Parkinson’s-Art of Expression
PARTE™ provides a creative, drama-based outlet among peers, promotes mental health, and serves as an expressive sanctuary for people living with Parkinson’s and their care partners. This program’s dramatic exercises-inspired by the theatre-are specifically designed to target the motor and non-motor symptoms of PD.
Join The PARTE’!
PARTE™ (Parkinson’s—The Art of Expression), an innovative new program, employs the tools of theatre to target the motor and nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. The PARTE™ Training Method encompasses 16 hours of hands-on, intensive training over one weekend. PT’s, OT’s, SLP’s, movement specialists, and trainers are immersed in and experience first-hand the PARTE™ Method.
The PARTE™ system includes a portable “how-to” manual and a supplemental kit of PD-specific exercises, which includes 100 color-coded index cards with categorized PD-specific acting, movement, and vocal exercises. PARTE™ instructor training, the manual, and supplemental kit enable persons working within the PD community to facilitate, reach, educate and support PwP in diverse and underserved communities.
This program is both decades in the making and still continuing to grow. Your participation can only enrich and improve this program as we shine a spotlight on Parkinson’s and work toward greater freedom of expression for those living with Parkinson’s Disease.
Get Creative!
Our Goal
Challenge our Parkinson’s participants to think in the abstract, to follow directions, to take on leadership roles and problem-solve, all the while accessing the creative centers of the brain and rewiring neuropathways.
Our Vision
Helping our trainees to gain many skills including facilitating mental imagery, promoting larger-than-life, intentional movements, enhancing camaraderie and fun, strengthening cognition with brain-enhancing activities and heightening kinesthetic and spatial awareness.
Our Impact
Provide a creative, drama-based outlet among peers, promotes mental health, and serves as an expressive sanctuary for people living with Parkinson’s and their care partners.
“PARTE™ helps people with Parkinson’s connect their internal experience to outward expression, thus empowering them to interact more confidently with others and elevating their quality of life. “
Training The Trainers
During PARTE™ training, trainers learn how to facilitate exercises which will help people with Parkinson’s harness their creativity and explore their physicality and emotions by utilizing larger-than-life, broad, intentional movements and vocal exercises borrowed from the theatre.
The PARTE™ Method, “Training the Trainers”
The PARTE™ Training Method encompasses 16 hours of hands on intensive training over one weekend. PT’s, OT’s, SLP’s, movement specialists and trainers are immersed in and experience first-hand, the PARTE Method. Local PwP are recruited to serve as actors and mentors for “trainers in training” as THEY are the experts on PD. The PARTE™ system includes a portable “how to” manual and a supplemental kit of PD specific exercises. The kit is user-friendly. It includes 100+ color-coded index cards with categorized PD-specific acting, movement and vocal exercises. PARTE™ instructor training, the manual and supplemental kit enable persons working within the PD community to facilitate, reach, educate and support PwP in diverse and underserved communities.