International Conscious Movement Teachers Association upcoming events

Feet 1st May with Rani Valerie Chatel (01 May 2026)

Fri, 01 May 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Feet 1st May 2026

6 PM BST

10 AM PDT / 1 PM EDT / 7 PM CEST / 8 PM MSK / (2nd April) 3 AM AEST / 5 AM NZST
On Zoom
with Rani Valerie Chatel

Movement Medicine teacher

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"My intention for this session is to share with you the amazing Movement Medicine mandala and how to use it for your own life."

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About Rani Valerie Chatel

Rani Valerie Chatel is a Movement Medicine graduated teacher and facilitator based in Brussels. She teaches Movement Medicine since 2018 for all kind of public. She is a psychotherapist working 1:1 and in groups.

www.valeriechatel.com - Instagram : ranivaleriechatel - FB : Movement Medicine avec Rani Valerie Chatel

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1 hour dance and an optional 30 min space for debriefing and informal sharing afterward.

Click here to get to the recordings of previous sessions.

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We all hold space for others a lot. Feet 1st is a space for us to be held by your feet and your tribe!

Feet 1st is a monthly gathering for ICMTA members: 1 hour of dance followed by 15-30 minutes to hang out together.

Feet 1st takes place on the 1st day of each month, with different timings each time to accommodate various time zones.

Feet 1st is for teachers, by teachers: any of us can hold a session, and we are all welcome to join in a dance!

Our yearly rhythm includes:

7 or 8 Feet 1st sessions (for ICMTA members only; we sometimes take holidays in August)
CPD events (free for members and open to non-members with an entrance fee) held on 1st March, June & September
Community Gathering session on 1st December.

We would love to enjoy your gifts in one of our upcoming Feet 1st sessions! If you feel the call, click here and sign up for an available date that works for you.

Thank you.

Looking forward to dancing with you!

ICMTA General Assembly 2026 (20 May 2026)

Wed, 20 May 2026 16:00:00 GMT

ICMTA GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2026

Wednesday May 20th

9am - 12pm San Francisco, 12 -3pm New York, 5 -8pm London, 18:00 - 21:00 Paris, 19:00 - 22:00 Moscow.

Apologies if you're in Australia or New Zealand.

The General Assembly is when those of us that work for the Association share with you, our members, what we’ve been doing, and what we’re planning to do next. It’s an opportunity for you to ask any questions, and to see how everything has been managed on your behalf.

It’s also when we all get to choose new Board members to look after the long-term health of the Association.

We’d love to hear your nomination for the Board, either at the meeting itself, or by email before. Please have a conversation with someone before you nominate them, so you have a sense of whether they may be willing to consider the role.

For the last 12 years we've had our legal address in Belgium.
This year we're planning on relocating to France.
The physical address where we received official correspondence will no longer be available to us in Belgium, and we've found the administrative requirements complicated and difficult to manage.

We have more members in France, and crucially Lina, our Office Manager, lives there.
In practice the move will make very little difference to you, or the way we are run.
But it will help to make things operate more smoothly now and into the future.

We’ll be sending more information about this, and the rest of the agenda, nearer the time.

For now, do put the date in your calendar, or let us know that you're coming using the register button.

We do hope you can join us!

With all good wishes

The ICMTA Board

CPD: The Dance of the Conscious Activist with Ben Yeger (01 Jun 2026)

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Continuing Professional Development

The Dance of the Conscious Activist

Facing the challenges of our times by combining Joanna Macy's Work That Reconnects with Movement Medicine

with Ben Yeger

Monday June 1st 2026, 2:00 PM BST

6 AM PDT - 9 AM EDT- 3 PM CEST - 4 PM MSK - 11 PM AEST

In this 2hr CPD session we will become familiar with Joanna Macy's extraordinary body of work and the spiral of the Work That Reconnects. Ben will share how he has used this work within a Movement Medicine embodied frame and will offer a space for participants to experience some of these. There will be a space for dialogue and questions which will support those present in exploring how they might want to use this work in their practice. The over riding aim of this session is to find ways to be more explicit in how we can be in service of the bigger picture in these complex times on planet Earth.

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About Ben

Ben has been dancing for 20 years, was a Movement Medicine AP and PT1 and a member of the School of Movement Medicine Faculty for 6 years.

He has 35 years’ experience of group facilitation and training, is a Movement Medicine Facilitator and Teacher, a creative therapist, Theatre Director, Peace activist, Systemic Coach and conflict Transformation facilitator. Ben teaches Movement Medicine workshops in Europe exploring a variety of themes including Conflict. He combines Movement Medicine with Joanna Macy's Work That Reconnects and Systemic Constellations.

He is the Founder and Director of Moving Conflicts and UK representative of Combatants for Peace (CfP).

Ben creates and facilitates innovative, non-violent and collaborative interventions, which transform conflict from barriers to relationship into opportunities for change.

Ben is a father of three and a grandfather of one and lives with his Partner in Totnes, South Devon- England.

Ben's websites:

https://mm-benyeger.com/

and

https://www.movingconflicts.org/

To view his TEDx talk go to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzvopt5gwtg

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This event is free for ICMTA members. Open to non-members teachers of conscious movement for a fee.

This event will be recorded and made available to those registered, and to all ICMTA members through our website.

If you're not a teacher of one of our recognised schools, please let us know at info@icmta.com if you would like to attend.

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This is one of regular Continuing Professional Development events held by the ICMTA. Find more about these sessions here.

If you are a member, you can watch the recordings of the previous sessions here.

Let us know if you have a suggestion of a theme or topic you would like us to explore next time, or if you have an expertise in a subject that could be of interest for your colleagues - conscious movement teachers - and you would like to hold one of these sessions.

Teachers' Gathering 2026 - Online (10 Oct 2026)

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:00:00 GMT

SAVE THE DATE!

TEACHERS' GATHERING 2026

online

10-11 October 2026

Details to be announced soon!

photo from the last TG 2025 in Serbia