How can you create work for yourself in an institution? How can you introduce dance therapy in schools, health organizations and community settings?
Zuzana Ševčíková and Rebecca Barnstaple will come together in September to share their experiences and the expertise they have developed in the past years, offering dance therapy services in private and public settings.
They will discuss the barriers that aspiring professionals will have to overcome, the lessons they learnt and some tips to help them navigate the different systems they found themselves into.
This interactive workshop will include opportunities for the participants to exchange and participate to the discussion and to reflect on how what they learn can be applied to their own situation.
This event is presented by the National Centre for Dance Therapy and the Dance/Movement Therapy Association of Canada and supported by the RBC Foundation. It is dedicated to dance therapy students and to dance therapists who are newly certified or looking for a new direction in their career.
Duration: Two 2-hour experiential workshop
Platform: Zoom
Language: the workshop will be presented in English, but simultaneous translation in French will be available.
Recording: the workshop will be recorded in English and it will be later available on our blog.
Price: attendance is free of charge, but registration is required.
To ensure that participants can have exchanges and discussions, we are only accepting a small number of participants. The reserve your spot below and, if you can not make it, let us know in advance, so we can free your space for someone on the waiting list. Registrations are currently complete, but we invite you to subscribe to the waiting list..
Zuzana Ševčíková is a board certified dance/movement therapist and drama therapist who holds degrees in physiotherapy and contemporary dance from the Czech Republic, her country of origin, and a Master's degree in drama therapy from Concordia University, Montreal. Zuzana also graduated from the Developmental Transformations Institute, Montreal, and is one of the first graduates of the dance therapy Alternate Route training program at the 92Y Harkness Dance Centre, New York City.
She is a co-founding member and a past President of Dance/Movement Therapy Association of Canada and a co-founding member and a board member of the Quebec Alliance of Creative Arts Therapists.
She works in elementary schools of the Lester B. Pearson school board in Montreal and works with people with Parkinson’s disease at Parkinson en movement.
Rebecca Barnstaple is a post-doctoral fellow and course director for Dance Studies at York University in Toronto. A graduate of the National Centre for Dance Therapy at Les Grands Ballets (NCDT 2015), she provides dance-therapy based programs for people with chronic pain and Parkinson's disease through Chigamik Community Health Centre in Ontario via hybrid and virtual methods. She is also a core instructor for IMPROVment, an organisation providing movement-based interventions for brain and body health at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem (North Carolina, USA), and now also online! Rebecca is a member of the steering committee of Dance Movement Therapy Ontario, the Research and Practice committee of the American Dance Therapy association, and the Groupe d'intérêt scientifique of the NCDT.
