Magical Moments in Movement: Antioch University New England Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling Students Quest in the Real World

Abstract

The aim of this article is to highlight dance/movement therapy students’ learning process as they integrate and apply dance/movement therapy concepts. Three current students present vignettes on how they were able to use dance/movement therapy principles and techniques after their first year of dance/movement therapy graduate studies. The vignettes illustrate dance/movement therapy and Kestenberg Movement Profile approaches that are applied as students test out their new knowledge in real world settings with a child with autism, an infant, and parents of a three-year-old. Woven through the students’ stories are dance/movement therapy intervention techniques, successful approaches to communicating with nonverbal infants and prevention techniques to guide parents through difficult developmental phases.