The DTAA offers a program of affordable and accessible professional development (CPD) events: webinars, in-person and online workshops, to help meet the registration and learning needs of all DTAA members, and professionals working in related fields.
Offerings range from one-hour to 2-days in length.
DTAA 2024/2025 CPD Calendar
Exploring Mechanisms of Change in Dance/Movement Therapy
Hosted by DTAA
Presented by Susan Imus
When: Sunday 1 February 2026
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
Where: Jack Dyer Community Room, Cnr of Gleadell & Highett Streets, Richmond VIC 3121, Melbourne/Naarm
How does therapeutic change actually occur in Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT)?
What roles do aesthetic experience, mutual attunement, imagination, and improvisation play in supporting transformation?
Join internationally respected educator and scholar Susan Imus for an experiential professional development workshop exploring the fundamental mechanisms of change in Dance/Movement Therapy and Creative Arts Therapies.
Through experiential movement processes, relational inquiry, clinical examples, and reflective dialogue, participants will gain both a felt and theoretical understanding of how and why therapeutic change occurs through the body and aesthetic experience.
Grounded in emerging research—including De Witte et al. (2021), Imus & Young (2023), and Dieterich-Hartwell, Barnstaple & Fontanesi (2025)—this workshop bridges theory, embodied practice, and the Arts in Health landscape.