Events
DTAA Professional Development Events
Dance Therapy Association of Australia (DTAA) presents Professional Development Event and AGM
9.30 - 5.00 pm, Saturday 8th November, 2008
Bridging the World of the Magical and the Medical with Jilba Wallace
Venue TBA
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. In this experiential workshop she will apply this synthesis to working with groups or individuals with chronic pain, chronic suicidal ideation, developmental disabilities and physical handicaps.
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 keeping with our tradition of low costs for the AGM event the fee to attend is a minimal:
$30 for members / $65 non-members.
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 ADTAs 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.
DTAA's Annual General Meeting 2008, Saturday November 8,
Between 12.45 and 2.00pm, over a shared lunch
The AGM only is of course free and everyone is welcome
Light refreshments provided. Please bring a plate to share
International Presenter - Peggy Hackney - back in Melbourne!
Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis in DMT
A Vital Thread with Many Colors
Sunday and Monday, November 9 & 10, 2008
9.30 - 5pm - Venue TBA
In her keynote address at the "Weaving the Threads Conference" in Melbourne, November, 2007, Peggy Hackney said that "although she has studied approaches that include Freudian, Jungian, Authentic Movement, Process Oriented Psychology, and others, she has found that the Laban/Bartenieff work is the approach that provides the broadest framework for understanding what is going on in a client session AT THE MOVEMENT LEVEL". In this two day event Peggy will expand on this and explore the wide ranging threads of the LMA/Bartenieff work that can be used in DMT. Some aspects address psychological issues and some more physical ones - which of course interweave with the psychological.
Peggy, 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
Costs: Single Day 2 Day workshop
Current financial DTAA member $121 $231
Non-DTAA member $154 $275
Concession financial member $110 $209
Concession non-DTAA member $132 $242
Some of the threads of the Laban/Bartenieff work that will be developed in this workshop include:
• 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.
• Reference made to the importance of LMA basic themes such as Mobility and Stability and Exertion and Recuperation in a therapy situation.
Whats On in Australia and overseas
Whats on: dance movement therapy and related events in Australia and overseas from September 2008
DTAA Past Events
Amber Gray visits Melbourne to present a two day workshop
'Innovative Model for Dance Movement Therapy Across Cultures:
The Center Post Framework (CPF) & Restorative Movement Psychotherapy'
A two day workshop presented by Amber Gray
Friday 12 and Saturday 13, September, 2008
Amber, 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 Foundations Trauma & Resiliency Program Director.
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 will be highlighted. Participants will be prepared 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.
Contact: Mandy Agnew Tel: 03 98899923; Mobile 0437348808 or email Jane Guthrie jguthrie@alphalink.com.au
Professional Development For Dance Movement Therapists, Students, Graduates & those interested in dance movement therapy or allied movement forms
Sydney, 26 - 28 June 2008
Thursday 26th June
Drawing Through Movement - with Lisa Roberts
Contact Improvisation - with Cath Magill
Friday 27th June
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
Saturday 27th June 9.30am – 5.00pm
Sunday 28th June 9.00am – 4.00pm
Rethinking, Revising and Reframing Bartenieff Fundamentals - with Sandra Lauffenburger
Venue: Wesley Institute
Large Dance Studio
5 Mary Street, Drummoyne, Sydney
Car park - enter via Millar Street
Cost: $200 for Thursday and Friday/$75 per individual session or $100 for Students of
Wesley Institute and IDTIA
$250 for Saturday and Sunday or $100 for Students of Wesley Institute and IDTIA
Limited numbers - 12 per session
The Dance-Movement Therapy Association of Australia
and the Hanny Exiner Memorial Foundation present: Weaving the Threads
Third Australian Dance-Movement Therapy Conference
Melbourne, Australia
November 10 and 11, 2007
The Dance-Movement Therapy Association of Australia and the Hanny Exiner Memorial Foundation are collaborating to present a dance-movement therapy conference in 2007 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. This follows two earlier conferences held in Melbourne, in 1997 and 2000.
The conference aims to present and draw together the wide-ranging, differing methods and approaches to dance and dance-movement therapy, symbolised by the many threads that form the rich tapestry that is dance-movement therapy today. We invite all interested practitioners to consider offering a presentation from their area of interest or specialty drawn from this theme. Presentations may take the form of papers, workshops, (including those that might involve actual participants), panel discussions, performances, DVD showing or poster sessions.
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 will include:
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
The conference will be of interest to dance-movement and other arts therapists, dance specialists and educators, community artists and other related professionals. Practitioners, researchers and students in all of these areas, as are people with a general interest, are welcome. Delegates from Melbourne and Victoria as well as interstate and overseas are invited.