2012 East Coast School of Biodanza – Maryland/DC-USA (ECSB-MD/DC)
Letter from the Director
To all lovers of life,
It is my deep honor to invite you to the 2nd IBF Rolando Toro System Biodanza School in the USA, East Coast School of Biodanza Maryland/DC (ECSB-MD/DC) where we will be offering the Biodanza Personal Development Course/Facilitator Training Program for the first time.
This course will open spaces for you to fly and reach your potential with all of your glory! Taking the first step into discovery is your first leap into a new life!
Sometimes you reach a point in life where you know you must change. There is something not working and you need the time and space to reflect and a new perspective to make changes. You want a safe space and a supportive environment, but no dogma. You may feel you need to reflect upon life and understand what is truly important for you. Indeed, Biodanza offers you a process by which you are given the freedom to arrive at your own authentic decisions about all of your questions of life. It’s your life and we invite you to live it your way.
Your full commitment to this program and your personal development will expand your horizons and set you on a journey of amazing growth. Who knows where it will take you? Only up! As Rolando Toro, creator of Biodanza said, “Every human being is miraculous and extraordinary with many possibilities in the universe”.
During the course you will find or recover your dreams, your passions, your goals and start to live them anew!
I invite you to come dance your life and shape your desires!
Michelle Dubreuil Macek
Director of ECSB-MD/DC
IBF East Coast School of Biodanza-Maryland/DC
Admission Requirements
In order to start at the Biodanza East Coast USA in MD/DC School you are required to have 50 hours experience in Biodanza®. Start now and collect enough hours!
This also applies if you wish to use the weekends as pure self development and do not have the intention of completing methodology to become a facilitator. But one never knows the direction life will take us, so be prepared!
Application forms and school regulations will be upon request to the Director via email.
Note to incoming students of the school who have already had some weekends elsewhere: If you are more than two years out of your previous school(s), you will be asked to join the ECSB-MD/DC as a full and permanent student repeating weekends at a discounted price. For the continuity of the program and the cohesion of our monthly marathons/weekends, your attendance will be necessary and good for all school participants including your own integrative growth process. You are also required to supply the ECSB-MD/DC with written documentation signed by your previous Director as to which weekends you have completed.
Who will be teaching?
An approved IBF Biodanza school ensures that the weekend didactic facilitators have the right qualifications to teach the various weekends. Michelle Dubreuil Macek will be one of the teachers and Director of the School. In addition, national and international IBF didactic teachers will be invited. In that way, you will benefit from a vast network of teachers and knowledge, and you will experience several different teachers and their personal ways of facilitating. There will be different teachers every year.
Biodanza Personal Development Course & Teacher Training
NOTE: Only those trained in the authentic and official IBF Rolando Toro Schools will be able to facilitate IBF Biodanza classes in the USA. There are only 2 schools in the USA, one in San Francisco directed by Belisa Amaro and the IBF East Coast USA School due to open October 2012 with Michelle Dubreuil Macek.
Teacher Training and Personal Development Course
The Biodanza Teacher Training consists of 28 weekend intensives during a 3 year period. The Personal Development Course consists of only the first 14 weekends after which you may or may not decide to continue with the facilitation coursework.
- 28 Marathons/Weekends – Didactic and experiential weekend intensives taught by the Director of the DC/MD school of Biodanza and invited international faculty.
- 1 or 2 Minotaur Project – Designed for experienced Biodanza students, this optional workshop(s) is based on the Greek-Roman myth Minotaur. It takes participants to connect with their original impulses (instincts) and face their fears.
- 3 conferences – evening presentations and discussions by the students and/or invited speakers
- 28 reports – reflections on the content from each marathon/weekend and your experience of it
- Weekly Biodanza group participation throughout the training (paid separately)
- Facilitating 8 Biodanza classes under supervision with the Director after methodology courses (paid separately)
- One individual meeting per year for individual feedback
- Participation in the DC/MD Biodanza Encounters (discounted prices offered to East Coast Biodanza students)
- Presentation of a monograph (thesis) at the end of the training
- Participation in social action for low income and “at risk” populations (optional but strongly recommended)
Criteria for Admission to the IBF East Coast School of Biodanza – MD/DC
Teacher Training & Development Course
• A minimum of 50 hours of Biodanza
• Be part of a regular Biodanza group
• A letter explaining the reasons why you want to take the training
• A personal interview with the Director of the School
Rights of Certified IBF Biodanza Teachers
• Use the name “Biodanza- Rolando Toro System” and its logo
• Teach Biodanza classes anywhere in the world
• Create private Biodanza centers or institutes to teach weekly classes and workshops
• Teach classes and workshops in private and public institutions
International Biocentric Foundation Curriculum
Training Course/Personal Development Weekends beginning Oct 2012 in the USA
Science, Art, Love
1. Definition & Theoretical Model- October 13, 14 2012
Putting Life First
2. Vital Unconscious & Biocentric Principle-Nov 10, 11 2012
The Heart of Biodanza
3. The Vivencia-Dec 7, 8 2012
Children of the Stars
4. Biological Basis of Biodanza-Jan 12,13 2013
Dancing Cells
5. Physiological Basis of Biodanza-Feb 9, 10 2012
Psyche Dynamics
6. Psychological Aspects of Biodanza- March 8, 9 2012
Life, Death, Resurrection
7. Mythological and Philosophical Antecedents-May 4, 5 2013 (first weekend)
Who am I?
