Become a Dance/Movement Therapist! Trainings in Northern California Start June 4th!

Here ye, Here ye!

FINALLY, Northern California gets some gold! The Center for Movement Education and Research offers certification courses for aspiring dance/movement therapists at Sonoma State University starting this June, 2010.

Sign up TODAY!

INFO:

You MUST enroll in both DMT I & II if you want want to fulfill the DMT Alternate Route Training. Go online for an application and send in your 50% Deposit by April 1, 2010. Classes will be cancelled without sufficient enrollment.


Theoretical Origins of Dance/Movement Therapy: Foundations Level I
June 4,5,6 & July 9, 10, 11, 12 2010

This is an introductory level course reviewing the theoretical origins of dance/movement therapy as a therapeutic modality. The foundational tenets defining dance/movement therapy as a creative, healing and integrating process will be presented in relation to self and other awareness and insight oriented symbolic functioning. The course will review the history and conceptual development of the major pioneers in the field and the application of their work within various settings. Additionally the cultural, ritual, modern dance and nonverbal communication historical elements will be reviewed.

Course Hours: 45 Contact Hours
Course Instructor and Credentials: Janet Lester, Psy.D., ADTR
Dates: June 4,5,6 & July 9,10,11 2010
Location: Sonoma State University
Times: 9-5:30 Friday-Sunday
Fee: $1200.00/ 45 Hour CE Credit for MFT/LCSW (Provider #3888)


Theoretical Developments in Dance/Movement Therapy: Elaborations Level II
Aug 6, 7, 8 & Oct 8, 9, 10 2010

This course has been approved by the American Dance Therapy Association as meeting requirements for the Alternate Route D.T.R. credential and satisfies 45 hours of DMT Theory & Practice Training. This is a Theory Course in Dance/Movement Therapy elaborating on the concepts of the creative process, the creative process in dance/ movement therapy and the role of the “moving imagination” in promoting psychological transformation. The importance of fostering creative processes in therapeutic dance experience will be reviewed from a depth oriented perspective. The course will also investigate the creative process involved in developing an empathic therapeutic relationship in dance/movement therapy. Each day movement experientials will be offered to explore the presented concepts as well as the creative aspects of improvisational and choreographic processes as they pertain to dance/movement therapy.(A prerequisite for alternate route training course enrollment is the satisfactory completion of a Foundations Theory Course in Dance/Movement Therapy – Level I.).
Course Hours: 45 Contact Hours
Course Instructor and Credentials: Paula Perlman LMFT, ADTR, CLMA
Dates: Aug 6, 7, 8 & Oct 8, 9, 10 2010
Location: Sonoma State University
Times: 9-5:30 Friday-Sunday
Fee: $1200.00/ 45 Hour CE Credit for MFT/LCSW (Provider #3888)

For Information and Application Contact:
Judy Gantz-CMER Director
POB 2001
Sebastopol, CA 95473
judy@movement-education.org
(310) 477-9535
www.movement-education.org

DMT course in March: DMT in HEALTHCARE

CMER is offering Dance/Movement Therapy In Healthcare: PREVENTION, TREATMENT
& AFTERCARE on March 19, 20, 21 2010 at Pomona College --Claremont CA 9:00am
6:30pm.

Dance/Movement Therapy In Healthcare:
PREVENTION, TREATMENT & AFTERCARE

This course has been approved by the American Dance Therapy Association as meeting requirements
for the Alternate Route R-DMT credential and satisfies 25 hours of DMT Theory & Practice Training.
This course is approved for CE by the ADTA.

This course meets the qualifications for 25 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs
and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (Provider #3888).


Course Content/Description:

This dance/movement therapy theory and practice course covers the role of
dance/movement therapy in the prevention and treatment of illness, and in the
maintenance of health and well being. This course will be divided into three sections to
cover the dance/movement therapy principles and applications specific to prevention,
to treatment, and to aftercare.

In the section on prevention, this course focuses on dance/movement therapy
contributions to health and well being in response to the somatic, emotional and
cognitive consequences of stress and trauma. The section on treatment addresses
dance/movement therapy in a medical context and as an adjunctive treatment for illness.

The section on aftercare focuses on the role of dance/movement therapy in coming
to terms with treatment outcomes, creating new choices, and finding new meaning.
All sections will focus on self regulation, self expression, and self in relationship, all
fundamental to health and well being. The specific attention throughout to body awareness,
creativity, and attunement, will amplify aspects of dance/movement therapy theory and
practice, as well as provide a foundation for a somatically oriented psychotherapy practice.


Course Objectives:


1) Students will become familiar with the concepts of prevention and wellness in dance/movement
therapy practice.

