Perfectionism in Dance: 3-Part CPD Webinar

Perfectionism in Dance includes 8 chapters, grouped into three thematic learning blocks. Designed to build your ability to recognise and work with perfectionism in a dance context, the course guides you through materials that foster a deeper understanding of your own dance practice, whether you are a dancer, teacher, or director.

Attend all three online sessions or book individual sessions.

Session 1 – Introduction to perfectionism in dance – 19 March

Striving for your ideal or sabotaging your dreams. How perfectionism can be a friend and a foe.

Aims:

• Understanding of perfectionistic thinking and behaving
• Distinguish between positive and negative perfectionism
• Look at positive and negative perfectionistic thinking styles, feelings, and behaviours
• Consider the impact of negative perfectionism

Learning Outcomes:

• Define perfectionism
• Realise the costs and benefits of being perfectionistic
• Elucidate the different impact of negative and positive perfectionism
• Consider how perfectionism functions in your own practice

Session 2 – How perfectionism is learnt and reinforced in dance – 26 March

What caused you to become a perfectionist and what keeps your perfectionism going.

Aims:

• Develop an understanding of how perfectionistic behaviour develops
• Recognise the factors that can reduce or exacerbate perfectionistic tendencies
• Understand how perfectionism is reinforced through rules, assumptions and standards
• Make clear distinctions between the three dimensions of perfectionism

Learning Outcomes:

• Define the learning and temperament factors in the development of perfectionism
• Elucidate perfectionism that is orientated towards self or others or is socially prescribed
• Recognise how perfectionism develops over time
• Consider how perfectionism functions in your own practice.

Session 3 – Creating best practice for dancers working with perfectionism – 2 April

How to put the theory into practice and strive for excellence in the studio.

Aims:

• Develop an understanding of how to manage perfectionism through your studio practice and / or teaching
• Develop an understanding of how to manage perfectionism through the environment you create

Learning Outcomes”

• Practiced psychological skills you can bring into the studio
• Consider how perfectionism functions in your own practice

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