Past Events

Here is a list of the Professional Development events the DTAA has hosted in past years.

DTAA Aotearoa Branch hui & PD Weekend

Date: 9 & 10 November 2024

Presented by: Brigitte Puls, Lesley Hawkins and Sarah dos Santos

Location: Waimauku and Auckland, in-person only

Description: DTAA Aotearoa Branch is hosting an exciting 2-day Professional Development program and hui on November 9 and 10, 2024, in Waimauku and Auckland, for practising and student Dance Movement Therapists residing/working in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Three presenters will be offering a range of experiential workshops to stimulate your creativity, improve your clinical skills and to reflect on your work with clients.

CPD: Day 1: 6 hrs CPD, Cat A, Day 2: 4 hours CPD, Cat A, 1 hr Cat B (Branch hui)

AGM 2024

Date: 20 October 2024

Presented by: DTAA

Description: 2024 AGM via Zoom, 1-4pm AEDT

CPD pts: 3 hrs CPD, Cat B

Understanding Sensory and Movement Differences in Children and Adults with Autism/Neurodiversity

Date: 19 October 2024

Presented by: Alice Owen, Claire Apelt and Brotherhood of the Wordless

Description: Full day, live online workshop, 10am-4.30pm AEDT

This workshop is for Dance Movement Therapists, Dance Movement Therapist students, Allied Health practitioners, support workers and allies of people with Neurodiversity.

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and strategies for supporting individuals with Neurodiversity and Autism.

CPD pts: 5.5 hrs CPD, Cat A

Bringing Creativity, Dance and the Arts into Therapy: an embodied, imaginative approach to working with children

Date: 14 July 2024

Presented by: Takeshi Matsumoto

Description: Full day, in-person workshop, 9.30am-4.30pm in Sydney

If you are, or are interested in working with both neurotypical and neurodivergent children, in integrating creative, therapeutic and educational practices into your work, come join us in Sydney for a practical, play-filled Professional Development workshop.

Inspired by Club Origami, a dance performance for children aged under 6 years old, Takeshi introduces Origami and paper play as the starting point for exploring creativity, early years practice and the self-other relationship. This multi-modal approach incorporates dance, drawing and discussion.

CPD pts: 6 hrs CPD, Cat A

A psychomotor approach to expressive movement: as influenced by the work of Alfred Adler and Mary Wigman

Date: 7 April 2024

Presented by: Dr. Nana Koch

Description: Full day, in-person workshop, 9.30am-5pm

Join Nana Koch in Melbourne as she presents a didactic and experiential workshop about the full expression of the individual.

Together, we will see what Adler’s concept of life force looks like in the body. We will identify blockages and tension patterns that prevent mobility and full expression, that affect body alignment and movement efficiency, we will explore movement sequences to free the body of tension and holding, and we will experience how improvisation helps unleash a full range of feelings and emotions in the body.

CPD pts: 6 hrs CPD, Cat A

Group Supervision Session 1 or 2

Date: 6 April 2024

Presented by: Dr. Nana Koch

Description: 2-hour group supervision, 1-3pm, 3.30-5.50pm

Supervision hrs: 2 hrs Group SV

Dance Performance in Rushcutters Bay – 2 x full-days, in-person workshop and performance

Date: 11-12 November 2023

Presented by: Marylee Hardenbergh

CPD pts: 12 hrs CPD, Cat A

Creating Community-based Therapeutic Aspects of the 3 Planes – a full-day, online workshop

Date: 28 October 2023

Presented by: Marylee Hardenbergh

CPD pts: 6 hrs CPD, Cat A

DTAA Student Seminar 2023, a one-hour online seminar and discussion

Date: 10 September 2023

Presented by: DTAA Workplace Development Committee

The Legacy of Marian Chace: how dance movement therapy group process and group development come together in the service of patients’ needs – a full day, in-person workshop.

Date: 23 April 2023

Presented by: Dr. Nana Koch

Healing Processes in Group Dance Movement Therapy: Eight experiences that lead to therapeutic change –  a 2 x half-day, online workshop

Date: 5 and 19 November 2022

Presented by: Dr. Nana Koch

Launch of the DTAA’s Student Handbook Webinar

Date: 13 November 2022

Presented by: Mioi Forster-Nakayama and the DTAA Workplace Development Committee

Exploring the relationships between self-efficacy, dance movement therapy and high-performance environments

Date: 23 November 2022

Presented by: The DTAA Research Committee

DTAA Research Forum:

Working Safely with Trauma: The Body and Dance Movement Therapy: one-day, online workshop

Date: 28 October 2022

Presented by: Dr. Bonnie Meekums