[Adta] Bringing Dance to Elders - a Six Session Course, Boston area

[skdmt2]

Hi Donna

I think a lot of d/mts are hesitant to offer this type of workshop or others
that promote concepts that underlie d/mt. I frequently do also.

My Spring workshops for The Renfrew Center, were about helping therapist
become more embodied & connected to themselves & their clients, & my all day
workshop at our conference is being promoted to allied professionals as well
as d/mt. Participants take from these experience, whatever they are able to
& are usually very grateful & supportive of our skills.

 

Last year, because of an in-service for practicum students who were spending
the year at the facility I work at, they requested that I work w/ them for
the remainder of the year as part of their supervision. So, monthly, we
worked together using d/mt & they will, I know, go forward as better
psychologists & also as supporters of d/mt.

 

I think this is so important for us to use our skills in varied ways & I
wonder if others also have examples to share of their own efforts in this
regard?

 

Susan

 

Susan kleinman, MA, ADTR, NCC

 

 

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From: Donna Newman-Bluestein [mailto:dbluebirds at rcn.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 9:21 AM
To: skdmt2; 'adta'
Subject: Re: [Adta] Bringing Dance to Elders - a Six Session Course, Boston
area

 

Susan,

 

Thanks for your encouragement.

 

I have been very hesitant to offer workshops like this for the very reasons
you suggest. However, I have recently decided that there are not enough
d/mt's to work with all the elder populations that there are, and there are
many who are "dancing" with elders and are not d/mt's. I hope to also do
some reaching out to recreation therapists and others who work with elders
with Alzheimer's, demonstrating some of our skills, and letting them know
about us and our areas of expertise.

 

It will be important in doing this work that I elude to the depth of the
work we can do, maybe with an example, but I will not be trying to teach
others, other than my d/mt students, how to work as a d/mt.

 

Donna 

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From: skdmt2 <mailto:skdmt2 at bellsouth.net>  

To: 'Donna <mailto:dbluebirds at rcn.com>  Newman-Bluestein' ; 'adta'
<mailto:adta at adta.org>  

Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 9:02 AM

Subject: RE: [Adta] Bringing Dance to Elders - a Six Session Course, Boston
area

 

Donna & everyone,

 This sounds very exciting & innovative. 

 

I think it's really important to use our skills as d/mts to also teach
others how to be better at what they do.

 

This also promotes us as experts that have something to offer to other
professionals to enhance their own skills. 

 

For those who fear that I am suggesting that we (you) are teaching them d/mt
in six sessions, this is not so & this particular program is not being
promoted that way- Donna's message is clear.

 

I think it's important to think outside the box re our skills &  using our
d/mt skills as a springboard to enhance the skills of others in reaching
varied populations, is a wonderful service.

 

Bravo, Donna- Please let us know how it goes.

 

 

Susan

 

Susan Kleinman, MA, ADTR, NCC

 

 

 

 

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