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EMBODIMENT IN EDUCATION: Offered independently by Susan Bauer
The Intensive Workshop description below includes the following information: Intensive Workshop: This workshop serves as an introduction to using somatics with teens and college-level adults. Updated! The 2009 Embodiment in Education Calendar
Full Workshop Program Description: Embodiment in Education: Professional Development for Dance / Movement Educators As educators, how can we bring somatic movement approaches into education in a way that is valuable and meaningful to students themselves? Drawing on the vast field of somatics, we can first expand and support the fullness of our own embodied experience. This provides the basis from which we learn to facilitate this process effectively for our students in order to support them in their process of growth and learning.
The Embodiment in Education intensive provides an introduction to specific approaches to integrating somatic movement practices into dance / movement education. Classes are rooted in experiential exercises to provide opportunities for you to learn about your own habitual movement patterns and how they may cause pain or restrict your full range of motion. You will learn how to change maladaptive patterns within your own bodymind and experience new, more integrated movement first - so that you can support others with a depth of knowledge that is rooted in embodied knowing. Essential to this process, you will also begin to examine the various socio-cultural factors that may have influenced your body, your movement, your experience, and/or your particular choices of movement / dance forms. Developing a heightened awareness of our own cultural conditioning is essential in gaining the compassion and insight needed to help facilitate discussions about such topics with teens and young adults.
Finally, when focusing on education involving touch and movement, complex socio-political, gender, and other such issues may arise. How can we include touch and movement in a safe and supportive manner? How can we discuss somatic-based approaches with other educators and administrators? How can we advocate for our embodied approaches within various educational contexts? We will address these complex issues together to support the integration of our work in the workshop with that of our professional lives. We include group process circles as a way to foster group cohesion and assure that emotion, spirit and critical thinking are nurtured in individuals and as a collective body.
Additional support courses in this intensive include the following:
The Mindful Body: Experiential Anatomy for Teens and Young Adults  Experiential Anatomy is a creative / humanistic approach using movement, touch, drawing, partner work, and creative writing to embody and personalize your learning. In this process, you become your own 'lab' to move, experience, and learn from. This embodied approach is based on Body-Mind Centering�, Ideokinesis, and Bartenieff Fundamentals�.
How can we engage teens and young adults with this valuable material in a way that is both accessible and meaningful to students themselves? How can we help them to develop greater kinesthetic awareness and increased mindfulness? This course is an introduction to a curriculum in Experiential Anatomy designed to address these questions - thus providing a base for students to discover more about themselves, their movement patterns, body mind relationships, lifestyle choices, feelings, and connections to themselves and others. By engaging in this work, students gain valuable tools that enhance their dance / movement experience and contribute to improving the quality of their adult lives. Developed by Susan Bauer, the curriculum is based on twenty years of working with teens and college age adults as a dance educator, along with extensive studies of Body-Mind Centering� with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Ideokinesis with Irene Dowd, and Experiential Anatomy with Andrea Olsen and Caryn McHose. Susan is the author of 'A Body-Mind Approach to Movement Education'. (See Faculty Bios for further information). We will draw from the work of various educators and somatic practitioners, such as Deane Juhan, who has been a professional bodyworker for thirty years and is the author of Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork and Touched by the Goddess: The Physical, Psychological and Spiritual Powers of Bodywork. (See Faculty Bios for further information). Tuition and Registration Information
Tuition (one-week intensive): Early registration (until May 1, 2009) $550* (with a $155 non-refundable deposit.) Registration after May 1st: $625 Special Discount: California Dance Education Association (CDEA) members receive a 10% discount if registered by May 1, 2009! Note: It would be appreciated if those who are able to fund their tuition by means of a faculty development fund grant through an educational institution would consider paying the full tuition price (whether paying before or after May 1, 2009). Note: Some partial scholarships may be available to cover a minimal amount of the tuition cost; please call for details. Embodiment in Education is a fiscally sponsored project of Dancer's Group. If you wish to support this project by donating to the new scholarship fund please click here. Thank you! Registration Information
Click here for an application form to send along with your deposit. Please note that both an application and deposit are required to enroll in this workshop. Click here for the full description of the 2007 Intensive, Somatics in Education: Professional Development for Dance / Movement Educators, with faculty Deane Juhan, Caryn McHose, and Susan Bauer |
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This workshop draws upon several somatic modalities including Experiential Anatomy/ Kinesiology, Body-Mind Centering�, Ideokinesis and Bartenieff Fundamentals�. By integrating the methods of various somatic modalities, workshop participants experience multiple perspectives on movement re-patterning and methods of embodiment. Each modality offers different tools for developing greater kinesthetic intelligence and for further integrating body and mind.
As dance / movement educators, it is also essential to understand the particular needs of the various age groups and populations with whom we are working. Toward this goal, each experiential course will include discussions about pedagogy as a means to address the application of particular experiential exercises with specific age groups / populations. Discussions will include faculty input, participant / group input, and time for questions and answers.
Despite the proven necessity of touch and movement to human survival, our contemporary society maintains a complex, often fearful relationship with touch and movement. Especially in regard to education, our society has had to ask itself hard questions: What happens to children when no distinction is made between friendly and harmful touching? And yet, could it be that learning to touch each other in healing, positive ways is indispensable to integrated learning for the individual and to productive change in society as a whole? How, then, can we facilitate such explorations in a safe and supportive manner? This session is designed to ask the difficult questions necessary to begin to address these issues.