Memorial Sloan Kettering Pediatric Psycho-Oncology Journal | Book Talk: Dance/Movement Therapy for Infants and Young Children with Medical Illness: Treating Somatic and Psychic Distress (In-Person)
Book Talk: Dance/Movement Therapy for Infants and Young Children with Medical Illness: Treating Somatic and Psychic Distress
Time:
Monday, March 20, 2023
2-3 PM
Location:
In-Person. Open only to members of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center community.
Event Description:
Book Talk on Dance/Movement Therapy for Infants and Young Children with Medical Illness: Treating Somatic and Psychic Distress by Dr. Suzi Tortora and Dr. Miri Keren hosted by the Memorial Sloan Kettering Kids Pediatric Oncology Journal.
About the Instructors
Suzi Tortora Ed.D., BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC, NCC, is the Founder/Director of Dancing Dialogue, a private creative arts psychotherapy practice in Cold Spring, NY 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 AndrΓ©a Rizzo Foundation, having created in 2003, and is the senior dance/movement therapist for Integrative Medicine Service, MSK Kids, NYC. She teaches & holds faculty positions nationally and internationally and offers an International Webinar Training Program for dance/movement therapists and allied professionals. She has published extensively and her book, The Dancing Dialogue: Using the communicative power of movement with young children is used widely in DMT training.
Miri Keren, M.D., was the founder and past director of the community-based infant mental health unit, affiliated to Geha Mental Health Center in Petah-Tiqwa (1996-2020). She implemented and supervised 6 units of Infant Psychiatry across Israel. She is in the position of Clinical and Research Consultant at the Bar Ilan University Affiliated University Hospital, at the Beit Izi Shapira Center for disabled infants and toddlers, and at the FTT unit of the Schneider Hospital for Sick Children. Dr. Keren served as President of the World Association of Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) in the years 2012-2016, and received the WAIMH Leibovici Award in June 2021.
Registration:
This event is not open to the general public.
Rutgers University Medical School | The psyche-soma connection: Helping babies with medical illness and their families tell their story through their nonverbal βbodily-feltβ experience (New Jersey)
The psyche-soma connection: Helping babies with medical illness and their families tell their story through their nonverbal βbodily-feltβ experience
Time:
Thursday, March 16, 2023
9- 10:30 AM
Location:
Hybrid event offered in-person at the Rutgers University Robert John Woods School of Medicine in New Brunswick, NJ and online on Zoom.
Course Description:
Dr. Suzi Totora and Dr. Miri Keren present work from their new book, βThe psyche-soma connection: Helping babies with medical illness and their families tell their story through their nonverbal βbodily-feltβ experienceβ at psychiatric grand rounds at Rutgers University Medical School.
About the Instructors
Suzi Tortora Ed.D., BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC, NCC, is the Founder/Director of Dancing Dialogue, a private creative arts psychotherapy practice in Cold Spring, NY 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 AndrΓ©a Rizzo Foundation, having created in 2003, and is the senior dance/movement therapist for Integrative Medicine Service, MSK Kids, NYC. She teaches & holds faculty positions nationally and internationally and offers an International Webinar Training Program for dance/movement therapists and allied professionals. She has published extensively and her book, The Dancing Dialogue: Using the communicative power of movement with young children is used widely in DMT training.
Miri Keren, M.D., was the founder and past director of the community-based infant mental health unit, affiliated to Geha Mental Health Center in Petah-Tiqwa (1996-2020). She implemented and supervised 6 units of Infant Psychiatry across Israel. She is in the position of Clinical and Research Consultant at the Bar Ilan University Affiliated University Hospital, at the Beit Izi Shapira Center for disabled infants and toddlers, and at the FTT unit of the Schneider Hospital for Sick Children. Dr. Keren served as President of the World Association of Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) in the years 2012-2016, and received the WAIMH Leibovici Award in June 2021.
