This webinar will provide therapists and intervention workers with a model for using dance and choreography within the therapeutic process, following the infant-parent dance through its evolution.
Yael Beth-Halachmi will be presenting a model for observing the non-verbal relations and communications within an infant-parent interaction, integrating knowledge drawn from Post-Modern dance, Dance/Movement Therapy and Parent-Child Therapy. The structure of the model is designed to follow the infant’s development from its initial phases, linking each layer of developmental capacities with appropriate movement and dance notions.
Based on this model, an intervention program will be introduced, inviting therapists from different disciplines to learn about its acquisition for clinical observations and interventional objectives. It will provide professionals that work with infants and their parents an additional tool for understanding the underlying choreographies of an early relationship while offering new, creative ways of promoting non-verbal coordinations.
This event is presented by the National Centre for Dance Therapy and supported by the RBC Foundation. It is dedicated to arts and/or health practitioners or students, dance therapists, artists and parents.
Duration: 1h webinar followed by a 30-minute Q&A period.
Platformn: Zoom (a link will be sent to particpants in the 24h preceding the beginning of the webinar).
Language: the webinar will be presented in English but questions may be asked in French.
Price: the event is free of charge but you will need to register to save your spot (we will accept a limited number of participants).
Yael is a dance therapist and an infant mental health specialist, who has worked for many years with young children (and babies) and their parents to support the development of a joyful and communicative relationship from the very beginning. Her experience as a therapist working with young children on the Autism Spectrum and their families, following the Haifa Dyadic Therapy Model integrated with her knowledge in Improvisational Dance and Movement Notation systems, has set the ground for developing a model for Relational Dance/Movement Therapy.
Currently based in Montreal, Yael has opened a studio for parent-child (baby) dance/movement therapy in the Plateau-Mont-Royal, called PACHIDERM. It is a place to meet, consult, play, investigate and dance with yourself and with each other promoting connection, communication and creativity.
Yael has a Dance-Therapist certificate from INECAT (Paris, France) and from the Seminar-Hakibuzim (Tel-Aviv, Israel). She graduated from the Infant-Parent Mental Health Certificate program at UMass (Boston, USA) and her master’s research project for the Music and Dance Academy in Jerusalem, Israel, titled ''The Choreography of Parent-Infant Relations'' was presented at the IRAAP conference in Rome, 2016.
