Friday, July 21 – Sunday, July 23
9:00am-4:30pm CST
Our bodies and movement patterns reflect our implicit biases. Through embodied inquiring this class aims to help deepen our self-awareness and promote cultural humility in relationship to the danced/interactions we have with others. This class will use embodied experiences, lectures, and discussions to increase skills related to multicultural, diversity, and power/privilege awareness.
This course is approved by the American Dance Therapy Association, for Alternate Route R-DMT credit. (1.5 credits / 22.5 hours)
Prerequisites: some experience with psychology/therapy, and/or movement, dance or healing approaches or permission of instructor.
Instructors
kyla marie gilmore LCPC, BC-DMT. kyla marie is a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (IL). She has practiced clinically for 18 years in a variety of clinical settings in the Chicagoland area. Currently, she is Clinical Lead at Mosaic Counseling and Wellness, in Oak Park, IL. kyla marie is passionate about professional development and community-based mental health and provides training on Trauma Stewardship, Dance/Movement Therapy, self-care, and multi-cultural competence.
Barbara Nordstrom-Loeb MA, MFA, BC-DMT, LMFT, CMA, SEP; WoS, Barbara is a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Laban Movement Analyst, Somatic Experiencing and Ways of Seeing Practitioner. She uses alternative embodied healing modalities to support awareness, growth, and change. She teaches at the University of Minnesota, directs the Minnesota Dance/Movement Training program, and has a private practice. Barbara has worked with people from diverse ethnicities, cultures, identities, and ritual/spiritual practices. She is particularly interested in the role of embodiment and creativity in relationship to identity, wholeness and healing from a diversity and multicultural perspective.