The Dance/Movement Therapy Experience: An Introduction
Immerse yourself in the field of dance/movement therapy during our 5-day
intensive. This experiential/ didactic workshop is conducted by faculty of
Antioch University New England's Master's Program in Dance/Movement
Therapy and Counseling. The intensive will expose participants to a range
of approaches currently in use in the field. No previous experience is necessary.
June 9-13, 2008
Sponsored by the Department of Applied Psychology. The intensive will be held at Antioch University New England in Keene, New Hampshire, and each participant will receive a certificate of completion.
Housing information is available upon request. Full fee for the intensive
is $495; a $50 deposit ensures a place in the workshop. Please take
advantage of the undergraduate scholarship discount of $125.
Registration and payment in full is required by May 2, 2008.
For further information contact:
Lucy Marsh, (lmarsh@antiochne.edu)
AP/DMT Administrative Assistant
Antioch University New England
40 Avon Street
Keene, NH 0343l-3516
603.283.2148
www.antiochne.edu/ap
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Notes on reshaping your destiny, from Sandy Davis
From Sandy's latest newsletter:
Your destiny derives in large part from your habitual daily behaviors. At any given moment, you are effectively the sum of your daily habits. These are all the routine activities that you do repetitively, every day, for the most part with little or no conscious attention. Taken together, your daily habits have been moving you steadily in a certain direction for a long time. As long as you don’t change any of your daily habits, you will most likely keep going in precisely that direction. So if you want to know where you will end up (i.e., if you want a preview of your destiny), just look at where you are going now.
If you don’t like the direction you’re headed in and want to make a lasting change, the best (and possibly only) way to do this is to make a change in one or more of your daily habits.
This requires that you disrupt your normal way of behaving in order to substitute in a new behavior and to practice that new behavior repetitively over a long period of time. How long? Long enough for the new behavior to become as “wired-in” and invisible as the old one was. This takes at least months of continuous practice. Sometime it takes considerably longer.
Here’s the remarkable payoff: Even a small change in your daily practices has the power to change everything, including your destiny. Here’s the reality that most of us know intuitively and also somehow manage to disavow: The key to successful personal change is continuous daily practice.
The good news is that this reality has another side: When you are willing to practice just about any skill for at least 15 minutes each day, you can develop your mastery of that skill quickly and steadily––no matter how old you are when you start.
Call to Action: Identify one small behavior that you would like to turn into a future habit. Choose one that will make your life more enjoyable or more fulfilling in the long run. Then start practicing this behavior every day. For starters, set yourself a goal of practicing it for at least 90 consecutive days without a single miss.
Tip: If you want to know whether you are keeping your commitment to practice faithfully, you will need to keep a daily log of your practice times. Otherwise, you won’t know for sure in six weeks whether or not you practiced today. Let go of the responsibility of remembering such things. Just write them down and keep moving.
Relevant Quotes:
“If you want to know your future, look at what you are doing in this moment.” --Tibetan Saying
“Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.” -- Epictetus, 1st Century Greek Philosopher
“Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.” -- Chinese Proverb
Your destiny derives in large part from your habitual daily behaviors. At any given moment, you are effectively the sum of your daily habits. These are all the routine activities that you do repetitively, every day, for the most part with little or no conscious attention. Taken together, your daily habits have been moving you steadily in a certain direction for a long time. As long as you don’t change any of your daily habits, you will most likely keep going in precisely that direction. So if you want to know where you will end up (i.e., if you want a preview of your destiny), just look at where you are going now.
If you don’t like the direction you’re headed in and want to make a lasting change, the best (and possibly only) way to do this is to make a change in one or more of your daily habits.
This requires that you disrupt your normal way of behaving in order to substitute in a new behavior and to practice that new behavior repetitively over a long period of time. How long? Long enough for the new behavior to become as “wired-in” and invisible as the old one was. This takes at least months of continuous practice. Sometime it takes considerably longer.
Here’s the remarkable payoff: Even a small change in your daily practices has the power to change everything, including your destiny. Here’s the reality that most of us know intuitively and also somehow manage to disavow: The key to successful personal change is continuous daily practice.
