ZOE SUMMER SCHOOL 2025: THE LIVING LAB: BODY/EMBODIMENT

26. July 2025

The ZOE SUMMER SCHOOL – four days of exploration, experience and discovery! We welcome all dance/movement therapists (DMTs), dance for health (DfH) professionals (licensed and in training), health professionals, researchers and health insurance experts who are interested in movement, dance and expression in various medical conditions in general and in evidence and its implementation in dance therapy practice in particular.

Course dates:

July 26th / 27th / 28th / 29th 2025

July 26th -29th, 2025, each day from 10 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm, at ZOE SCHOOL, Elsässerstrasse 34, 4056 Basel

  • Mornings: Lecture – explorations dealing with research and work with specific clinical pictures, creating movement vignettes on the topic.
  • Afternoons: Embodied inquiry through dance and movement, sharing with all participants on the core topics in DfH and D/MT

Program:

July 26th
Morning: Alzheimer’s
Afternoon: Movement theme: Improvisation

July 27th 
Morning: Parkinson’s
Afternoon: Movement theme: Time/Rhythm

July 28th
morning: Chronic Pain
afternoon: Movement theme: Space

July 29th
morning: Mental Health
afternoon: Movement theme: Connections

Fees:

Early Bird registration fee (until June 1, 2025)
CHF 680

After the priority registration period:
CHF 720

Individual days:
CHF 180 (please indicate on the registration form which day you choose)

Days/afternoons for affected people and their relatives
CHF 30

The registration deadline is June 30, 2025

Registration closes June 30th 2025

Please fill out this application form and send it to admin@zoeschool.ch. Your registration is complete as soon as we have received the completed form. Thank you very much

Rebecca Barnstaple

Assistant Professor Creative Arts, Health and Wellness/Theatre
Research Associate International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation
University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
PhD Dance Studies, Neuroscience Graduate Program
York University, Toronto

Brigitte Züger

Head of School, Dance Movement Therapist, Swiss Dioloma Kunsttherapie/Dance Movement Therapy

Cecilia Fontanesi

Neuroscience PhD, Board Certified Dance Movement Therapist (BC-DMT), Certified Movement Analyst (CMA), Registered Somatic Movement Educator (RSME).

Free information event - May 15th, 2025

Next date: 15.05.2025

Would you like to find out more about the ZOE Summer School? Then take part in our free event!

On May 15th at 7 p.m. (1pm New York, 11.30 pm Dehli) there will be an online info event with the lecturers and the mentor of the SUMMER SCHOOL. We will introduce you to the format and procedures of the Summer School and will be happy to answer your questions.