American Dance Therapy Association Conference| Social Media, an Ethical Query: What are best practices as a dance/movement therapist? (Denver, Colorado)
Social Media, an Ethical Query: What are best practices as a dance/movement therapist?
Date & Time:
Sunday, November 12, 2023
8:30 AM- 11:30 AM
Location:
Denver Marriott Tech Center
4900 South Syracuse Street
Denver, CO, 80237, United States
Course Description:
In the last two decades, social media changed the way humans communicate with each other. This workshop seeks to explore how our community is developing ethical practices within social media to ensure the wellbeing of our clients and maintain adaptive relevance of our field within the digital space. Recently, members brought increased ethical awareness of social media use to the ADTA Standards and Ethics Committee. After close analysis of the Code of Ethics, the committee will share recommendations regarding best practices of social media use, highlighting personal versus professional use, advertising, and advocacy.
About the Instructors
Jennifer Whitley, MS BC-DMT LCAT CMA is a board-certified Dance/Movement Therapist (DMT) and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist who received her master’s degree, with honors, in Dance Therapy at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She is trained through the Ways of Seeing program at Dancing Dialogue, Certified as a Laban Movement Analyst from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies and completed training in the discipline of Authentic Movement at The New York Center for the Study of Authentic Movement with Joan Wittig. Jenn is also a Reiki Practitioner (Level II) and trained in Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP) through MSKCC. She has been a DMT at Dancing Dialogue since 2014 working with children, families, and adults incorporating all aspects her training into the Ways of Seeing psychotherapeutic multi-arts approach. She is certified provider of TeleMental Healthcare from the Telehealth Certification Institute. Jenn’s experience also includes medical DMT at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, joining the Integrative Medicine Services (IMS) team in 2012, with a focus in pediatric oncology alongside Dr. Tortora. Her work at MSKCC also expands beyond pediatrics into staff wellness and providing virtual classes and workshops for adult patients through IMS. Additionally, she provides dance/movement therapy for children with neurodiverse conditions facilitating group DMT sessions in the public school setting since 2013. She taught as interim instructor in The New School’s Creative Arts Therapy Certification Program, worked as DMT/Choreographer for Angelight Films, and presents workshops locally, nationally, and internationally.
Hang Yin Candy Lo, MA, BC-DMT, RDT/BCT, CCLS
Douglas Cornman, MA, BC-DMT XaHara, A.M., MA, R-DMT, G-RMT, CPT
Meg Chang, EdD, BC-DMT, LCAT, NCC
Selena Coburn BC-DMT, LMHC, LCPC
Lauren Milburn, BC-DMT, LHMC, LPC
Neha Christopher, MS, LCAT, BC-DMT
Pamela Lerman, LCAT, LMHC
Registration:
https://www.adta.org/annual-conference
American Dance Therapy Association Conference| 20 years: The Growth and Future of Pediatric Medical DMT (Denver, Colorado)
20 years: The Growth and Future of Pediatric Medical Dance/Movement Therapy
Date & Time:
Saturday, November 11, 2023
8:30 AM- 11:30 AM
Location:
Denver Marriott Tech Center
4900 South Syracuse Street
Denver, CO, 80237, United States
Course Description:
Pediatric medical DMT has grown over the last 20- years thanks to the support of the Andréa Rizzo Foundation. Starting as a three-hour weekly program at a leading oncology hospital in NYC, learn how Dréa’s Dream dance therapy is a national force with 5 programs in 5 states. Over the 20-years of the foundation’s existence, Drea’s Dream has incorporated the changing times by using advanced scientific theory and research to inform medical dance/movement therapy, strengthening its efficacy. Through discussions and experientials with DMTs from across the country, learn the core elements that
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 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.
Jennifer Whitley, MS BC-DMT LCAT CMA is a board-certified Dance/Movement Therapist (DMT) and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist who received her master’s degree, with honors, in Dance Therapy at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She is trained through the Ways of Seeing program at Dancing Dialogue, Certified as a Laban Movement Analyst from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies and completed training in the discipline of Authentic Movement at The New York Center for the Study of Authentic Movement with Joan Wittig. Jenn is also a Reiki Practitioner (Level II) and trained in Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP) through MSKCC. She has been a DMT at Dancing Dialogue since 2014 working with children, families, and adults incorporating all aspects her training into the Ways of Seeing psychotherapeutic multi-arts approach. She is certified provider of TeleMental Healthcare from the Telehealth Certification Institute. Jenn’s experience also includes medical DMT at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, joining the Integrative Medicine Services (IMS) team in 2012, with a focus in pediatric oncology alongside Dr. Tortora. Her work at MSKCC also expands beyond pediatrics into staff wellness and providing virtual classes and workshops for adult patients through IMS. Additionally, she provides dance/movement therapy for children with neurodiverse conditions facilitating group DMT sessions in the public school setting since 2013. She taught as interim instructor in The New School’s Creative Arts Therapy Certification Program, worked as DMT/Choreographer for Angelight Films, and presents workshops locally, nationally, and internationally.
