Maggie, MA (Theatre) BA (Drama) Cert. Dance Movement Therapy (from IDTIA)
NSW Teachers Cert. (primary schools). Alexander Technique Teachers Cert. works as a Dance therapist and Drama teacher at a psychiatric centre in Newcastle and has a private practice teaching the Alexander Technique. She has written and staged community plays and has used Drama as a methodology for teaching English as a second language in Arnhem Land and other remote Aboriginal communities. Her internship with Bread and Puppet Theatre in USA and membership of clown troupes means that circus skills and puppetry are used successfully in many of her dance movement sessions.

Keywords
IDTIA, research, DMT supervision, writing, authentic movement, transcultural,

Maggie shares a brief reflection on her journey from student to practitioner, which involved immersion in researching and writing a published book chapter on supervision: in Payne, H. (ed) (2008) Supervision of Dance Movement Psychotherapy, published by Routledge. (p. 35)

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