Dance Movement Therapy / Spring 2025

  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 Check In   1 Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) Before ATP Instructions: The questions in this scale ask you about your feelings and thoughts during the last month. In each case, you will be asked to indicate how often you felt or thought a certain way. Just before class, have you... Never (0) Almost Never (1) Sometimes (2) Fairly Often (3) Very Often (4) 1 been upset because of something that happened unexpectedly? 0 1 2 3 4 2 felt that you were unable to control the important things in your life? 0 1 2 3 4 3 felt nervous and "stressed"? 0 1 2 3 4 4 felt confident about your ability to handle your personal problems? 4 3 2 1 0 5 felt that things were going your way? 4 3 2 1 0 6 found that you could not cope with all the things that you had to do? 0 1 2 3 4 7 been able to control irritations in your life? 4 3 2 1 0 8 felt that you were on top of things? 4 3 2 1 0 9 been angered because of things that were outside of your control? 0 1 2 3 4 10 felt ...

    I   Check In   Icebreaker # 1 Neuroscientist   (39:40 - 49:14) https://youtu.be/NKyyF9MQXn4?si=VutNhTfomxxFeCoR   II  Unit: Re-integration  Theme: Self-Portrait   Introduction   The self portrait ritual symbolizes the re-integration of all the different parts of self and one's story with renewed insight, vitality and visions for change. These ritual-performances, illustrated in the video below, are enacted with the group and teachers witnessing in the final week of the Tamalpa Level 1 training program.   III   Learning Objectives   Understand the meaning of the full-body self-portrait in the re-integration process  Explain the importance of the metaphoric associations to body parts   Gain an awareness of the relationship between "dancing images" and "personal metaphors" Experience the therapeutic benefits of the full-body self-portrait  Experience the embodiment of awareness and personal metaphors ...