Program Overview

Graduate Certificate Foundation in Dance Movement Psychotherapy

Overview

This programme offers an introduction to Dance Movement Psychotherapy in the UK, including theoretical concepts and the experience of using movement as a tool for self-reflection.

Programme Details

• Duration: 1 year, part-time (25 weeks, Tuesdays, 6-8pm)
• Department: Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies

What You'll Study

• Year 1:
  • Term 1: Foundations of DMP in creative and interactive ways; through lectures, case material, theoretical underpinnings, group discussions, and embodied creative exploration through movement.
  • Term 2: Experiential DMP group to support the development of an understanding through an immersive and reflexive experiential learning process.
  • Term 3: Applications of DMP in various settings, including specialist areas and how DMP adapts to fit the context whilst staying fundamentally within the psychodynamic frame with its guiding principles.

Compulsory Modules

• Theory and Practice of Dance Movement Psychotherapy: 30 credits
• Applied Dance Movement Psychotherapy: 15 credits

Teaching Style

• Mixture of taught sessions, lectures, workshops, and experiential learning.
• Significant amount of independent study, including required and additional reading, preparing topics for discussion, and producing essays or project work.

Assessment

• Variety of methods, including coursework, essays, and projects.
• Feedback to ensure work is on the right track, in forms ranging from written comments on a marked essay to oral and written feedback on projects.

Entry Requirements

• Commitment to developing knowledge and skills around exploring movement in embodied and reflexive ways.
• Critical reflection of self and in relation to others.
• Previously completed an undergraduate degree, sustaining academic study at level 6.
• Consideration of students with a range of educational experiences.

Fees and Funding

• Home: £2350
• International: £4800
• Additional costs for stationery, photocopying, and other expenses.

Skills and Careers

• Comprehensive understanding of the DMP profession.
• Introduction to the use of movement, creativity, and play in practice.
• Awarded a Graduate Certificate carrying 45 credits at Level 6.
• Note: Completion of this course does not confer a license to practice as a Dance Movement Psychotherapist.

Programme Outcomes

• Critically assess theories and approaches in DMP.
• Identify real-life applications of theory and practice in DMP.
• Apply psychodynamic frameworks to understanding of self and others within groups.
• Experiment with different ways of using dance and movement for critical self-reflection.
• Analyse how intersectional identities of class, race, culture, sexuality, and gender influence the relation of self to others.