Natalie Poole is a midwife of the dance floor.
Sometimes you need a little help to birth your vital, expressive, and creative self.
Natalie Poole, sometimes known as “Twirling Wolf”, is a seemingly bottomless well of energy for dance, dance therapy and dance journeying. She danced her way through COVID lockdown, offering DAILY online classes for motivated movers, and facilitates regular in the flesh classes numerous times each week now that things have opened up again.
Natalie’s dance/movement workshop “Ebb and Flow” for the forum/retreat introduces participants to somatic awareness for self-care AND for use with clients drawing on the rhythms of activation and settling.
“somatic awareness for self-care AND for use with clients drawing on the rhythms of activation and settling”
Natalie Poole
Natalie shares about the workshop,
“In this workshop we’ll be introduced the 5Rhythms movement practice as a way of navigating the ebb and flow of the parasympathetic nervous system and as a tool for self-care.
We’ll draw on the Laban/Barteneiff movement system to bring attention to the shaping and directions expressed through our bodies, and how we can follow these movement threads with our curiosity – discovering meaning and stories, and unlocking our vitality.
We’ll also work with the space in between, and the collective energies of the group – noticing how we can use this non-verbal arena to bring awareness to relationship dynamics. Tracking our inner impulses, following the threads of movement, and holding this within the ebb and flow of our dance, we will elicit skills and experiences for our own somatic mindfulness and for awareness with our clients”.
Natalie is a certified 5Rhythms teacher, Dance Movement Therapist, mother and birth attendant. Natalie has trained extensively with Alexandra Pope and is weaving this work together with the 5Rhythms. Currently studying a Master of Narrative Therapy, Natalie is fascinated by the stories we hold in our bodies, and how they play out in our relationships and lives.
The 2021 Creative Mental Health Forum and Self Care Retreat is thrilled to welcome Natalie as a facilitator.
We pay our deep respects to the First Peoples of Boon Wurrung Country where we will meet.
Friday 14th – Monday 17th May 2021
Inverloch RACV Resort, Bass Coast, Victoria
Your host, Dr Carla van Laar is a Professional Member and Accredited Supervisor with ANZACATA.
This training event is proudly endorsed by PACFA for 11 hours of continuing professional development.
We welcome Professor Anne (Dan) Harris, Director of Creative Agency Research Lab, ARC Future Fellow, Associate Dean, Research & Innovation, School of Education, RMIT University.
Profits from this forum/retreat will be donated to support CATA’s work employing qualified Arts Therapists to work with families of children receiving end of life care.
$600 registration fee covers core program, Friday night Welcome Dinner, morning and afternoon teas, and is payable in 3 instalments.
Registration does not include accomodation or meals other than the Welcome Dinner.
The core program includes Welcome Dinner, morning mindful activities, 6 x keynote presentations, 6 x 1.5 hour experiential workshops and a number of optional wellness activities for self-care including dance, art making, swimming and walking. Surfing, Stand Up Paddle Boarding and Snorkelling are available as optional add ons at affordable prices.
This forum supports the goals of the ACTivate Arts Therapy campaign – to have Arts Therapists recognised as mental health professionals.For this purpose, the forum is designed to be educational in an experiential sense – by providing opportunities to participate first hand in creative and holistic workshops and activities, as well as hear from dynamic keynote presenters and a panel of lived experience experts.
Experience for yourself how:
Creative practices support mental health
Contemporary Arts Therapists are working to promote and recover mental wellbeing
Arts Therapies are inclusive, holistic, trauma-informed and socially relevant.
The 2021 Creative Mental Health Forum and Self-care Retreat is an opportunity to look after yourself and learn while enjoying good company and restorative time in the living world.
It is hosted only two hours drive from Melbourne in the beautiful surrounds of the Bass Coast Bunurong Marine Park and township of coastal Inverloch.
This Professional Development event is suitable for Therapists interested in understanding more about creative approaches in mental health care.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CREATIVE MENTAL HEALTH FORUM AND SELF CARE RETREAT
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