Professional Development Events
Forthcoming Events | Past Events:
DTAA Professional Development and Supervision Day
through Movement Experiential Learning
Saturday June 19, 11.30am to 6 pm
Venue: Rear Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Acland Street, St Kilda
'Ways of seeing' led by Fran Ostroburski
This model of supervision is about refining attunement and listening to the space between. It is not about self or other but about ’Ways of seeing' from a beyond the personal perspective, that provides the ability to move into any group. It is about the etheric field.
'Relational creative processes' led by Jane Guthrie
Focuses more on self and other and encourages positional shifts, to allow for problems or issues to be seen from different perspectives. It involves relational shaping.
The hours on this day can be counted as supervision, or alternatively professional development if supervision hours are not needed.
Professional Development workshop
Wesley Institute, Sydney, March 2010
with Kim Dunphy, dance-movement therapist, performing arts educator and community artist.
Freedom to Move: Movement and Dance With People Who Have Disabilities
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and
Assessment and Evaluation in Dance Therapy
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Naomi Aitchison makes HEMF
report to DTAA's Annual
General Meeting, Nov. 2009
Annual Professional Development Event, Saturday 28 November
Dancehouse, North Carlton, Melbourne
Workshops:
A 3-D Perspective in Dance-Movement Therapy: define, deconstruct and dance
Presented by Michelle Royal
This workshop provided an opportunity to DEFINE personal issues in professional settings; to DECONSTRUCT the physical, emotional; and kinesthetic elements of these issues; and to heal and restore our professional relationships through DANCE.
Michelle Royal has degrees in the fields of Education,Movement Studies and the Arts, and a Diploma in Dance Movement Therapy (IDTIA). She draws on her training and skills in these modalities to develop and deliver specific programs for targeted groups in a variety of settings (community, educational, artistic and clinical).
When There is More Than One: some considerations for managing group dance therapy
Presented by Sue Mullane - Dance Therapist, Sunshine Special Developmental School, Victoria
This afternoon workshop explored one model for facilitating group dance therapy processes based on some theoretical considerations.
Sue, DMT, M.Ed. Melbourne Uni., Grad Dip Movt. and Dance, has worked in movement and dance in a wide variety of educational and health settings for more than 20 years. She worked collaboratively with staff from the South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault (SECASA), Victoria, co-devising and co-facilitating group programs incorporating creative arts and dance therapy for women survivors of sexual assault. She now works full-time as a DMT at Sunshine Special Developmental School.
Followed by dinner and celebration to launch our newest publication ‘Dance Therapy Collections 3’
Professor Margot Schofield- Guest speaker at book launch and 15th birthday dinner
Workshops led by UK DMT Sara Boas
Sunday 29 November: LIFEdance! – Live your dance, Dance your life
Monday 30 November: Transcultural Competence – Exploring the Body of Culture
Professional Development Day
June, 2009
Reflecting on what we do: Inquiring into practice
Professional supervision led by Dr. Heather Hill
An important aspect of professional practice, particularly in the area of therapy, is the expectation that practitioners will ongoingly reflect on, scrutinise and inquire into their practice, and this is usually formalised within a context of professional supervision. There are many different ways to carry out this reflective/inquiry process and this workshop offers one approach. Starting from a "moment" of experience, participants were invited to inquire into this experience through a variety of modalities - movement, art, words, etc.- and through engaging with other participants (via partner and small group work) to further their inquiry. *Time taken for this process of inquiry will count as supervision hours.
The latter part of the day brought us back to what is at the heart of our practice, namely our connection with body. Jane Guthrie led a movement exploration that focussed on body connections from a developmental perspective as a foundation for all movement - to facilitate ease and efficiency - whether it be for expressive or functional purposes: focus on awareness of inner connections, how movement rides on the flow of breath, core distal connectivity and body integration.
Bridging the World of the Magical and the Medical with Jilba Wallace
8 November, 2008
Jilba uses therapy models that include a synthesis of the Moving Cycle, Mindfulness of the body and Emotion Regulation as practiced in the Dialectical Behavior Therapy model, Authentic Movement, trance or hypnosis states and active visualization. She says that:
"Dance/movement therapists access their own world of the body, movement and creativity and can work with focused intent to make changes. The challenge in the professional setting is how to help clients/patients access their own resources (primarily the moving body) and integrate this, as well as explaining to peers in clinical settings how DMT can benefit the populations with which they work".
In this experiential workshop she applied this synthesis to working with groups or individuals with chronic pain, chronic suicidal ideation, developmental disabilities and physical handicaps
Jilba Wallace MA, LPC, ADTR, lives in Colorado USA where she moved after growing up in Australia. Funded for her choreography in the community, she worked in the outback for seven years using drama and dance with aboriginal children. She graduated from Naropa University (Colorado) in 1992 and continues to teach and mentor there. She is Secretary of the ADTA's Rocky Mountain Chapter, has a private practice, and works part time in a psychiatric hospital running an intensive outpatient program with a multidisciplinary team. Her own interests include liturgical dance, yoga, mindfulness practice and studying shamanic principles.
