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

[Donna Newman-Bluestein]

Hi Heather, Susan, Lora, et al,

I like Heather's idea of asking Laurel to run a workshop like this. In fact, 
I have used her chapter in the book she edited, Creating Connections between 
Nursing Care and the Creative Arts Therapies in my part of a training on 
dementia care about non-verbal communication.

In responding to Susan's question, "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?", I imagine that most of us do 
this in many ways.

I know that in the first job I had out of graduate school,  I was asked to 
lead a movement/stretch warm-up before staff meetings at a mental health 
center to help staff loosen up, so that they would talk about their issues 
in the meeting, instead of "holding their tongues" during the meeting, and 
then "mouthing off" after - through embodiment, getting in touch with 
themselves and finding their locus of power.

I do think it would be great to hear ALL the ways that we share our skills. 
Look at the work that Nava Lotan has done in educating early childhood 
specialists.

Donna






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heather Hill" <heatherhill at hotkey.net.au>
To: "skdmt2" <skdmt2 at bellsouth.net>; "'Lora Wilson'" 
<writelora at hotmail.com>; <adta at adta.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Adta] Bringing Dance to Elders - a Six Session Course,Boston 
area


> Hi Susan,
> Your thought about a workshop at a future conference reminded me of a 
> workshop run for the our Association by Laurel Bridges, who spent some 
> time teaching in Australia but is now back in Canada.  There was a report 
> on her workshop in the DTAA Quarterly - here is the part from that report 
> on the focus of the workshop:
>
> "Focus of the workshop ...to enhance awareness of our skills and the ways 
> in which they can be used to collaborate with other healthcare 
> professionals in order to widen the scope, knowledge of and perceived 
> usefulness of our abilities for those other health care and educational 
> professionals. It will also assist us in communicating our skills with 
> other health care professionals."
>
> This might be the kind of thing you're suggesting?  Perhaps Laurel might 
> be interested in running something.  Not sure if she's on the listserve, 
> so I might forward this on to her.
>
> I think we all found the workshop useful in helping us view our skills in 
> a broader context than we usually do.
>
> Regards,
> Heather
>
>
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