Building a Community Resource Plan for Wellness and Longevity

Building a Community Resource Plan for Wellness and Longevity

Instructors: Kristen Stevens, MA; Lauren McIntyre, ATC; Joshua Honrado, DAT

Description: In this virtual workshop, dance educators will learn practical strategies that foster healthy dance communities and career longevity. As educators prepare to transition into a new school year or season, this workshop will be informative as well as restorative. The session will include:

Part 1: Community Resource Plan Template (Stevens)

We will define a community resource plan, discuss why it is necessary for wellness and longevity, and provide a template for creating a resource plan tailored to your setting.

Part 2: Tools for Transitions (McIntyre and Honrado)

A dancer's career includes many transitional periods: student to professional; training to performance; returning from injury, surgery, pregnancy, illness; performer to educator; younger to older dancer; and so on. Having a toolbox during transitional periods impacts both wellness and career longevity. In part 2, we will review sleep hygiene and explore Reiki principles that support wellness, longevity, and positive transitions.

Participants will come away feeling empowered to create environments that prioritize both student and educator wellness.

About the Instructors

Joshua Honrado, DAT received his doctor of athletic training degree from A.T. Still University and is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and a registered yoga teacher and Reiki practitioner. He provides backstage care to Broadway shows and dance companies as well as injury prevention assessments and educational lectures to the dance community.

Lauren McIntyre, ATC provides backstage care to Broadway shows and dance companies as well as injury prevention assessments and educational lectures to the dance community. She is an on-site certified athletic trainer for The Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY.

Kristen Stevens, MA is a former professional ballet dancer and now a dance educator, in addition to being program coordinator of education and marketing at Harkness Center for Dance Injuries. She holds a master's in arts administration from Teachers College, Columbia University.

ZOOM LINK INFO:

Registrants will receive Zoom link by email. We encourage live attendance to this virtual program, but the event will be recorded and the recording available for a limited time after it takes place.

REFUND policy: We cannot provide refunds after the event has taken place.

About the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries:

NYU Langone's Harkness Center for Dance Injuries (www.DanceInjury.org) is dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of dance professionals by providing breakthrough approaches to injury prevention, medical treatment, education and training, and research. Founded in 1989 through a partnership between the Harkness Foundation for Dance and the Hospital for Joint Diseases (now NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital), the Harkness Center provides world-class clinical care for dancers of all types and levels. The scientific foundation for this expert care comes from research into understanding the dancer’s body in motion coupled with workplace requirements. The Harkness Center’s evidence-based practice has produced globally accepted approaches to the recognition, treatment, and prevention of dance injuries.

In addition to caring for injuries, an integral part of the Harkness Center’s mission is providing education. For the dance community, Harkness offers injury prevention workshops, online courses, and screenings, including its long-running, free Injury Prevention Assessment (IPA) program. For fellow dance medicine professionals, Harkness is actively engaged in sharing clinical best practices through academic training with live and online continuing education courses. Since 2015, Harkness Center has offered DanceMedU, its digital learning platform (www.DanceMedU.org), which now offers over 20 lectures on dance medicine and dancer health.

Host or Publisher NYU Langone's Harkness Center for Dance Injuries