DMT-ER® e Disturbi della Nutrizione e dell'Alimentazione

La Danzaterapia come risorsa per il trattamento complesso di una problematica complessa. Una tavola rotonda con esperti del settore.

Si chiamavano DCA, ma nel DSM-V sono stati affrancati dal contenitore angusto del "comportamento" alimentare per essere ricollocati in una cornice relazionale, la nutrizione. La Dmt-ER® ha un potenziale da mettere al servizio di una problematica che esige un approccio globale all'esperienza psichica, corporea e relazionale, con il supporto di un'adeguata modellistica della psicopatologia.

La funzione sociale della Danzaterapia

Conversazione con Giuseppe Ruvolo, Vincenzo Bellia, Barbara Dragoni

La Danzaterapia Espressivo-Relazionale ripropone sugli scenari contemporanei la tradizionale funzione della danza: creare o rinnovare il legame sociale e promuovere il benessere dei singoli e delle comunità. La Dmt-ER® ha sviluppato una specifica metodologia per la conduzione di open sessions a funzione sociale. Il metodo, inoltre, si è dimostrato particolarmente utile nella formazione delle helping professions, in particolare nel training degli psicologi clinici.

Ne parliamo con Giuseppe Ruvolo, già professore ordinario di Psicologia Dinamica all'Università di Palermo, ex direttore della sede palermitana della Scuola COIRAG e primo presidente del Laboratorio di Gruppoanalisi, dopo una open session di Dmt-ER® nella villa comunale della sua Ribera.

La danzaterapia è una disciplina basata sugli effetti benefici della danza e del movimento, utilizzata oggi in una varietà di contesti, oltre a quelli prettamente terapeutici: lo sviluppo personale, l'educazione, la cura di gruppi, la riabilitazione.

La danzaterapia è accessibile a tutti e può essere approcciata a qualsiasi età: bambini, adulti, anziani.

Nelle persone anziane la danzaterapia aiuta a mantenere la socializzazione, abitudini posturali sane, la memoria e la concentrazione, la coordinazione e la flessibilità.

Nei bambini la danzaterapia accompagna lo sviluppo psicomotorio e aiuta a sviluppare le competenze sociali, la creatività e l'espressione di sé.

Con la danza, il movimento e l'espressione creativa è possibile accrescere la consapevolezza di sé, migliorare il rapporto con il proprio corpo e con i propri sentimenti, aumentare la fiducia in sé stessi, combattere lo stress.

La danza ha sempre e dovunque nutrito il benessere delle persone e delle comunità. Nata negli anni Quaranta, la danzaterapia è diventata una disciplina sempre più popolare e ha guadagnato grande credibilità tra i professionisti.

Il metodo Dmt-ER® mette in primo piano la dimensione relazionale e comunicativa della danzaterapia, come potente fattore di benessere per gli individui e i gruppi sociali.

Online Activities (all mandatory)

Training seminars (download): Focus on some main Dmt-ER^® topics - Practice, theory and exercise
32 hours as follows: 4 SEMINARS on Thursday 5-9 PM and Friday 10 AM-2 PM, C.E.T. (13-14 February, 3-4 April, 25-26 September, 11-12 December)

Group Supervision: 16 hours, on Friday 10 AM - 2 PM C.E.T. (14 March, 18 April, 5 September, 17 October)

Onsite Activities in Italy (on choice)

• Rome, 24-27 April. Dmt-ER^® Session and Warm-up (V. Bellia, B. Dragoni, C. Nocera)

• Turin, 1-4 May. Individual and Community in Dmt (V. Bellia, B. Dragoni)

• Viagrande (Catania), 30 May – 2 June. Rhythm and Music in Dmt (V. Bellia, B. Dragoni, R. Gerbino)

• Tagliacozzo (L’Aquila), 9-13 July. Laban-Bartenieff Movement Studies in Dmt (V. Bellia, B. Dragoni)

• Manta (Cuneo), 2-5 October. Body Systems in Dmt (B. Lesage)

• Rome, 30 October – 2 November. Materials and Props in Dmt-ER^® (V. Bellia, B. Dragoni)

• Rome, 5-8 December. Group Process and Body Dialogue (V. Bellia, B. Dragoni)

Onsite Activities in Egypt (on choice; financial management by RITR)

Cairo, 8-12 January. DMT, A RELATIONAL APPROACH.
40 hours of training workshop with Vincenzo Bellia and Barbara Dragoni

Cairo, 24-29 June. MATERIALS AND OBJECTS IN THE DMT SETTING.
40 hours of training workshop + 8 hours of supervision with V. Bellia and B. Dragoni

Cairo, 11-16 November. CLINICAL AND SOCIAL APPLICATIONS OF DMT
40 hours of training workshop + 8 hours of supervision with V. Bellia and B. Dragoni

