The Essential Training in Biodanza Vital Development

BWA Certificated Courses:
Biodanza Foundation Certificate – Level 1
Professional Diploma in Biodanza – Level 2

THE ESSENTIAL TRAINING IN BIODANZA

Biodanza Foundation Certificate – Level 1 Program

1 – STRUCTURE & COMPONENTS OF BIODANZA
2 – THE VIVENCIA
3 – BIOLOGICAL , PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL BASIS OF BIODANZA / Part I
4 – IDENTITY: INTEGRATION & REGRESSION PART I
5 – IDENTITY: INTEGRATION & REGRESSION PART 2
6 – MYTHOLOGICAL & ARCHETYPAL BACKGROUND
7 – DEVELOPMENT OF THE LINE OF VITALITY
8 – DEVELOPMENT OF THE LINE OF SEXUALITY
9 – DEVELOPMENT OF THE LINE OF CREATIVITY
10 – DEVELOPMENT OF THE LINE OF AFFECTIVITY
11 – DEVELOPMENT OF THE LINE OF TRANSCENDENCE
12 – HUMAN TOUCH & CARESSESS
13 – THE ART OF TEACHING
14 – THE ART OF MUSIC, MOVEMENT & VIVENCIAS
15 – TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SHORT WORKSHOPS
16 – SUPERVISIONS & TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT WEEKEND

- Starts stage of Supervisions – Provisional authorization to lead short Biodanza classes
- Completion of Seminars & Recovery weekends (special subjects & official extensions of BVD) – minimum of 4 seminars.
- Presentation of a monograph / essay
- Final Individual  and Group Assessment for the BWA Foundation Certificate Level 1

Total Weekends Attendance hours: 224
Total Practice Supervised hours: 24 (minimum)
Minimum Seminars hours: 48 (to be attended alongside the weekend workshops) or attendance to a  minimum of 4 seminars
Total hours: 292

Professional Diploma in Biodanza – Level 2 Program

16 – BIOCENTRIC EDUCATION, SOCIOLOGY AND HUMAN ECOLOGY / CSAP
Launch of a Team Community and Social Action field work experience:
The School will organize a Community and Social Action Project (CSAP) according to local possibilities and will supervise the quality and development of the different groups and activities through the Didactic Teachers and Tutors of the School of Biodanza.
Students will participate in community and social action projects of Biodanza within organisations and institutions, e.g. people with special needs, immigrant groups, seniors, child welfare, health institutions, education, youth organizations, homeless, support for carers, health professionals.
This field work is part of the students curricula and will be developed alongside the rest of the training course.
17 – BIOLOGICAL , PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL BACKGROUND OF BIODANZA/ Part II
18 – SHAMANISM
19 – MYTHICAL & ALCHEMICAL PROCESS OF TRANSFORMATION & SACRED GROWTH.
20 – AFFECTIVE – SENSITIVE EDUCATION.
21 – TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT OF A WORKSHOP.
22 – TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT OF A WORKSHOP.
23 – THECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT OF A WORKSHOP.

Course for Technical studies & supervised weekend workshops.
Starts stage of Supervision with Didactics and Tutors of the School of Biodanza.
- Completion of Seminars & Recovery weekends (special subjects & official extensions of BVD) – minimum of 3 seminars.
Exhibition and Final presentation of Field Project team work (CSAP): assessment for Diploma Course Level II.

Total Weekends Attendance hours: 112
Total Practice Supervised hours: 12 (minimum)
Minimum Seminars hours: 36 (to be attended alongside the weekend workshops); or attendance to a minimum of 3 seminars.
Total minimum Hours: 160

Total minimum hours Courses Level 1 & 2: 442

POST GRADUATED BWA TRAININGS
Continuing Professional development:

Extensions and Applications of Biodanza Training Seminars & Workshops – Level 3

Didactic-Tutor Diploma in Biodanza – Level 4

Director Training Course – Level 5

The School of Life
The First School of Biodanza in the United Kingdom was opened in 1993 by Patricia Martello and is based in London.
The development, aims and successes of this School are outstanding in the map of Biodanza worldwide.
This has meant a growth and spread of the Biodanza System through many Schools all over the world, raising the standards of the Training Course to the highest levels of understanding and practice of the Biodanza System.
The first School of Biodanza in the United Kingdom (based in London), aims at training Biodanza Teachers.
A new profession which developes and establishes a different pedagogy in the art of affective communication and of the profound joy of living in harmony with the Universe.
The School’s unique Programme involves a rigorous training in the “Vivencia” (living experience) and a theoretical training about the effects of the Biodanza exercises on health and life style.
The cycle of training includes weekend courses, seminars, apprenticeships under supervision and the writing of a monograph.
The Director of the School is Patricia Martello and the Coordinator is Marcelo Di Matteo. The Sub-Coordinator Tutor is David Brown.
The School of Biodanza in the UK is member of the I.C.M. (The Institute for Complementary Medicine), and the BWA (Biodanza World Association).

Under the energetic and creative power of its Director, Patricia Martello, the School has re-created itself many times in each new cycle of the training program.
Different projects, new challenges and the incorporation of the latest developments of the Biodanza System have always been within the aims of this School of Life.
Patricia understands the School of Biodanza as an open and “alive” organism.
An example of the open participation y sense of togetherness is the introduction of the Tutor Training Course for new Teachers and Students under supervision, within the worldwide program of “ongoing training” proposed by Rolando during the 2002 Biodanza Conference in Austria.

Another aspect of solidarity between the School and the Biodanza Teachers is the shared aims and objectives with The Guild of Biodanza Professionals according to the Biocentric Principle.
The introduction of Biodanza within the network of Colleges of Adult Education is the result of the serious commitment of the School to open new work places within the Communities all over the UK.
The support for the local Didactic Biodanza Teachers to open new Schools of Biodanza where previously non existed before, has put the dream of spreading the Biodanza System worldwide into practice.
The creation of the Mandala Project is the possibility of opening spaces of solidarity, togetherness and love in action and introducing new people to Biodanza at the same time.
This School of Biodanza in London has provided a unique dimension in the development and spread of the Biodanza System in a caring framework, as never before in Biodanza