چالش کار با ذهن مجسم در زمینه آموزش رقص/حرکت درمانی مبتنی بر دانشگاه

Abstract Developing the necessary skills for a dance movement therapist, such as working with emotional conscience, accessing the knowledge of the body and enhancing the intelligence of feeling, are only some of the objectives of a Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) training. Experiential groups included in psychotherapy training seek to provide opportunities for reflection on interactions and other important learning for future therapists. In this article the experience of conducting such experiential groups at the Autonomous University of Barcelona is shared through vignettes, portraying some of the emotional aspects that are being activated in both, movement and verbal groups. Special attention is given to the challenge of working with the lived, embodied, experience and the embodied mind in an academic context which commonly emphasizes purely intellectual concepts and evaluation criteria that may at times over-determine free expression of feelings. The multidisciplinary approach adopted by the training is taken into consideration (the Marian Chace approach as well as Authentic Movement elements within the DMT field, along with Group Analytic Psychotherapy and a general intersubjective psychological orientation), as is the multicultural nature of the groups, composed of students coming from nearly twenty different countries.

The following article deals with the challenge of working with embodied, emotional awareness in an academic context. As lecturers on the university based master's and postgraduate programmes of Dance Movement Therapy (DMT), we would like to share our experience of working in a context which commonly emphasizes purely intellectual concepts and evaluation criteria that may at times over-determine free expression of feelings. DMT is multidisciplinary in approach and it has been our goal to integrate minds and bodies, somas and psyches, the verbal and the physical in this training process, without overvaluing one aspect over another.