ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the author's and his group's theory and technique of supervision for therapists training in Dance Movement Therapy, practised at Art Therapy Italiana (ATI), a non-profit institute that provides training in art and dance therapy in Bologna. Movement, words, imagination, creativity, self-reflection and analysis, all contribute to the rich psychological interplay between therapist and supervisor and the parallel process referred from the therapist's relationship with her patient. Body expression facilitates access to that potential space in which transformative events can take place at the threshold between internal and external reality. To foster the dance movement therapist's understanding of psychological process the group used specific instruments from the field of movement. The use of Laban's and Bartenieff's techniques, which prepare for the engagement of perceptive attention and observation ground supervisees in a deep experience of their bodies, allowing kinesthetic sensations and feelings to arise in an environment of safety.
