Institute for Creative Mindfulness

Dancing Mindfulness Facilitator Training

(Expressive Arts Module A)

July 24-26, 2020

Join Dr. Jamie Marich for the debut of the Dancing Mindfulness Facilitator Training delivered fully online. This training offers the standard curriculum that we deliver in a three-day in-person format, including a practicum component where you will have a chance to guide other trainees with your newly learned facilitation skills. Dr. Jamie Marich brings her nearly fifteen years of experience as an online learner, educator, and media content producer to this new format for offering the Dancing Mindfulness training. 

This training is ideal for clinicians and other qualified professionals who respond well to self-directed assignments and can adapt well in an online learning format. A strong commitment to your own self-care, both physically and emotionally, is also required to complete the training in this format. If you are feeling any trepidation about completing your training in this format, you are encouraged to wait until in-person trainings are possible or widely available again. Please feel free to direct any questions you have to [email protected] before registering.

Description

Mindfulness is the simple practice of noticing without judgment and returning to the present moment. Moreover, the efficacy of mindfulness-informed clinical interventions are well-established in peer review literature, and the ways of teaching clients mindfulness skills for coping and distress tolerance are ever expanding in the clinical literature. Mindfulness, psychodrama, meditation, and yoga are modalities that can promote wellness and recovery, and the larger traditions of Gestalt psychotherapy and person-centered therapy have a rich tradition of drawing from their wisdom in clinical work. In this module of a larger expressive arts therapy training developed by Dr. Jamie Marich, using dance/movement and mindfulness, in conjunction with the other expressive arts, in a trauma-informed system of care is instructed. Dance becomes the primary avenue through which to access mindful awareness and connect to the multi-modality possibilities within the expressive arts therapies. For more information, see our website.

Objectives

After completing this workshop training, Expressive Arts Therapy Module A (which fulfills requirements for the Dancing Mindfulness Facilitator Certification), participants will be able to:

1. Define mindfulness from several different perspectives and explain how movement practices can fit the definition of mindfulness.
2. List the seven primary qualities of mindful living as described by Jon Kabat-Zinn and explain how these relate to human wellness.
3. Discuss the seven elements of the Dancing Mindfulness practice as an expressive arts therapy framework (i.e., breath, sound, body, mind, spirit, story, and fusion) and how each of the elements can be used to practice the qualities of mindful living and align with other clinical applications of mindfulness
4. Identify at least three elements of psychotherapeutic approaches that appear in Dancing Mindfulness (e.g., Gestalt, psychodrama, mindfulness, movement/dance therapy, coping skills/breath work/somatic therapy, EMDR/bilateral reprocessing).
5. Describe the benefits of a movement-based, holistic practice for emotional healing.
6. Define what it means to be a trauma-sensitive professional, discussing how to keep a group of people safe, either in a community or clinical setting, while doing movement work, and describing triphasic (three-stage) model of trauma treatment.
7. Explain the rationale of accessing body-based coping as optimal for recovery and wellness.
8. Facilitate a group of individuals in the Dancing Mindfulness practice.
9. Describe the subtle differences between facilitating Dancing Mindfulness in community versus clinical settings and apply them accordingly.
10. Explain how dancing and other movement-based or spiritually-based practices found in the community qualify as "coping skills" for recovery and wellness.
11. Articulate how engaging in movement-based wellness programs like Dancing Mindfulness can promote one's own sense of self-care as a professional. 
12. Present the benefits of a practice like Dancing Mindfulness in your community to yoga studio owners, clinical/program directors, etc. 
13. Articulate the basic tenets of expressive arts therapy as a multi-modal approach to healing and discuss how Dancing Mindfulness fits into this paradigm; develop programs of implementation in clinical or community settings accordingly.