Movement is the core of all human activity...

Check out our new Summer Classes and Workshops for 2008!

Groups now forming for Summer 2008:

Group lessons in Alexander Technique

Experience your natural potential to move with ease in a supportive environment. Learn skills of self-observation and tension release in everyday movement. Explore subtle movements to achieve greater body awareness and economy of effort. Alexander Technique may benefit performing artists, those with common physical problems including arthritis, and anyone desiring to improve the quality of their everyday movements. Deborah Thomas, PhD, ADTR, has been studying and teaching Alexander Technique for over 20 years, and studied with Master Alexander Teacher Marjorie Barstow. Click here to learn more about Alexander Technique.

Session I: June 17 - July 8
Session II: July 22 - Aug 12
Tuesdays, 7-8:30 pm.
No experience necessary. $80 / session, $140 / both sessions.

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Empowerment through Movement:
A Therapy Group for Women

Build leadership qualities through body language. Energize your strength and assertion. Work on issues that limit your power.
We will use movement expression & verbal discussion to explore topics such as body image, self-worth, interpersonal relationships, and setting boundaries. No prior movement experience necessary.

Grace Valentine, LPC, MA, ADTR-DTRL
Robyn Lending Halsten, MA, ADTR-DTRL

June 26 through July 31
Thursdays, 6:30 - 8 p.m.
$180 / 6-week session

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A Circle of Children:
Creative Dance for Kids
Ages 5-8

A Circle of Children is designed for children 5-8 years of age to join together in the joy of dance.  The class will provide a creative process exploring  the elements of dance and the inner experience of each child.  We will delight in our dancing spirits!

Ann Wingate, MA, ADTR-DTRL
July 3 through August 7
Thursdays, 4:30 - 5:15 p.m.
$75 / 6-week session

Upcoming Workshops:

Introduction to Dance/Movement Therapy Workshop
Saturday, May 17, 2008. 9:30 am - 5:30 pm.

Interested in dance/movement therapy? Hancock Center is holding a one-day workshop introducing the field of dance/movement therapy. We will look at dance/movement therapy's roots in modern dance, its development in psychiatric hospitals, its national professional association, contemporary approaches and populations served. Participants will have the opportunity to experience simple group-movement interactions that illustrate some of the basic premises of the field. Participants are invited to bring case examples to directly explore applications to their own work.

The workshop will benefit:

  • teachers
  • students
  • mental health professionals
  • social workers
  • occupational and physical therapists
  • creative arts therapists
  • dancers

Participants eligible for 0.7 CEUs or 7 contact hours. Co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin Dance Program.

Click here to download PDF of flyer and brochure. For more information, contact Rena Kornblum at 608.251.0908 or rena@hancockcenter.net.

 

Hancock Center receives three grants!

Dance Therapy to expand in Madison Schools:

Hancock Center recently received a $1,500 grant from the Wisconsin State Journal Youth Services. The grant will allow at-risk Latina girls to participate in weekly dance/movement therapy sessions at Madison's Sennett Middle School. The sessions are led by Hancock Center therapists Jeanine Kiss and Robyn Lending Halsten.

In March '08, Lake View Elementary received a $3,000 Evjue grant through the Wisconsin State Journal to expand its in-school Violence Prevention through Movement and Pro-Social Skills curriculum, led by Hancock Center therapist Rena Kornblum. Starting Sept 2008, the curriculum will be available to all Lake View students from kindergarten through 2nd grade.

Research to explore the effectiveness of Rena Kornblum's curriculum:

In January 2008, the Children's Assessment Center in Houston, Texas received a 3-year grant from Johnson & Johnson to utilize Kornblum's in-school pro-social skills curriculum and to research its effectiveness. The grant will enable the curriculum--called the Safe Boundaries program in Houston--to be replicated in over 600 children's advocacy centers across the country.

 

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