/ Short Courses /
Start date:
October 2024
January 2025
Places:
Places are awarded on a "first paid first serve" basis due to demand.
Cost / delivery:
£875 / 10 weeks, online or on-campus
Intermediate: 19 October - 14 December 2024
Advanced: 11 January - 8 March 2025
(8 x two hour Wednesday evening classes plus two Saturdays)
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.
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
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.
This timetable is provisional - dates and times may be subject to change.
For the Intermediate Courses the Dates are
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Date |
Time |
Title |
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19 October
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10-2pm |
Opening Plenary Day |
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23 October |
7- 9pm |
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30 October |
7- 9pm |
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6 November |
7- 9pm |
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13 November |
7- 9pm |
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20 November |
7- 9pm |
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27 November |
7- 9pm |
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4 December |
7- 9pm |
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11 December |
7- 9pm |
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14 December |
10-2pm |
Closing Plenary Day |
For the Advanced Courses the Dates are
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11 January |
10-2pm |
Opening plenary day |
|
15 January |
7-9pm |
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22 january |
7-9pm |
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29 january |
7-9pm |
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5 february |
7-9pm |
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12 february |
7-9pm |
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19 february |
7-9pm |
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26 february |
7-9pm |
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5 march |
7-9pm |
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8th march |
10-2pm |
Closing plenary day |
Suggested reading
University of Roehampton Foundation Course in Dance Movement Psychotherapy
Introductory Reading List
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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Intermediate: 19 October - 14 December 2024
Advanced: 11 January - 8 March 2025