Embodied Harmony: Nurturing Ethics in the Dance/Movement Therapy Community through Our Multiple Ways of Knowing (Plenary)

Date & Time:

Saturday, October 26, 2024

10:15 AM- 12:15 PM

Location:

Palmer House Hotel

17 Monroe Street

Chicago, IL 60603

USA

Course Description:

The Standards & Ethics Committee acknowledges that we are struggling as a community with our sense of connectedness and need to become more unified as an organization. The goal of this plenary is to move towards harmony within ourselves and then within the community; the Committee invites participants to attune through diverse embodied conversations and have dialogue among themselves. This shared experience is the first step towards mutual understanding. The Committee aims to co-create an inclusive space to reckon with how diving into unconscious processes can lead to greater ethical awareness. We will invite integrated knowledge from different inner perspectives (i.e., gut-brain, heart-brain) and explore the Embodied Ethical Decision-Making Model through experientials. (26-50% Movement; All Levels)

Learning Objectives

TBA

About the Instructors

Jenn Whitley, M.S., BC-DMT, LCAT, CMA Jenn provides dance/movement therapy for children, parents, and adults at Dancing Dialogue.  She specializes in providing DMT for individuals who have ADHD, anxiety, experienced family separation, eating disorders, learning differences, autism spectrum disorder, medical illness, issues with disruptive behavior, Bipolar Disorder, Parkinson's Disease, trauma, and provides parenting support and grief counseling. Jenn is a board-certified Dance/Movement Therapist (DMT) and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist who received her master’s degree, with honors, in Dance Therapy at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.  She is trained through the Ways of Seeing program at Dancing Dialogue, Certified as a Laban Movement Analyst from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies, is trained in EMDR therapy, and completed training in the discipline of Authentic Movement at The New York Center for the Study of Authentic Movement with Joan Wittig. Jenn is also a Reiki Practitioner (Level II) and trained in Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP) through MSKCC. She has been a DMT at Dancing Dialogue since 2014 working with children, families, and adults incorporating all aspects her training into the Ways of Seeing psychotherapeutic multi-arts approach. She is certified provider of TeleMental Healthcare from the Telehealth Certification Institute.

Douglas Cornman, MA, BC-DMT

Meg Chang, EdD, BC-DMT, LCAT, NBCC

Lauren Milburn, LMHC, BC-DMT

XaHara MeGod MA, R-DMT, G-RMT, CPT

Registration:

https://www.adta.org/annual-conference