66th Annual Conference

Thursday, February 19

Morning Workshops

10:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.

Workshop 11

Dancing with the Unconscious

Chair:                

Nanine Ewing, Ph.D., ADTR, CGP, FAGPA, Private Practice, Houston, Texas

In this nonverbal experience using dance movement and therapy as the medium, participants will experience the personal and collective unconscious in the group.  Group members will  be invited into a relationship with the body unconscious through the use of ritual and movement.  (Wear comfortable clothing, lots of movement required.)

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Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1.  Experience the use of movement as a vehicle to the unconscious.

2.  Observe the group process nonverbally.

3.  Analyze the use of the leader in group development.

4.  Access the Self as the ego is less present in group process.

Course References:

1. Journal article:  Gans, J.S. and Alonso, A. (1998).  Difficult Patients:  Their Construction in Group Therapy.  International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 48, 311-326.

2. Journal article: Pylvänäinen, Päivi (2003) Body Image: A Tripartite Model for Use in Dance/Movement Therapy, American Journal of Dance Therapy, 25, 39-55.

3. Stern, Daniel.  The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life.  New York:  W. W. Norton and Company, 2004.