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Workshops

 

You can decide between three workshops each time. Please note that each Workshop has spaces for 10-15 people.

There will be a paper to sign in for the selected workshop at the beginning of the conference. 

 

Thursday, 27.08.

Thursday, 12.30 am - 2.00 pm

 

WORKSHOP ONE - Title: Change of View

 

Abstract: Hello everyone! We like to introduce ourselves: Ilse Edelbroek, Marion van Ogtrop and Anneloes Nolden. We are studying Art Therapy in the Netherlands. We'd like to invite you for our workshop: Change of View.
In this workshop you're going to experience the connection between your thoughts and your intuition by drawing or painting. Afterwards we will take some time to discuss the variety of works. You'll leave with a special experience! 

 

Authors: Ilse Edelbroek, Marion van Ogrtrop and Anneloes Nolden, Art Therapy Students from Netherlands

 

 

Thursday, 12.30 am - 2.00 pm

 

WORKSHOP TWO -  Title: A taste of Developmental Transformations (DvT)

 

In this workshop we will take a leap into the playspace where the DvT magic happens. Playfulness, letting go, finding the flow, encounter, improvisation, spontaneity, ... are some of the words that describe the experience that is ahead of you. Prepare to connect with the badass weirdo inside of yourself and celebrate this wonderful creature!

Developmental Transformations is a form of drama psychotherapy that is based on an understanding of the process and dynamics of free play. The essence of Developmental Transformations is the transformation of embodied encounters in the playspace.Technically, Developmental Transformations is a treatment for disorders of embodiment, encounter, and play. DvT has been applied for the past 30 years in a wide variety of settings, including inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, substance abuse and rehabilitation programs, nursing homes, and a private practice clinic. Both group and individual work has been conducted over both extended and extremely short (even one session) time periods (Johnson, D.R., 2009).

Johnson, D.R. (2009). Towards the body as presence: The theory and practice of Developmental Transformations, D. R. Johnson & R. Emunah (Eds.) Current Approaches in Drama Therapy. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas

 

Author: Ioulia Stepanova is a clinical psychologist and drama therapist. She is, moreover, a passionate traveler and improviser. Her enthusiasm for DvT grew tremendously during her internship in the Post Traumatic Stress Center in New Haven under the wings of David R. Johnson, the founder of the method. She gained lots of experience working at the Acute Psychiatric Unit with groups. Now she coordinates her own practice in Belgium and plans soon to travel the world to offer DvT as a self growth method to artists, actors and therapists. 

 

 

Thursday, 12.30 am - 2.00 pm

 

WORKSHOP THREE - Title: Meet me! – creating encounters through performative staging 

 

PART 1 (Part 2 is Thursday afternoon)

 

Abstract: How can we create artistic spaces that enable us to engage with others?We will explore different ways of communicating and use them to enter into dialog with the

public around the Bremen city center.

What kind of communicative qualities are at work in which context and why? Together, we will look for the answers - first within our group and later publicly.

The workshop should be considered as research laboratory, a chance to experiment with positioning (of ourselves) and resonance (what kind of involvement takes place).

The goal of "meet me!" is to have a try at our individual style of performative expression and

finally, be able to transfer this new knowledge into our very own professional practice. Website:

www.rosa-me.com

 

 

Author: Sara Schwienbacher was born in Meran, Italy, in 1985. She has been doing exhibitions since 2007, gaining international and multilayered experience. She specializes in performative public intervention, exploring people’s reactions to art in social contexts.

In her performances, she uses a self-created artistic figure to examine the role of the individual within a social context. Here, she highlights public perception of femininity and the sensory corporeal as well as our own perception of our materialist qualities.

In 2013 she graduated from the Fachhochschule für Kunsttherapie in Nürtingen with a Bachelor of Arts. There, she focused on interdisciplinary work, body oriented art therapy as well as prevention programs for children and youth.

In May 2015, Schwienbacher completed her Masters degree in “Art and Theater in social contexts” at the Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen, Ottersberg. For the last two years, she has also been working on several artistic-scientific projects.

Currently, she is developing and running (inter)national art education projects, seminars and groups. Her focal point and passion remains performative work in social contexts.

