In Term Two at the Ballarat East Neighbourhood House at Barkly Square, our Participant Coordinator, Liz Wade, will begin offering “TANZPRO – Biodanza (Dance of Life) for Children” courses, for children aged three to six years and six to twelve years.
When: Tuesday afternoons 1.00 pm - 2.30 pm, 10 weeks
Expression of Interest: If you are interested in registering please register via the purple button and we will contact you about upcoming classes.
Where: Ballarat East Neighbourhood House Community Room #103
Cost: FREE COME & TRY sessions, $135 for a 10 week course, $20 casual ongoing places may be available if space
Please book under the name of the accompanying adult and then email us if you are bringing more than one child (see more on this below). Parents and carers are invited to attend and participate in the first session.
The program involves dance, story sharing, art, imaginary play and movements with music, curated for children.
TANZPRO is an evidence-based program that supports children developmentally with emotional regulation, empathy, relaxation, self esteem and increased skills in communication and confidence, in a fun and engaging way.
Sessions include:
Children will develop an awareness of self-perception, growing their identity and developing their self-confidence. They will learn to:
This course encourages pathways to developing empathy which is a fundamental skill to foster lifelong healthy relationships.
TANZPRO‘s Foundations and History
The methodologies of Biodanza and Biodanza for Children form the basis to which story sharing, artistic expression and experiences from travelling around the world was designed, bringing TANZPRO to life in 2009.
Prof. Dr. Marcus Stueck and Dr. Alejandra Villegas developed, scientifically researched and evaluated Biodanza programs from 2008. They are: Scientists, Researchers, Psychologists, Lecturers, Educators, Didactic/Directors of Biodanza Schools in Latvia and Germany and Dancers. They have scientifically investigated and published extensive works of research findings related to Biodanza for many years.
TANZPRO, including other methods and ‘School of Empathy’ involved many professionals and educators, 1800 children and 22 kindergartens and schools over a 4 year period, as part of a German Federal Ministry of Health Project. Source: auntynanas.com.au/tanzpro/
About Liz
Liz is a qualified teacher with many years of experience tutoring and teaching Primary and Secondary students and caring for young people in outside-school-hours-care and respite care. Liz is currently undertaking the Biodanza School which ultimately leads to qualification to facilitate Biodanza programs for adults. Liz will complete the Tanzpro training to be certified to facilitate Tanzpro – Biodanza for Children from Term 2.
Bookings are essential and are required for all attending. Please note that our online system only records the email address and name of the accompanying adult and only one booking can be made per email address. We recognise that this is not ideal for booking more than one child into the activity and we are working on improvements to this system. If you would like to book more than one child, please register the adult in the activity and then email us (reception@ballarateastnh.org.au) to let us know how many children will be attending so we can include them in the numbers.
You do not need to register the names of children in the online system, just the accompanying adult.
29th Apr 2025, Tue
1st Jul 2025, Tue
Community Room #103, Ballarat East Neighbourhood House
Liz
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The Ballarat East Neighbourhood House will use the information provided in this registration form to communicate with the registered participant about the activity in which they have enrolled (for example: confirming activity details, finalising payments, changes such as cancellations or substitute teachers and priority enrolment opportunities for future activities). Where an email address has been provided, we will use your personal information to send you our regular email update and we may also send occasional extra communications about our activities, opportunities, relevant issues and about the Ballarat East Neighbourhood House more broadly. You may choose to opt out of the email updates. The Ballarat East Neighbourhood House's Privacy Policy is available at ballarateastnh.org.au/about-us/policies-procedures/privacy-policy-full. The policy contains important information about how you can access and request correction of information we hold about you, how you may complain about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles and how the Ballarat East Neighbourhood House will deal with any privacy complaint. If you have any questions, our contact details are email: reception@ballarateastnh.org.au, phone: 0422 612 052 or post: Barkly Square: Wadawurrung Country, 25-39 Barkly Street, Ballarat East, 3350 or PO Box 1443, Ballarat East, 3354.
If you agree with the statement above, please check the box on the left to continue your registration.
The Cancellation and Refund Policies form part of the Activity Terms and Conditions which are available in full online.
Cancellation Policy
Ballarat East Neighbourhood House (BENH) reserves the right to cancel activities if the required minimum number of participants enrolled prior to the activity starting date is not met. A full refund will be given for payments received.
In the case that the activity teacher is unable to attend due to illness or an unexpected change of circumstances, the class may be postponed to a later date or cancelled. If the class is postponed and the rescheduled date does not suit a participant, a refund may be requested.
Refund Policy
Fee refunds are not automatic and must be applied for in writing to the Manager.
The following will be taken into account before a Refund is issued: