Project Description

ПРОГРАМА ФАХОВОЇ ПІДГОТОВКИ ТА ПІДВИЩЕННЯ КВАЛІФІКАЦІЇ З СУЧАСНИХ МЕТОДІВ ВІДНОВЛЕННЯ І ПРОФІЛАКТИКИ ПСИХОЕМОЦІЙНОГО ЗДОРОВ‘Я

"Creative Therapy: A Multimodal Approach"

For whom?
The course is intended for: practical and medical psychologists, social workers, educators, senior students of psychology-pedagogy and arts specializations, representatives of creative professions, choreographers, rehabilitation specialists, performers, coaches, trainers, and instructors.

What?

  • The program includes an introduction to the concept of creative therapy, encompassing main art forms such as drawing, music, literature/text, dance, and theater, with a primary focus on working with bodily and emotional intelligence through physicality, movement, and improvisation in the context of trauma work, psycho-emotional recovery, and enhancing stress resilience.
  • Main thematic focuses: breathing, centering, grounding, working with attention, body image, rhythms, kinesphere/personal space, boundaries, space/body space - body in space, basic elements of LMA and BF in application, working with elements, flow of movement, contact with oneself/others/the universe, state awareness - awareness of one's own patterns/actions I choose (strategies, habits, priorities), psychophysiology of trauma and stress, active imagination in somatic body recovery, body landscapes, and more.
  • Special attention will be given to understanding the creation of an emotionally safe space, the protocol of ecological interaction in individual and group formats, and the importance of one's own bodily experience combined with theoretical knowledge for further practical implementation (90% practice, 10% theory).

What is the overarching goal of the program?
Restoration through the activation of integration processes at the bodily, emotional, and intellectual levels, using the healing potential of creativity and self-expression.

Duration of the course?
The educational program is designed for 150 academic hours (7 modules of 2 or 3 full days each), along with personal experience in the method.
The program includes additional activities: participation in personal growth training; personal experience in the method, which is necessary for the quality and successful work of the specialist; creative assignments and supervisions.

When? 
Dates of the program of the current recruitment:

  •  July 15-16, 2023 – First module (2 days), introductory, basic
  •  August 26-27, 2023 – Second module (2 days), basic
  •  September 15-17, 2023 – Third module (3 days), techniques and approaches
  •  October 20-22, 2023 – Fourth module (3 days), techniques and approaches
  •  November 17-19, 2023 – Fifth module (3 days), techniques and approaches
  •  December 16-17, 2023 – Sixth module (2 days), integrative, preparation for certification
  •  January 20-21, 2024 – Seventh module (2 days), certification, final module.

What will I receive after completing the course?
Upon completion of the course, державне свідоцтво a state qualification certificate and a certificate will be issued. Graduates of the program, after certification, will be involved (with payment) in the further implementation of projects for the restoration of the psycho-emotional health of Ukrainians. 

Where does the training take place and how many students are there?

Who will teach the course?
The program initiators are Lyudmyla Mova and Viktor Ruban.
The course will be led by leading specialists from Ukraine and their international colleagues.

Lyudmyla Mova, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Head of the TRT (Dance Movement Therapy) direction and member of the board of the All-Ukrainian Art-Therapeutic Association (2005-2021), founder and director of the LMaluma Center for Movement Psychology and Creative Self-Expression, and Head of the Association of Dance Movement Therapists of Ukraine (since 2008). Scientific leader of the Multimodal Restoration initiative (a program for the restoration of the psycho-emotional health of Ukrainians). Press: link https://life.pravda.com.ua/health/2023/05/29/254542/

Victor Ruban, доктор філософії з культурології, режисер, куратор, хореограф, дослідник, перформер, танцівник, фахівець тілесно-орієнтованої терапії, програмний та художній керівник #KyivDanceResidency – міжнародної платформи для мистецтва та досліджень, що працюють із рухом, а також досліджень тілесних, танцювальних та перформативних практик (з 2017), співзасновник БО «МБФ «Імпульс Трансформація Платформа», ініціатор та програмний директор ініціативи Мультимодальне відновлення (програми відновлення психоемоційного здоров’я Українців).

Press: https://lyuk.media/people/viktor-ruban-art-therapy/

and also on the website: https://www.viktorruban.com/

Наукова публікація: https://www.critical-stages.org/29/art-therapy-in-a-country-at-war-ukraines-contemporary-dance-practices/

The implementation is based at the "Center for Movement Psychology and Creative Self-Expression" in collaboration with the Charitable Foundation "Impulse Transformation Platform" and the NGO "Association of Dance Movement Therapists of Ukraine" (members of the National Psychological Association of Ukraine, associate members of the European Association of Dance Movement Therapy).

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+38 068 372 63 92 (Alexandra)