Practice Workshop
Wednesday, 18 June
15:00 - 16:00
Wednesday, 18 June
15:00 - 16:00
ICTH Melbourne, Australia 2019
Pullman Park
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ICTH Melbourne, Australia 2019
Pullman Park
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Dance for Positive Thinking, Active Transport and Health
Hosted by: Eleanor DiPalma, PhD
In this interactive session introduces the holistic benefits of dance for health, community and active transport. She presents the positive impacts of dance on the mind, body, emotions and spirit. Participants are guided to move, dance and discuss the role of active, mindful and interactive movement in “transport and health” planning and implementation.
The link between transport and health is best understood in active experiential learning that reinforces “Health is in our Hands!”
We begin with small functional movements and develop into expressive gestures and larger movements. Participants experience an unconventional warm-up, focusing on their individual physical safe spaces, as they interact in movement in the shared virtual space. This session features participants’ individual and collective movements that are functional and transformative. Session ends with fruitful discussion that highlights “interactive movement practice in safe spaces” for more widespread positive change in our transport and health systems.
Through active-experiential learning, transport and health professionals are reminded (in mind and body) of the importance of movement practice for their own stress management, professional development. Moreover, ongoing focused, re-energizing and interactive movements, such as the ones generated in this group session, prompt innovative thinking aligned with:
Hosted by: Eleanor DiPalma, PhD
In this interactive session introduces the holistic benefits of dance for health, community and active transport. She presents the positive impacts of dance on the mind, body, emotions and spirit. Participants are guided to move, dance and discuss the role of active, mindful and interactive movement in “transport and health” planning and implementation.
The link between transport and health is best understood in active experiential learning that reinforces “Health is in our Hands!”
We begin with small functional movements and develop into expressive gestures and larger movements. Participants experience an unconventional warm-up, focusing on their individual physical safe spaces, as they interact in movement in the shared virtual space. This session features participants’ individual and collective movements that are functional and transformative. Session ends with fruitful discussion that highlights “interactive movement practice in safe spaces” for more widespread positive change in our transport and health systems.
Through active-experiential learning, transport and health professionals are reminded (in mind and body) of the importance of movement practice for their own stress management, professional development. Moreover, ongoing focused, re-energizing and interactive movements, such as the ones generated in this group session, prompt innovative thinking aligned with:
- reinforcing transdisciplinary “transport and health” engagement and planning
- developing and implementing transport and health policy
- generating “transport and health” scientific research
- application of world-wide transport and health research findings
Eleanor M. DiPalma, PhD, LCAT, BC-DMT
IPATH Vice President
Retired: New York City Department of Transportation
Executive Director of Innovative Programs
In service to more than eight million New Yorkers including 5,500 DOT employees, Eleanor has served as executive director and leader of innovative programs and policies at the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT). She brings a unique transdisciplinary perspective that promotes synthesis of disciplines to create anew. She designs and develops transportation services using holistic behavioral-science paradigms of dance-movement psychotherapy and movement analysis.
Eleanor is the first to earn a doctoral in dance movement psychotherapy at New York University. She is adjunct professor at the State University of New York at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her research interests are focused on the psychophysical effects of active transport, in particular dance movement psychotherapy in green spaces. Eleanor’s distinguished public service career celebrates innovations linking health and transport. She created the first NYCDOT Customer Service/Language Access recognized as a Citywide prototype by the New York City Council. Eleanor advanced the plain language movement in City government as a primary component of language access. She established the NYCDOT Learning Center, the first centralized staff development and training program. Before NYCDOT, Eleanor pioneered health programs in New York State agencies. She founded creative arts psychotherapy for people with developmental disabilities and for people with psychiatric illness. The NYC Department of Education recognized her movement interventions, including those adopted in urban green spaces, and incorporated them into the Citywide curriculum as effective psychoeducational strategies to reach children with special needs.
IPATH Vice President
Retired: New York City Department of Transportation
Executive Director of Innovative Programs
In service to more than eight million New Yorkers including 5,500 DOT employees, Eleanor has served as executive director and leader of innovative programs and policies at the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT). She brings a unique transdisciplinary perspective that promotes synthesis of disciplines to create anew. She designs and develops transportation services using holistic behavioral-science paradigms of dance-movement psychotherapy and movement analysis.
Eleanor is the first to earn a doctoral in dance movement psychotherapy at New York University. She is adjunct professor at the State University of New York at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her research interests are focused on the psychophysical effects of active transport, in particular dance movement psychotherapy in green spaces. Eleanor’s distinguished public service career celebrates innovations linking health and transport. She created the first NYCDOT Customer Service/Language Access recognized as a Citywide prototype by the New York City Council. Eleanor advanced the plain language movement in City government as a primary component of language access. She established the NYCDOT Learning Center, the first centralized staff development and training program. Before NYCDOT, Eleanor pioneered health programs in New York State agencies. She founded creative arts psychotherapy for people with developmental disabilities and for people with psychiatric illness. The NYC Department of Education recognized her movement interventions, including those adopted in urban green spaces, and incorporated them into the Citywide curriculum as effective psychoeducational strategies to reach children with special needs.