Sara Schmidt, M.Ed, MA, R-DMT
Ramanda Brockett, MA, R-DMT
Breanna Davis, M.S., R-DMT, LMHCA
Dr. Lori Baudino
Susan Rizzo Vincent
Registration:
https://www.adta.org/annual-conference
American Dance Therapy Association Conference| The Roots & Future of Child DMT 20th Early Childhood Forum (Denver, Colorado)
The Roots & Future of Child Dance/Movement Therapy 20th Early Childhood Forum
Date & Time:
Friday, November 10, 2023
9:30 AM- 12:30 PM
Location:
Denver Marriott Tech Center
4900 South Syracuse Street
Denver, CO, 80237, United States
Course Description:
Tracing the evolution of DMT with children and families, this year addresses DMT for those: exposed to traumas such as war and natural disasters; using movement, stories and music as sources to connect/learn about self and other, fostering selfidentity within community; using indigenous methodologies, and trauma work with indigenous students in public schools and its with effect the family unit addressing generations-long deficits of cultural knowledge; how dance helps youth develop social, emotional, and cognitive skills to thrive, positively address self-concepts, developing leadership and life skills; and child/adolescent mental healthcare practices within the context of urban Turkish and
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 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.
Selena Coburn, BC-DMT, LMHC
Charne Furcron, Ed.D, BC-DMT, LPC, NCC, BCC, MAC, CPCS, ACS
Deepa Sai Avula, BC-DMT
Lynn Koshland, BC-DMT
Zeynep Catay
Registration:
https://www.adta.org/annual-conference
World Congress Integrative Medicine and Health| Integrative Pediatrics: From Prevention to Palliation (Rome, Italy)
Integrative Pediatrics: From Prevention to Palliation
Date & Time:
Thursday, September 21, 2023
11:00 AM- 1:15 PM
Location:
Angelicum Conference Center
Largo Angelicum, 1, 00184 Roma
Course Description:
Alessio Fasano- Food, Pesiticides, Dysbiosis and Obesity
Monica Galanti- Digital Intoxication
Jan Vagedes- Pollution and Non communicable disease
Suzi Tortora- “Speaking the unspeakable”: The Power of Dance & Movement with Children for Healing and Wellness
Mercedes Ogal- Outpatient integrative-medicine options in pediatric palliative care
Simone Brasil de Oliveira Iglesias- Integrative practices into palliative support as holistic and multidimensional care in Brazil
Discussion Q&A
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 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.
Alessio Fasano
Monica Galanti
Jan Vagedes
Mercedes Ogal
Simone Brasil de Oliveira Iglesias
Claudia Farinelli (Chair)
Melanie Anheyer (Co-Chair)
Registration:
https://icimcongress.org/
Society for Integrative Oncology Annual Conference| Virtual Dance Therapy for adult cancer patients: A program evaluation (Banff, Canada)
Virtual Dance Therapy for adult cancer patients: A program evaluation
Date & Time:
Saturday, September 16, 2023
3:45 PM- 5:00 PM
Location:
Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive
PO Box 1020 Banff, Alberta
Canada
T1L 1H5
Course Description:
Background: Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) is increasingly used as a complementary treatment to address psychological and physical wellbeing in adults. However, it is unknown how it can be leveraged in adult cancer care. This mixed methods program evaluation aimed to assess patient-reported benefits and satisfaction with the virtual DMT in an academic medical oncology center setting.
Methods: We used deidentified program evaluation data to asses: (1) impact of DMT on patient-reported outcomes using a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire delivered via Zoom; and (2) patients’ satisfaction with the DMT sessions using a 10-point Likert scale questionnaire delivered via Zoom. Pre- and post-session data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and a paired t test. Qualitative data were captured through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using thematic analysis.
Results: 39 patients participated in DMT (64.7±9.8; range 40- 81), majority were female (35; 89.7%), and had diagnosis or history of breast cancer (17; 43.6%). Participation in DMT significantly decreased anxiety [-0.42±0.76; t(25)= -2.85, p=.009] and distress [-0.35±0.80; t(25)= -2.21, p=.036]; and significantly increased sense of joy [0.73±1.18; t(25)= 3.14, p=.004]. We observed a non-significant trend in physical activity increase [0.38±0.98; t(25)= 1.99, p=.057]. Patients indicated high satisfaction with the program (20/20, 100%) and would recommend it to others (20/20, 100%). Thematic findings revealed that participation in DMT sessions helped patients (1) build connection with others and receive support; (2) freely express difficult emotions, (3) relax and improve mental state; and (4) engage in a physical activity and improve physical health.
