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ADTA Intensive Seminars - Thursday, October 11, 2012
All Day Intensives - Thursday 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
IS1. Becoming an Embodied Therapist: Accessing the Language of the Body in the
Treatment of Eating Disorders with Susan Kleinman
IS2. Continuum: Listening to the Body's Wisdom with Amber Gray and Rebecca Amis Lawson
Half Day Intensives - Thursday 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
IS3.Touch in Dance/Movement Therapy: Ethical and Multicultural Considerations with Ellen Schelly Hill and Angela Tatum Fairfax
IS4. Dancing with the Earth: A Creative and Clinical Immersion of Earth-inspired Dance/Movement Therapy with Laurice Nemetz
IS5. Men as Dance/Movement Therapists with Zvika Frank and Paul Sevett
Half Day Intensives - Thursday 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
IS6..Embodied Artistic Inquiry Takes on Diversity with Robyn Cruz, Angela Tatum Fairfax and Lenore Hervey
IS7. Dancing with the Earth: A Creative and Clinical Immersion of Earth-inspired Dance/Movement Therapy with Ariana Candell
IS8. Introductory Experiential Workshop and Continuous Support Group for Those New to ADTA Conferences with Linni Deihl
IS1. Becoming an Embodied Therapist: Accessing the Language of the Body in the
Treatment of Eating Disorders with Susan Kleinman This seminar presents an opportunity for mental health professionals to learn how to discover and trust their innate ability to "attend" empathically, respond authentically, and translate non-verbal experiences into cognitive insights. Experiential body/mind exercises based on dance/movement therapy principles will be used along with didactic presentation to integrate a more embodied approach into traditional psychotherapy theory and practice. Participants will learn how embodied methods can be used to treat eating disorders and trauma. Back to top
IS2. Continuum: Listening to the Body's Wisdom with Amber Gray and Rebecca Amis Lawson
Thoughts, feelings, movements, sensations - it all happens in the terrain of your physicality. The most direct way to learn about yourself is by developing your ability to listen to yourself as an embodied being. The journey is simple and at the same time more radical, subtle, surprising, and stranger than you probably imagine. Think of it: every cell in your body is sorting, selecting, rejecting and communicating in countless exchanges of information based on past experience and current circumstances. This is the heart of intelligence. Science, medicine, fitness, psychology and spirituality are all converging on a future that is involved with accessing the body's capacities to go beyond what the rational mind can achieve. The practice of Continuum can help you to understand the body's way of knowing and draw from its well of insight and ingenuity. Back to top
IS3.Touch in Dance/Movement Therapy: Ethical and Multicultural Considerations with Ellen Schelly Hill and Angela Tatum Fairfax
Touch is central in growth and development, a meaningful part of human expression and relationship, at times exploitative. What is its place within the boundaries of dance/movement therapy practice? This workshop will engage participants in movement and discussion to together consider touch: its varieties, functions, personal and cultural meanings, and the implications and decisions involved in the use of touch in the dance/movement therapy process. Both ethics and multicultural lenses will be applied to exploring the topic and considering guidelines. Relevant psychotherapy, nonverbal communication, and multicultural literature will be referenced. Back to top
IS4. Dancing with the Earth: A Creative and Clinical Immersion of Earth-inspired Dance/Movement Therapy with Laurice Nemetz
We can expand our embodied experiences and those of our clients by developing our Earthbody- our body which is intimately connected to the land, waters, plants and creatures around us. We will explore an in-depth experience with natural objects, culminating in a poetic movement offering for the community ritual, following the intensive. To orient participants to earth-inspired Dance/Movement Therapy, a brief overview of Ecotherapy and clinical examples of Ecosomatics will be presented. Guidelines and foundational techniques to develop this work will be discussed. Further integration of the material will come from participant’s specific clinical questions about interventions in this work. Back to top
IS5. Men as Dance/Movement Therapists with Zvika Frank and Paul Sevett
Male DMTs face distinct issues beginning the first day of graduate training and throughout their ongoing involvement both organizationally in the ADTA and clinically with patients. This workshop will examine through lecture, discussion and movement such issues as; identity formation - integrating the masculine-feminine polarity, overt and unconscious sexual dynamics inherent in settings where there are fewer men than women, transference reactions from patients, safety of working with female patients, your own therapy experience with female/male DMT... We ask those men participating in the workshop to bring their unique experiences as a male DMT for discussion and exploration. Back to top
IS6. Embodied Artistic Inquiry Takes on Diversity with Robyn Cruz, Angela Tatum Fairfax and Lenore Hervey
Join us in a collaborative exploration of the ways we feel and move that support or interfere with creating diverse community connections, and how our movement observations are colored by our cultural backgrounds. We hope to excite participants about embodied artistic inquiry as a useful research method while also expanding their cultural competence. This workshop is jointly presented by the Research Subcommittee and the Multicultural & Diversity Committee. Back to top
IS7. Dancing with the Earth: A Creative and Clinical Immersion of Earth-inspired Dance/Movement Therapy with Ariana Candell We can expand our embodied experiences and those of our clients by developing our Earthbody- our body which is intimately connected to the land, waters, plants and creatures around us. We will explore an in-depth experience with natural objects, culminating in a poetic movement offering for the community ritual, following the intensive. To orient participants to earth-inspired dance/movement therapy, a brief overview of Ecotherapy and clinical examples of Ecosomatics will be presented. Guidelines and foundational techniques to develop this work will be discussed. Further integration of the material will come from participant’s specific clinical questions about interventions in this work. Back to top
IS8. Introductory Experiential Workshop and Continuous Support Group for Those New to ADTA Conferences with Linni Deihl An introduction to DMT integrating Marian Chace concepts, Effort/Shape movement analysis, group process and leadership techniques. Participants will be involved in an interactive process through kinesthetic and personal involvement. This workshop is designed for students and allied professionals new to ADTA conferences. This group will meet daily during the conference for continuing support. Back to top
