The Fourth Australasian Dance Movement Therapy Conference 2015
POST- CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Professional writing for DMT:
Flowing between improvisation and structure
9.30 am - 4.30 pm, Monday 12 July 2015,
Provincial Superior’s Office, Abbotsford Convent, Abbotsford, Australia
‘We do not write in order to be understood, we write in order to understand’.
C. Day Lewis
This workshop offers participants the
opportunity to develop skills as a
writer and get published. It will
include creative techniques involving
DMT tools such as use of breath,
tuning into the body and connection
to feelings to stimulate the process of
immersing deep into a writing style
that is unique, expressive and
authentic.
Participants will also learn more
about the structure of professional
DMT writing: how to create a strong abstract, explicate research methods, use and
analyse data and come up with meaningful, well-supported findings and conclusions.
Writers will also be encouraged to get their referencing right - in the latest APA style.
This workshop will be useful for anyone seeking to write publishable work and
contribute to knowledge in the DMT profession. It is particularly recommended for
those wishing to publish an article drawing from their conference presentation in the
forthcoming Dance Therapy Collections 4.
Participants please bring writing materials or a computer to use in the workshop..
Presenters Dr. Kim Dunphy and Sue Mullane
Kim and Sue’s writings about DMT are being published in a variety of journals and books
around the world. Two articles due out this year through Oxford University Press are:
-Dance movement therapy as a specialized form of counselling and psychotherapy in
Australia: the emergence of theory and practice (with Jane Guthrie). In C. Noble & E.
Day. (Eds.) Counselling and Psychotherapy Works: Contributions from the Field, and -Dance movement therapy and student learning and well-being in special education. In
V. Karkou, S. Oliver & S. Lycouris, (Eds.). The Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing.
Kim is also author, with Jenny Scott, of Freedom to Move: movement and dance for
people with intellectual disability (Elsevier, 2003), while Sue is currently undertaking
her PhD at Deakin University on dance movement therapy and embodied learning.
Cost: from $100 (DTAA members, concession, early bird price)
Register: http://dtaa.org.au/conference/register.htm
More information about the conference: http://dtaa.org.au/conference