the course is not just the concepts or skills you learn, but the opportunity to experience in a deep, embodied manner what DMT is like, and to do so in community. The invitation to come as yourself and be surprised by the wisdom that you and other bodies hold.
MWS Girls’ Residence
Shi Han showed sensitivity in her engagement and was attuned to the girls’ needs. Overall, her comprehensive understanding about trauma has enabled, empowered and equipped our girls with greater holistic mindfulness and perceptual awareness that transpired into greater self-confidence.
Fiona, Senior Executive
Sarah
This session brought back the confidence and ease of comfort to explore body movement that I previously had when I went for dance classes as a teen. I actually found myself stuck trying to explore “lightness” with movement/dance which led me to reflect and process certain mindsets and thoughts I had took on myself. Cerise was available to share her observations and inputs in the process, which helped me a lot.
Institute of Mental Health
The sessions have been well-received by our patients as they found Shi Han, to be friendly, approachable and non-judgmental. They also appreciated the fact that this form of therapy, is different from the usual verbal therapy, that can be stressful for some due to difficulty in expressing their emotions. Majority have also felt more relaxed and refreshed after the interactive and dynamic sessions.
Jessica, Senior Case Manager
Hubbub Theatre Company
Cerise was very caring and thoughtful about her approach to each of our participants and her calm nature helped to ground our participants and help them feel safe and supported. Cerise has shown her creative teaching abilities and our participants trusted and adored her which shows how well she connects with them.
Madeleine, Lead Facilitator
Anglican Care Centre Simei
Shi Han was professional in carrying out sessions and worked with members according to their pace and comfort level. Her gentle and encouraging way of communicating and guiding them helped to “tear down” the walls and feelings of uneasiness among them. This has helped the members to express themselves freely (physically and emotionally).
Rebecca, Senior Manager (Rehab Services)
Our Past Projects
Each project is shaped around the people we work with. Whether we are helping teams build resilience, supporting seniors with self-expression, or creating safe spaces for communities to connect, we make mental wellbeing more accessible, human, and embodied.
Sustainable Fashion
In this creative collaboration with Changing Room Project, we explored the link between our relationships to our bodies, clothing consumption and climate change.
Facilitator Training
Over the course of 10 modules, we taught professionals in the mental health, social work, healthcare and education sectors foundational knowledge and techniques in Dance Movement Therapy which could be implemented within their work settings.
International Women’s Day
In this workshop emphasising the collective effervescence of group dance movement therapy, participants from the Women’s Wing of the People’s Action Party took time to care for themselves, as well as celebrate their strengths and stories.
Corporate Workshops
Large teams took to our workshops to release stress by creatively engaging their bodies in movement. They also bonded through group movement experiences that forged non-verbal empathy and connection.
Youth Movement
In partnership with Etonhouse Community Fund, we designed a creative movement program that has been helping secondary school students islandwide enhance self-efficacy, emotional regulation, and overall mental resilience.
Mental Health
This programme with Bethesda Care Services combined Dance Movement Therapy sessions with participant-led choreography that culminated in a performance for friends and family. The experience highlighted the importance of giving expression to lived experiences of mental health as part of recovery.
Staff Welfare
Playful connections enabled healthcare professionals from Methodist Welfare Services to deepen camaraderie, in addition to learning stress management and professional self-care techniques.
Heartlands Dance
In collaboration with Red Pencil (Singapore), we conducted a workshop at an HDB void deck in Redhill to bring uplifting encounters and connections to residents of all ages.
Ex-offenders
We worked closely with male ex-offenders for a year to help them physically process trauma, regulate emotions, and regain trust and confidence in themselves and their community.
Intergenerational Bonding
Dance Movement Therapy proved effective in forming heartwarming connections among seniors and youths, building a greater sense of inclusivity in the community.
Active Ageing
8 weekly sessions for seniors in a community service unit offered the opportunity for self-expression through dance while reducing social isolation.
University Students
A movement-based workshop was a refreshing inclusion for students from the National University of Singapore as part of their repertoire of active coping strategies in the face of academic stress.