Family Dance Party: Dancing to Mindfulness in the Time of COVID
Date & Time:
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
12 PM- 1 PM
Location:
Offered Live and Online via Zoom. Link to Zoom meeting available by registering here.
Course Description:
During this stressful time of quarantine, what tools can we, as practitioners, give parents to help their children express the array of diverse feelings they have and still find a place of calm and regulation? How do you hold a child’s attention through video conferencing? Mindfulness activities are helpful, but how do you get children to slow down, breath and focus when they have been confined indoors and are quite literally “bouncing off the walls”?
Please join us for this lunchbreak workshop where Dr. Suzi Tortora will share specific clinical tips and activities for children ages birth to five, using movement, dance and story to help practitioners and parents engage with their children, release stress, enhance self-expression and be able to implement mindful practices that support both caregivers and their children.
This workshop is being provided to our community at no cost by New York Zero-to-Three Network and Dr. Suzi Tortora, recognizing the challenges we are all facing during this time and the importance of coming together as a community.
Objectives
Learn two (2) specific movement and dance- based activities to support self- expression in children [ages birth -toddler] and engage the therapist /teacher and child during telehealth sessions/lessons; and/or the caregiver and child to support positive engagement.
Learn two (2) movement and dance- based activities for parent and child [ages birth -toddler] to support positive engagement.
Learn two (2) methods for how to use movement and dance- based activities to help toddlers focus their attention reaching a mindful state of awareness to support self -regulation during telehealth sessions/lessons.
About the Instructor
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC has a full-time private practice in Cold Spring, New York and NYC, specializing in parent- infant/child and family therapy; trauma; medical illness; and adult chronic pain. She is the International Medical Creative Arts Spokesperson for the Andréa Rizzo Foundation, having created and continuing to be the senior dance/movement therapist for pediatric patients at Integrative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NYC, since 2003. She received the 2010 Marian Chace Distinguished Dance Therapist award from the ADTA. She teaches in Europe, South America, New Zealand, Israel and Asia; holds faculty positions in the USA, The Netherlands, Chech Republic, Argentina and China; offers the Ways of Seeing International Webinar Training Program for dance/movement therapists and allied professionals; has published numerous papers about her work; and her book, The Dancing Dialogue: Using the communicative power of movement with young children is used extensively in dance/movement therapy training programs internationally.
Registration:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/family-dance-party-dancing-to-mindfulness-in-the-time-of-covid-tickets-104982716130