The good news is that this reality has another side: When you are willing to practice just about any skill for at least 15 minutes each day, you can develop your mastery of that skill quickly and steadily––no matter how old you are when you start.
Call to Action: Identify one small behavior that you would like to turn into a future habit. Choose one that will make your life more enjoyable or more fulfilling in the long run. Then start practicing this behavior every day. For starters, set yourself a goal of practicing it for at least 90 consecutive days without a single miss.
Tip: If you want to know whether you are keeping your commitment to practice faithfully, you will need to keep a daily log of your practice times. Otherwise, you won’t know for sure in six weeks whether or not you practiced today. Let go of the responsibility of remembering such things. Just write them down and keep moving.
Relevant Quotes:
“If you want to know your future, look at what you are doing in this moment.” --Tibetan Saying
“Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.” -- Epictetus, 1st Century Greek Philosopher
“Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.” -- Chinese Proverb
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Saving the world. (Overwhelmed much?)
When you think of all the needs in the world and all the changes that will have to happen, do you feel completely overwhelmed? This inspiring story reminds us that in order to create a world of great beauty, we need only start.
one good blog recommends another
A retired military man runs this blog and dreams of peace, one step at a time. His site "seeks to establish a useful, global dialogue on the roots and far-reaching impact of terrorism and human conflict, and to discover innovative solutions."
Marc's new book
“A Spy's Resume: Confessions of a Maverick Intelligence Professional and Misadventure Capitalist.” Marc's book is "a survival guide for troops leaving the military, written from the perspective of an intelligence officer (aka 'spy'). The book is packed with lessons-learned from the experiences of transitioning from the structure of military life into the unforgiving, sometimes hostile, world of capitalism. The book is also an examination of loss. The military is more than a job for some; it is a way of life. Leaving that life behind requires grieving, and letting go of old dreams. An entire chapter compares leaving the military to a divorce."
Greetings, earthlings!
"All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth."
Chief Sealth
In honor of Earth Day, check out this exclusive interview with Paul McCartney.
Here are some facts that might surprise you.
For more info on eating and the environment check out this site.
Finally, have you seen the new Smartcar? What a dream...
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth."
Chief Sealth
In honor of Earth Day, check out this exclusive interview with Paul McCartney.
Here are some facts that might surprise you.
For more info on eating and the environment check out this site.
Finally, have you seen the new Smartcar? What a dream...
Monday, April 21, 2008
18 veteran suicides A DAY?!
Story by Paul Elias - The Associated Press, posted : Monday Apr 21, 2008 5:54:11 EDT
(I post these stories not because I criticize the Veteran's Administration or want to go negative in any way, but to make the point that war has terrible costs that are not counted; it should be illegal; it should never be waged. More psychiatrists is not the answer. Eliminating the senseless brutalization of human beings is.)
"An average of 18 military veterans kill themselves each day, and five of them are under VA care when they commit suicide, according to a December e-mail between top VA officials that was filed as part of the federal lawsuit.
'We find that the VA has simply not devoted enough resources,' said Gordon Erspamer, the lawyer representing the veterans groups. 'They don’t have enough psychiatrists.'”
Read more here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24226165/
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-04-20-veterans-lawsuit_N.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080420/ap_on_re_us/veterans_care_lawsuit
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/20/national/main4029429.shtml
(I post these stories not because I criticize the Veteran's Administration or want to go negative in any way, but to make the point that war has terrible costs that are not counted; it should be illegal; it should never be waged. More psychiatrists is not the answer. Eliminating the senseless brutalization of human beings is.)
"An average of 18 military veterans kill themselves each day, and five of them are under VA care when they commit suicide, according to a December e-mail between top VA officials that was filed as part of the federal lawsuit.
'We find that the VA has simply not devoted enough resources,' said Gordon Erspamer, the lawyer representing the veterans groups. 'They don’t have enough psychiatrists.'”
Read more here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24226165/
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-04-20-veterans-lawsuit_N.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080420/ap_on_re_us/veterans_care_lawsuit
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/20/national/main4029429.shtml
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