Join us for an international online webinar and joint book launch celebrating three important new contributions to the field of Authentic Movement. This special event offers a rare opportunity to meet the authors, hear the stories behind their books, and engage in live dialogue about the evolving practice of Authentic Movement in clinical, educational, and creative settings.

Date: March 29, 2026

Time: 10am-11:30am New York; 3:00pm-4.30pm London; 4:00pm-5:30pm Brussels; 10pm-11:30pm Beijing time

Online (Zoom)

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Please note: Sunday, March 29, marks the start of Daylight Saving Time (Summer Time) across the UK and much of Europe. As clocks will move forward one hour that morning, please double-check your local time to ensure you join us at the correct hour—especially as the time difference between Europe and other regions will change on this day.

**This event will be recorded. Registrants will receive the recording link via email after the live session.**

Featured books and authors:

• Helen Payne – Authentic Movement for Practitioners: A Culmination of Theory, Practice and Research (Routledge, 2026)
• Tina Stromsted – Soul’s Body: Active Imagination, Authentic Movement, and Embodiment in Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2025)
• Marcia Plevin & Rosa Maria Govoni – Movimento Autentico. Storia, principi e pratica (Authentic Movement: History, Principles, and Practice, Carrocci, 2025 – Italian edition)

Rooted in rich clinical and contemplative traditions, the authors have each worked closely with two of the best-known teachers of Authentic Movement: dance/movement therapist and scholar of mysticism, Dr. Janet Adler, and dance/movement therapist and Jungian psychoanalyst Dr. Joan Chodorow, both of whom were students of pioneer Mary Starks Whitehouse, founder of Authentic Movement practice. As long-time colleagues, international trainers, and dedicated practitioners, they bring decades of embodied research, clinical experience, and teaching to their writing.

During the webinar, each author will offer an overview of their book, highlighting its central themes, unique contributions, and practical applications. Together, they will reflect on Authentic Movement as an evolving discipline, its roots, current developments, and emerging directions, and how this work can support healing, creativity, and consciousness in our time.

Psychologist and dance/movement therapist, Patrizia Pallaro, will introduce the speakers and moderate the discussion. Following the presentations, we will open for questions and discussion, inviting a lively exchange between authors and participants about the books’ content and the broader field of Authentic Movement.

In an era when trauma, dissociation, and disconnection from the body are increasingly understood as central clinical challenges, these books honor the innate wisdom of the living body in the work of transformation, healing and growth. They invite us to discover how movement, relationship, and embodied imagination can support integration and regulation, and cultivate a more intimate conversation between psyche and soma where the body emerges as a trusted guide to inner life, connection, and the sacred.

This webinar will be of particular interest to:

• Dance movement therapists and somatic practitioners
• Psychotherapists and counsellors across modalities, including eco-psychotherapists
• Jungian analysts and depth-oriented clinicians
• Mindfulness practitioners
• Trauma-informed practitioners
• Graduate educators and supervisors integrating embodiment into training
• Neuroscientists and researchers who are interested in translating findings into lived, symbolic, and communal practices
• Ecologists and environmentalists
• Survivors, creatives, and thoughtful lay readers drawn to the living relationship between body, psyche, and soul/spirit

We warmly invite you to join us in celebrating these three new volumes, rich resources for anyone seeking to bring the body more fully into therapeutic, educational, and creative work, and to deepen engagement with Authentic Movement as a path for awareness, insight, and personal/professional transformation.

