Thanks for training with us!
 

Dear Friend,

Thank you for participating in our Dance for PD introductory training workshop in Umeå. We hope you feel enriched, inspired, and informed by the training experience.

We invite you to review the information below, which includes details about accessing your member resources and instructional media, among other things.

You are also now a member of the global Dance for PD network. Although Åsa and Jenny will be your main contacts for Dance for PD programming in Sweden, we encourage you to reach out to our New York team if you have questions about any aspect of this work. Please keep us posted about your plans and activities!

We look forward to staying in touch, and we hope to have the good fortune of working with you again sometime. Thanks again for sharing your time and talents so generously.

With kind regards,
David, on behalf of the Dance for PD team

Survey

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Accessing your member resources

Unless you're already a member, a complimentary one-year Professional Membership to the Dance for PD program is included as part of your training. If you already have a membership with us, you may continue logging in with your existing credentials.

As a Professional Member, you'll have unlimited access to our international teachers' virtual forum (Ryver), and exclusive access to comprehensive online resources, including additional training and full class videos, an administrative toolkit, interactive, credit-accruing continuing education resources, music resources, and an expanded research archive, among other benefits.

Your membership account has already been set up. To access your online resources, please click here and enter your login credentials:

Username: Your email
Password: Your first name with first letter capitalized + dfpd24

If you already have a member account, please use your existing username and password.

In one year, you will be invited to renew your membership at the discounted rate of $60 USD for the year if you wish to do so. You can always see when your membership expires by logging into your member dashboard - your membership expiration date is posted there.

Ryver and contact list

Access to Ryver, our global teacher forum, is another important member benefit. Ryver provides a platform for Dance for PD teaching artists from all over the world to share information, questions and ideas in a mobile-enabled, easy-to-use digital platform.

It takes two minutes to set up your Ryver account. Click here to get started. You'll automatically join the global teacher list, as well as lists for teachers in Sweden and across Europe.

For a quick-start guide, please click here. The Ryver App is available for iPhone and Android.

You can use Ryver to communicate via private message or group chat to other workshop participants.

Training portal and recordings

As part of your training, you now have access to a training portal that contains sample activity videos, safety videos, as well as access to the full collection of Dance for PD At Home instructional videos and our music albums. You'll also find a streamable version of the film Capturing Grace. To access this portal, click here and enter the password DFPDTRAIN.

We also invite you to download these resources:

Dance for PD training modules
Resource handbook (contains our How to Start a Class Guide)

Click here to access our guide to teaching online. More information may be found in the COVID thread on Ryver.

Click here for our venue checklist, which provides key needs that hosts should consider before welcoming Parkinson's dancers into the space.

For information about volunteer training, please click here.

For additional resources, log into your member account and then visit the Member Toolkit.

Certificate of completion

Please click here to find your certificate of completion, by last name.

In addition, if you registered for the Level 4 Assessment through People Dancing, you should go ahead and take that assessment as well. You'll receive a separate certificate for the completion for that exam. You should have received a link to the assessment when you registered for the prequisite course through People Dancing.

Advanced training and certification

Upcoming professional development workshops, as well as a full range of on demand, asynchronous professional development resources, are posted on our Continuing Education portal. Our CPD programs allow you to earn credits toward Dance for PD certification. Log in with your membership credentials to view the full resource.

Information about certification is posted here.

To log class hours you accrue toward certification, please click here.

Research

We're pleased to point your toward two resources related to research: a complete bibliography of published research on Dance and Parkinson's, and the Dance for PD research highlights page, with direct links to full articles. As a member, you can log in and access a comprehensive research library.

Video links

Here is the link to a six-minute version of the informational film Why Dance for PD. Here's a link to the 3-minute YouTube version of the video. Our promotional video, You Belong Here, can be accessed here. These resources may be helpful as you connect with potential participants, program partners, and funders.

Many thanks again for training with us!