Registration:
Zoom link to attend: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/92084523132?pwd=UGJnZW1tN2J3a0k2S2VSWGJ0Rkt1QT09
Meeting ID: 920 8452 3132
Password: 429545
The World Association for Infant Mental Health| Master Class: The Dancing Dialogue: How our bodies tell the story! (Virtual Lecture)
Master Class | The Dancing Dialogue: How our Bodies Tell the Story
Date & Time:
Virtual Lecture
Friday, June 25, 2021
8:30-9:45 (Local Time- Brisbane, Australia)
Thursday, June 24, 2021
6:30- 7:45 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Location:
Virtual Lecture
Course Description:
TBD
About the Instructors
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 AndrΓ©a 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://waimh2020.org/
The World Association for Infant Mental Health| The Psyche-Soma Connection: Helping Medically Ill Babies Tell Their Story (Brisbane, Australia)
The Psyche-Soma Connection: Helping Medically Ill Babies Tell Their Story through Their Nonverbal βBodily-Feltβ Experience and Expression
Date & Time:
June 24, 2021.
Location:
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Cnr Merivale & Glenelg Streets
Southbank, Brisbane
Queensland Australia
Course Description:
TBD
About the Instructors
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 AndrΓ©a 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.
Dr. Miri Keren, MD Affiliations: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Tel-aviv University Sackler Medical School, and Community Infant Mental Health Unit affiliated with Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Petah, Tiqwa
Registration:
http://waimh2020.org/preview/registration.php
Therapeutic Art of Movement Institute | Families in Motion: Understanding the role of embodied experience in the early caregiver- infant relationship during the time of COVID-19 (Virtual Lecture)
Families in Motion: Understanding the role of embodied experience in the early caregiver- infant relationship during the time of COVID-19
Date and Time:
Friday, May 28, 2021
1- 3 PM EST
Location:
Conducted Virtually Online
Description:
The global pandemic has brought to light the need for family connection now more than ever. The need for social distancing and limited contact has required us to especially rely on interpreting nonverbal expressions and our embodied experience. This webinar focuses on the key elements of nonverbal expression that support the development of a secure caregiver - infant relationship and how to support this relationship during these stressful times. This is discussed within the context of understanding how to work with the dance/movement therapistsβ own embodied countertransference experience to provide a secure holding environment for the whole family.
Instructor:
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC Dr. Tortora is a board certified dance movement therapist, Laban Nonverbal Movement Analyst, and specialist in the field of infancy mental health and development. Her expertise in early childhood development and the importance of early relationships inform her psychotherapeutic work across the life span. Dr. Tortora has a private dance movement psychotherapy practice, in New York City and Cold Spring-on-the-Hudson, New York. Dr. Tortora offers training programs and lectures about her dance therapy and nonverbal video analysis work with infants, children and families, at national and international professional meetings and universities.
She is on the board of the New York Zero-to-Three Network.
Dr Tortora has been featured on βGood Morning Americaβ and Eyewitness Five-OβClock News, WABC βTV; Womenβs Day magazine; highlighted in Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker article and book titled What the Dog Saw and other adventures; has published numerous papers about her therapeutic and nonverbal communication analysis work with children, parent-infant dyads, and Autism Spectrum Disorders; has twice been guest editor of the Zero to Three Journal; and has a book with Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company titled The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children.
Dr. Tortora graduated with honors from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development Tufts University specializing in child development, education and psychology; received her dance movement therapy masters degree at New York University; and her doctorate with a specialization in infancy/early childhood development, psychology and education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
She has done extensive study and training in the field of infancy and early childhood research, development, education, communication and intervention through the Zero to Three Institute and Dr. Stanley Greenspan. She has studied Authentic Movement with Janet Adler & Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Dr Tortora is also a certified Laban Movement Analyst, and Kestenberg Movement Profiler.
Registration:
http://taomi.tilda.ws/#contacts
Families in Motion: Dance/ Movement Therapy with Babies, Young Children and Their Families (Tokyo, Japan)
Families in Motion: Dance/ Movement Therapy with Babies, Young Children and Their Families
August 12, 2019 10:00 AM- 4:00 PM
Location:
Keio University
Tokyo, Japan
Course Description:
August 12 (Mon) at Keio University in Tokyo
AM: The workshops for parents & children (same titles as above)
10:00γ10:40οΌ0ο½11 Mo.οΌ
10:50~11:30οΌ1ο½2yearsοΌ
11:40γ12:30οΌ3ο½5yearsοΌ
The max number of children in each session: 10
PM: The lecture & workshops for specialists - Families in Motion: Dance/Movement Therapy with Babies, Young Children and Their Families
13:30γ16:00
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 AndrΓ©a 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.
