Empowering Dance Online Course by One Dance UK

ODUK: Empowering Dance Course

Research shows that the 'right' training and learning environment leads to happier, healthier and more accomplished performers, who are more able to cope with the demands of training as well as professional dance careers. Based on the ground-breaking work of Prof Joan Duda at the University of Birmingham, this workshop offers choreographers, directors, teachers, and educators the knowledge to create positive environments for dancers.

Session content includes:

• Reflection on teaching philosophy and leading in an empowering and effective way

• The motivational climate and the nature of motivation

• Supporting dancers’ basic psychological needs

• Why being an Empowering leader is important

• Access to a workbook with strategies, exercises and content to continue developing your teaching practice following the course

Outcomes

1. Participants will be able to recognise the impact of the motivational climate in a dance environment

1. Participants will be able to explain and use strategies to build intrinsic motives and support wellbeing in dance through their leadership behaviours

This session is delivered by Erin Sanchez, MSc who has undertaken specialist training in motivational climates in dance with Prof Joan Duda.

PLEASE NOTE BOOKINGS CLOSE ON 19 JANUARY 2025, 9PM SO THAT WE CAN SEND OUT THE RESOURCE PACK FOR THE SESSION.

Erin Sanchez is an advocate, educator, and developing applied researcher who collaborates with dance professionals, healthcare practitioners, and scientists. Together, they determine and progress initiatives to empower the current and future dance workforce to have sustainable and highly valued careers and to implement strategic objectives to improve dancers’ health, wellbeing and performance. She has led over 700 workshops for dance professionals and students, co-authored the book Performance Psychology for Dancers, and is a member of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science. She has written modules for bbodance, ISTD, and London Studio Centre on safe practice, dance science, and dance psychology and leads Empowering Dance© teacher training courses. Erin is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh and holds an MSc Dance Science.

Professor Duda is internationally known for her expertise on motivational processes and determinants of adherence and optimal functioning in sport, exercise, and dance. She is an experienced mental skills consultant, working with athletes, coaches/instructors, and other performers at all levels. Joan is Director of a large multi-national EC-funded project which aims to promote quality engagement in youth sport (www.empoweringcoaching.co.uk), exemplifying her interests in developing, implementing and evaluating theory-based interventions in healthy and clinical populations across the lifespan. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/sportex/duda-joan

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