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Dance Movement Psychotherapy

Start date:

October 2025
January 2026

Places:

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

Cost / delivery:

£875 / 10 weeks, online or on-campus

Intermediate: October

Advanced: January

 

Experiential workshops led by the course tutors whose expertise cover a diverse range of dance movement psychotherapy practices.

The workshops form the backbone of the course and will provide you 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, you 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, you should be prepared to work with the tensions between your personal and professional learning.

Intended audience

The course is designed to provide an introduction to Dance Movement Psychotherapy and is ideal if you are intending to train as Dance Movement Psychotherapists or to gain some experience for for your own personal or professional development.

Delivery

Intermediate

  • On-campus: 19 October - 14 December 2025 
  • Online: 18 October - 13 December 2025 
  • 8 x two-hour Wednesday evening classes plus two Saturdays

Advanced

  • On-campus: 10 January - 7 March 2026 
  • Online: 11 January - 8 March 2026 
  • 8 x two-hour Wednesday evening classes plus two Saturdays
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.

Details

Assessment Suggested reading

You will keep a reflective log of your experiences while on the course and will create an ‘Embodied Reflection’ of your experiences to share in the last class. This Embodied Reflection will be three 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 you will be encouraged to keep a record of your 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 your entry to the MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy Programme, however, we do encourage you to consider applying for professional training.

  • Allegranti, B. (2011) Embodied Performances: Sexuality, Gender, Bodies, London/New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Bloom, K. (2006) The Embodied Self: Movement and Psychoanalysis, London: Karnac.
  • Bloom, K. & R. Shreeves (1998) Moves: A Sourcebook for Body Awareness and Creative Movement, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic.
  • Chaiklin, S. & A. Lohn (1993) Foundations of Dance Movement Therapy: the life and work of Marian Chace, Columbia: Marian Chace Memorial Fund.
  • Chaiklin, S. and Wengrower, H., (2009) The Art and Science of Dance/Movement Therapy, New York/Hove: Routlege
  • Chodorow, J. (1991) Dance Therapy & Depth Psychology: The Moving Imagination, London: Routledge.
  • Goodill, S. W. (2005) An Introduction to Medical Dance/Movement Therapy, London: Jessica Kingsely
  • Halprin. D (2003) The Expressive Body in Life, Art and Therapy, Jessica Kingsley: London/New York.
  • Halprin. A (2000) Dance as a Healing Art: Returning to Health with Movement and Imagery, Mendocino California: Life Rhythms.
  • Levy, F. (1996) Dance and Other Expressive Arts Therapies: When Words are not Enough, London: Routledge.
  • Meekums, B (2002) Dance Movement Therapy, London: Sage.
  • Newlove, J. & Dalby J. (2004) Laban for all, London: Nick Hern Books
  • Payne, H. (2017) Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy: International Perspectives on Theory, Research, and Practice. London: Routledge
  • Payne, H (2006) Dance Movement Therapy: Theory Research and Practice, London: Routledge
  • Unkovich, G., Butté, C. & Butler, J. (2017) Dance Movement Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities. London: Routledge
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