 

 

Thursday, 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm

 

WORKSHOP ONE - Title: Let the music show you around

 

Abstract: Receptive music therapy is a very simple form of music therapy, where the client listens to the music without actively involving it through making music. Relaxation and listening to image provoking music is also part of the GIM (Guided Imagery and Music) method, however in our exercise guiding is not included. Gaining insight and personal growth is aimed through looking at common imagery themes which arise frequently while listening to the music. Transferring to painting/drawing after the music part allows coming up with new themes and also reflecting the experience individually and privately without the anxiety of verbalizing in group.  

 

Participants will lay down on mats. After a short relaxation exercise with eyes closed, they will listen to some imagery/thought provoking music. Afterwards they will paint/draw and verbalize their reflections and experience if they choose to. 

 

 

Author: Özgür Salur is a music therapy graduate student at University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Before he started studying music therapy, he composed commercial music for 10 years after graduating Berklee College of Music and studied Psychology and Arts Therapies while working in several psychiatric settings in Istanbul. In 2014 he gave a TEDx talk about music therapy in Boğaziçi University.

 

 

 

Thursday, 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm

 

WORKSHOP TWO - Title: DMT and Bollywood Dance

Abstract After 15 years of dance teaching in Spain to children and adults and 5 years of teaching dance at an elderly day centre with students of 65 to 90 years, I have been able to see how Bollywood dance has helped my students gain more confidence and connect with the fun "inner child". This workshop is a session of Dance/Movement using Bollywood music and Indian dance rythms.

 

Author: Shahida Ahmed is a Dance-, Movement Therapist from Spain

 

 

 

Thursday, 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm

 

WORKSHOP THREE - Title: Meet me! – creating encounters through performative staging  

 

PART 2 (Part 1 is Thursday morning)

 

Abstract: How can we create artistic spaces that enable us to engage with others?We will explore different ways of communicating and use them to enter into dialog with the

public around the Bremen city center.

What kind of communicative qualities are at work in which context and why? Together, we will look for the answers - first within our group and later publicly.

The workshop should be considered as research laboratory, a chance to experiment with positioning (of ourselves) and resonance (what kind of involvement takes place).

The goal of "meet me!" is to have a try at our individual style of performative expression and

finally, be able to transfer this new knowledge into our very own professional practice. Website:

www.rosa-me.com

 

 

Author: Sara Schwienbacher was born in Meran, Italy, in 1985. She has been doing exhibitions since 2007, gaining international and multilayered experience. She specializes in performative public intervention, exploring people’s reactions to art in social contexts.

In her performances, she uses a self-created artistic figure to examine the role of the individual within a social context. Here, she highlights public perception of femininity and the sensory corporeal as well as our own perception of our materialist qualities.

In 2013 she graduated from the Fachhochschule für Kunsttherapie in Nürtingen with a Bachelor of Arts. There, she focused on interdisciplinary work, body oriented art therapy as well as prevention programs for children and youth.

In May 2015, Schwienbacher completed her Masters degree in “Art and Theater in social contexts” at the Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen, Ottersberg. For the last two years, she has also been working on several artistic-scientific projects.

Currently, she is developing and running (inter)national art education projects, seminars and groups. Her focal point and passion remains performative work in social contexts.

 

 

 

Friday 28.08.

Friday, 12.30 pm - 2.00 pm

 

 

WORKSHOP ONE - Title: “Dancing is a means of communication and creating ” (Maria Fux)  

 

Abstract: This workshop is meant for anyone who is willing to feel with his own body the emotion of an artistic creative moment and it’s  inspired by the Futurist Manifest, as movement is the foundation of all futurist works, as asserted by the artists themselves: 

“A body motion will no longer be a representation of universal dynamism, it will definitely be a congealed dynamic feeling. Everything moves, everything runs, everything evolves quickly. A figure is never still in front of us, it appears and disappears incessantly. 

Thanks to the persistence of an image in the retina, anything that is moving replicates, distorts, creating a sequel, like a vibration, in the space they are moving in. A racing horse no longer has four legs, it has twenty and their movements are triangular.” 

 

Fux method dance therapy grew in a creative group in Argentina: Grupo Orion. We will be able to share a new and at the same time, ancient experience: the artists in this group explore all kinds of forms of expression, from painting to sculpture, from literature to 

music,  architecture, dance, photography, cinema and cuisine, without leaving out poetry. 

