OUTREACH FACILITATOR TRAINING
LEVEL 1 - 2022 - Training TBA
What is Outreach Facilitator Training?
Syzygy Dance Project is dedicated to making this world a better place through dance, and our annual Outreach Facilitator Training enables healthcare practitioners, counselors, recreation therapists, and experienced dancers to join us in this mission.
In this intensive 4-day training, we'll explore how dance and movement can be used as a powerful resource and tool in working with specific outreach populations (i.e., in jails, recovery centers, hospitals, elder care facilities, and schools).
This work is a dynamic movement practice of being in the body that can catalyze deep healing, connection and creative expression.
As 5Rhythms Founder Gabrielle Roth states, "if you put your psyche in motion, it will heal itself."
Each week in our outreach classes, we witness the significant impact of this work, helping people make better life choices and open to new possibilities
In this intensive 4-day training, we'll explore how dance and movement can be used as a powerful resource and tool in working with specific outreach populations (i.e., in jails, recovery centers, hospitals, elder care facilities, and schools).
This work is a dynamic movement practice of being in the body that can catalyze deep healing, connection and creative expression.
As 5Rhythms Founder Gabrielle Roth states, "if you put your psyche in motion, it will heal itself."
Each week in our outreach classes, we witness the significant impact of this work, helping people make better life choices and open to new possibilities
During this training we will begin in our own body, allowing ourselves to move freely and exploring our innate movement patterns. You will learn movement exercises, and how to support body movement and energetic attunement with others.
We’ll practice regulating and re-grounding ourselves while leading a group, integrating voice with authentic movement and exploring confident leadership.
We’ll also discuss specific outreach populations, and the challenge of bringing movement classes to groups resistant to or less comfortable with movement.
We’ll practice regulating and re-grounding ourselves while leading a group, integrating voice with authentic movement and exploring confident leadership.
We’ll also discuss specific outreach populations, and the challenge of bringing movement classes to groups resistant to or less comfortable with movement.
Level 1 Training Objective & Goals
Expand one’s tools and resources to lead and/or assist group movement classes with specific outreach populations. Participants can expect to:
Level 1 Prerequisites
Advanced Training Objective & Goals - DATES TBA
Advanced Training Additional Prerequisites
Expand one’s tools and resources to lead and/or assist group movement classes with specific outreach populations. Participants can expect to:
- Obtain concrete examples of class themes, exercises, and music selection and how to adapt them for different outreach populations that may not have prior experience with dance and movement
- Gain embodied tools to support deeper body, movement, and energetic attunement in working with groups and individuals within a group
- Recognize how to use one’s own body and movement to regulate and re-ground oneself while leading a movement class
- Understand how to use voice and project confidence in leading a movement class
- Have an understanding of how to create an effective container and develop exercises to support the space available
Level 1 Prerequisites
- Have a movement practice of some kind and is comfortable with dancing
- Have some experience in leading groups
- Applicants must meet one of these requirements:
- Currently teach any type of movement related class OR
- Is a licensed/trained helping professional of any kind (i.e. counselor, psychologist, social worker, nurse, psychiatrist, recreation therapist, etc.) OR
- Currently completing or have completed a graduate degree in dance, psychology, counseling, or social work OR
- Have a dedicated dance/movement practice for more than 5 years.
- Have an interest in using movement as a healing tool with a specific outreach population (i.e. incarcerated people, veterans, at-risk youth, recovering addicts, elderly, the homeless, etc.)
Advanced Training Objective & Goals - DATES TBA
- Learn how to use your movement to affect the room
- Understand and practice how to attune energetically to the movement of others and guide it
- Gain tools for working with goals and challenges
Advanced Training Additional Prerequisites
- Completion of Level 1 Outreach Facilitator Training
- At least 15 hours of assisting at one of our outreach programs or with another outreach group outside of SDP
- 15 hours of Heartbeat work
- 10 hours of class or workshop that incorporate goals and challenges exercise(s)
- At least one weekend-long Medicine Circle with Sylvie Minot
OUTREACH FACILITATOR INSTRUCTORS
Lead Instructor – Sylvie Minot
Sylvie Minot is the executive director and founder of Syzygy Dance Project. Since 2000, Sylvie has taught weekly 5Rhythms dance classes and workshops in the Bay Area, New York, throughout the US, and Mexico. Sylvie has worked with a variety of populations including inmates, veterans, at-risk youth, recovering addicts, hospital patients, and the general public.
