[Adta] conference

[Meg Chang]

Dear Barbara, what an encouraging message. As always, you are making an active contribution.
Thanks for being at the confernce this year!
All the best,
Meg

---- Original Message ----
From: "Barbara A Busse" <busse002 at mc.duke.edu>
Date: 10/25/06 11:28 am
To: "adta at adta.org" <adta at adta.org>
Subj: [Adta] conference

Dear Friends,
      I also am writing to rave about the conference.  As many of you know,
I am not a dance therapist myself ( I work as paraprofessional in the
medical library at Duke).
But I have for many years belonged to the ADTA as an associate member and
attend events as I can and participate in the listserv. (my reasons for not
pursuing dance therapy as a career are complicated and in some ways very
personal).  Anyway;  I did so enjoy the conference and felt nourished by
it.
      I was able to see friends from the past and meet some of the people
on my "must meet" list.  That I really liked.  There were special moments
to be sure; like when one is in a workshop and a special friend is also
there and one gets share a special moment with them.
      On Saturday, I attended the session on evidence-based research and
was pleased with how many people came and what a lively discussion we had.
WE are not alone in our struggle to find suitable research models and such.
Physician researchers and others struggle (or have struggled) though they
may not admit it.  When my Father started doing multidisciplinary
longitudional research in aging in the 1950's, they had no models and had
to figure it out on their own.  I hear lectures or presentations here at
the university where the presenter speaks of struggles with research
methods, models, etc.  So have heart.  Keep going .  WE ARE MAKING
PROGRESS.

Take care!  Barbara Busse

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