Good reasons to be a member:
to get up-to-date information of all kinds about:
- advanced training
- national and international congresses, meetings, conferences ...
- current publications
- professional political issues
- vacancies
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to exchange ideas with colleagues
- to enrich your own practice
- for collegial inter- and covision
- for the planning and implementation of joint projects
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to be able to borrow literature from the specialist library:
- trade journals
- Books
- Lecture manuscripts
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in order to be able to establish international contacts, because our association is probably the only European association of artistic therapists in which so many foreign diplomas are represented and in which so many different languages are spoken (Luxembourgish, German, French, English, Portuguese, Spanish , Italian, Dutch, Serbo-Croatian, Danish, etc.)
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to take part in conferences and training courses at a preferential price
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to promote the quality assurance of our work
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to get support for research projects
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to be placed on a list that can be consulted by potential clients seeking a qualified artistic therapist
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to actively participate in the establishment and recognition of our profession - the more and the better organized we are, the more weight we have!
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As an active member In accordance with the applicable guidelines, upon written application for admission , all those persons are admitted who can prove to a certain extent completed training in an artistic form of therapy. The membership fee is currently 100 euros. Job seekers pay half.
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You can be accepted as a student member if you are in training to become an artistic therapist. In addition to the completed application form, we need a valid certificate of enrollment. The membership fee is currently 50 euros.
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If you are neither a trained artistic therapist nor an artistic therapist studying, but would like to support our cause, you can become a supporting member of the ALAtD with 50 euros or a voluntarily higher amount. This means that you can take part in all of our events at a reduced price.
Dance and movement therapy
Dance and movement therapy directly uses an instrument that each of us already possesses: our own body. The tension of the muscels, breathing and posture combined with rhythm, form and dynamics of our movements, allow for the expression of our adaptive and communicative behaviours with all their strengths an weaknes.
This enables the understanding and processing of feelings and relationships. Dance therapy helps to develop a realistic body image and to understand and expand one's own body language. It is particularly suitable for crisis intervention for clients with strong physical changes, e.g. after accidents, cancer etc..
In group work, the emphasis is on the sensation of social space, contact and empathy in the relationship.