Dance Your Ability
Outreach Facilitator Training
Dance Your Ability is an outreach program offering a welcoming space for people on the periphery (including the those with mixed abilities, the elderly, people living with: dementia, Parkinson's & cancer, children, incarcerated, at-risk youth, those in recovery, and trauma survivors) to experience themselves in healing motion and collective joy. We believe that everyone should have access to the overwhelmingly therapeutic aspects of movement, music and conscious dance. In an effort to make this happen, we are now offering an Instructor Training for people who want to be a part of this movement.
This training can enhance and expand the offerings of:
This training can enhance and expand the offerings of:
- Movement Facilitators (dance, yoga, and conscious dance teachers)
- Health Care Professionals working in outreach settings (Counsellors, Social Workers, Therapists, Doctors & Nurses)
- Outdoor Leadership Facilitators
- Teachers
- Artists
- Volunteers who have a movement practice
- Family members looking to support a loved one
Training Outline
Component I Being Human: How to be Yourself While Leading
Component II Bringing Movement & Joy to All: How to Get People Moving
Component I
Being Human: How to be Yourself While Leading
Learning goals:
The first component will prepare you, whether you are a movement facilitator, healthcare professional, a teacher or a family member to be in a room with others and create a space where music & movement are used as a means to connect, experience healing motion and to tap into everyone's right to access collective joy. The first place to start is with self. We will use nature, art, writing, movement, group exercises and storytelling to track where we get in the way of being human so that we are able to show up and be with another.
Component II
Bringing Movement & Joy to All: How to Get People Moving
Learning Goals:
The second component we will explore different outreach populations and how Dance Your Ability programs can work in a variety of groups. We will break down how to structure a class (exercises & music), what happens when things go awry and explore how important your movement and energy are in a room.
Component II Bringing Movement & Joy to All: How to Get People Moving
Component I
Being Human: How to be Yourself While Leading
Learning goals:
The first component will prepare you, whether you are a movement facilitator, healthcare professional, a teacher or a family member to be in a room with others and create a space where music & movement are used as a means to connect, experience healing motion and to tap into everyone's right to access collective joy. The first place to start is with self. We will use nature, art, writing, movement, group exercises and storytelling to track where we get in the way of being human so that we are able to show up and be with another.
- How to show up and be aware of what you are bringing into a space
- How to better listen & notice
- How to be a leader in an outreach environment
- Understanding privilege
- Boundaries & Confidence
- Music Introduction
- NEW Session: Deeper awareness of injustices & biases towards people of colour
Component II
Bringing Movement & Joy to All: How to Get People Moving
Learning Goals:
The second component we will explore different outreach populations and how Dance Your Ability programs can work in a variety of groups. We will break down how to structure a class (exercises & music), what happens when things go awry and explore how important your movement and energy are in a room.
- Simple exercises & stretches to offer for a variety of populations
- Trauma Informed Practice skills
- DJing 101 for Outreach Settings
- Understanding the impact of music and the importance of what to play
- How to create a playlist for a specific group
- Trouble Shooting
- Connecting with Facilities & Organizations
- Creating a space that is open for participants
- How to use language that is inviting
- New Session: Facilitating Online!
Teaching Staff
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Viv Nielsen, M.A. ABS, DIP Rec Therapy, Cert. Gerontology, brings a lifelong passion with dance and music, and a playful, heart-centered approach to facilitating groups. She enjoys all ages and abilities, and specializes in movement with older adults/elders. Viv is excited to be part of the DYA team and looks forward to sharing her love of movement at the Outreach Instructor Training.
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Colette Smart, PhD, RPsych is a Registered Psychologist and Psychology professor at the University of Victoria. She has a combined 20+ years training in mindfulness and various forms of choreographed and conscious dance. She will contribute to the Dance Your Ability Instructor Training by bringing awareness of trauma-informed practice, as well as how to hold an inclusive space for people with various types of cognitive challenges and disabilities.
For more information on her work & classes, visit https://www.drcolettesmart.ca. |
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Shauna Devlin is a Movement Facilitator & Workshop Leader, specializing in working with a large variety of music & people with diverse needs. She is the founder & Executive Director of Dance Your Ability. To the Instructor Trainings she brings her many years of experience offering Dance Your Ability classes, a 5Rhythms teacher, Conscious Dance DJ, mother, support worker and ski instructor. She holds a deep belief, that no matter their circumstances everyone can benefit from the healing aspects of conscious dance, music & group movement, and she considers it her mission to make it possible for as many people as possible. For more information visit shaunadevlin.net
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Sheila McIntosh loves to dance and loves that Dance Your Ability (DYA) provides everyone with that opportunity. She is a teacher of students with deafblindness and works for the Provincial Outreach Program for Students with Deafblindness. Sheila has worked with children in a number of capacities for 35 years and with children with deafblindness for over 20 years. She admires and adores her students for their tenacity, strength and resiliency.
A part of what Sheila does in her job is to provide classrooms and staff with an empathy experience to give a brief glimpse into the world of deafblindness and other sensory issues. A deafblind simulation uses masks, ear plugs and ear muffs and simple activities with a partner. Deafblindness is a low incidence disability but they recognized that some of the people that DYA may dance with –particularly seniors - may have vision and hearing issues and not identify as deafblind. Or may have other sensory integration or trauma issues that impede how they see and hear. |
Details & Application:
Next training TBD
Investment: $695
Includes:
-Articles
Applicants should have some experience leading, love dancing, especially with others, and be passionate about being in service to underprivileged populations. Please fill out application form below.
Refund Policy
Training payment is refundable, less a 10% administration fee, up to 30 days prior to the training.
No refunds will be issued after the 30 days, payment is transferable to another training with a year of cancellation.
Investment: $695
- Includes both components
- Payment plans & work trades available
Includes:
- Manual (both online & printed copy)
- On-line Support (first 3 months included, afterwards $75/annually)
- Monthly Newsletters Including:
-Articles
- Private DYA Instructor Facebook Group
- Ongoing mentorship
- Your contact information on DYA website & use of logo
Applicants should have some experience leading, love dancing, especially with others, and be passionate about being in service to underprivileged populations. Please fill out application form below.
Refund Policy
Training payment is refundable, less a 10% administration fee, up to 30 days prior to the training.
No refunds will be issued after the 30 days, payment is transferable to another training with a year of cancellation.
