WISE BODIES
Training course on body work techniques for youth workers
Why this training?
It is a KA1 training course about body expression, movement and self awareness for youth workers so that they can work with body exercises with young people with fewer opportunities.
Participants will enjoy different approaches for body work, such as contact, conscious movement and other disciplines coming from contemporary dance that together with Gestalt therapy will create the framework of the learning process.
Target Group
Youth workers, trainers, facilitators working with young people with fewer opportunities.
Aim & Objectives
The aim of this training course is:
To develop youth workers' competences in facilitating youth work activities involving the work with body and other physical activities with youngsters with fewer opportunities.
Our specific objectives are:
- To create a safe space for exchange, mutual learning, and intercultural interaction among youth workers through artistic approaches within contemporary dance.
- To raise awareness of youth workers about the healthy benefits of conscious movement, and choreographic theatre.
- To develop youth workers' knowledge, skills and attitudes regarding the current trends in contemporary dance that may benefit youth work when it comes to deal effectively with young people with fewer opportunities.
- To foster youth workers' creativity and spontaneity so that they find new ways for self expression.
- To explore and learn how to create dance or choreographic theatre plays with groups of young people with fewer opportunities.
- To promote participants’ self-awareness about their own professional needs that have connection with them from a perspective of training style and way of facilitating learning processes.
- To provide participants with the necessary tools to effectively facilitate and cope with emotions arising in conflicts within a group.
- To foster the networking of participants’ organizations for the development of future projects together with Erasmus+ Programme.
Methodology
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Conscious Movement.
The Conscious Movement Method suits all ages and physical states, each person learns to listen to their body and progresses to the extent of its possibilities, unhurried and with respect. It is intended that everyone can feel autonomous in their care, since the goal is to learn to feel and hear what the internal perception is telling us.
It is desirable that when learning this technique, Professor, indicate corrections required by each body, and that experience has a clinical eye that detects which places the organic flow of the body is sealed and so, step by step, will help students to get all the muscles involved in this decompensation go placing in the right place and with a tone, strength and proper function.
They will awaken all the dormant or weak areas, especially the deep muscles, which in traditional gymnastics is not taken into account. So you can go eliminating countless aches and muscle stiffness. It works for and not against the body: Do not force it or overtaxed. In this, this method is clearly different from other types of body work.
It is necessary to work from empathy and listening, this coupled with tools such as creativity and play, leads us to tailor communication to the situation is as subtle and effective time.
This method has been developed after the research and practice of various body work techniques plus years of teaching experience dedicated to adults and children, with whom I made a journey from body consciousness to creativity and expression.
Choreographic & Gestalt Theatre.
It was developed by Enrique Pardo - it is the label that best reflects the complexity of his work - related to, but distinct, from contemporary currents like dance theatre, physical and corporal theatre, image theatre, non-narrative theatre, performance art, etc.
Enrique's proposals offer one of today's most demanding synthesis in the inclusion not only of movement, dance, music, voice and singing, but especially of spoken TEXT - which has been excluded by too many contemporary performers whose work has become excluvely visual and musical pageants.
Choreographic Theatre brings together text, voice and physical theatre. While based on exacting group-composition disciplines, it promotes personal expressivity - especially vocal. Previous dance experience is not essential, but one must be prepared to move, make moves and be moved.
Team of trainers
Diego Marín
Marta Climent
She is specialist in anatomy and biomechanics applied to dance.
Marta is teacher on dance improvisation, contact and choreographic composition. She is also certified osteopath.
Economic Conditions
There is a participation fee of 60 euros.