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

[skdmt2]

Yeah Lora
 
Thanks so much for this message. Let us know if you get this position
teaching NV communication- That would be terrific.
It would be kind of neat to have a workshop at a future conf, presenting
some varied ways to utilize our skills.
Hummmmmmmmm
What do you all think?
Susan

Susan Kleinman, MA, ADTR, NCC

-----Original Message-----
From: adta-bounces at adta.org [mailto:adta-bounces at adta.org] On Behalf Of Lora
Wilson
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 11:44 AM
To: adta at adta.org
Subject: RE: [Adta] Bringing Dance to Elders - a Six Session Course,Boston
area


Hi everyone.

In further support of marketing our skills to other fields, I just want to
point out that I receive brochures and flyers all the time at the psych
hospitals I work at (of course, I can't think of the name of the company
right now) that offer CEUs to clinical professionals for 1 day or 2 day
workshops, that offer training in specialized fields. For example, a
workshop on using Art Therapy to Deal with Anxiety just arrived this week.
CLEARLY, this workshop is not offered to make anyone an art therapist! But
others' curiousities are piqued - they are exposed to the strength and
widsom and uniqueness of that field and leave with an idea or two on how to
incorporate an art based intervention into their work OR EVEN BETTER, they
leave realizing that art therapy is really unique and valuable and wow
shouldn't we get an art therapist on our staff?!?!

DMTs should be absolutely offering these same workshops and CEUs and
trainings to other fields, taught in a manner that the depth of our
knowledge and training is clear to the students, and the VALUE of what we
have to offer is experienced on an immediate, embodied level.

Personally, this is a career direction I plan on pursuing with passion and
fervor... (and I want to thank Annie Kirschenmann for her brilliant embodied
work with marketing that helped inspire me down this route!)

Another example... a last minute opening for a Non Verbal Communication
Instructor at a local university came up this past week and intelligently,
due no doubt to past dmt's advocacy, the dept wants a DMT to teach the
class.  I was curious so I Googled NVC syllabi on the internet to see how
this class is normally taught.  How distraught I was to see syllabus after
syllabus with reading lists devoid of any reference to DMT or Laban/KMP.  We
should be the profession of choice teaching this class everywhere, whether
the class is part of a Communication Dept or Psychology or Counseling or
Dance. WE should be teaching this!

When someone who has a deep body of knowledge teaches... I think most people
will become MORE aware of the depth of our field and MORE aware that they
can't do what we do without our indepth training... and thereby deepen their
respect for our work (while perhaps learning a basic skill that can enhance
their own specialty.)

My two cents,
Lora Wilson, MA,DTR


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> From: skdmt2 at bellsouth.net
> To: dbluebirds at rcn.com; adta at adta.org
> Subject: RE: [Adta] Bringing Dance to Elders - a Six Session Course,
Boston area
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:07:52 -0400
> CC:
> 
> 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
> ________________________________
> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: skdmt2
> To: 'Donna Newman-Bluestein' ; 'adta'
> 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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