On 8/28/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quoted Paul Moloney:
Unhappiness is inevitable
Poverty and work are what make most of us miserable - and therapy is
not the solution
Or maybe *that kind* of therapy is not the solution. Here's an idea
from a BBC series that ran last week, Dance Saves Lives
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5264778.stm):
Kariba's husband was shot dead in front of her.
When she fled her country she left behind some of her children.
"I like to open my hands, it's like beginning a life. I want to be
free, with just purity in the air.
"I'm mixing with people who are dead, it's like I'm talking to them
with my hands."
Kariba hadn't considered herself a dancer.
But when Spirasi, Ireland's Centre for Care for Survivors of Torture,
asked its clients which kind of performance workshops might help them
she suggested dance.
Drama, she reasoned, would involve talking about trauma. In contrast,
"dance would make you do things that really don't remind you of other
things because your body is the one talking, not you".
So, in May 2003, the modern dance choreographer John Scott was invited
to Spirasi to meet torture survivors from ten different countries.
John Scott works on breath and movement with clients
The idea of his workshops was to help the clients feel comfortable
within their bodies again.
Kariba believes it worked.
"You go to a psychologist and you talk - it is like rewinding the tape
of your life. They tell you to talk everything from how things went
wrong, and that is sad.
"But John told us, "Just do anything you want," and that allows us to
choose what we say.
"I've been going to counselling for two years, but the counselling
didn't help me the way the dance helped me."
continued... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5264778.stm
