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Dance Movement Psychotherapy Foundation Course

Start date:

October 2024

Places:

Places are awarded on a "first paid first serve" basis due to demand.

Cost / delivery:

£1,375 / 20 weeks, online or on-campus

(18 x two hour Wednesday evening classes plus two Saturdays)

19 Oct 2024 - 22 March 2024

This programme of experiential workshops is led by the course tutors whose expertise cover a diverse range of dance movement psychotherapy practices.

Experiential workshops form the backbone of the course and provide participants with an opportunity to express, explore and reflect on the Dance Movement Psychotherapeutic Process directly.

Theoretical connections will emerge from the material shared in these groups. In this way students will learn from theory that directly emerges from experience.

These workshops will be facilitated by a qualified and experienced registered dance movement psychotherapist.

While it is stressed that the main emphasis of the groups is educational and not therapeutic, students should be prepared to work with the tensions between their personal and professional learning.

Seminars and lectures

The seminars and lectures are woven into the workshop experiences. Each workshop will be part experiential dance movement and part seminar/lecture.

The seminars take the form of presentations of clinical/therapeutic work and opportunity for discussion.

Application deadline: X October 2024, 1pm

Intended audience

The course is designed to provide an introduction to Dance Movement Psychotherapy for those intending to train as Dance Movement Psychotherapists or who wish to gain some experience of Dance Movement Psychotherapy for their own personal or professional development.

Details

Assessment Timetables Suggested reading

Assessment

Course participants will keep a Reflective Log of their experiences while on the course and will create an ‘Embodied Reflection’ of their experiences to share in the last class. This Embodied Reflection will be 3 minutes long and can comprise a combination of dance movement and verbal narrative.

The Reflective Log itself is not assessed for a variety of reasons but primarily because students will be encouraged to keep a record of their personal psychological journey, including photographs and/or images they have made in the experiential workshops. As such the Log itself will be a highly personal manuscript.

You will need to complete a minimum of 70% of the course and a satisfactory final Embodied Reflection in order to recieve an electronic attendance certificate.

This will not automatically ensure a student's entry to the Roehampton University MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy Programme, however, we do encourage individuals considering applying for Professional Training to complete a Foundation Course.

On-campus timetable

This timetable is provisional - dates and times may be subject to change.

Date	Time	Title
21 October	10am-4.30pm	Workshop 1 Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP) introduction, entry into training and Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK (ADMP UK). Introducing experiential ways of working for an integrative approach to dance movement psychotherapy.
28 October	7pm-9pm	Workshop 2 DMP History
2 November	7pm-9pm	Workshop 3 The ‘therapeutic space.’ Introduction to different models of psychotherapeutic change.
1 November	7pm-9pm	Workshop 4 The Egalitarian circle and Empathic Reflection
8 November	7pm-9pm	Workshop 5 DMP and creative therapeutic movement;differences and similarities
15 November	7pm-9pm	Workshop 6 Authentic Movement
22 November	7pm-9pm	Workshop 7 DMP and Humanistic Approaches
6 December	7pm-9pm	Workshop 8 Developmental Movement & Infant Observation
13 December	7pm-9pm	Workshop 9 DMP and Culture
10 January	7pm-9pm	Workshop 10 Developing Body Awareness over the Life Span
17 January	7pm-9pm	Workshop 11 'Observing and being aware’. Introducing Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) as a therapeutic tool
24 January	7pm-9pm	Workshop 12 Developing Personal Interaction Movement Profiles
31 February	7pm-9pm	Workshop 13 DMP Gender and Sexuality
7 February	7pm-9pm	Workshop 14 DMP and Client populations
14 February	7pm-9pm	Workshop 15 DMP and Alternative views and Psychopathology
21 February	7pm-9pm	Workshop 16 DMP and Props
28 February	7pm-9pm	Workshop 17 DMP and Music
6 March	7pm-9pm	Workshop 18 DMP and Clinical Supervision
13 March	7pm-9pm	Workshop 19 DMP: Reflective Practice and Research
16 March	10am - 4.30pm	Workshop 20 Solo Learning Statements & Solo Embodied Reflections & Closure

Online timetable

This timetable is provisional - dates and times may be subject to change.

Date	Time	Title
21 October	1000-1630	Workshop 1 Discussion of Dance Movement Psychotherapy as a profession in the UK, entry into training and professional organisation: Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK (ADMP UK) & Introduction to an 'Experiential' way of working with dance movement. Introducing DMP: A Social Constructionist Approach.
28 October	1900-2100	Workshop 2 DMP History
1 November	1900-2100	Workshop 3 The ‘therapeutic space.’ Introduction to different models of psychotherapeutic change.
8 November	1900-2100	Workshop 4 The Egalitarian circle and Empathic Reflection
15 November	1900-2100	Workshop 5 Authentic Movement
22 November	1900-2100	Workshop 6 DMP & Humanistic Approaches
29 November	1900-2100	Workshop 7 DMP and Creative Therapeutic Movement: differences and similarities
6 December	1900-2100	Workshop 8 Developing Body Awareness over the Life Span
13 December	1900-2100	Workshop 9 Developmental Movement & Infant Observation
10 January	1900-2100	Workshop 10 DMP and Culture
17 January	1900-2100	Workshop 11 DMP Gender and Sexuality
24 January	1900-2100	Workshop 12 ‘Observing and being aware’. Introducing Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) as a therapeutic tool
31 January	1900-2100	Workshop 13 Developing Personal Interaction Movement Profiles
7 February	1900-2100	Workshop 14 DMP and Alternative views of Psychopathology
14 February	1900-2100	Workshop 15 DMP and Props
21 February	1900-2100	Workshop 16 DMP and Music
28 February	1900-2100	Workshop 17 DMP and client populations
6 March	1900-2100	Workshop 18 DMP and Clinical Supervision
13 March	1900-2100	Workshop 19 DMP: Reflective Practice and Research
16 March	1000-1630	Workshop 20 Solo Learning Statements & Solo Embodied Reflections & Closure