Greetings all. I have just recently completed a PhD in mind-body medicine and have availability in my schedule for DMT supervision clients. Message me if you are interested. Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you!
One way that I have been celebrating National Creative Arts Therapy Week is by inviting my co-workers to dance during the lunch hour. We have been meeting daily and practicing the dance recently performed by Michelle Obama and Ellen Degeneres on the Ellen show in support of Michelle’s MOVE and Gimme 5 initiatives. It is a simple routine, and more important it is fun! Our staff here at the VA has been connecting in ways that we never have before. Dance has such an amazing way of bringing people together.
Here is the link:
Maybe you will find yourself dancing with your co-workers too. You’d be surprised who wants to dance if you just ask!
Happy Creative Arts Therapy Week!
Allison
Apple CEO Tim Cook visited the Palo Alto VA today during the launch of the Mobile Health Provider Program. That’s me pictured there chatting with Tim about dance therapy. I am excited for the endless possibilities that this technology will provide me when working with patients. This is an exciting time to be a health care provider, especially at the VA!
New National Centre for Dance Therapy! This program is funded by the Canadian government to conduct dance therapy training, education, and research. You can’t see it, but I’m doing my happy dance. 🙂
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Montreal+world+first+dance+therapy+centre/8283617/story.html
http://grandsballets.globaliadev.com/en/dance_therapy/www.chu-sainte-justine.org
UCLA Healing Arts has a wonderful resource section on their website where you can find therapists, groups, classes, listserves, articles and more. They just recently added my research article to their library. Check it out!
http://www.uclartsandhealing.net/view_literature.aspx?rid=176
Start the new year off on the right foot…join Psychology Today’s new blog on dance/movement therapy!
Dance therapy is alive and well in 2012 and stands strong in this tumultuous time in our history. This year’s ADTA conference in Albuquerque, NM was a colorful collage of connection, new ideas, creativity, and deep wisdom. The International Balloon Fiesta was the perfect backdrop for this meeting, as we all felt lifted by one another’s support and enthusiasm. In the two days that I attended workshops I experienced dance through drumming, touch, eco-therapy, clinical assessment, and trauma exploration. Dance as therapy is crucial to the healing of humanity’s wounds; the evidence cannot be ignored. So wherever you are, dance strong, dance loud, and dance often. You owe it to yourself.
Allison
So happy to see the media paying attention to the success of mind-body therapies in treating trauma symptoms with Veterans and military members.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/for-veterans-a-surge-of-new-treatments-for-trauma/
Allison F. Winters Fisher 