October 2022 On campus

Please note you must first complete & submit an application form. Places will be allocated and secured upon receipt of a successful application. The course is suitbale for Health Professionals, Social Workers, Teachers and others interested in finding out about Therapies. The course is offered on a part-time basis for 20 weeks. The course compromises of two full day workshops and eighteen evening classes. 

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Please read the  Short Courses & Professional Development Programmes Contract 2020-21 before submitting payment.

Course Description

Experiential Workshops

These form the backbone of the course and provide students 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 limited in size (maximum of 18 students) and 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.

Assessment

Students 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.

Successful completion of the course requires a minimum attendance of 80% and a satisfactory final Embodied Reflection. A certificate of attendance will be awarded.

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.

The course is designed to provide an introduction to art therapy 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.

 

A programme of experiential workshops led by the course co-ordinator Layla Smith and the course facilitators and visiting Dance Movement Psychotherapists from a wide range of fields.

Course timetable and dates

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

Date	Time	Title
22 October	1000-1630	Workshop 1 Discussion of DMT 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: An Integrative Approach
26 October	1900-2100	Workshop 2 DMP History
2 November	1900-2100	Workshop 3 The ‘therapeutic space.’ Introduction to different models of psychotherapeutic change.
9 November	1900-2100	Workshop 4 The Egalitarian circle and Empathic Reflection
16 November	1900-2100	Workshop 5 DMP & client populations
23 November	1900-2100	Workshop 6 Authentic Movement
30 November	1900-2100	Workshop 7 DMP & Humanistic Approaches
7 December	1900-2100	Workshop 8 DMP and creative therapeutic movement: differences and similarities
14 December	1900-2100	Workshop 9 Developmental Movement & Infant Observation
11 January	1900-2100	Workshop 10 Developing Body Awareness over the Life Span
18 January	1900-2100	Workshop 11 DMP and Culture
25 January	1900-2100	Workshop 12 DMP Gender & Sexuality
1 February	1900-2100	Workshop 13 ‘Observing and being aware’. Introducing Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) as a therapeutic tool
8 February	1900-2100	Workshop 14 Developing Personal Interaction Movement Profiles
15 February	1900-2100	Workshop 15 DMP and Music
22 February	1900-2100	Workshop 16 DMP and Clinical Supervision
1 March	1900-2100	Workshop 17 DMP and Music
8 March	1900-2100	Workshop 18 DMP: Reflective Practice and Research
15 March	1900-2100	Workshop 19 DMP & Props
18 March	1000-1630	Workshop 20 Solo Learning Statements & Solo Embodied Reflections & Closure