Assignment 4: Interesting Career-Related Topics

When I chose my carrer I was working with a group of girls who lived in a Centre for Children. There we use the dance like a theraphy for them. We had good results and everybody was really happy for that.

I chose my carrer because I want to development this type of therapy, but I forgot it when I started to study Anatomy, Biology, Math and Psichology.

Three weeks ago we had a class about Body Language, and there I can remember what was my first motivations for study Occupational Therapy.

It is exciting! Our bodies tell us every time how is our mind: if we are stressed our neck is tense, if we are depressed our body looks to the floor. Today the world go really fast, so we can't hear what our body want to tell us. The Body Language help us to identificate our physical and mental necessity and if you carry on the therapy you can treat this problems.

This week I spoke with the Body Language professor and I explained that I want to learn more about this therapeutics current. She said me that first I must to explore with my body in all the courses that I can. I practice different types of dance since 7 years, now I'm doing contemporary dance and in july I will start a course of ritual dance.

My professor said me that in Buenos Aires there are many courses about "Dance Therapy", because there was born María Fux, the founder of this current. She is alive and I hope go there to take one of this courses on vacations.

I want to learn about this because I belive in the body power and in the connection between this and the mind. If I, like an Occupational Therapys, have tools to help people to recognize his bodysymbols I can help them better.

I checked some web pages about this subject, and I hope you visit ADTA (American Dance Therapy Association) and IIDT (International Institute for Dance Therapy). Here you can find information about Dance Therapy and about courses that they give.

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