European Association Dance Movement Therapy Conference | Creating Synergy through our Dancing Community: The diversity and universality of DMT-online training during the pandemic (Potsdam, Germany)

Name: European Association Dance Movement Therapy Conference | Creating Synergy through our Dancing Community: The diversity and universality of DMT-online training during the pandemic (Potsdam, Germany) — Dancing Dialogue
Start: 2022-09-24T10:00:00-0600
End: 2022-09-24T11:30:00-0600
Location: fabrik Potsdam

Saturday, September 24, 2022
10:00 AM 11:30 AM

fabrik Potsdam Schiffbauergasse 10, 14467 Potsdam Germany (map)

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Creating Synergy through our Dancing Community: The diversity and universality of DMT-online training during the pandemic

Date & Time:

Saturday, September 24, 2022

12:00- 1:30 PM

Location:

fabrik Potsdam

Schiffbauergasse 10, 14467 Potsdam, Germany

Course Description

This two-year international DMT-based training program has been taught online since 2012. When the pandemic hit, and ALL our lives suddenly became remote, online learning took on a new depth. Isolation and genuine health risks of exposure to the virus created complexities, prevented students from working in-person with their clients, requiring the program director to both revise teaching the program and provide support for her students as they navigated this emerging new world. Differences in how different countries handled the pandemic also came into focus. Through discussion and experientials this presentation demonstrates what aspects of the training translated well and which didn’t, discussing how we supported the client populations – early childhood/families, teens and adults – and the synergy that grew between us as professionals, from China, Romania, South Africa, USA, Canada, and Czech Republic, coming from a variety of fields including music therapy, DMT, elementary school teaching and somatics.