Workshop: Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis in DMT
9 - 10 November, 2008
with Peggy Hackney
n this two day workshop Peggy explored the wide ranging threads of the LMA/Bartenieff work that can be used in DMT. Some aspects addressed include psychological issues and some more physical ones - which of course interweave with the psychological.
Some of the threads of the Laban/Bartenieff work developed in this workshop included:
• Tracking changes of Body Connectivity, Energy (Effort), Shape, and Spatial usage of client¡¦s and students. Looking at the Effort "coloring," that can combine with Body, Shape and Space in various ways that change the meaning.
• Being open to the non-knowing of what is coming next to allow true therapist 'presence'. Creating a safe place for the client to listen to their own bodies and develop their own inner witness and value their own messages.
• Becoming more aware of "Shadow Movements", which with the client¡¦s words (which may contradict the movement being done), and messages from the practitioner¡¦s body, together form "Embodied Attentiveness" (so called by Katya Bloom).
• Becoming aware of the differences in relationships with the same or contrasting Effort qualities in interacting Kinespheres and the use of this in developing empathy and/or clashing in the therapeutic relationship and why both are needed.
• Tracking the underlying patterns of Developmental Movement that support the person and building up a set of movement patterns that help to organize the body from a lower brain level.
• Importance of LMA basic themes such as Mobility and Stability and Exertion and Recuperation in a therapy situation
Peggy Hackney, BA. Psych., RMT, MFA, Certified Massage Therapist, began her Laban training in 1963, graduating from the first Effort/Shape Certificate Program in NYC, and working with Irmgard Bartenieff for nearly 15 years. She was a performer for many years, tenured to the Dance Faculty of the University of Washington for 11 years, taught extensively in the USA and in Europe and used Authentic Movement for 15 years. She is internationally recognized for her work in Laban Movement Analysis and the Bartenieff Fundamentals, helped found the Intensive Certification Programs in NYC, Seattle, Salt Lake, and Berlin. She has also worked extensively with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, the founder of Body Mind Centering. Currently she directs and teaches in the Berkeley California Weekend Format Laban/Bartenieff Certificate Program. She is Assistant Director of Moving On Center in Oakland, CA, where she teaches classes integrating Somatics and! Performance. Currently Peggy is working on Dynamics in Motion Capture Animation through NYU on a grant from the National Science Foundation. Her book Making Connections: Total Body Integration through Bartenieff Fundamentals, published by Routledge, 2003, is in its third printing
Workshop : Innovative Model for Dance Movement Therapy Across Cultures:
The Center Post Framework (CPF) & Restorative Movement Psychotherapy
12 -13 September, 2008
with Amber Gray
In this workshop, Amber combined theory with embodied exploration to introduce the CPF, an innovative model that is rooted in DMT and integrates somatic and creative arts modalities into the restorative process. The Model can be used in a in a wide range of therapy applications and, as well as for DMTs, it is very relevant for creative arts therapists and psychotherapists using movement. The framework specifically addresses and honors the complexities of working with movement, dance and the body across diverse cultures, and the long term impact trauma has on survivors' life experience. Approaches and methods to facilitate restoration, and the importance of culture as both a resource and a paradigm to guide somatic and expressive arts interventions were highlighted. Participants were encouraged to integrate the strength-based CPF into their dance-movement therapy practice, at the same time as cultivating somatic self-awareness, and stability in their own bodies.
Amber Gray, MPH, MA, ADTR, NCC, LPCC, provides training and consultation nationally and internationally on the application of dance-movement therapy and somatic psychotherapy to work with interpersonal trauma and conflict situations. She has a wealth of experience in treatment of trauma and torture survivors and childrens traumatic stress problems, using kinesthetic and non-verbal approaches. Amber also specializes in areas such as rhythm based rituals in clinical practice. She is the present Director of Restorative Resources Consulting and Training, Refugee Mental Health Coordinator for the State of New Mexico, and The Raven Drum Foundation's Trauma and Resiliency Program Director.
Professional Development For Dance Movement Therapists, Students, Graduates & those interested in dance-movement therapy or allied movement forms
26 - 28 June 2008
Wesley Institute, Sydney,
Drawing Through Movement - with Lisa Roberts
Contact Improvisation - with Cath Magill
Towards wholeness: A two hour experience of the philosophies and methods of dance therapy pioneer Trudi Schoop - with Robyn Price
Emotional factors and working from the Pilates Centre with Penny Latey
Rethinking, Revising and Reframing Bartenieff Fundamentals - with Sandra Lauffenburger
'Weaving the Threads': Third Australian Dance-Movement Therapy Conference
Melbourne, Australia,
10 - 11 November, 2007
presented by the DTAA and the Hanny Exiner Memorial Foundation
Conference themes:
How can dance and dance-movement therapy contribute to well-being and personal growth?
How can dance and dance-movement therapy be employed as tools for health and healing?
How can dance and dance-movement therapy contribute to the development of communities?
Conference streams:
Skill development in dance-movement therapy
Experiential learning in dance-movement therapy
Applications of dance-movement therapy for specific populations
Professional issues and supervision
Research and evaluation