Conclusion: Our DMT program shows promise as a component of an integrative cancer care. This evaluation provides useful information to help generate hypotheses for future RCT studies aiming to evaluate the effect of DMT on mood and physical activity in adult cancer patients.
About the Instructors
Jennifer Whitley, MS BC-DMT LCAT CMA is a board-certified Dance/Movement Therapist (DMT) and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist who received her master’s degree, with honors, in Dance Therapy at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She is trained through the Ways of Seeing program at Dancing Dialogue, Certified as a Laban Movement Analyst from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies and completed training in the discipline of Authentic Movement at The New York Center for the Study of Authentic Movement with Joan Wittig. Jenn is also a Reiki Practitioner (Level II) and trained in Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP) through MSKCC. She has been a DMT at Dancing Dialogue since 2014 working with children, families, and adults incorporating all aspects her training into the Ways of Seeing psychotherapeutic multi-arts approach. She is certified provider of TeleMental Healthcare from the Telehealth Certification Institute. Jenn’s experience also includes medical DMT at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, joining the Integrative Medicine Services (IMS) team in 2012, with a focus in pediatric oncology alongside Dr. Tortora. Her work at MSKCC also expands beyond pediatrics into staff wellness and providing virtual classes and workshops for adult patients through IMS. Additionally, she provides dance/movement therapy for children with neurodiverse conditions facilitating group DMT sessions in the public school setting since 2013. She taught as interim instructor in The New School’s Creative Arts Therapy Certification Program, worked as DMT/Choreographer for Angelight Films, and presents workshops locally, nationally, and internationally.
Karolina Bryl
Jun Mao
Registration:
https://www.sioconference.org/
Society for Integrative Oncology Annual Conference| The role of creative arts therapies and mind-body therapies in Pediatric Oncology: Clinical and Research Panel (Banff, Canada)
The Role of Creative Arts Therapies and Mind-Body Therapies in Pediatric Oncology: Clinical and Research Panel
Date & Time:
Friday, September 15, 2023
5:30 PM- 6:30 PM
Location:
Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive
PO Box 1020 Banff, Alberta
Canada
T1L 1H5
Course Description:
Creative arts and mind-body therapies are vital offerings in some medical institutions and integrative services, but can be overlooked. This panel presents the variety of ways creative arts therapies and mind-body therapies support family systems in the pediatric oncology setting. Panel members include a multidisciplinary team of creative arts therapies (dance and music) and mind-body therapies (yoga and martial arts). This presentation includes lecture, experientials, videos, and audience participation, using clinical case studies and research available to date.
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 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.
Jennifer Whitley, MS BC-DMT LCAT CMA is a board-certified Dance/Movement Therapist (DMT) and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist who received her master’s degree, with honors, in Dance Therapy at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She is trained through the Ways of Seeing program at Dancing Dialogue, Certified as a Laban Movement Analyst from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies and completed training in the discipline of Authentic Movement at The New York Center for the Study of Authentic Movement with Joan Wittig. Jenn is also a Reiki Practitioner (Level II) and trained in Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP) through MSKCC. She has been a DMT at Dancing Dialogue since 2014 working with children, families, and adults incorporating all aspects her training into the Ways of Seeing psychotherapeutic multi-arts approach. She is certified provider of TeleMental Healthcare from the Telehealth Certification Institute. Jenn’s experience also includes medical DMT at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, joining the Integrative Medicine Services (IMS) team in 2012, with a focus in pediatric oncology alongside Dr. Tortora. Her work at MSKCC also expands beyond pediatrics into staff wellness and providing virtual classes and workshops for adult patients through IMS. Additionally, she provides dance/movement therapy for children with neurodiverse conditions facilitating group DMT sessions in the public school setting since 2013. She taught as interim instructor in The New School’s Creative Arts Therapy Certification Program, worked as DMT/Choreographer for Angelight Films, and presents workshops locally, nationally, and internationally.
