What is Dance Movement Therapy (DMT)?
DMT is defined by the European Association Dance Movement Therapy (EADMT) as ‘the therapeutic use of movement to further the emotional, cognitive, physical, spiritual and social integration of the individual.
In 2025 EADMT celebrates its 15th anniversary. Now we witness a coming of age of DMT throughout Europe and worldwide, from its early years into a fuller maturity in the context of an increasingly unpredictable world.
As DMT’s we are convinced that our work can facilitate a re-balancing of social connectivity and intrapsychic well-being vs social isolation and damaged physical and mental health due to increasing environmental, technological and other pressures including wars and catastrophic events of the last few years.
This conference will focus on the necessity of making our profession more visible, of clarifying one of our therapeutic goals, fostering human vitality and finally, we want to open up spaces to create visions of DMT for the future in these challenging times.
Themes and subthemes
Future development of the profession concerns our global Visibility and how we present ourselves to the world, to International Regulatory Bodies, National Governments, Parliaments and Institutions including Public and Social Media.
Vitality or lack of it in the body, the feeling of being alive is core to how DMT works in relation to it. This with particular regard to how Stern (2010) conceives of the forms of vitality through the dynamics of movement, time, force, space and intention/directionality. How are we applying and fostering these various vitality affects in our work?
To have Vision concerns the future development of our profession going forward with insight, imagination and wisdom?
Soon to be announced
The Conference Organizing Committee cordially invites you to submit your proposal on the mentioned above conference themes and topics!
Formats of proposals:
•Oral Research Presentation – 20 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A
•Oral Clinical Case Study Presentation – 20 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A
• Poster Presentation – 10 minutes
• Workshop Presentation – 60 to 90 minutes
• Film presentation – 15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A
• Performance Art /Happenings (Street Art to Dance Art)
As the conference will be held in hybrid format we consider the possibilities of streaming the sessions with oral presentations and eventually some workshops, as well as holding online only presentations.
Deadline for submissions: September 15th 2024
You can submit your proposal HERE https://auth.oxfordabstracts.com/?redirect=/stages/21823/submitter
Guidelines for submissions
The criteria for selection will be:
The selection committee will also take into consideration:
We recommend you prepare all this information in a Word document before you create your submission on Oxford Abstracts platform. Read carefully before you begin.
1. Title of contribution – make sure to anonymize the information in the title (cities, affiliation etc)
2. Personal details of the authors (to specify): Title/ Name / Surname / Email / Affiliation/ – if there is more than one author, fill the info about each one separately. Mark those who is going to be attending the conference.
3.Short abstract (150 words) – describe in short what is your presentation will be about.
4. Presentation format – choose your option
5.Proposal (800 words):
Oral and Poster presentation must include: Introduction, objectives, methodology, results, conclusions and references (no more than 5 in APA format). Remember that Poster presentation requires a synthesis, so avoid lot of text please, and give more importance to graphics, drawings or tables to show your results.
For Workshops please include: introduction, learning objectives, methodology with evidences that the material has been put into practice or not, structure of the workshop, references.
For Film Presentation: Film and video are excellent ways of capturing and communicating moving bodies in real time. If you have examples of work that fit the themes and that are novel, innovative and inspiring for development of our profession then please consider submitting them. Length can’t exceed 15 minutes.
Performance Art / Happenings / Events: The conference is making an option available for those contributions that may be of performance/performative in nature that will have the theme of the conference in mind. Examples are: Performance (s) Art, or Free-form happening(s) within the conference venue or the environment around it, reflecting on/celebrating the improvisatory and spontaneous nature of what we do.
6.Short biography (maximum 100 words for each author): qualifications /experience / research.
7.Permissions and approvals – check the boxes.
8.Streaming preferences – we plan to stream some presentation live, but also there will be a virtual part of the conference, choose your preferable options
If you have question or need an assistance with submitting your proposal, please mail us to eadmtconference2025@gmail.com
Soon to be announced
DMT is defined by the European Association Dance Movement Therapy (EADMT) as ‘the therapeutic use of movement to further the emotional, cognitive, physical, spiritual and social integration of the individual.