Onsite Activities can be planned in Lebanon (depending on the international situation), USA, Germany or other Countries

Individual planning yearly through a briefing with the Direction or local Coordinators

The onsite attendance must be more than online

The 3-years Program for English Speakers

1200 hours, as follows:

• Training (320 hours), by intensive workshop in Italy (or other Countries) + online seminars
• Experiential Workshops (160 hours), in any Country, held by professional DMTs
• Practice (350 hours), attendance, Dmt observation and conduction, in any Country and context
• Supervision (100 hours), in Italy or any Country and online, with authorized professionals
• Interdisciplinary Complements (250 hours), by e-learning and personal study
• Exams (20 hours), theoretical, practical and thesis; onsite / online.

Individual annual study plan (see application form)

Online activities: 32 hours of training and 16 hours of supervision yearly

Onsite activities: not less hours of training than online; in Italy or other Countries (e.g., Egypt)

Application procedure

• Book an online admission interview by e-mail to Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.
• After being admitted, download, fill and send the application form and the attachments
• Pay the fees (as from application form), by bank transfer or PayPal, as follows:

IBAN IT46X0569603210000006643X38 - BIC / SWIFT: POSOIT22XXX
In the name of "Società Cooperativa Sociale Danzare le Origini"
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The School

• Director: Vincenzo Bellia MD, Certified Dmt, CLMA, Psychiatrist
• Main Venue: Italy, Rome, via del Serafico 147
• Holder: Danzare le Origini Association, affiliated to IAGP
• Management: Danzare le Origini Social Cooperative
• 28 years old, over 450 registered students and 230 certified professionals
• Formal agreements with Turin University (Departments of Public Health), Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires (Department of Arts of Movement), Rakhawy Institute for Training and Research, Il Cairo

Vincenzo Bellia (Catania) has created the Dmt-ER^® method. Director of the Dmt-ER^® Training School, Certified Dance Movement Therapist (FAC), Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CLMA), founder, supervisor and trainer member of APID^® (Italian Professional Dmt Association) and ARTE (Arti Therapies Professional Association), EUROLAB member. Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, teacher of Gruppoanalisi at COIRAG School, former lecturer in Paris V René Descartes and Aosta Universities, at now cooperates with Turin University and training centers in Egypt, France and Switzerland. Author of several books and papers on Dmt and Community Psychiatry.

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Barbara Dragoni (Rome) is the educational coordinator of the Dmt-ER^® Training School. Certified Dance Movement Therapist (FAC), Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CLMA), trainer member of APID^® (Italian Professional Dmt Association) and ARTE (Art Therapies Professional Association), EUROLAB member, dance teacher. She works as Dmt at the Rome 6 Department of Mental Health and cooperates with Turin University (degree course in Nursing). At the DMTateliER in Rome she works with adults and children. Author of several papers on Dmt applications, co-editor of the book Una danza per le comunità (2022)

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Dancing the Origins: the Association for Social Promotion that joins the professionals trained and operating by Dmt-ER^®, takes its name from the title of the V. Bellia's book published first in 1995. About 100 DMTs members of the association, at now, are present not only in Italy, but also in Egypt, India, Lithuania, Madagascar, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Jordan, Lebanon, Germany, Portugal.
Danzare le Origini is also the Cooperative managing the administration of the Dmt-ER^® School.

The Relational-Expressive approach to Dance Movement Therapy relaunches the traditional social function of dance. As a matter of fact, since the dawn of civilization, people dance to renew the social bond, to nourish the well-being, to perform healing practices.

Systematized in the 90s by Vincenzo Bellia M.D., the Dmt-ER^® promotes the participation of individuals in the group and the evolution of the body image which is «primarily a social creation», according to Marian Chace.

Dmt-ER^® main references are Laban / Bartenieff Movement Studies, Group Analysis, and the Expression Primitive discipline. Above all, at the core of Dmt-ER^® we find dance, as creative play feeding any individual’s identity, enriching the community, harmonizing the individual and the environment. The way to develop your own Self is the other human being: this is the fundamental philosophy of Dmt-ER®, whence the method of establishing relational connections for any creative proposal.

Dance Movement Therapy was born in the 40s and today is supported by a solid theoretical and technical background. It is implemented in the well-being, in the social and educational fields and in several health-care sectors as complementary adjunctive clinical resource, for instance in psychiatric rehabilitation, in developmental either involutionary psychopathology, with disabilities.

In Italy, the legal reference for Dmt practice is the UNI standard 11592:2015, according to the law 4/2013. Nevertheless, DMT should refer to the laws and rules of each Country.

National and international professional associations, such as EADMT for Europe, promote the growth and the professional quality of DMT practices.