Karolina Bryl
Tonia Kulp
Tina Paul
Ashley Ervin
Jeniffer Whitley
Bethany Pincus
Malik Cadwell
Registration:
https://www.sioconference.org/
Society for Integrative Oncology AnnualConference| Collaboration of an Integrative Pediatric Team to identify modality interventions… (Banff, Canada)
Collaboration of an Integrative Pediatric Team to identify modality interventions, and assessment scales, to facilitate the design of an electronic document and optimize efficiency of data administration
Date & Time:
Thursday, September 14, 2023
5:30 PM- 7:00 PM
Location:
Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive
PO Box 1020 Banff, Alberta
Canada
T1L 1H5
Course Description:
TBD
About the Instructors
Jennifer Whitley, MS BC-DMT LCAT CMA is a board-certified Dance/Movement Therapist (DMT) and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist who received her master’s degree, with honors, in Dance Therapy at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She is trained through the Ways of Seeing program at Dancing Dialogue, Certified as a Laban Movement Analyst from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies and completed training in the discipline of Authentic Movement at The New York Center for the Study of Authentic Movement with Joan Wittig. Jenn is also a Reiki Practitioner (Level II) and trained in Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP) through MSKCC. She has been a DMT at Dancing Dialogue since 2014 working with children, families, and adults incorporating all aspects her training into the Ways of Seeing psychotherapeutic multi-arts approach. She is certified provider of TeleMental Healthcare from the Telehealth Certification Institute. Jenn’s experience also includes medical DMT at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, joining the Integrative Medicine Services (IMS) team in 2012, with a focus in pediatric oncology alongside Dr. Tortora. Her work at MSKCC also expands beyond pediatrics into staff wellness and providing virtual classes and workshops for adult patients through IMS. Additionally, she provides dance/movement therapy for children with neurodiverse conditions facilitating group DMT sessions in the public school setting since 2013. She taught as interim instructor in The New School’s Creative Arts Therapy Certification Program, worked as DMT/Choreographer for Angelight Films, and presents workshops locally, nationally, and internationally.
Jane greene
Karolina Bryl
Holly Mentzer
Karen Popkin
Nirupa Raghunathan
Registration:
https://www.sioconference.org/
The World Association for Infant Mental Health| The psyche-soma connection: Helping medically ill babies tell their stories through their nonverbal “bodily-felt” experience (Dublin)
The psyche-soma connection: Helping medically ill babies tell their stories through nonverbal “bodily-felt” experience
Date & Time:
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
1:15- 2:15 PM
Location:
Spencer Dock
North Wall Quay
Dublin 1
Ireland
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 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.
Miri Keren, MD
Registration:
https://www.waimh2023.org/
NYC Early Childhood Mental Health Center| Our Bodies Speak! Bridging Psyche and Soma using the Creative Arts Therapies to Support Mental Health Challenges & Heal Trauma in Children (Online)
Our Bodies Speak! Bridging Psyche and Soma Using the Creative Arts Therapies (CAT) to Support Mental Health Challenges and Heal Trauma in Children
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
12-1:30 PM
Location:
Live Online course. Students will receive a Zoom link when registered
Course Description:
It is not just what you say but how you say it - with your body - that counts. We communicate with babies, and each other nonverbally before we even say a word. Babies also talk to us right from the beginning through their facial expressions, body actions, the quality of their vocalizations and even the way they look at us. The embodied experiential nature of our interactions affect how we relate to others and how we process our own experiences.
Please join us to discuss this importance topic with Dr. Suzi Tortora, Founder & Director of Dancing Dialogue and Dr. Miri Keren, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist.
Infancy research states that early perception is registered through the baby’s bodily-felt engagement with the surroundings, perceived through multisensory experiences and informed by secure interactions with primary caregivers. Trauma research explains that early memory is multisensory, somatic and kinesthetic, and can be triggered by experiences reminiscent of elements of the original event and creates a wide variety of emotional experiences that are felt but difficult to verbalize. Therapeutic approaches for early trauma advocate the importance of creating a cohesive narrative to support healing. But what happens when words cannot fully explain the experience? The creative arts therapies provide a path to healing when words hurt, and the traumatic experience is unspeakable.
Bridging the fields of infant mental health; infant and child psychiatry; nonverbal analysis; and creative arts therapies, this workshop demonstrates how to help babies and young children bring a voice to their experiences by using their nonverbal cues to create an embodied cohesive narrative that addresses the “felt-sense” experience. Participants will learn how to use creative arts activities including movement, music, art, and dance to support the developing attachment relationship with families and children with challenges including early medical illness, attachment issues, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and other challenges during these vulnerable times. When and why to choose a creative arts therapy approach or traditional caregiver-child psychotherapy word-focused intervention, such as Wait, Watch and Wonder (WWW) or Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) will be highlighted.
