3/23/2026 - Week 11 / Meeting 17 : Mary Whitehouse / Authentic Movement

 

HOOK

 How to Use Your Shadow Properly / Jordan Peterson

  https://youtube.com/shorts/VJUlvPJVgc8?si=b8fyzKdRPYeS_yQf

The Shadow  is a gift for those who know how to shadow play. To enlighten yourself on where your shadow lie, notice the way others work your nerves and locate the feeling of this shadow in your own actions. (And to see where your secretly shine, discern the behaviors you admire in others).

Wholeness and transparency  are not achieved by escaping or expunging one's nature, only by embracing and integrating all parts of ourselves, good and bad. Today, whenever turning towards another in contempt overshadows your thoughts, tell yourself in truth, "I have done that too," and remember when you have. Then, offer compassion and forgiveness to you and the the other person.

 

 Creating Groups for Presentations

 

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Unit: Mary Whitehouse

Theme:  Authentic Movement

Introduction

What is Authentic Movement? Authentic Movement is a completely self-directed form in which individuals discover a movement pathway that offers a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious. Authentic Movement explores the relationship between a mover and a witness, being seen and seeing.

 

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Objectives

 Understand the fundamental principles and nature of authentic movement

Explain the need to use authentic movement as a healing practice

Gain an awareness of the role of the dance movement therapist in the mover and witness relationship

Experience the way authentic movement may work in a DMT session

 

III

 Check In

 

 IV

Main Lesson 

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Question 1

 a) Why is being authentic important?

 b) What is the main dilemma presented by Gabor Mate between attachment and authenticity?

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Analytical Psychology 

https://youtu.be/uRDy4M5jI-g?si=hnxmuzUBoJ4WE8J6

(3:57 - 13:11)

Question 2

a) According to Jung, what is the difference between the shadow and the self? 

b) What is the self? (9:40)

 

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Mary Whitehouse

Video

 

                                    

Question 3

After watching the video above, reflect on Mary Whitehouse's comment on the "concentration and involvement" of her students in "expressing their feelings." 

 

 

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TEXTBOOK:

Dance Movement Therapy: A Healing Art by Fran J. Levy

 

Mary Whitehouse (Page 70)

 

Activity 

 

 Discussing Whitehouse's Theory

 

Groups 1& 2 / Kinesthetic Awareness (Page 73)

Groups 3 & 4 / Polarity (Page 73)

Groups 5 & 6 / Active Imagination (Page74)

Groups 7 & 8 / Authentic Movement (Page 75)

Group 9 / Therapeutic Relationship / Intuition (Page 77)

 

 Students read the different sections assigned to their groups, summarize them and post them on Discussion Board. Finally, they share with the whole class.

 

 

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Dance/Movement Therapy: Authentic Movement

 

 "The body is the home of feeling; the house of memory. To heal, we need access to it." ~ Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., BC-DMT

 

In this ADTA Talk, Tina Stromsted shares how "Authentic Movement helps us recover forgotten, denigrated and repressed aspects of the self [that] remain buried until conditions are nurturing enough to allow them to surface and grow." Stromsted eloquently describes the process of Authentic Movement, the relationship between mover and witness, and how Authentic Movement is used clinically in dance/movement therapy. To learn more about the profession of dance/movement therapy, please visit www.adta.org.

 

 

Dance/Movement Therapy: Authentic Movement

 Question 4

Re-state in your own words the process of authentic movement.

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 Authentic Movement: Benefits, Techniques, & How it Works

 Authentic movement: Benefits, Techniques, & How it Works

 

Question 5

What techniques are used when using authentic movement with clients? 

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A Note to Remember 

 Authentic Movement explores the relationship between a mover and a witness, being seen and seeing.

 

VI

Case Study

 

 Authentic Movement Session 

 

 Authentic Movement session with 

Laurienne Singer and student Elaine (Elle) Smith 

 

Question 5

Write a reflection about this authentic movement session.

 

 

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Activity

 Students establish a discussion about Whitehouse's statement about "one moving" or "being moved" when dancing.

 

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Glossary

 

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Sources

Authentic Movement. https://www.authenticmovementinstitute.com/authenticmovement

 

 

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Journaling

 

 

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Students' Work