The challenge of working with the embodied mind in the context of a university-based Dance Movement Therapy training

Special attention is given to the challenge of working with the lived, embodied, experience and the embodied mind in an academic context which commonly emphasizes purely intellectual concepts and evaluation criteria that may at times over-determine free expression of feelings. The multidisciplinary approach adopted by the training is taken into consideration (the Marian Chace approach as well as Authentic Movement elements within the DMT field, along with Group Analytic Psychotherapy and a general intersubjective psychological orientation), as is the multicultural nature of the groups, composed of students coming from nearly twenty different countries.