By the End of This Webinar Participants Will be Able to:
1. Understanding the strong link between parent-infant relationship and Infant Mental Health
2. Learn how creative arts therapies are used to create an embodied coherent narrative, facilitating psychobehavioral change3. Reflect on when and how to choose a creative arts therapy or a traditional word-focused caregiver-child therapeutic approach.
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.
Miri Keren, MD is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, Assistant Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv Sackler Medical School, past president of the World Association for Infant Mental Health, founder and past director of Geha Infant Mental Health Unit, founder and supervisor of 6 units of Infant Psychiatry across Israel. Currently in the position of Clinical and Research Consultant at the Bar Ilan University Azrieli Medical School and at the Schneider Hospital for Sick Children (in process of becoming Clinical Associate Professor). She received the Leibovici WAIMH Award in June 2021.
Registration:
92nd Street Y | Dance/Movement Psychotherapy with Infants and Children (Online Workshop)
Dance/Movement Psychotherapy with Infants and Children
Friday, May 19; Saturday, May 20; Sunday, May 21, 2023
6:30- 9:30 PM (Friday); 10- 5: 30 PM (Saturday & Sunday)
Location:
Live Online course. Students will receive a Zoom link when registered
Course Description:
Sensitize yourself to the ways young children learn and express themselves through their movement and senses.
Explore nonverbal cues and movement activities that support early attachment relationships and social, emotional, and cognitive development. These activities are used with families or groups and in dyadic and individual therapeutic, hospital, preventative and childcare settings.
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:
Arts Therapy Association of Turkey| Embodied Parenting: Activities to Engage, Soothe, and Support Young Children and Families During Stressful Times (Online Lecture)
Embodied Parenting: Activities to Engage, Soothe, and Support Young Children and Families During Stressful Times
Saturday May 13, 2023
12-2 PM EST/ 19:00-21:00 Turkey
Location:
Live Online course. Students will receive a Zoom link when registered
Course Description:
In times of extreme stress, it is crucial for caregivers to create a sense of security and order despite the uncertainty of the current situation. Accurately reading a young child's nonverbal statements and understanding how to respond to them is the primary step in creating a meaningful sense of connection and stability.
Body Parenting program, observation, play, song, dance, movement, breath and awareness
Emphasizes the important role of non-verbal communication in building relationships using activities. Through a nine-step process called Lullaby Circles, caregivers and therapists will learn specific activities that enhance body-to-body communication to create a danced dialogue with young children. Lullaby Circle activities develop the caregiver's body awareness and self-regulation style, creating a relationship and self-regulation capacity that actively adapts, calms and supports the child.
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.sanatpsikoterapileridernegi.org/afetwebinar.html
American Dance Therapy Association Conference| Resolving Situations Involving Questionable Ethics | (Virtual Lecture)
Resolving Situations Involving Questionable Ethics
Date & Time:
Thursday, April 27, 2023
8:20- 9:50 PM
Location:
Virtual Lecture.
Course Description
The ADTA Standards & Ethics Committee members spent the past year clarifying the current policies and procedures in filing an ethical issue to make the process more easily understandable and accessible. This workshop will invite participants to understand in depth what updates have been made to the procedures that involve an ethical awareness, matter, concern, or complaint. The document titled “How to Resolve Situations Involving Questionable Ethics" details specific measures that ADTA consumers and members can take in reporting, differentiating what each ethical category is and the corresponding procedures for them. The Standards & Ethics Committee members will also facilitate an experiential related to this process.
Learning Objectives
1. Participants will be able to apply the updated Standard and Ethics Policies and Procedures to ethical decision making.
2. Participants will be able to use the updated Standard and Ethics Policies and Procedures in addressing an ethical concern of a colleague.
3. Participants will be able to differentiate what each ethical category is and the corresponding procedures for them.
About the Instructors
Jennifer Whitley, M.S., BC-DMT, LCAT, CMA, is a board-certified Dance/Movement Therapist (DMT) and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, graduating from the Pratt Institute in 2012. She is a Ways of Seeing practitioner, Level II Reiki trained, certified as a Laban Movement Analyst from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies and has trained at The NY Center for the Study of Authentic Movement. Ms. Whitley began working at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2012 with a focus on medical DMT in pediatric oncology and dance-focused wellness/mindfulness classes and workshops at Integrative Medicine Services for adult patients and MSKCC staff. She also provides group dance therapy sessions for children with special needs and works in private practice at Dancing Dialogue with adults, children and families.
Selena Coburn BC-DMT, LMHC, LCPC is a mental health and dance/movement therapist in Great Falls, Montana and an adjunct professor at Lesley University. She is a descendent of Blackfeet, Klamath, and Pitt River tribes. She earned her BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase College in Purchase, NY. Selena's dance/movement therapy training includes the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, NY, and Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Selena is serving the ADTA as the Standards and Ethics Chair..
