Exploring Emotional Climate through Physical Storytelling

What does it feel like to be alive right now — in a world that seems to be shifting faster than we can process?

This webinar explores that question through movement, metaphor, and shared creative expression. Physical Storytelling is an embodied, arts-based approach developed by Steve Harvey and E. Connor Kelly that brings people together to explore emotional experience when words alone aren’t quite enough. Drawing on years of cross-cultural collaboration — including work developed in the wake of COVID-19 — this session turns its attention to the emotional realities of today’s global tensions.

Rather than just talking about these themes, you’ll actually experience a live Physical Storytelling process together. There will also be space to reflect on how this kind of embodied, co-creative practice might be relevant to your own work — whether in therapy, education, health, or community settings.

What to Expect

• A brief introduction to Physical Storytelling and its cross-cultural roots
• A live experiential process — participation welcome at whatever level feels right for you
• Reflection and discussion on applications in Arts and Health, Creative Arts Therapies, and beyond

Learning Objectives

• Understand the principles of Physical Storytelling as an embodied, co-creative arts-based approach
• Experience how movement, metaphor, witnessing, and creative dialogue can support reflection and connection
• Identify practical applications within Arts and Health, Creative Arts Therapies, education, and community practice
• Reflect on how embodied arts processes can foster resilience and cross-cultural dialogue in uncertain times

Who This Is For

Creative Arts Therapists, psychologists, counsellors, educators, arts and health practitioners, and students — and anyone drawn to embodied, relational, or arts-based approaches to human connection.

About the Presenters

Steve Harvey, PhD — (Curator) Psychologist, creative arts therapist, and co-developer of Physical Storytelling. Steve has spent decades exploring how creative processes help people communicate what words can’t easily reach, with recent work focused on post-COVID emotional climate and cross-cultural creative dialogue.

E. Connor Kelly — Dance/movement therapist, educator, and co-developer of Physical Storytelling. Connor is internationally recognised for her work in Dance/Movement Therapy training, embodied supervision, and creating the kinds of responsive, imaginative spaces where real communication can happen.

Tanvi Rodrigues, MA — Creative arts family therapist and expressive arts practitioner. Tanvi’s work centres on children, families, and community connection, weaving together movement, play, and multimodal arts to support emotional expression and collaborative meaning-making.

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Free for IACAET Members  |  Non-members $18    •    Please use World Time Buddy to find your local time.