Wednesday 1 January 2020

One Day Workshop in Dance Movement Therapy

ONE DAY WORKSHOP IN DANCE MOVEMENT THERAPY
with Dr. Marja Cantell

The Moving Body:  Applications of Dance Movement Therapy into your Expressive Arts Practice

Date: Saturday, March 28, 2020
Time: 9:30 - 4:30
Location: TBA
Cost: $170 (e-transfer to email below) on or before March 1, 2020 and $195 after March 1st.
To Register or for further info: carmenr@telusplanet.net



Come join Marja for this one day refresher/introductory workshop in dance movement therapy.  Whether you are looking to refresh your skills or this is your first taste of dance movement therapy, you are welcome!

The primary goal of the day is to experience for yourself, how to apply dance/movement with different client groups.  The day is based on the idea of a creative movement cycle: beginning from a range of warm ups, witnessing movement qualities, choosing suitable themes and finding a shared ending for your own sessions. The day will empower you to tune into each person’s unique choreography and how the creative movement process can be applied in the context of an Expressive Arts practice. 


Marja Cantell, PhD Psychology (University of Lancaster, UK), Postgraduate Diploma in Dance Movement Therapy (Roehampton University, UK) and Postdoctorate in Human Movement Science (UWA, Australia). Her multidisciplinary research on motor development and research capacity building among health care professionals has been published for example in Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, Canadian Art Therapy Association Journal, Research in Developmental Disabilities and Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. In 2000, she was a co-founding member of the Finnish Dance Therapy Association. For many years, she danced in MoMo Dance Theatre in Calgary, Canada. Since 2010 she lives in the Netherlands and works as Assistant Professor in Inclusive and Special Needs Education at the University of Groningen, and as research coach and teacher in the Master of Arts Therapies, Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam. In her private practice she applies the concept of ‘Movement for All’ (www.movementcantell.com).