Name: Workshop #3: Experiencing Empathy through Movement:
Start: 2026-10-15T09:00:00-0500
End: 2026-10-15T11:45:00-0500

Workshop #3: Experiencing Empathy through Movement:

Thursday October 15, 2026 9:00am - 11:45am CDT

King of Glory Lutheran Church

Workshop Summary:

Empathy, the ability to understand another person’s thoughts, feelings and emotions, is central to connection and to a supportive therapeutic relationship. Research suggests a supportive relational approach is essential to a successful outcome in the treatment of neuroplastic symptoms. Traditional medical training tends to focus on technical and factual learning, and health care providers may not have had the opportunity to develop empathic skills. Additionally, empathy is notoriously hard to teach. One successful approach, however, is to use movement to develop interoception, proprioception, grounding and body vocabulary to enhance empathy. Somatic insight is an intuitive route to empathy. This workshop is experiential.

Learning Objectives:

Demonstrate greater empathy by increasing their body awareness;
Recognise different ways of translating emotional sensations within the body;
Employ more experiential methods to create a kinaesthetic sense of safety and mind-body connection, particularly grounding as per recent sensations & trauma research.
Identify subtle phenomenological shifts within the body;
Use a refined somatic epistemology including affective, attunement, compassion and relational skills to develop a successful empathetic clinical approach.

Speakers

Mags Clark-Smith

MA, PGCE, BCPT, BMC Dip, Lecturer & Researcher in Movement and Psychology

Mags currently works in private practice as a pain relief movement specialist with a relational approach. Using her experience with a large and diverse caseload, she teaches resolving chronic pain in consultation, delivers guest lectures internationally and runs teacher-training and... Read More →

Thursday October 15, 2026 9:00am - 11:45am CDT
King of Glory Lutheran Church

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