Session Type: Workshop Accepted by MIG(s): Development Time Allotted: 60 Description: Had enough of over-thinking change? Try opening up your body wisdom and your observational eye through a workshop that will provide the map for transformative embodied leadership. Join four leading movement analysts and practitioners who apply their work to conflict resolution, community development, leadership coaching, and media analysis. Participants will feel enhanced and re-energized at the end of this workshop, and ready to lead anew! Abstract: Theory on best leadership practices abounds, and tends to focus on analysis of ways of thinking rather than on what we call the choreography of leadership. The workshop will give you an opportunity to discover your own predilections for leadership practices and behaviors, experiment with adding to your palette of choices, try out some new (and satisfying) approaches, and begin to utilize your own observation skills in determining leadership styles in others.
The four movement analysts will lead participants through a series of exercises, scenarios, and observations based on Laban Movement Analysis, with an array of somatics practices designed to introduce participants to embodied empathic presentation skills.
Discussion of direct applications to leadership education and coaching will be a part of the workshop. We guarantee participants will feel enhanced and re-energized at the end of this workshop, and ready to lead anew! Karen Bradley, University of Maryland; Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies
Bio: Karen Bradley directs the graduate program in dance at the University of Maryland and is the director of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies. She is a former Chair of Dance and has held leadership positions in the field for over twenty years. She has appeared on CNN’s Inside Politics, MSNBC’s HARDBALL and has been featured in the Washington Post and the New Yorker, observing the movement behavior of political candidates and leaders.
Regina Miranda, Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies
Bio: Regina Miranda is a well-known Brazilian choreographer and teacher. Currently she is developing a global network of organizations and projects based in the practices of creative communities. Her projects include working with diverse communities in Rio de Janeiro, bringing them together across geographic, economic, and ethnic boundaries through dance.
Karen Studd, Department of Dance, George Mason University
Bio: Karen Studd is an Associate Professor of Dance at George Mason University and is affiliated with the Center for Consciousness and Transformation teaching the Consciousness of Movement. She is a master teacher of the Laban and Bartenieff work and coordinates training programs in New York and Washington DC. She has appeared on MSNBC’s HARDBALL, on NPR, and in the Washington Post noting and discussing the movement behavior of various candidates and elected leaders.Deborah Heifetz, Interdisciplinary College in Herzliya; Tel Aviv University
Bio: Deborah Heifetz is a social anthropologist who lives in Israel and works globally and locally. Her research focuses on adaptive change and conflict resolution using expressive behaviour as a baseline. She has field work experience ranging from military security cooperation (Israeli-Palestinian) to traumatized women in Bosnia and community development in Northern Pakistan using movement analysis as a tool of personal, gendered and cultural empowerment. Heifetz is a Chevening Scholar, which supported her work with David Morgan and Bryan Turner at the University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge, respectively. She is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary College in Herzliya and Adjunct Lecturer at the International Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation at Tel Aviv University. Chair: Judy Gantz, Center of Movement Education and Research
Bio: Judy Gantz, M.A., CMA, is the Director and Founder for the Center of Movement Education and Research (CMER), a non-profit organization. She is an international movement specialist, teacher and lecturer, and was an Associate Adjunct Professor at UCLA in the department of World Arts & Cultures from 1982-2005. Gantz was the former Fitness Editor for Shape magazine and Co-Editor of Kinesiology for Dance, an international publication. Her latest writings on Dance Kinesiology were published by Oxford Press in the International Encyclopedia of Dance. Return to complete program |