Neha Christopher, MS, LCAT, BC-DMT, is a passionate artist and advocate for The Arts in Wellness. As a dance therapist, Neha has worked in, USA, Dominican Republic (intern) , Nepal and India. She is currently pursuing her PhD in DMT and works as a DMT tutor (Methods 1) at The University of Melbourne. Neha serves as a member of the S&E committee of the ADTA and is a founding board member and of The Indian Association of Dance Movement Therapy.
Neha strongly identifies and resonates with the healing elements of dance. She believes in the importance of de-colonizing mental health by acknowledging the indigenous practices that have focused on wellness through the arts for generations before it gained Eurocentric nomenclature.
Douglas Cornman, MA, BC-DMT, is the Director of Island Outreach for Maine Seacoast Mission in Northeast Harbor, Maine. He is crew aboard the MV Sunbeam V, a 74 ft steel-hulled boat that cruises the coast of Maine providing holistic healthcare services. His work with islanders focuses primarily on emotional and spiritual healthcare, substance abuse, and coping with the challenges associated with living in remote and isolated rural island communities.
Douglas earned his dance therapy degree from Allegheny University (now Drexel University) and his undergraduate degree in Theater Performance from Messiah College in Grantham, PA. He is a former company member of Trapezius Ariel Dance, Philadelphia and The New Haven Ballet. He currently dances with Motion Collective, an improvisational dance company based on Mount Desert Island.
Hang Yin Candy Lo, MA, BC-DMT, RDT/BCT, CCLS, is a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist, a Registered Drama Therapist/Board Certified Trainer and a Certified Child Life Specialist. Currently the President of both Hong Kong Child Life Association and Hong Kong Dance Movement Therapy Association; Candy has been serving at the ADTA’s Standard and Ethics committee since 2017; co-leads the Asian and Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Affinity Group (AAIPDA) and is member of the BC-DMT Task Force.
After graduating from Antioch University New England, Candy started her private practice; Piece of Sky in Hong Kong. Her passion lies in serving the medical professionals, both paediatric and adult patients in the medical settings. She taught the Medical Humanities program (Performing Arts Module developed by AFTEC) at the School of Medicine at HKU.
Candy has been teaching at the Expressive Arts Therapy program at the University of Hong Kong since 2014 and is an Adjunct Faculty at Lesley University and Antioch University New England.
Nancy Herard-Marshall is an African-centered dance/movement psychotherapist, authentic movement practitioner, Kemetic reiki practitioner, Kukuwa® African dance fitness instructor, wife and mother living in NYC. As a licensed creative arts therapist, she has clinical experience working with diverse populations such as inpatient acute psychiatric care, outpatient co-occurring addiction and mental health conditions, HIV/AIDS and chronic illness, special needs populations, and behavioral disorders. She has worked with individuals suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety, autism, ADHD, depression, sexual abuse, dementia and Alzheimer’s. Her approach to psychotherapy blends expressive arts, attachment theory, transpersonal theory, optimal conceptual theory and other African-centered psychologies. Among her areas of expertise are treatment interventions for culturally diverse populations with an emphasis on the African Diaspora. Nancy has taught Intro to Dance Movement Therapy at The College of New Rochelle, and is a visiting instructor and curriculum consultant in the Creative Arts Therapy Department at Pratt Institute.
Nancy is empathic, motivated, compassionate, and provides a positive outlook throughout treatment. She believes that each individual possesses self-healing powers and will work to guide you in harnessing yours to optimal capacity in order to create and achieve attainable goals.
Megz Roberts, MA, R-DMT, RMT, CPT is a entrepreneurial therapist who currently incorporates dance/movement therapy and Reiki energy techniques into their sacred sexuality and spiritual healing private practice. Megz built a power-sharing ethical decision-making model that is used to help therapeutic relationships, companies and communities navigate culturally embedded ethical dilemmas. Their model is currently published in the Journal of Dance Therapy. Megz embodies this ethical model in their own private practice and travels across states educating others on how to incorporate this model in their work.
Lauren Milburn, BC-DMT, LMHC, LCPC (she/they) completed her Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling Masters at Columbia College Chicago, and gained clinical experience supporting survivors of trauma and individuals living with conditions across the spectrum of mental health concerns. Their approach is grounded in relational/cultural theory, pleasure activism, harm reduction, and disability justice principles. In sessions, Lauren invites deep listening to the body’s innate wisdom, resourcing the nervous system’s resilience to generate self-compassion, untangle harmful internalized patterns, and embrace creative and contemplative meaning-making practices. It is Lauren’s hope that by engaging healing processes held within relational webs of care, we can build the capacity to transform social conditions into sanctuary spaces and promote life-affirming reciprocity.
Registration
https://adta.memberclicks.net/2023-spring-summit-landing-page
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 Andréa 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 “bodily-felt” experience (New Jersey)
The psyche-soma connection: Helping babies with medical illness and their families tell their story through their nonverbal “bodily-felt” 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, “The psyche-soma connection: Helping babies with medical illness and their families tell their story through their nonverbal “bodily-felt” experience” 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 Andréa 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
New York Zero-to-Three Network | NYZTT Book Party Event (Hybrid Online and In-Person Book talk)
New York Zero-to-Three Book Party Event
Time:
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
6:30- 8:00 PM
Location:
Hybird event offered in-person at the Bank Street College Auditorium in New York City and online on Zoom.
Course Description:
Bridging Soma and Psyche: Celebrating three new books that bridge infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH), sensory processing and medical illness to assist parents and professionals caring for young children.
Join us and meet the authors of three important new additions to literature in the 0-5 field that will be celebrated at a NYZTT sponsored book party. Long-time NYZTT board member Dr. Suzi Tortora along with Dr. Miri Keren, have published a new book entitled Dance/Movement Therapy for Infants and Young Children with Medical Illness: Treating Somatic and Psychic Distress; Dr Gilbert Foley NYZTT advisory board member & Susan A. Stallings-Sahler, will release the second edition of Sensory Integration and Self-Regulation in Infants and Toddlers: Helping Very Young Children Interact with Their Environment; Linda Garofallou and Dr. Louisa Silva will publish, An At-Home Guide to Children’s Sensory & Behavioral Problems: Qigong Sensory Treatment for Parents & Clinicians. Come learn about these topics as we hear from the authors themselves while celebrating their accomplishments!
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Book Title: Dance/Movement Therapy for Infants and Young Children with Medical Illness: Treating Somatic and Psychic Distress
Authors: Dr. Suzi Tortora & Dr. Miri Keren
Summary: This book supports the baby and family through this vulnerable time, bridging infant mental health; psychiatry; nonverbal movement analysis; and dance/movement psychotherapy. It explains how to help babies voice their experiences using their nonverbal actions to create an embodied coherent narrative. Through an innovative lens the psychic and somatic aspects of medical illness are addressed, providing a window into the young pediatric patient’s emotional “felt-story” within the context of treating the whole family system.
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Book Title: Linking Sensory Integration and Mental Health: Nurturing Self-Regulation in Infants and Young Children
Authors: Dr Susan A. Stallings-Sahler and Dr. Gilbert M. Foley
Summary: This book builds bridges among ideas, disciplines, interventions, professionals and caregivers. The Occupational Therapy/sensory integration (SI) and Psychology/infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) perspectives are paralleled and integrated to illuminate linkages between sensation and mentation -soma and psyche. This book synthesizes theory, empirical evidence and clinical insights into practical SI/IECMH applications for clinic, classroom and daily life of infants and young children with sensory processing and mental health risks and disorders.
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Title: An At-Home Guide to Children’s Sensory & Behavioral Problems: Qigong Sensory Treatment for Parents & Clinicians
Authors: Linda Garofallou, MS, IMHS E®III & Louisa Silva, MD, MPH
Summary: This book offers a unique perspective on the critical role of a parent’s touch in organizing sensory experience and ultimately, in behavior and self-regulation itself. Parents learn an effective 15-minute touch treatment along with a new ‘sensory language’ to tailor their touch to their child’s specific responses. Included is a wealth of techniques, resources and the support of a year-long series of weekly letters that encourage parents with real-time guidance along the way.
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This workshop is free for NYZTT members and $15 for non-members. If you're not already, you can become a NYZTT member for $60 when you register for this workshop. Membership enables you to attend this and all workshops at no charge.
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 Andréa 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.
Susan A. Stallings-Sahler, Ph.D., OTR, FAOTA, is an occupational therapist and educational psychologist, and director of Developmental Research and Educational Consultants, LLC in the Tampa Bay Area. She served as professor and project coordinator at Gannon University’s (FL) Occupational Therapy Doctoral Program and held professorships at Rush and Brenau Universities. Dr. Stallings-Sahler was professor and founding OT program director at Lenoir-Rhyne University. She completed advanced postgraduate training at USC, studying with the late Dr Jean Ayres. She has taught certification courses on sensory integration nationally and internationally. She is author of Screening Assessment of Sensory Integration (SASI) and over 40 scholarly articles and chapters. Dr. Stallings-Sahler is a fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association.
