Course summary
The four-unit online course, Safer Community Dance Practice, covers key issues relevant to all community dance artists, including the preparation of the dance space; how to manage less than optimum conditions; physical, psychological and digital safety for participant; laws, regulations and best practice.
It will give you the confidence to safely integrate health and safety principles to support your delivery of effective and, ideally, injury free dance sessions, regardless of the age and experience of your participants. Topics covered include:
- Ensuring participants safety
- Minimising injury risk (including how to do a safe warm up and cool down)
- Becoming familiar with country-specific laws and best practice
- Preparing for and engaging in dance activities
- Managing work in less than optimum conditions
- Employing risk assessment techniques to minimise negative impacts.
Who is it for?
The course is suitable for dance artists working with any population group and in any dance style.
Gain a Professional Qualification/Certification
Successful completion of an assessment - available in conjunction with this online course - means you can gain the Professional Qualification/Certification Safer Community Dance Practice (Level 4 Certificate).
This qualification/certification enables dance practitioners to evidence that they have gained the knowledge and understanding needed to deliver safer dance practice in community contexts and dance styles/genres of all kinds. You will be able to demonstrate:
- Knowledge, skills and understanding through the application of safe and effective dance practice in participatory contexts, including during warm up and cool down
- Understand basic anatomical and physiological principles, nutrition and hydration issues
- Apply mechanisms for preventing injury and managing incidents, and prepare and manage the dance environment to facilitate safe practice
- Adapt practice to accommodate differing physical, cognitive and emotional development needs of individual dance participants
- Conduct and record a risk assessment.
'I've had a chance to review the Safer Community Dance Practice course and, not surprisingly, it is truly excellent - comprehensive, well-designed, informative, and actionable. How I wish every dance educator would take this course before they are released into the world!'
David Leventhal, Program Director, Dance for PD®
Pricing
- Standard price: £125 – BUY NOW
- Organisational Partners price: £105 – BUY NOW
- People Dancing Members price: £100 – BUY NOW
What happens next?
- Access codes and a link to your online course will be sent to you by email immediately upon purchase. Please check your junk folder in case the email is filtered. If your codes are not received, please contact us at training@communitydance.org.uk so they can be reissued.
- Access codes and a link for your online assessment will be sent to you by email within seven working days of purchase. Please contact us at qualifications@communitydance.org.uk if you need access sooner.
- Multi-user licences are available for organisations or groups of six or more learners. Please email qualifications@communitydance.org.uk for further information. Additional discounts are also available for groups of 20+ users.