Embodied Parenting: Dance/Movement Therapy with Babies, Young Children and Their Families During Stressful Times

Date & Time:

Saturday, November 26, 2022

7- 8:30 PM

Location:

Virtual Lecture

Course Description

TBA

Instructors

Suzi Tortora, Ed.D, BC-DMT LCAT LMHC CMA

Registration

https://japan-aimh.smartcore.jp/M021/forums

The Roots & Future of Child DMT 19th Early Childhood Forum: Telehealth Video Animation Healing

Date & Time:

Saturday, October 29, 2022

10:15AM- 1:15 PM

Location:

Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel

1201 Boulevard Rene-Levesque West, Montreal, Quebec H3B 2L7 Canada

Course Description

This forum is dedicated to tracing the roots and evolution of DMT with children, focusing this year on the leap we made moving our deeply embodied work to a virtual platform. What we learned by entering family environments of this youngest population is highlighted. Through discussion and experientials, participants explore the strengths, challenges, and innovations we discovered, including creating new video and animation props to engage children and how intercultural communication/competency from the diversity, equity and inclusion lens bridged the gap in understanding and supporting caregiver/child relationships by attuning to the lived experiences of the families and children we support.

Instructors

Suzi Tortora, Ed.D, BC-DMT LCAT LMHC CMA

Dr. Renee Ortega

Registration

https://www.adta.org/adta-57-conference-landing-page

Dance/Movement Psychotherapy Animated! Telehealth with kids during COVID and beyond

Date & Time:

Saturday, September 24, 2022

4:45- 6:15 PM

Location:

fabrik Potsdam

Schiffbauergasse 10, 14467 Potsdam, Germany

Course Description

When the pandemic hit in March 2020, we had to quickly find a way to transition from in-person to remote work, while still maintaining a sense of embodied connection with our clients. Preserving this connection with our youngest population, toddlers and early elementary age children added an additional challenge, due to their kinetic energy and varying abilities to focus their attention. Based on the conference theme “From Far to Close” this workshop presents how this DMT bridged the growing isolation gap, by creating a shared remote space with her young patients. Starting with imaginative stories using themselves and their stuffed animals to dance out their feelings, participants will learn how these stories were transformed into captivating visual narratives, through this DMT’s collaboration with a professional animation artist/film producer. Through experientials and videos, the DMT and the artist will share their process using technology to reach children in their digital world.

Instructors

Suzi Tortora, Ed.D, BC-DMT LCAT LMHC CMA

Grant Collier

Registration

https://eadmt.com/conferences/4th-eadmt-conference-2022-how-far-is-far-how-close-is-close-choreographing-a-new-world

Creating Synergy through our Dancing Community: The diversity and universality of DMT-online training during the pandemic

Date & Time:

Saturday, September 24, 2022

12:00- 1:30 PM

Location:

fabrik Potsdam

Schiffbauergasse 10, 14467 Potsdam, Germany

Course Description

This two-year international DMT-based training program has been taught online since 2012. When the pandemic hit, and ALL our lives suddenly became remote, online learning took on a new depth. Isolation and genuine health risks of exposure to the virus created complexities, prevented students from working in-person with their clients, requiring the program director to both revise teaching the program and provide support for her students as they navigated this emerging new world. Differences in how different countries handled the pandemic also came into focus. Through discussion and experientials this presentation demonstrates what aspects of the training translated well and which didn’t, discussing how we supported the client populations – early childhood/families, teens and adults – and the synergy that grew between us as professionals, from China, Romania, South Africa, USA, Canada, and Czech Republic, coming from a variety of fields including music therapy, DMT, elementary school teaching and somatics.

Instructors

Suzi Tortora, Ed.D, BC-DMT LCAT LMHC CMA

Kim Hamadani

Iveta Koblic

Missy Hall,

Sorina Petrescu,

Tara Stepenberg

Iro Stempa

Violaine Bonnassies

Registration

https://eadmt.com/conferences/4th-eadmt-conference-2022-how-far-is-far-how-close-is-close-choreographing-a-new-world

Creating a Dancing Dialogue

Date & Time:

Friday, July 29, 2022

9AM- 2 PM

Location:

Virtual Lecture. Link to join available after registering.

Instructors

Suzi Tortora, Ed.D, BC-DMT LCAT LMHC CMA

Registration

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxmE1m9QqI3eQYnSpY9RfCQGqv4RRSn9gFz4IDJDE1oEI5Fg/viewform?fbclid=IwAR2fDvBz5LyUetU2HXLjhWvAQgRxvK-NFgJ5D6IF7ybHV86X7TwVBrJvrDM

Embodied Parenting: Creating a Dancing Dialogue with Parents and Babies

Date & Time:

Saturday, March 5, 2022

10:30AM- 12PM

Location:

Virtual Lecture.

Course Description

Did you know that babies speak to us right from the beginning? They tell us how they are feeling through their facial expressions and how they move their whole body. They first learn about the world around them by exploring their bodies moving alone and with others. And our nonverbal responses tell the baby how we are feeling too: in fact, how we respond to them plays a significant role in their growing emotional and social development.

In this workshop, Dr. Suzi Tortora introduces her Embodied Parenting method. Based on dance/movement therapy principles and infant mental health, Embodied Parenting teaches parents and professionals how to attune to, engage and support the baby’s self-regulatory capacity and the co-regulatory relationship using a nine-step process called Lullaby Circles. Participants will learn how to understand the nonverbal cues expressed by infants and young children to create a dancing dialogue with baby using play, songs, dance, movement and breathing activities to enrich the parent-baby, body-to-body connection and enhance and strengthen the attachment relationship. These activities can be used with families or in groups and in dyadic and individual therapeutic, hospital, preventative, and childcare settings.

This event is presented by the National Centre for Dance Therapy and supported by the RBC Foundation. It is dedicated to all the dance professionals and health care professionals working with babies and families or to the parents who wish to better understand their baby’s needs.

This conference presentation is being presented with the intention to engage membership over a longer duration of time.

About the Instructor

Suzi Tortora, Ed.D., BC-DMT LCAT LMHC CMA has a full-time private practice in Cold Spring, NY, specializing in parent-infant/child and family therapy, trauma and medical illness. 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 American Dance Therapy Association. She teaches in Europe, South America, New Zealand, Israel and Asia; holds faculty positions in the USA, The Netherlands, Czech 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://grandsballets.com/en/calendar/detail/embodied-parenting-creating-a-dancing-dialogue-with-parents-and-babies/