2) Students will gain understanding of the cognitive, somatic and emotional impact of stress and
trauma on health and well being.

3) Students will develop an understanding of the application of dance/movement therapy theory
and practice in the treatment of illness in a medical context.

4) Students will learn interventions, applicable both to the student as therapist and to work with
patients, that are grounded in the principles of dance/movement therapy and based in the
concept of preventive care and maintenance of health.

To sign up, contact Judy@movement-education.org

CMER DMT with Seniors CANCELLED

Dance/Movement Therapy with Seniors Course for January and February is CANCELLED.

Yes. Another course has been cancelled due to low enrollment. Sigh.

Without attending (or hence, graduating) from these classes, I will not be able to become a dance/movement therapist. I feel held back while I'm rarin' to go!

My efforts and energies are currently focused on my thesis, but when it's done, it's on. Nobody will be able to hide! I plan on recruiting everyone I know and everyone I don't know to become dance therapists in California. This profession will thrive with a new generation of DMTs in this wonderful state!

PLEASE SIGN UP FOR THIS COURSE!

The Center for Movement Education and Research

January 9,10, 2010 – Scripps College -- Claremont CA
February 13,14, 2010 – Pomona College --Claremont CA
9:00am – 5:30pm

http://www.movement-education.org/courses_alternateroute_socal.html


Course Title: Dance/Movement Therapy with Seniors —30 hrs
This dance/movement therapy theory, practice and application course will cover the specific developmental needs of seniors and the dance/movement therapy skills pertinent to working with this population age group. The course content will focus on physical, psychodynamic, psychopathological, and enculturating factors impinging on the later years of human development. Students will be exposed to various clinical concepts of dance/movement therapy viewed within a developmental framework that are pertinent to selected late adulthood populations, including clinical disorders of late adulthood and, the types of somatic transference/countertransference issues that might be encountered.

This course has been approved by the American Dance Therapy Association as meeting the Alternate Route Requirements for the R-DMT credential" and satisfies 30 hours of DMT Theory and Practice Training.


This course meets the qualifications for 30 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (Provider #3888). Students taking the class for continuing education are excused from the required assignments other than attendance and participation.

Course Objectives:
1) Students will develop an understanding of the developmental needs, tasks and challenges presented when working with various senior populations.
2) Students will develop a basic understanding of dance/movement therapy assessment and application of dance/movement therapy interventions as they apply to various senior populations.
3) Students will learn interventions through which to facilitate an individual or group dance/movement session for various senior populations.
4) Students will be able to design and facilitate a dance/movement therapy session for seniors that is developmentally sound and takes into account the unique developmental, physical, emotional, psychological and cognitive needs of seniors.
5) Students will conclude the class with a beginning level awareness of dance/movement therapy processes and techniques utilized in working with seniors.

Locations:
Scripps College
Richardson Dance Studio
1030 Columbia Ave
Claremont, CA 91711
Pomona College
Pendleton Dance Center, Studio 16
210 East 2nd Street
Claremont, CA 91711

Course Fee: $750.00

Course Instructor: Gabrielle Kaufman MA, BC-DMT, NCC
is a CMER faculty member, dance/movement therapist and counselor with close to twenty years experience in the helping profession. She has taught creative movement to preschoolers and elementary school students, has used DMT with the elderly, Holocaust survivors, adults with mental illness, individuals with eating disorders and body image issues, with teens at high risk and other individuals suffering from anxiety and depression.
Currently, she is the coordinator of the New Moms Connect Program of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles. She has run several programs for high risk children and teens in both English and Spanish languages, taught classes to parents of newborns and toddlers, and runs support groups for single parents, women with eating disorders and women with perinatal mood disorders and with seniors. She is a coordinator with Postpartum Support International and has a private practice in Los Angeles.

For Information and Application Contact:
Judy Gantz-CMER Director
POB 2001
Sebastopol, CA 95473

(310) 477-9535

Interested in Becoming a Dance/Movement Therapist?

The Center for Movement Education and Research, CMER, is offering a Dance/Movement Therapy with the Elderly course in Southern California in January and February, 2010.

Please sign up! The course is in danger of being canceled due to low enrollment, and selfishly, I NEED THIS COURSE! :)Tell all your friends!

