Annual Tamalpa Graduate Weekend & Fundraiser 2026
About this Event
“The opportunity to engage with graduates from previous years was extremely resourcing; to see how others apply the Tamalpa Life Art Process to their daily lives.” Tamalpa UK Graduate
Join us this year for an inspiring and recharging graduate weekend. Open to all current students and graduates of Tamalpa UK, come and join us in Sandgate, Kent this November and connect with Peers & Faculty. Experience the diverse work of our Tamalpa Practitioners first hand, recharge your own body's creative wisdom and meet new colleagues with shared passions.
Workshop Themes
Returning to the Gift That Is You! - With Lian Wilson
Movement and Dance to Nourish Your Soul, returning home to your life art practice.
Exploring the Joy of Being Alive - with Sofia Conforti
An invitation to slow down, turn inward and explore the experience of being alive through the senses, movement and creativity.
The Worldly Winds and Creative Response - with Frances Crowley
A score to explore possibilities for presence and creativity in turbulent times.
Water Ceremony, Closing Ritual - with Lesley Asare
A warm invitation to tend to the heart and be held by the restorative wisdom of water.
The weekend will involve:
- Developing personal and professional practice through the Tamalpa Life Art Process®
- Time to reconnect with peers, teachers and meet new graduates from other training programmes
- Learn how current Tamalpa Practitioners are working in diverse settings, social prescribing, including performance and rituals
- Plug in and revitalise your own Tamalpa personal practice
- Have a chance to connect with your Self -Portrait or artwork that you wish to explore further (Optional and not required, Self Portraits hold the space as a Gallery)
- Be a part of building the Tamalpa Community in a fun and positive way
- Extended festive lunch break to have time to eat together collectively
Open to current students and graduates from Level 1, Level 2 & Level 3 Tamalpa training programmes only.
Image credit: TUK Graduate Weekend
“For me the graduate weekend was a bringing together of ideas and thoughts that I had been aware of since the closing weekend of Level 1, but had not galvanised into anything concrete. Now there is a sense of direction, and I feel more confident in taking this work forward.
In the workshop I felt a sense of reconnecting, and I was also able to ‘top up’ on my Tamalpa energy, so I can carry on by myself and with my own practice. There are no Tamalpa Practitioners near me and keeping the connections in my busy everyday life is a challenge. Working in a group of Graduates was liberating and inspiring”
Time: Saturday 10am - 5.00pm & Sunday 10am - 4.30pm (GMT)
Venue: Chichester Memorial Hall, Sandgate, Kent
Cost:
- Full price ticket £210 /Concession rate £170 (Plus Eventbrite fee)
- Day ticket £99/ Concession rate £70 (Plus Eventbrite Fee)
- Payment plans are available to pay by instalments for all ticket options, please contact Tamalpa UK office
- Two work exchange positions available with £140 discount off the full ticket price.
- Two Assistant opportunities available to Level 2 Graduates +
Further information please contact us directly.
All participant tickets purchased go directly into supporting our Tamalpa UK annual fundraising campaign. Funds raised supporting Tamalpa UK to continue offering places on public workshops and training programmes for students in financial need.
Meet the Practitioners
Sofía Conforti is a Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator and a Tamalpa Life/Art Process Practitioner based in London.
At the heart of her work is a curiosity about our inner worlds and the parts of ourselves that can become lost beneath the demands of everyday life. She is interested in creating space to meet ourselves as we are, listen to what moves within us, and allow our inner experiences to find expression through movement, creativity and the way we live.
Drawing on her background in somatic movement, expressive arts and many years of working with children, Sofía brings curiosity, imagination and play into her facilitation. She creates experiences that invite people beyond words and familiar ways of thinking, opening possibilities for discovery, self-expression and new ways of relating to themselves and the world.
Her work is an invitation to step away, for a moment, from the pressure of who we think we should be, and reconnect with the wonder, joy and gratitude of being alive.
Frances Crowley - completed her Level 3 training earlier this year and is now a certified Tamalpa Life/Art Practitioner.
She carries out monthly Tamalpa sessions in her home town of Hastings with the staff of the Refugee Buddy Project, where she works with the theme of embodied organisational leadership, finding ways for staff to embody collective care and work with the organisation’s values of courage, solidarity and welcome.
In recent months she completed Planetary Dance / Circle the Earth training and trained with Daria Halprin in Mountain Home Studio, California.
Lesley Asare is a British-Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist and Tamalpa Practitioner based in Milton Keynes, UK.
Her practice is guided by a deep inquiry into truth, intuition, and the subtle faculties that shape human experience. Rooted in African diasporic wisdom, she approaches the body as a sacred archive of memory and ancestral intelligence, a site through which histories, identities, and unseen connections can be felt, remembered, and reimagined.
Working across painting, sculpture, movement, ritual performance, installation and sound, Lesley explores identity, ancestry, ecology, and the lived experiences of Africans and the Global Majority. She creates work that invites stillness, play, and self-reflection, opening space for transformation, healing, and embodied awareness. Central to her practice is a belief in the creative process as a restorative force, and in living in right relationship with the earth.
Lian Wilson is the Creative Director of Tamalpa UK and established Tamalpa
Practitioner. She has spent over 25 years working in the field of somatic movement,
arts and health. Lian is a Master Somatic Movement Therapist MSMT and Master
Somatic Movement Educator MSME with ISMETA (International Somatic Movement
Education and Therapy Association).
One of her core interests is in the development of health and wellbeing in individuals
and diverse communities through the participation and education of the benefits of
dance and movement based expressive arts, notably through the Tamalpa Life Art
Process®. She has worked with the Kensington & Chelsea’s Mental Health Carers
Support Network and with Folkestone Mind’s mental health wellbeing programme,
facilitating Tamalpa Life Art classes.
In her personal & professional life Lian draws upon her love of movement, dance,
creativity, nature and ongoing daily practice of living and sustaining a healthy life.
Where is it happening?
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