Post from DMTAC board members

Hello everyone,

2011 marked an important year as it is when the Dance Movement Therapy Association in Canada (DMTAC) was formed. We have been active in pushing forward new possibilities for training, advocacy and connecting dance movement therapy students and professionals.
2 Workshops were given this fall by Denise Nadeau (MDiv, DMin, BMPP) on Embodying Gratefulness which brings together the Body-Mind Psychotherapy practice of embodiment with the spiritual practice of gratefulness.
ADTA (American Dance Therapy Association) alternative route accreditation: We have been working diligently to find the most time effective and educational ways to become a dance movement therapist while in Canada. On January 17th, 2012 we had a first teleconference with International Subcommittee and Members at Large for ADTA Canadian Membership. Participants discussed the history of Canadian Membership and MALs, possibilities for joint association collaboration and other questions. If you are interested in listening to the call, please send your request to dancetherapyca@gmail.com . The replay line for this call will be available until December 1st, 2012.

Post from DMT student coordinator Farah Fancy

Hello everyone,

Happy New Year! I'm sending this message to the group

My name is Farah Fancy, a long time alternative route dmt student.

I currently work in Montreal with immigrant teens and adults using creative arts
therapies techniques to dialogue about mainly topics related to gender equality,
conjugal violence prevention, confidence building and cross cultural integration.

I co-run an afro cuban dance school to teach about afro cuban dance, movement and
culture. This has also turned into a small company that uses dance performance to
open discussion related to second generation immigrants bridging the gap between
living as a "Canadian" and adhering to the religion, values and morals of their
parents.

I was on the organizing committee of the AATQ conference "Full Circle in/of art
therapies". We continue to plan follow-up workshops for this upcoming year.

Lastly I am on the CATS week planning committee. If any of you are interested in
participating or have ideas of what would be a good way to promote dance movement
therapy in the city. Please do not hesitate to contact me. farahfancy@yahoo.ca

Happy New Year and updating the blogmeilleurs voeux à l'aube de cette nouvelle année!

Hello all and Happy New Year. Heureuses fêtes et meilleurs voeux à l'aube de cette nouvelle année! The New year's resolution for the Quebec Dance Therapy Community is to formalize our Association and to keep the blog up to date. We welcome information from across Canada and look forward to news from east to west.

The academic year in Montreal began with a wonderful and generous seminar offered by Dance Therapist Joan Chodorow who was here with several colleagues to present at and participate in the Jung Society Congress in Montreal on August 2010. Members of the creative arts therapies community met at Concordia University's Creative Arts Therapies Department where Joan offered a seminar on the work of Trudi
Schoop and a discussion on Trudi's large contribution to Dance Therapy and to Authentic Movement. She also discussed with us what it was like to study with Trudi and Mary (Whitehouse) many years ago.

Joining Joan was several of the Dance Therapy/Jungian presenters from the conference: Dance Therapist Debby Thomas; Renate Oppikofer, a senior Jungian analyst in Geneva who studied withTrudi; Tina Stromsted DMT and Jungian analyst in San Francisco;and Margarita Méndez, dancer, choreographer, psychologist, Jungian analyst, editor and now director of the analyst training program in Caracas the Venezuelan Society of Jungian analyst 22od. It was wonderful and we look forward to the return of Joan to Montreal.

In Late September Amber Grey was the Key note speaker of the conference of the Association d'Arts Therapeutes du Quebec. She also offered a full day work shop on
THE BODY AS VOICE: DANCE/MOVEMENT THERAPY, TRAUMA, AND THE RESTORATIVE PROCESS


The following is a description from the workshop:

Dance Movement Therapy Info session in Montreal

Dear all,
There will be an information session held in Montreal on Wednesday november 18th 2009. This information session will be covering Dance Movement Therapy and emphasizing on the creation of an association for Dance Movement Therapy in Montreal. We will have information on future events, workshops, courses, conferences of Dance Movement Therapy on an International and Local level. This info session will be held at Concordia University in the Visual Arts Building, room: 272, Rene Levesque cross Crescent, metro: Lucien-L'allier or Guy-Concordia from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.
Thank you and hope see you there.

Bonjour a tous,
Il y aura une session d'information a Montreal le Mercredi 18 Novembre 2009. Cette session couvra la Therapie pas la Danse et le Mouvement en appuyant sur la creation d'une association pour la Therapie par la Danse et le Mouvement a Montreal. Nous aurons des informations sur des futur evenements, conferences, cours, ateliers de Therapie par le Danse et le Mouvement a un niveau International et Local.
Cette session d'information sera tenu a l'Universite de Concordia au Pavillon des Arts Visuels, salle: 272, Rene Levesque Boulevard West croisement Crescent, metro: Lucien-L'allier ou Guy-Concordia, de 17:30 a 19:30.
Merci et en esperant d'y vous voir.

Workshop: Embodied Non-Violence

Embodied Non-Violence: An Introduction

Embodied Non-Violence is a body and spirit practice that draws on body wisdom to develop internal resources to live out non-violence in situations of conflict and to restore self-worth and vitality after experiences of violence and trauma. This workshop will introduce participants to some of the key components of embodied non-violence: embodiment practice and presence skills, and provide some experiences of different levels and ways of embodying and resourcing non-violence, with an emphasis on play, creativity, self-care and connection to Spirit. This workshop will be useful for those who work with survivors of violence.
November 1. 9 am – 5 pm.
School for Community and Public Affairs
2149 Mackay (Metro Guy Concordia)
Cost $50 -$75 sliding scale. Bring a bag lunch and snacks will be provided.
Please wear comfortable clothing

Denise Nadeau is of mixed French, Irish, English and Mi’kmaq heritage. She is a theologian, movement therapist and popular educator whose work combines expressive art therapies and spiritual practices in the repair of violence. She has worked in the area of prevention and healing of violence against women for over thirty years. In the past ten years she has been involved in interfaith programming to prevent violence in the context of racism and colonialism and in the area of building Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal relationships. She is Director of the Interfaith Summer Institute for Justice, Peace and Social Movements at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, an Adjunct Faculty in Religion at Concordia and a Research Associate at Simone de Beauvoir Institute, and currently is working with Lenonet Project at University of Victoria. Between 2003 and 2005 she co-designed with Nisha Sajnani the Creating Safe Spaces Program at the South Asian Women`s Community Centre in Montreal. She has developed and taught Embodied Non-Violence in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.

To register contact Farah Fancy at 514-481-2775 or email:
farahfancy@yahoo. ca and provide the following details:
1) Name,
2) Phone Number,
3) E-mail address,
4) Why you are interested in the topic, and
5) What you are hoping to gain from attending.
Due to the experiential nature of this workshop, space is limited.
To confirm attendance please mail your cheque to:
Farah Fancy
4635 Beaconsfield Ave
Montreal, QC H4A 2H8