Sylvie received her BA in Dance from SJSU and is a certified 5Rhythms® Teacher who was also trained in the Heartbeat (emotional) map by Gabrielle Roth. She has studied psychology, indigenous healing rituals, energy medicine, and sound healing and is inspired by the teachings of Angeles Arrien, Carolyn Myss, and Tito La Rosa.
Sylvie is often described as a catalytic shape-shifter because of her ability to meet people right where they are and move with them into new possibilities.
Sylvie Minot is the executive director and founder of Syzygy Dance Project. Since 2000, Sylvie has taught weekly 5Rhythms dance classes and workshops in the Bay Area, New York, throughout the US, and Mexico. Sylvie has worked with a variety of populations including inmates, veterans, at-risk youth, recovering addicts, hospital patients, and the general public.
Sylvie received her BA in Dance from SJSU and is a certified 5Rhythms® Teacher who was also trained in the Heartbeat (emotional) map by Gabrielle Roth. She has studied psychology, indigenous healing rituals, energy medicine, and sound healing and is inspired by the teachings of Angeles Arrien, Carolyn Myss, and Tito La Rosa.
Sylvie is often described as a catalytic shape-shifter because of her ability to meet people right where they are and move with them into new possibilities.
Guest Trainer – Wendy Heffner
Wendy Heffner, LMFT, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 25 years of experience in private practice. She has been using dance as an awareness practice and resource for her own renewal for almost as long.
Wendy completed an extensive training in integrating the 5Rhythms® with psychotherapy. She is an adjunct faculty member at the California Institute for Integral Studies.
In addition, Wendy is a founding board member of Syzygy Dance Project as well as a teacher and advisor for the organization.
Training Assistant – Kamala Tully
Kamala Tully has over 20 years experience in nonprofits, program development, communications, and events. In the past, Kamala has managed SDP’s outreach programs, fundraising, and marketing initiatives.
She has previously worked in diverse fields from integrative medicine at the Institute for Health & Healing/Sutter Health, to dotcoms including Women.com and Thrive, to book publishing at Nolo. Kamala’s BA degree from UCLA was in English Literature with a Minor in Business. She has also studied psychology at the graduate level.
Kamala has been dancing with Sylvie Minot for over 10 years. She’s studied 5Rhythms® Movement, trained as an Outreach Facilitator with Syzygy Dance Project in 2015, and has assisted outreach trainings, Medicine Circle, and other movement workshops with Sylvie.
Kamala Tully has over 20 years experience in nonprofits, program development, communications, and events. In the past, Kamala has managed SDP’s outreach programs, fundraising, and marketing initiatives.
She has previously worked in diverse fields from integrative medicine at the Institute for Health & Healing/Sutter Health, to dotcoms including Women.com and Thrive, to book publishing at Nolo. Kamala’s BA degree from UCLA was in English Literature with a Minor in Business. She has also studied psychology at the graduate level.
Kamala has been dancing with Sylvie Minot for over 10 years. She’s studied 5Rhythms® Movement, trained as an Outreach Facilitator with Syzygy Dance Project in 2015, and has assisted outreach trainings, Medicine Circle, and other movement workshops with Sylvie.
Training Assistant - Kristen Jackson Banister
Kristen Jackson Banister is trained to guide people in movement and settling, inviting dancers to witness themselves and others in the process.
An Open Floor International Movement Teacher, certified Syzygy Outreach Facilitator, somatic psychotherapist and creator of Freemotion Somatics, she sees practices of embodiment through dance as a way of remembering the human connection to the natural world, to one another and as a path to knowing oneself with greater depth and clarity. Learn more about Kristen by clicking here.
PRICING & PAYMENT
$30.00 upfront application fee when application is summited.
At approval and registration, a deposit of $325.00 is required to confirm your spot. The balance of the training costs must be received 10 days before the first day of training. Once payment is received, SDP is unable to offer refunds.
Note: There is a 4% fee for processing online & credit card payments.
*Scholarships and other payment plan options are available. Please email info@SyzygyDanceProject.org for more details.
March/April 2021 Syzygy Dance Project Outreach Application Fee
US Currency $30.00
US Currency $30.00
March/April 2021 Syzygy Dance Project Outreach Application Fee
EU Currency $30.oo
EU Currency $30.oo
Please submit the above $30 application fee (which includes the 4% fee) and answer the application questions below in order to submit your application for STP Outreach Facilitator Training. We look forward to reviewing your application, and we will get back to you as soon as your application has been reviewed by Sylvie Minot.
