This program is for trainers, academics, artists, consultants, health and social workers from all fields who want to integrate dance and movement as a tool for learning and connection to develop body awareness, creativity, self-confidence and ecological consciousness in their educational activities.
The workshop, which was first launched in 2015 under the name of Creative Dance Trainer Training Workshop, after continuing with this content for many years, it started to be implemented in a hybrid format based on ecology in 2023 in line with the requirements of the age.
During the program, Lerna Babikyan teaches creative dance pedagogy, body awareness and modern dance history. These exercises are risk-free in practice, activating the intellectual and imaginative worlds of the children/participants while activating their bodies with creative dance, and the ecological connections and transitions within each subject enable the students to develop a holistic awareness of worldliness.
Additional seminars such as Introduction to Dance Therapy, Introduction to Drama-Dance Relationship, Intercultural Dance and the Body, Effective Lesson Design with Creative Dance Method, Dance Composition and Choreography Workshop, Introductory Workshop to Skinner Releaise Technique are given by expert guest instructors.
Outcomes
- Learning 140 exercises on 14 topics of creative dance from a critical pedagogy perspective with ecology-based practices
- Able to conduct experiential learning practices with dance in learning environments and to support social-emotional and cognitive development in this way
- Enable participants to develop learning programs based on holistic body use and creative self-confidence development
- Bring vitality, joy, creativity and awareness to the participants’ relationship with their own bodies and the body of the earth
- Improve participants’ and students’ use of body language, improvisation skills, public presentation and performance skills
- Increasing the sustainability of the use of dance and movement in learning environments
- Learning creative dance in the contexts of dance history, anthropology, drama, choreographic production and education
- Raising awareness for a sustainable future
