Facilitator(s) Tim Brown & Clare Osbond
Date/Time
Date: 14/10/2017 - 15/10/2017
All Day
About this event
Dance of Awareness is a group movement practice, based on body psychotherapy and developmental psychology, and drawing on psychoanalytic theory, character style, authentic movement, five rhythms and mindfulness practice. It has different applications – from community conscious dance events to more therapeutically oriented work with groups, both in community and clinical settings. DoA graduates are now offering classes and groups across the UK and beyond.
DoA works as a developmental cycle – we dance with music through the phases of Sensing, Grounding, Expressing, Releasing, Connecting and Completing. Our journey begins from birth when it is through movement, touch and non-verbal interaction that we first discover ourselves and make contact with our world. Neuroscience shows how important this process is in the creation of our sense of self as we learn to adapt to our environment, and how early body memories form the template for our adult selves. In DoA we consciously revisit this early body history, celebrate the embodied patterns that make us unique, and discover new ways of unfolding into being.
The tutorials will cover:
Background theory:
- Introduction to Dance of Awareness
- The role of awareness
- The developmental cycle
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Developmental and somatic psychology
- Spiritual vs developmental model
Holding a Dance of Awareness group:
- Group safety
- Witnessing
- Chacian approach and mirroring
- Affect attunement
- Person positioning
- Laban movement analysis
- Group handling overview
- Choice and use of music
- Practicalities
- Laban movement analysis
Location Brighton Steiner School Brigton Steiner School Brighton (BN2 5RA)
Contact Details Contact Person: Tim Brown Email: [email protected] More contact details: 01273 271408 Website: www.embodiedtherapy.org.uk
Cost £320 / £300 earlybird