Becoming an Embodied Therapist Workshop with Susan Kleinman

Becoming An Embodied Therapist workshop
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BECOMING AN EMBODIED THERAPIST:
ACCESSING THE LANGUAGE OF THE BODY IN EATING DISORDER TREATMENT
Wednesday December 9, 2009
9am - Noon
Hancock Center for Dance/Movement Therapy

Earn 3 CEU's
Workshop Cost: $60.00

This workshop offers the opportunity for mental health professionals to discover and trust their innate ability to "attend" empathically, respond authenticcally, and translate non-verbal experiences into cognitive insights. Experiential body/mind exercises based on dance/ movement therapy principles will be used along with didactic presentation, to integrate a more embodied approach into traditional psychotherapy theory and practice.
Participants will learn how these embodied methods can be used to treat individuals with eating disorders with a special focus on how to:

- Be more fully present and congruent.
- Facilitate a somatic state of readiness.
- Utilize treatment techniques based on mind/body congruity to deal with issues
underlying eating disorders.
- Track the process of therapy so as to not become lost in the experience of attending.
Workshop Presenter Susan Kleinman, MA, BC-DMT, NCC, is the dance/movement therapist for residential and outpatient services at The Renfrew Center of Florida. Ms. Kleinman is a trustee of the Marian Chace Foundation, past president of the American Dance Therapy Association, and a past Chair of The National Coalition for Creative Arts Therapies. She is co-editor of The Renfrew Center Foundation's Healing Through Relationship Series, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal for Creativity in Mental Health. She is the American Dance Therapy Association Recipient of the 2009 Outstanding Achievement Award.