mental health Input requested for a self-care book for dancers.

[Terry Hyde]

Calling all dance students and their parents, dance teachers, professional dancers and retired dancers.

 

I am writing a self-care book for dancers regarding emotional and mental health.
I know what help and support I would have liked as a dancer but I am only one person. I would therefore like to hear from as many people in the dancing world, whether working or not, as to what ideas, techniques, or questions you would like answered in my book. If you have positive anecdotes of overcoming issues and how it was dealt with, please include those as well.

 

I am also looking for therapy volunteers as case studies for the book. These will be anonymised for the book and the sessions will be free to the volunteer.

 

I hope my book will go a little way in helping remove the shame (stigma) surrounding mental health and allow people to ask for help.

 

N.B.  Please go to my website to check my professional credentials, which you can also find on the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) website. Parents please note that I will not be offering therapy sessions to those age 15 and under and for those age 16-18, please ask your parents to contact me.

 

Email me if you don’t want to reply openly to this post.

Please share this post with others who you think may wish to contact me.

counsellingfordancers@gmail.com

 

[alison]

Terry's initial post is as above.  This is being discussed in greater detail in Doing Dance

so any contributions to go there, please.

[Terry Hyde]

Thank you for broadcasting my post Alison.