OUTREACH FACILITATOR TRAINING
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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 5-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
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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.
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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
Advanced Training Additional Prerequisites
Completion of Level 1 Outreach Facilitator Training
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
- 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)
- 20 hours of Medicine Circle with Sylvie Minot
TEACHER BIOS
Head Teacher – Sylvie Minot is the executive director and founder of Syzygy Dance Project. Since 2000, Sylvie has taught weekly 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 San Jose State University 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.
Head Teacher – 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.
Assistant – Kamala Tully, has over 20 years experience in nonprofits, program development, communications, and events. Kamala is responsible for managing SDP’s outreach programs, fundraising, and marketing. 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 Press. 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 Circles, and other movement workshops with Sylvie.
Head Teacher – 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.
Assistant – Kamala Tully, has over 20 years experience in nonprofits, program development, communications, and events. Kamala is responsible for managing SDP’s outreach programs, fundraising, and marketing. 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 Press. 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 Circles, and other movement workshops with Sylvie.
FACILITATOR TRAINING APPLICATION
Please submit the $30 application fee and answer the questions below in order to submit your application for our Outreach Facilitator Training. We look forward to reviewing the applications, and we will get back to you shortly after doing so!