 

Dance will be inspired in turn by music, poetry, paintings , sculptures, abstract images and pictures and by our creativeness. The same picture that will result from this Fux dance therapy method workshop will be a piece art. 

 

Author: Gabriella Spadaro, dance therapist and trainer graduated from the school “Risvegli Maria Fux” in Milan (“Fux method and ludic aspects of dance therapy”, where she pointed out the importance of the the deep link between all different arts.) . She has worked for years as dance therapist throughout all Italy, took part to 4Arts 2014, with a lecture on after-earthquake experience with physic, psychic disabled and people affected by post-traumatic stress disorder and she is still preparing dance therapists that will continue her path. She is recognized from ADTA (American dance therapist Association) and Csen (National education sports center), she also achieved the certification as trainer of trainers in order to better share Fux methodology . In Milano, she his holding several dance therapy courses, aimed to disabled/non-disabled (mixed) groups.  Often engaged for free events and meetings lends herself willingly to the sharing of their training. She has been carrying out a training project via Skype since 2014.

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, 12.30 pm - 2.00 pm

 

WORKSHOP TWO - Title: Authentic Movement as an Embodied - Practice for Training Art Therapists 

 

Abstract: This workshop  invite  participants  to  follow a  self-directed  practice  that involves  a mover and a witness,  with the intention  to be in a relationship to one’s self and to open a dialogue to the unconscious. In  this  form of ‘‘active imagination’’  the mover  stays with eyes closed listening to the inner sounds that emanate from the depths  and  bringing  attention to impulses, sensations, memories, images or feeelings. The witness stays with eyes open, holds the experience of the mover and provides a safe and contained  presence without judgement.  Following the movement, the creative expression that gives form to the content and the sharing experience, participants are then invited to reflect on questions concerning the integration of Authentic Movement as an essential part for clinical training: Can Authentic Movement be considered as a Mindfulness Practice that increases awareness skills and  embodied consciousness for training Art Therapists? Is it possible to combine Authentic Movement with an Art Therapy Curriculum? How does Authentic Movement sustains the capacity of students to embrace  the  openess,  the use of a non- judgemental language  and  the offering  of  a  compassionate witnessing? 

 

 

Author: Georgia Aroni  is  a  clinical Dance / Movement Therapist  BTD, GDTR Sr, a Pedagogue and an Authentic Movement Facilitator. She holds a BA in Greek Civilization Studies and Pedagogy and has done Postgraduate Studies in Dance /Movement Therapy  and Authentic Movement as Therapeutic Practice. She currently works in  Saarland, Germany in a Rehabilitation Centre at the Department of  Psychosomatic  Medicine  and  Psychotherapy with patients with a wide spectrum of disorders. During the past 18 years  she has worked extensively in the fields of therapy and education within a broad range of children, adolescents and adults  and has contributed as a facilitator to various clinical,  educational  and creative programmes in Germany, Greece and Switzerland. She served for many years οn  the board of the Greek Association of Dance Therapists and she is currently  involved as  a part- time trainer at the their Postgraduate Course. Her studies in Authentic Movement inspire  her work and  her interest focuses on embodied spirituality with  roots  in C. G. Jung’s  active  imagination  approach. 

 

 

 

Friday, 12.30 pm - 2.00 pm

 

WORKSHOP THREE - Title:  Transforming 

 

Abstract: In this workshop with Hans-Joachim Reich and  Sara Schwienbacher you get the possibility and skills to create a new character with a mask or to develop an art-figur with material, colour, plastic and others. The theme for the masks is - pirates - , for the art figures  - phantastic waterworld - . We work how this figures or beings can move, act and perhaps play with voice. The aim from this workshop is to make a walkact with actors from another group at  one of the biggest street theatrefestivals in Niedersachsen „la Strada -  unterwegs in Rotenburg 2015"( ca 50 min, saturday, perhaps sunday).

 

 

Author: Hans-Joachim Reich, age 56

studies

1981-1989 / sport ( dance and physical theatre) University Mainz

1989-1991 / Diplom Fine Arts, HKS-Ottersberg

1992-1993 /  „music- and danctherapie BKMT“ University Köln/Münster

1993-1995 / rhythm „TA KE TI NA“ bei R. Flatischler

1992-1995 /  W. Gufler (theatre); R. Alif Kia (voice) Kazu Ohno, Minako Seiki (Butoh)

2008 / trainer  BDVT

 

artistic activity

since 1992 / TANGO LOCO ,tangoperformances  and dance

since 1999 / masktheatre for street and indoor

since 2002 / theatre with different generations and schools

since 2004 / musiccomedy „Triglycerin“

since 2005 /  performance art

since 2013/ performance group with Sara Schwienbacher: re.vision, for art based intervention

since 1990 teacher for performance and dance, HKS-Ottersberg

 

 

Saturday 29.08.

