Roz Carroll is a registered body psychotherapist (UKCP) and an associate member of ADMP.  An evolving interdisciplinary understanding of embodiment has been central to her work as a psychotherapist, supervisor, trainer and writer. She has been in ongoing Authentic Movement groups for over thirty years. She taught on the M.A. in Integrative Psychotherapy at The Minster Centre for 14 years and has been a regular speaker at Confer.co.uk for twenty years. She was a founding co-editor in 2005 of the Journal of Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy. With Jon Blend, she developed Witnessed Improvised Diaspora Journey Enactments (WIDGE): an approach to working with therapists on embodied memories of intergenerational trauma. Her numerous writings include: ‘The Blood-dimmed Tide: Witnessing War and Working with the Collective Body in Authentic Movement’ in the Journal of Psychotherapy and Politics International (2015); and chapters in Embodied Approaches to Supervision (2022), What is Normal? (2020), Talking Bodies (2014), and more.

Title: In Time, Out of Time or Beyond Time?

Abstract:

Time is circular. Circadian rhythms and turning seasons shape the cycle of life.

Time is linear. Forward-thrusting organisation wants structure, progress, and a quick tango through a long list of things to do. In evolutionary terms, modernity brings a new kind of time, a fixed metric that can be – and increasingly is – disconnected from nature. Time is relational. We interact in subtle symphonies synchronising and de-sychronising with others. Time is joyful. We feel the beat of mutual embodied rhythms. Time is traumatic. We cannot find connection with the other or with ourselves.

Now we face an exponential growth in technology, radical social change and climate crisis. What are the consequences for the embodiment of our species of these developments? How can we – should we? – adapt to this changing pace?

President Elect of the American Dance Therapy Association(ADTA)
2019 Recipient of the ADTA Lifetime Achievement Award , and 2009 Marian Chace Keynote Speaker, former Associate Professor and founding Director of the NYU Graduate Dance Movement Therapy Program and founder of the first European DMT Programs in Stockholm, Sweden and in London at Roehampton University. Founded DMT training programs in Argentina, Australia , China, Greece , Japan and Turkey. Former Board member of ADTA and former Co-Editor of the Journal. A former professional dancer, actor, choreographer and Director having performed in numerous film, theatre and television both throughout Europe and the USA, and was a founding member of the Action Theatre of Paris and also trained in the Professional Actor’s training program at the National Theatre in London. Doctorate is in Clinical Psychology. Wrote the first research Master’s Thesis on DMT worldwide (UCLA). Besides training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Gestalt Therapy with Laura Perls and Psychosynthesis, has trained and studied alternative healing traditions worldwide. Clinical practice have included Special Populations of children and adolescents, Frail Elderly, Juvenile offenders, and incarcerated male inmates. Maintains a private practice in Los Angeles, California. Current clinical practice which focuses upon DMT as a primary Psychotherapy includes Trauma, Mindfulness, and various meditation and Shamanic practices integrated with DMT. Numerous awards and recognition for her innovative work in DMT by NYC Board of Education, Greece, Australia and Turkey.

Title: Journey to the Heart of Matter ; Healing and Becoming———keeping myself relevant and centered in this time of chaos, crises and community upheavals

Abstract: Who am I? How am I? And where am I now? ; remembering and restoring as I extend and unfold. How I am able to stay grounded in my unique authenticity as boundaries shift and change rapidly; globally, personally and professionally, brings me back to remembering my connection to the Conscious Healing Dance ™. I again remember all it is able to offer one in finding meaning and sustainability through this time of upheaval and chaos.

What strategies work for me which support my being able to stay present, hold , and be witness to , not only my Client’s and Communities dissembling, creating grief and trauma, but my own as well?

As I become present to and hold for my own change imperatives, I unfold and extend to even more potential in my self-evolution. In exploring with full, non-critical judgment a brief 3 D outline of a choreographic direction, I am able to explore my next steps in this healing/holing journey. I then have the chance to return to my life as catalyst – healer, refreshed, re- connected, restored.

Studied DMT in Canada, CAT in Switzerland and did her doctorate on DMT in Germany. Teaching Therapist, Trainer, Supervisor BTD, European Certificate of Psychotherapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapist, KMP notator, author of over 70 articles and book chapters, co-editor of the German journal for body psychotherapy and creative arts therapies „körper-tanz-bewegung”. Co-Principal of the Langen Institute for Dance Therapy, Düsseldorf for 35 years. Currently a lecturer and researcher at the German Sport University, Cologne and the University of Fine Art, Dresden. Over 35 years of experience in clinical institutions for psychiatry, psychosomatics, psychotherapy, and in corporate health management, her current private practice specializes in trauma-related disorders.

Title: From the magnifying glass to the camera lens to the telescope:
Changing perspectives in a changing world

Abstract: To attune us to the themes of the conference we will move from small scale (individual experience) to large scale (global connection) perspectives. First, our focus will be on rupture and repair as a central process in human development and the therapeutic relationship – moving from close to far and back again. How did this process evolve in the wake of the pandemic and the introduction of online formats of therapy and teaching? Next we will look at the phenomenon of boundaries that constitutes identity and belonging but also exclusion. This theme leads us to the development of the EADMT itself, expanding its boundaries within Europe and beyond. How do we negotiate the closeness of similarity and the distance of difference?  In closing, we will consider how choreographing the new world confronts us with a flux of human challenges that call for specific interventions. Is there lasting knowledge to be accumulated, or must we cast old ideas to the wind, when the winds change? What are the constants, upon which we can depend in times of uncertainty?