The Dmt-ER® Methodology
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.
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 Group Analysis at COIRAG School, former lecturer in Paris V René Descartes and Aosta Universities, at now cooperates with Turin University and training centers in Egypt, Lebanon, France and Switzerland. Author of several books and papers on Dmt and Community Psychiatry.
Barbara Dragoni (Rome) is co-director 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)
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 
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