Grief and Dance Movement Psychotherapy – An Autobiographical Study of Parental Loss

Silja Ilmonen, MA, is a Dance Movement Psychotherapist from Roehampton University, London, United Kingdom. She attended the Grief Conference in Tampere, Finland 2013 and is currently working as a freelance DMP gathering data towards her further studies. In April 2013, she also performed at a Grief Evening for people who have lost a child in Turku (organisers: Lounais-Suomen Mielenterveysseuran Feeniks-hanke, Turun ja Kaarinan seurakuntayhtymä, Turun Kaupunkilähetys ry/ Senioripysäkki and Käpy - Lapsikuolemaperheet ry).