Gilbert M. Foley, Ed.D., IMH-E serves as consulting clinical psychologist at the New York Center for Child Development (NYCCD) and is clinical co- director of the New York City Early Childhood Mental Health Training and Technical Assistance Center (TTAC). He is a core faculty member of the Psychodynamic Institute for Clinical Social Work and is a retired tenured faculty member in school-clinical child psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. He completed a visiting fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center and served as chief psychologist in pediatrics at the Medical College of Pennsylvania (Drexel). Dr. Foley writes extensively and teaches and lectures widely.
Linda Garofallou, QST Therapist and adjunct faculty at the Center for Autism & Early Childhood Mental Health, Montclair State University, where she runs a grant program providing parent trainings in Qigong Sensory Treatment and teaches the Tactile & Sensory Foundations of Child Development. She has developed a wide range of community pediatric sensory programs for at-risk children & families, including 14 years at Children’s Hospital of NJ Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. Linda holds a Master’s degree in physiology, a Level III Specialist Endorsement in Infant Mental Health®, licensed in the Shanker Method® of Self-Reg and faculty trained in Brazelton’s Touchpoints.
Louisa Silva, (1954-2018) was a physician integrating Western and Chinese medicine with public health. She created the Qigong Sensory Treatment and was the lead researcher for 20 university-based research studies, including a large federally funded 3-year study confirming the effectiveness of QST in the treatment of autism. Dr. Silva received her medical degree from UCLA in 1979, her Chinese medicine training in 1989 and her MPH in 2003. She was a visiting professor at the Teaching Research Institute, Western Oregon University. Dr. Silva was the founder of the Qigong Sensory Training Institute and also founded the Guadalupe Clinic, a nonprofit community health clinic in Salem, OR.
Registration:
Registration is available here.
Profectum 2023 International Conference |Embodied storytelling: Using movement, play and storytelling to support visual-spatial processing, self-expression and develop sense of self (Online Workshop)
Embodied storytelling: Using movement, play and storytelling to support visual-spatial processing, self-expression and develop sense of self
Date & Time:
Sunday, February 5, 2023
2:15-2:45 PM & 4:00-5:30 PM
Location:
Virtual Workshop
Course Description
TBA
Instructors
Suzi Tortora, ED.D., BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC
Registration
https://profectum.org/profectum-2023-conference-visual-spatial-processing/
Profectum 2023 International Conference | The Spectrum of Visual-Spatial Pathways Across Developmental Domains (Virtual Panel)
The Spectrum of Visual-Spatial Pathways Across Developmental Domains
Date & Time:
Sunday, January 29, 2023
3:35- 5:15 PM ET
Location:
Virtual Panel Discussion
Course Description
TBA
Instructors
Moderator:
Cortney Grove, MA, CCC-SLP, I/ECMH-C
Panelists:
Carrie Alvarado, PhD, OTR
Mona Delahooke, PhD
Gil Foley, EdD, IMH-E
Mehrnaz Azimi Green, OD, FCOVD
Cortney Grove, MA, CCC-SLP, I/ECMH-C
Karen McDowell
Traci Swink, MD
Suzi Tortora, ED.D., BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC
Rosemary White, OTR/L
Serena Wieder, PhD
Registration
https://profectum.org/profectum-2023-conference-visual-spatial-processing/
Society for Integrative Oncology | Supporting Our Youngest Patients Psychic and Somatic Distress: Psychiatric and Pediatric Medical Dance (Virtual Lecture)
Supporting Our Youngest Patients Psychic and Somatic Distress: Psychiatric and Pediatric Medical Dance
Date & Time:
Thursday, January 19, 2023
11 AM- 12:30 PM ET
Location:
Virtual Lecture
Course Description
Trauma research demonstrates that early memory is multisensory, somatic, and kinesthetic. In this workshop participants will learn how psychiatry and dance/movement therapy professionals collaborate within the integrative medicine service multidisciplinary team to support pediatric patients and their families. The principles of infant mental health provide a lens to understanding the complex role medical illness plays in the young child’s psychic and relational development. Dance/movement therapy (DMT) provides a way to address how children’s embodied experience during medical procedures affects development on all levels. The use of DMT for self-expression and coping, self-regulation, pain management, trauma prevention, and family intervention are highlighted. The presenters address the role of infant mental health and provide an overview of the history and research of the pediatric medical DMT field.
Instructors
Suzi Tortora, Ed.D, BC-DMT LCAT LMHC CMA
Miri Keren, MD
Dr. Sharon Goodill
Dr. Karolina Bryl
Registration
https://integrativeonc.org/knowledge-center/sio-webinars