Dance Movement Therapy - S / Spring 2024

Unit: Body Integration Theme: Mindful Expression   I  Introduction  Yael Schwietzer is a dance therapist and crative movement teacher. She does a form of mindful movement called Pure Dance. Yael has a grant from the Barbara Mettler Foundation to do workshop/classes. She has chosen our Dance Program to share her knowledge with our students.   II Learning Objectives Understand the role of the dance/movement therapist in facilitating body expression Explain  the therapist approach when using mindfulness to generate expression via Schwietzer's Pure Dance Gain an awareness of how joining other students can inform the process Experience the therapeutic process through sensing, feeling and expressing movement forms  III   Mindful Walking practice will be played the weeks of Feb 26 and March 25 Check file on email. Mindful Walking You will engage in a mindful walking practice. Like focused attention practices, you will be instructed to notice when yo...

  I   Unit: Body Integration Theme: Innermost Fantasy    Introduction   Trudi Schoop believed in exploring, through dance/movement, the fantasy life of clients diagnosed as psychotic. In order to bring the client to the world as others saw it, Schoop believed in the importance of engaging the patient in understanding and temporarily joining the client in his/her delusions, hallucinations and ideations. II Learning Objectives   Understand the role of the dance/movement therapist in helping patients with schizophrenia Explain  the therapist approach when working with patients diagnosed with schizophrenia Gain an awareness of how joining the clients' innermost fantasy positively affects the clients' well-being Experience the therapeutic process through a personal recollection on one's own innermost fantasy  III   Mindful Walking practice will be played the weeks of Feb 26 and March 25 Check file on email. Mindful Walking You will engage ...

  I Research   - Focused attention (FA)  practices will be played t he weeks of Feb 19 and March 18   10 min_FA_SR_MaleVoice     FA Instruction You will be engaging in a focused attention practice. During this practice, you will be instructed to notice when your mind has wandered to external distractions, like a light, or to internal distractions, like your thoughts. When you notice these distractions, you will be instructed to become aware of them without judgment and to redirect your attention back to your breath. You will continue to bring your attention back to the breath, over and over again, throughout the practice. If at any time you feel uncomfortable or agitated, know that you can always choose to stop the practice Post-practice Now that the practice has finished, I'd like to hear from two students. Please share in 1-2 words what you observed as you engaged in the practice. When students respond, please say, “thank you for your r...