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Syzygy Dance Project is dedicated to making this world a better place through dance, and our annual Outreach Facilitator Training enables healthcare practitioners, counselors, recreation therapists, and experienced dancers to join us in this mission.In this intensive five-day training, we'll explore how dance and movement can be a powerful resource and tool in working with specific outreach populations (e.g., jails, recovery centers, hospitals, elder care facilities, and schools).
This work is a dynamic movement practice of being in the body that can catalyze deep healing, connection, and creative expression.
In Sylvie Minot's personal outreach programs, she witnessed the significant impact of this work, helping people make better life choices and be open to new possibilities.
During this training, we will begin in our bodies, allowing ourselves to move freely and exploring our innate movement patterns. You will learn movement exercises and how to support body movement and energetic attunement with others.
We’ll practice regulating and re-grounding ourselves while leading a group, integrating voice with authentic movement, and exploring confident leadership.
We’ll also discuss specific outreach populations and the challenge of bringing movement classes to groups that are resistant to or less comfortable with movement.
Training Objective & Goals:
• Expand one’s tools and resources to lead and/or assist group movement classes with specific outreach populations. Participants can expect to:
1. Obtain concrete examples of class themes, exercises, and music selection and how to adapt them for different outreach populations that may not have prior experience with dance and movement,
2. Gain embodied tools to support deeper body, movement, and energetic attunement in working with groups and individuals within a group,
3. Recognize how to use one’s own body and movement to regulate and re-ground oneself while leading a movement class,
4. Understand how to use voice and project confidence in leading a movement class, and
5. Understand how to create an effective container and develop exercises to support available space.
Level 1 Prerequisites:
1. Have a movement practice of some kind and is comfortable with dancing,
2. Have some experience in leading groups,
3. Applicants must meet one of these requirements:
A. Currently teach any type of movement-related class OR
Is a licensed/trained helping professional of any kind (i.e. counselor, psychologist, social worker, nurse, psychiatrist, recreation therapist, etc.) OR
B. Currently completing or have completed a graduate degree in dance, psychology, counseling, or social work OR
C. Have a dedicated dance/movement practice for more than 5 years.
D. Have an interest in using movement as a healing tool with a specific outreach population (i.e., incarcerated people, veterans, at-risk youth, recovering addicts, the elderly, the homeless, etc.).
To attend this training:
Please submit a $33 non-refundable application fee (which includes the 3% fee) and answer the application questions below to submit your application for STP Outreach Facilitator Training. We look forward to reviewing your application and will get back to you on the next steps as soon as Sylvie Minot has reviewed it.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Mill Valley, CA, United States
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