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The MoverWitness Exchange
("Authentic Movement")

 Movement is complex, ubiquitous and part of all forms of communication.

      
Originally founded within Dance Movement Psychotherapy (Adler's 'Discipline of Authentic Movement', Chodorow, Whitehouse) the embodiment and observation methods offered in this practice can be applied at different levels of intensity for different target groups. Working traditionally with dance movement and other somatically orientated psychotherapists, its prime teaching points are here applied in adapted form to dance pedagogues, artists, business people and scientists. Working with the principles of individual expression and respectful communication, speaking about self and others in a non-judgemental way is as much fostered as a liberating attitude towards ones own creativity and individuality.
The MoverWitness exchange works with an empathetic and aesthetic gaze.
  • The MoverWitness exchange is a contemplative approach to observation, (movement improvisation) and articulation.
  • The MoverWitness exchange deepens and examines participants' experiences through practice, recall and verbalisation.
  • The MoverWitness exchange poses that both the subject and the object of observations (movers and witnesses) influence each other.