8. Identity and Integration-June 8,9 2013
Moving into New Awareness
9. Trance and Regression-Sept 14, 15 2013
Your Will to Live
10. Vitality-Oct 12, 13 2013
Desire and Pleasure in Your Life
11. Sexuality-Nov 9,10 2013
Creating your life
12. Creativity-the Path from Chaos to Harmony-Dec 7,8 2013 (first weekend)
Connecting with Another
13. Affectivity-Jan 11,12 2014
Stepping Beyond Ourselves
14. Transcendence-Feb 8,9 2014
International Biocentric Foundation (IBF) Curriculum
the whole program at a glance
1. Definition & Theoretical Model
2. Vital Unconscious & Biocentric Principle
3. The Vivencia
4. Biological Aspects
5. Physiological Aspects
6.Psychological Aspects
7. Mythological and Philosophical Antecedents
8. Identity and Integration
9. Trance and Regression
10. Contact and Caress
11. Vitality
12. Sexuality
13. Creativity
14. Affectivity
15. Transcendence
16. Mechanisms of Action in Biodanza
17. Music in Biodanza
18. Ars Magna – Biodanza as a Healing Art
19. Biodanza and Social Action
20. Human Movement
21. Applications and Extensions of Biodanza
22. Methodology I (Musical Semantics)
23. Methodology II (The Biodanza Session I)
24. Methodology III (The Biodanza Session II)
25. Methodology IV (Biodanza Weekly Course and Workshops)
26. Methodology V (The Biodanza group)
27. Methodology VI (Evaluation Criteria of Development in Biodanza)
28. Methodology VII
(In Depth Study of the Official List of Exercises, Presentations and Music of Biodanza)
A Career in Biodanza- Fulltime or Part-time
A full time career in Biodanza is a life style choice and a passion. You do it because it is something you must do. It is not for the money. It is not for your ego. It is for no other reason than you must do it because you are drawn to it and you must share Biodanza’s unique gift with others. You must then work to create, protect and grow your delicate dream while handling the realities of daily life. Limited time, living costs, drawing people’s interest and attention and building a group to a point you are economically viable. And then keeping it growing!
Many work full-time at other jobs while in the training course and begin to offer a weekly class upon completion of the course. This may or may not turn into offering more classes if the person has the time/energy for this or giving workshops on the weekends.
One can further one’s studies by completing the Didactic Training which allow the person to facilitate the IBF school weekend trainings in schools around the world and to complete supervisions for those in need.
A career in Biodanza has all the challenges of self employment and you will live the journey of personal development through your choices. There is not one model for a Biodanza career. Some people go 100% for the Biodanza path and travel it fully. Some use it to open weekly spaces of joy for others. The potential is limitless!
“Every human being is miraculous with extraordinary potentials in the universe” Rolando Toro Araneda
Investment for 2012-2014- the Personal Development part of the course/14 trainings
Invited Guests or those students making up weekends they have not yet taken: $300 per weekend
Alumni or those students repeating weekends: $200
Payment in full for 14 weekends/discount=$3900
Before July 30th 2012, a $500 non-refundable deposit and 12 monthly payments of $309
After July 30th 2012, a $700 non-refundable deposit and 10 monthly payments of $350
Price includes the weekend trainings, study booklet for each weekend, report review and one meeting with the Director per year.
Paypal/Checks/cash/credit card accepted.
Paypal link on website: www.biodanza-usa.com Late payments will be subject to a 5% interest fee.
Venue: in Maryland, USA, TBA
Dates: see above; no weekend April, July & August in 2013=break time!
Time:
Saturdays: 11am to 7pm
Sundays: 10am to 4pm
Friday night open vivencia when international staff come to facilitate weekends!