Learning Outcomes 

Participants will:

1. describe the similarities and differences between each of the three books.
2. demonstrate greater knowledge about the discipline of authentic movement.
3. analyze and critique the authors’ expertise on the topic

Bionotes

Professor Dr Helen Payne, UKCP Reg, Psychotherapist, Fellow & Reg., ADMP UK, group analyst, researcher, educator, author and pathway leader for the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy, UK. In the UK Helen conducted early research and publications and created the first government validated postgraduate programme in DMP. Founding Editor-in-Chief for the scientific, peer reviewed journal ‘Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy’ and past founding President of IACAET, she works at the University of Hertfordshire as Principal Supervisor for national/international doctorate candidates researching DMP/authentic movement. Clinical experience, international teaching, and extensive publications span 50 years. She trained with Janet Adler in the Discipline of Authentic Movement in which she offers training. https://authenticmovementcirclesblog.wordpress.com/

Helen established The BodyMind Approach for people with chronic somatic symptoms for which tests and scans return as normal in which she trains the trainer online http://bit.ly/3JhTnss

She also has private practice with online consultations.

Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., MFT, BC-DMT, LPCC, RSMT/E, SEP, is a Jungian analyst, board-certified dance/movement therapist, somatic psychotherapist, educator, and author. Co-founder and faculty, Authentic Movement Institute, California. She worked closely with pioneers Joan Chodorow and Janet Adler in the early development of Authentic Movement. Faculty in Somatic Psychology, Expressive Arts Therapies, and Women’s Spirituality at CIIS, San Francisco. Decades teaching in Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Depth Psychology/Somatics doctoral program and other universities, including the Jung Institute SF, Jung Platform, and the International Association of Analytical Psychology; senior leadership trainer Marion Woodman Foundation.  With 50 years of clinical experience, a background directing a community mental health program in SF, teaching in many parts of the world, and numerous publications, she has a private practice in San Francisco, and offers virtual consultations. Her new book is Soul’s Body: Active Imagination, Authentic Movement, and Embodiment in Psychotherapy.

Marcia Plevin BC-DMT, Art psychotherapist, psychologist, dancer, choreographer,  dance movement therapist, ATI, APID, professor, clinical supervisor for dance movement therapy programs, Art Therapy Italiana, Inspirees Institute, China, formerly a guest for the psychology dept. Bilgi University Istanbul, . Faculty Circle of Four. Co- founder  Creative Movement Garcia-Plevin method. Teaches Authentic Movement in Europe and China.  Creator of ‘Ten Icons ‘an awareness, attention training based on the Ox Herding pictures. Her articles can be found in English and Italian in a range of journals and books.

Rosa Maria Govoni, Psychologist,  Psychotherapist  E.R. It, DMT, BC-DMT -705, MA, Authentic Movement trainer, Faculty Circle of Four. Sensorimotor Psychotherapist level 1, KMP level I. Restorative Movement Psychotherapy. Polyvagal Psychotherapy Italian Institute Registration – Co Founder Art Therapy Italiana Association. Co-Founder Italian Professional Association APID.  Former: Director DMT Four Year Training Program, Co-Director Institute Expressive Psychotherapy in Art Therapy Italiana, Vice president ATI. Now Director Continuing Education  DMT Art Therapy Italiana, teacher and clinical supervisor for ATI e in different Institutions. Taught in Austria, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey and in China for Inspirees. Publications translated in different languages. On the board of Nel International Journal of Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy.

Curator

Patrizia Pallaro LCMFT, BC-DMT

A registered clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in Italy, licensed marriage and family psychotherapist in the US, and board certified dance/movement therapist, Patrizia Pallaro maintains a private practice in Annapolis, Maryland, where she offers individual, couple, family, and group therapy, integrating authentic movement principles into her clinical work, training, and supervision. A native Italian, she is bilingual with experience in intercultural and acculturation issues. Formerly director of a psychiatric residential

and day treatment program in San Francisco and clinical supervisor at John F. Kennedy University’s Transpersonal and Holistic Counseling Center in Oakland, Dr. Pallaro has an extensive background in mental health, counseling, and partial hospitalization philosophy.  On faculty at several institutions in the US, Russia, and Italy, she published two volumes on Authentic Movement (Authentic Movement: Essays by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow & Authentic Movement: Moving the body, moving the self, being moved with Jessica Kingsley Publisher. Past co- editor of the American Journal of Dance Therapy, her articles have appeared in scholarly journals, in English and Italian.