Dear Friends & Colleagues,
I’d like to share an upcoming workshop I will be teaching this August, sponsored by CMER (Center for Movement Education & Research). This two-day immersion will explore the healing power of movement as active imagination.
This course is open to clinicians, and teachers and practitioners of body-orientated healing work. It is also designed as a Dance/Movement Therapy Approaches course for students who are preparing for Alternate Route certification.
I hope you’ll consider joining us and please feel free to share this information with others.
With best wishes as summer comes into full bloom.
Warmly,
Tina
August 22, 2015 – August 23, 2015
Wildcat Studio, Berkeley, California
Sponsored by the Center for Movement Education and Research’s (CMER) Alternative Route Training in Dance/Movement Therapy
Authentic Movement is a depth-oriented therapeutic approach, bridging body and psyche through natural movement, augmented by drawing and writing. Beginning with the contributions of Mary Whitehouse, we will engage Jungian concepts and their evolution into Authentic Movement, and explore more recent developments in the practice related to group and individual therapy.
This course is open to practicing professionals and is also designed as a Dance/Movement Therapy course for students who are preparing for Alternate Route certification, meeting 15 hours (one credit) of the Theories and Methods requirements for students in pursuit of Alternate Route Training with the goal of becoming a registered Dance/Movement therapist (R-DMT). This course has been approved by the American Dance Therapy Association to meet requirements for the Alternate Route R-DMT credential.
This course also meets the qualifications for 15 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs, LCSWs & LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Sessions will include structured warm ups and ‘starting points’ that engage embodied clinical themes, as well as questions such as:
- What is active imagination, and how does it facilitate transformation?
- How does moving & witnessing practice enhance healing and development?
- How do we become more sensitive to the movement expression of the client’s body and of our own embodied response?
What supports the integration of sensing, emotion, movement, images, words, and symbolic expression within the healing relationship, touching on brain function? - How might you integrate Authentic Movement and structured, creative movement explorations in your therapy practice?
- In what ways can we develop leadership skills in creating a safe container, initiating structured warm ups, discerning effective “starting points”, and engaging in sensory-grounded reflection on the process?
- What is the efficacy of Authentic Movement practice for different clinical populations, in multicultural settings, and in the larger global community?
This course will reflect on the history of Authentic Movement, including Jungian theory, elements from neuroscience, discussion of the readings, and clinical applications of Authentic Movement in dance/movement therapy. In the process we will address therapeutic elements such as providing a safe container, identifying projections, establishing appropriate interpersonal boundaries, listening and observational skills, empathy, and the somatic underpinnings of the transference-countertransference relationship.
Through the practice participants can continue to develop their ability to be present, with oneself and with another, in a more vital, increasingly conscious relationship, inviting a level of perception of self and other that can evoke deep respect and empathy.
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