Saturday, 12.30 am - 2.00 pm

 

WORKSHOP ONE - Title: Modern media and gaming in therapy  

 

Abstract: New tools for arts therapists by using modern media and gaming in therapy to reach out to adolescents. 

 

We live in an era where the digital revolution is in progress. Increasingly, new media influence the way we express ourselves, communicate with others and participate in a changing world. New media can start up a dialogue and even cause major political changes. On an individual level it offers the possibility to express our diversity in colours, sounds and images. Especially adolescents seem to be attracted to the possibilities of gaming, apps like snapchat and social networks like facebook. Yet, in therapy programmes for adolescents with psychiatric problems there is little attention for these changes that are so explicitly present in our society.  

 

 New media in arts therapies would be perfectly able to bridge the gap between the classical treatment and the changing way of communication and self-expression in adolescents. As new technology becomes user-friendlier it is becoming easier to integrate within the therapy.  

 

In this workshop we will discover and think about some possibilities in the arts therapies like for example: jamming in electronic music programs, editing images and films, role-playing in digital landscapes, ...

 

Authors: Workshop by Dries Booten, belgian dramatherapist, reseracher and 4ArTS ex-boardmember 

and Lien Stessel belgian dramatherapist, youthworker and 4ArTS boardmember 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 12.30 pm - 2.00 pm

 

WORKSHOP TWO - Title: for fighters & dancers ...

 

Abstract: The borders between martial arts and dancing are rather blurry. This workshop is planned to offer some inspiring impressions for everybody and especially for people having a bent for dancing or fighting. Of course!

Coming together, we will get an idea of some basic techniques from Shotokan-Karate-Do, containing contracting and releasing qualities of movement by warming up our bodies at the same time. Afterwards, we will put that aspects into some kind of hybrid by mixing up

dancing- and fighting-techniques. Finally, we are going to add some experimental and sociable space just before coming to the end

in a very individual style of relaxation. Looking forward to welcome you!!!

 

 

Author: Matthias Radtke 

Graduated Dance / Movement Pedagogue & Therapist at Impuls e.V. / Bremen.

He started Shotokan Karate-Do in 1999 and received the 1st DAN (Black Belt) in 2007. After both, taking part in competitions and gaining experience in teaching and coaching children and adults, ‘Matze’ also discovered dancing as a passion, which he began to use as a kind of experimental playground.

Since July 2015, he owns the ‘Tanzhafen - Academy for Dancing and Martial Arts’ near Bremen.

 

 

 

Saturday, 12.30 pm - 2.00 pm

 

WORKSHOP THREE - Title: Say „Yes, And“ to what you feel: Truth in Improvisational Theater

 

Abstract: Two car mechanics relaxing by the pool and sharing their ideas of the perfect birthday party.

The joy of improvisational theater is that together we can discover scenarios that we would have never thought of by ourselves. Yet, once in these scenes, we can experience ourselves and this world anew by doing things we would never get to do in real life.

We can create comedy and tragedy in an instant by simply acknowledging the truth of the moment. In this way, we create imaginary worlds as if building a house - brick by brick. Anybody can do it, just follow your impulses.

We will learn how to truly listen to your scene partner and letting what they do and say affect you emotionally. Let‘s allow ourselves to play scenes authentically - it doesn’t mean the Who, What & Where of the scene can’t be out of this world.

To warm up, we will do some fun group games and make a lot of eye contact so we feel in tune with each other.

Optional: taking part in an improv show for everybody on Sunday.

 

 

Author: Carolina Sipos has been an improviser with AMS!-Impro since 2011 and participated in several workshops by seasoned IO Chicago improv teachers. She currently studies theater education in Ottersberg. Equipped with a degree in English-Speaking Cultures and Cultural Studies from the University of Bremen she is looking forward to immerse herself in international theater pedagogy. Also, she dreams of doing comedy at open mic nights.

 

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