{"value"=>"<p> <span class=\"title\">Dance/Movement Therapy Groups for Men Based on Male Maturity Initiation Rites.</span></p> <p>The prologue presents the process of formulating the thesis topic: dance/movement therapy groups for men based on male maturity initiation rites. This includes a description of the author's personal growth related to the thesis.</p> <p>The literature review: defines ritual, rites of passage, life-crises rites, initiation rites, and male maturity initiation rites; presents structures for rites of passage; describes two male maturity initiation rites from pre-modern cultures; and studies elements and aspects of male maturity rites, including the validity of conducting maturity rites in our society.</p> <p>A workshop was conducted at an American Dance Therapy Association national convention. A preliminary test of a dance/movement therapy group model based on male maturity rites was conducted. The workshop is then evaluated incorporating a questionnaire sent to participants and further research. Connections between dance/movement therapy and pre-modern maturity rites are then addressed. The male rites of initiation dance/movement therapy model is presented consisting of threshold, greeting, childhood, liminal, celebration, and closure rituals.</p> <p>The epilogue describes further steps which contributed to the writing of the thesis and enhanced the author's personal growth. The dynamics observed as part of the process of designing the model are then summarized.</p>"}