Info below:

January 9,10, 2010 – Scripps College -- Claremont CA
February 13,14, 2010 – Pomona College --Claremont CA
9:00am – 5:30pm


Course Title: Dance/Movement Therapy with Seniors —30 hrs
This dance/movement therapy theory, practice and application course will cover the specific developmental needs of seniors and the dance/movement therapy skills pertinent to working with this population age group. The course content will focus on physical, psychodynamic, psychopathological, and enculturating factors impinging on the later years of human development. Students will be exposed to various clinical concepts of dance/movement therapy viewed within a developmental framework that are pertinent to selected late adulthood populations, including clinical disorders of late adulthood and, the types of somatic transference/countertransference issues that might be encountered.

This course has been approved by the American Dance Therapy Association as meeting the Alternate Route Requirements for the R-DMT credential" and satisfies 30 hours of DMT Theory and Practice Training.


This course meets the qualifications for 30 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (Provider #3888). Students taking the class for continuing education are excused from the required assignments other than attendance and participation.

Course Objectives:
1) Students will develop an understanding of the developmental needs, tasks and challenges presented when working with various senior populations.
2) Students will develop a basic understanding of dance/movement therapy assessment and application of dance/movement therapy interventions as they apply to various senior populations.
3) Students will learn interventions through which to facilitate an individual or group dance/movement session for various senior populations.
4) Students will be able to design and facilitate a dance/movement therapy session for seniors that is developmentally sound and takes into account the unique developmental, physical, emotional, psychological and cognitive needs of seniors.
5) Students will conclude the class with a beginning level awareness of dance/movement therapy processes and techniques utilized in working with seniors.

Locations:
Scripps College
Richardson Dance Studio
1030 Columbia Ave
Claremont, CA 91711

Pomona College
Pendleton Dance Center, Studio 16
210 East 2nd Street
Claremont, CA 91711

Course Fee: $750.00

Course Instructor: Gabrielle Kaufman MA, BC-DMT, NCC
is a CMER faculty member, dance/movement therapist and counselor with close to twenty years experience in the helping profession. She has taught creative movement to preschoolers and elementary school students, has used DMT with the elderly, Holocaust survivors, adults with mental illness, individuals with eating disorders and body image issues, with teens at high risk and other individuals suffering from anxiety and depression.
Currently, she is the coordinator of the New Moms Connect Program of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles. She has run several programs for high risk children and teens in both English and Spanish languages, taught classes to parents of newborns and toddlers, and runs support groups for single parents, women with eating disorders and women with perinatal mood disorders and with seniors. She is a coordinator with Postpartum Support International and has a private practice in Los Angeles.

For Information and Application Contact:
Judy Gantz-CMER Director
POB 2001
Sebastopol, CA 95473

(310) 477-9535

Dance Therapy for Postpartum Depression

I had the privilege of attending Gabrielle Kaufman, BC-DMT's workshop on postpartum depression and dance/movement therapy this October in Portland, and look forward to working with her in the future, since she teaches my next CMER course in DMT with the elderly in January, 2010.

The workshop on postpartum depression was fascinating. It is such an emotional and visceral topic for many women, I think we were all a blubbering mess sharing stories and connecting through movement.

Dance Therapy for Postpartum Depression by the Postpartum Progress: Together, Stronger blog:

One of the people I met at the PSI conference this summer was Gabrielle Kaufman, one of the PSI coordinators for Southern California. One of the things we discussed was dance therapy. I had never heard of dance therapy, and was intrigued to find out more about what it is and how it might be used to help women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Gabrielle was kind enough to write the following article to enlighten us:

"When Rachel was deeply depressed after the birth of her baby girl, she didn't know what to do. In desperation and with her husband's encouragement, she reached out for help. Her OB/GYN referred her to a specialist in postpartum depression. When this specialist spoke to Rachel, she gave monosyllabic answers. Her baby sat alone in the baby carrier and Rachel stated, 'I don't want to be her mother.' When traditional talk therapy didn't seem enough to penetrate her sadness, her doctor thought to refer her to a dance/movement therapist.

Based on the understanding that the body and mind are interrelated, dance/movement therapy is defined as the psychotherapeutic use of movement to further the emotional, cognitive, physical and social integration of an individual. The dance/movement therapist's goal was to help Rachel "move" toward health and connect with her baby girl Sophie.

So what did they do? A dance/movement therapist has training much like a traditional verbal therapist, but has additional tools in her belt. With an understanding of movement assessment, the dance/movement therapist can begin to help the client interpret her behaviors and initiate a shift. The process of bonding with a newborn is a very physical one. By simply encouraging the mother to hold her baby and rock with her, movement can begin a journey toward connection. The rocking rhythm is soothing to both the mother and the baby, and the closeness of touch can be healing for both as well.

The therapist may mirror the client in an effort to meet the mother in her depression, or she may be a model mother by encouraging her client to 'move' her depression. Sometimes the therapist might bring out scarves for her client to use. She might invite the client to 'hide' from her baby and return, 'peek-a-boo'. This process is one in which the mother can regain control and initiate her relationship with her baby. We know that the bond a mother forms with her baby early on makes a profound impact on the lifetime development of her child. As much of this attunement is non-verbal, dance/movement therapy can be an ideal intervention.

Read the rest of the article here.

Calling all Alternate Route Students!

Have you registered as an alternate route student with the American Dance Therapy Association?

I spent this past weekend in Claremont, California, for the first half of a course on Dance / Movement Therapy with Children and Adolescents.

Some of us, myself included, were meeting for our first course in dance therapy (see earlier blog posts regarding low enrollment in the Northern California classes). We alternate route students were reminded to email the ADTA AND send in a hard copy declaration of beginning the process of becoming Dance Therapist Registered (DTR). The ADTA is in the process of modifying and changing DTR requirements, so if you get your letter to them now (and soon) you will most likely not be responsible for the changes they make in the future.

Here is some helpful information:

Email the ADTA office: info@adta.org (you may need to ask for a specific name of who to send your email and letter to.)

The ADTA national office address to send the hard copy of your letter:
10632 Little Patuxent Parkway
Suite 108
Columbia, MD 21044-3263
Fax: (410) 997-4048
Telephone: (410) 997-4040


If you have questions about being credentialed as a dance therapist, contact Gabrielle Kaufman, head of the credentialing committee at dmt@leventhal.com .

To email CMER instructor Janet Lester, ADTR, PsyD: janetlester@earthlink.com .

Remember to also join the ADTA as a student here! You will get 50% off membership as a student member.

Enjoy the dance!

Become Certified in Dance/Movement Therapy!

The Center for Movement Education and Research

Explore Dance/Movement Therapy this summer
Courses in Northern & Southern California

>
> Northern CA held at Sonoma State University
> July 10, 11, 12 & August 7, 8, 9, 2009
>
Theoretical Origins of Dance/Movement Therapy: Foundations Level I
This is an introductory level course reviewing the theoretical origins of
dance/movement therapy as a therapeutic modality. The foundational tenets
defining dance/movement therapy as a creative, healing and integrating
process will be presented in relation to self and other awareness and
insight oriented symbolic functioning. The course will review the history
and conceptual development of the major pioneers in the field and the
application of their work within various settings. Additionally the
cultural, ritual, modern dance and nonverbal communication historical
elements will be reviewed.
>
> Course Hours: 45 Contact Hours
> Course Instructor and Credentials: Janet Lester, Psy.D., ADTR
> Dates: July 10, 11,12 & August 7, 8, 9, 2009
> Location: Sonoma State University
> Times: 9-5:30 Friday-Sunday
> Fee: $1200.00/ 45 Hour CE Credit for MFT/LCSW (Provider #3888)
>
> Southern CA held at Scripps College
> July 24, 25 & August 21, 22, 2009
>
> Dance/Movement Therapy with CHILDREN/ADOLESCENTS
This DMT theory and practice course will cover the specific developmental
needs of children and adolescents and the DMT skills pertinent to working
with this population age group. The course will include movement assessment,
diagnosis and treatment planning specific to the needs of
children/adolescents including child/adolescent psychiatric populations.
Additionally, the clinical methods, leadership skills, and framework for
understanding the client individually, within groups, families and systems
will be reviewed.

> Course Hours: 30 Contact Hours
> Course Instructor and Credentials: Janet Lester, Psy.D., ADTR
> Dates: July 24, 25 & August 21, 22, 2009
> Location: Scripps College Richardson Dance Studio 1030 Columbia Avenue
> Claremont, CA 91011
> Times: 9-5:30 Saturday-Sunday
> Fee: $750/30 Hour CE Credit for MFT/LCSW (Provider #3888)
This course meets the qualifications for 30 hours of continuing
education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board
of Behavioral Sciences (Provider #3888).


These courses have been approved by the American Dance Therapy
Association as meeting requirements for the Alternate Route D.T.R.
Credential.

For full details on coursework and application, go to:
http://www.movement-education.org/courses_alternateroute


DMT Director of Southern California Courses:
Pamela Fairweather, ADTR, NCC

>> DMT Director of Northern California Courses:
Janet Lester, PsyD, ADTR

For Course Fees and Refund Policy go to:
http://www.movement-education.org/courses_alternateroute.html

Contact Information:
To apply for courses go to: http://www.movement-education.org/index.html
or write to:
Judy Gantz-CMER Director
POB 2001
Sebastopol, CA 95473
judy@movement-education.org
(310) 477-9535