Saturday March 15th, 2025 – 930 AM – 5 PM – University of Auckland, New Zealand
This one-day introductory class is an opportunity to experience the foundational aspects of Dr. Christine Caldwell’s Moving Cycle. The Moving Cycle is a framework that applies to all phases of the clinical process in Dance/Movement Therapy. Integrating elements of Polyvagal-informed Dance/Movement Therapy, we weave theory with individual and partner experiential practices and processes that illuminate the four phases (Awareness, Owning, Appreciation and Action) of The Moving Cycle.
Each phase is explored experientially for self-awareness and as an introduction to how this work applies to therapy.
Dress comfortably for movement, bring a notebook for journaling and to take notes, a writing utensil and some snacks and drinks for nourishment and hydration. We will take a lunch break at 12:30.
Recommended Text:
An Embodied Guide for Healing, Learning, Contemplating, and Creating, Christine Caldwell, 2024
Venue:
Studio 201-130, 10 Symonds Street, Building 201, level 1. Use the triple lifts to go to level one and go to the right. It will be nearly in front of the lifts.
Cost:
DTAA Members NZD $200
Non-members NZD $250
Full time Students NZD $125
Students Currently Enrolled in Dance 776 – Awareness and Analysis in DMT – NZD $75
Register Here
About the Instructor:
Amber Elizabeth Gray moves from a diverse landscape of experience. Yoga, sacred dance, dance/ movement therapy, bodywork, and Continuum are all the body’s languages she listens to and creates from. She has worked with survivors of extreme interpersonal violence since 1999 and these are her teachers of movement as liberation. As an educator, clinician, mentor and changemaker, she incites resilient embodied revolution in service of liberation. She co-created Polyvagal-informed Somatic and Dance/Movement Psychotherapy with her clients and mentors. Amber believes that every human being has the right to embody in ways they choose.