One of the cornerstones of the Co-Active® model is focusing on the whole person and not just on one particular part of life. Accordingly, in this workshop, our intention will be to push beyond the verbal layer of communicating and to capture the “language” and the power of self-directed interpretative dancing.
In this interpretative dancing, you will experience a freedom of movement that (in all likelihood) you never encountered after the age of four. Our guideline will be to recapture the joy of movement that you once knew as a child. Your motto will be: “I can do no wrong.” Hence, no one will be telling you how to move your body. No one will be judging you. Rather you will move spontaneously following the rhythms of your internal “soul music.” Once you do so, you will discover your "lost voices" that transcend the limitations of language and word crafting. Your hunger for infinite freedom will now explode inside your dancing and your “monsters” will reveal their contours and be overcome using a mixture of “dream therapy” and “psychodrama.”
This workshop is equally valuable for those who love to dance and those who hate to dance. Here you will explore the joy of dancing in an unscripted modality. You will push forward your thirst for Fulfillment – deriving deep meaning and satisfaction from life. You will master a new approach for Self-exploration – fully experiencing the richness of any given moment. But, most of all, you will gain confidence in using interpretative dance as a mode for appreciating yourself, for mastering your anxieties/fears, and for exploring your potential for living your life with infinite freedom and unimaginable joy.
Schedule
Introducing ourselves (15 min.)
First Orientation—the Joy of Dance (15 min.)
First Circle: spontaneous sound and motion (15 min.)
Practice Session (30 min.)
Co-Active Coaching & Journaling (30 min.)
Second Orientation—the Power of Dance (15 min.)
Second Circle: spontaneous sound and motion (15 min.)
Practice Session (30 min.)
Co-Active Coaching & Journaling (30 min.)
Psychodrama (30 min.)
Third Orientation—the Healing of Dance (15 min.)
Third Circle: spontaneous sound and motion (15 min.)
Practice Session (30 min.)
Co-Active Coaching & Journaling (30 min.)
Psychodrama (30-60 min.)—Processing and Brain Storming
Total active time = 6 hours
Moderator = Aaron Milavec, BS, STB, PhD
I did my graduate studies during the revolutionary years when the hippie communes
were exploring "free love," when the Black Panthers were inventing "Black
Power," and when Angela Davis was at the heart of the Free Speech Movement
in Berkeley, California. In was in this atmosphere that I saw a performance
of Martha Graham’s
interpretative dance troupe for the first time. I was immediately
captivated. I began to try spontaneous dancing to music at home. I then
joined an experimental dance studio that put on public performances for
two years. I have continued my interpretative dancing (formal and informal)
for forty years. Meanwhile I received training in various forms of therapy:
Gestalt, Rogerian, Psychodrama. I participated in pop therapy processes:
Encounter Groups, Reevaluation Co-counselling, Gestalt Therapy sessions,
men’s empowerment groups and, during the last six years, the worldwide
Mankind Movement. All in all,
the therapeutic aspect of spontaneous dance that I have known has overreached
all these pop therapies, and I want to pass on "my little bit of magic"
to you.
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