Thinking (and Moving) Outside the Box |Combining Psychoanalytic Therapy and Dance/Movement Therapy (New York, NY)
Combining Psychoanalytic Therapy and Dance/Movement Therapy
Open to all β’ No advanced registration required
Presented by Larry Sandberg, M.D β’ Suzi Tortora, Ed.D., LCAT
The central importance of the body in mental life is supported by a growing research literature in affective neuroscience that elucidates the primarily embodied nature of emotional experience and thought. Psychoanalysts have become increasingly attuned to somatic experiences and nonverbal modes of communication in the analytic situation where relative immobility is an important parameter. The frame is intentionally altered in Dance/Movement Therapy where attunement to bodily experience is a catalyst for a deepening exploration of psychic experience. We present clinical material combining psychoanalytic psychotherapy and Dance/Movement Therapy to illustrate the potential synergy of these modalities for certain patients. Clinical and theoretical implications regarding containment and free association are discussed.
Larry Sandberg is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical Center and co-chair of the fourth year theory course in contemporary ideas in psychoanalysis at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center. He is co-author of Psychotherapy and Medication: The Challenge of Integration.
Suzi Tortora has a dance/movement therapy practice in New York City and Cold Spring, New York. Dr. Tortora has published numerous papers about her therapeutic and nonverbal communication analysis work and a book titled The Dancing Dialogue.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial information to disclose.
After the lecture, participants should be able to:
- Recognize clinical situations where βthe talking cureβ may be advanced by the introduction of body-based therapies.
- Reevaluate the conventional meanings of the terms βcontainmentβ and βfree-association."
For CME questions please visit the website or contact George Sagi 212-678-1188.
Questions about the program can be addressed to:
Hillery Bosworth, MD β’ Chair, Program Committee Email Hillery Bosworth
80 Fifth Avenue #1001, New York, New York 10011 β’ (212) 604-9355
Edith Cooper, PhD β’ APM President - Juliette Meyer, PhD β’ APM Secretary
Healing Unexplainable Pain: Translating developmental neuroscience into multimodal treatments for chronic pain (New York, NY)
In January 2015, we gathered an international group of developmental neuroscientists and clinical researchers in a symposium that bridged the communication gap between new neurobiological insights on psychosomatic distress and novel treatment approaches for these difficult to treat conditions. Responding to the great interest generated by that meeting, we are glad to present the 2nd Columbia Psychosomatics Conference.
This year, we bring a new two-day program that will focus on the recent insights into treatment of patients with chronic pain who are often misdiagnosed and suffer for years without effective alleviation of pain, which significantly impairs their lives. Somatoform pain, fibromyalgia, "idiopathic" or "medically unexplained" pain are some of the many terms that describe chronic pain - a disorder, recent research suggests, which stems from malfunctioning of the central nervous system.
Developmental neuroscience research point to a crucial role of early interpersonal experience in the development of the brain and its capacities to regulate emotions, pain, immune, and all other body systems, leading to a long-term impact on health and disease throughout a person's life. Early emotional distress and a non-optimal interpersonal environment may have detrimental neuroimmune effects on life-long development. These effects can, however, be reversed to a large extent by engaging neuroplasticity - a change elicited by new experience and aided by pharmacologic treatments. While most current treatments are focused on modulating the interaction between emotions and somatic experiences through verbal interventions (e.g., talk psychotherapy), early learning, emotional experience, interpersonal communication, and interaction of with the external and inner world of a person are multimodal. That is, preverbal multisensory, cognitive, and emotional functions play an important role in our functioning and distress regulation. Cutting-edge psychosomatic treatment programs around the world engage all these systems in multimodal treatment programs that include talk-, music-, art-, body-, dance/movement-, physical-, individual and group psychotherapies combined with pharmacotherapy.
International group of leading psychosomatic researchers and clinicians will present the science and the clinical approaches to multimodal emotion-, body-, and development- focused treatments for central chronic pain. We invite a multidisciplinary community of psychosomatic clinicians and researchers, psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists, nurses, primary care-, pain-, internal medicine, and family physicians, social workers, art-, music-, dance/movement-, and body-psychotherapists, physical therapists, as well as clinical and basic researchers to take part in exchange on the cutting-edge psychosomatic treatments and research on centrally-modulated chronic pain, and to engage in discussions with each other and our presenters.
American Dance Therapy Association 49th Annual Conference (Chicago, IL)
Super Fast! Kids Spinning Out of Control & What to Do About it:
14th Early Childhood Forum with Suzi Tortora