Maria Kerin’s facilitation practice is grounded in deep listening, sensory awareness, and creative receptivity. She supports individuals and groups to engage with movement, material, and place through embodied experience.
Re-Wilding Bodies is Maria Kerin’s core weekly facilitation practice, held at Mrua Studio (Luisne), Ennistymon. These workshops offer a mindful, meditative movement process designed to be accessible to people of all abilities.
The practice prioritises restorative movement, sensory awareness, and deep body listening, supporting participants to reconnect with themselves, with others, and with the natural world.
Maria’s facilitation integrates a unique blend of influences developed over many years of professional practice, including Antoinette Spillane’s Seasonal Score, Mary Nunan’s Release Technique, Body-Mind Centering and Joan Davis’ Origins.
The workshops are community-focused and are particularly supportive for artists and environmental activists experiencing fatigue, stress, or burnout.
Since 2007, Maria has facilitated The Embodied Creativity Process, a structured approach for individuals and groups seeking deeper creative engagement through the body and the senses.
This process is grounded in four core pillars: deep body listening, materiality, spatial awareness, and somatic movement rooted in sensory experience.
Creative exploration is often supported through reflective visual art practices and new media tools, including mobile phone documentation, which help frame and extend the creative experience.
The Embodied Creativity Process has been facilitated internationally, including at:
MoKS Arts Residency Centre, Estonia
Öland Think Tank, Sweden
Maria’s facilitation extends into community and environmental contexts, where movement and creativity are used as forms of social and ecological engagement.
Through Project Affectionate – the North Clare Eco-Somatic Dance Collective, she facilitates movement workshops and participatory performances focused on water wellbeing and embodied environmental awareness.
Her social inclusion work includes:
Blankets of Peace, facilitating movement workshops with refugees and professional artists together
Fáilte Isteach, supporting social connection and language exchange through English conversation groups in Bellharbour
Maria has also delivered creative education projects such as Ode to Lickeen Lake, facilitating school workshops and online participatory performances using digital platforms including Zoom.
Maria has extensive experience hosting and facilitating international peer-to-peer artistic exchange.
She curated and facilitated RAFT (Sharing and Gifting), a series of residential gatherings in Estonia for international artist-curators exploring collaborative practice through shared knowledge and creative generosity.
She also facilitates 4 O’Clock TEAS, a choreographic discourse platform that supports one-to-one conversations across Europe, creating cross-cultural points of departure through simple acts of meeting and listening.
Her facilitation has included week-long peer learning events such as The Future is Domestic!, where international artists were hosted in her home to exchange practices in drawing, wind music, and herbalism.
Alongside her creative facilitation, Maria has held formal advisory roles within the arts sector.
From 2000 to 2015, she served as an adjudicator for arts bursaries with several County Councils in Ireland.
She has also acted as a European liaison, advising on Creative Europe proposals and supporting partnerships between Irish arts organisations and collaborators in Estonia and Latvia.