January 11, 2009
Sunday 9am to 5pm at
FORDHAM
IN HARRISON.

Registration requested by
December 15.

Creative Arts Therapy Day at FORDHAM IN HARRISON

This unique, one-day creative seminar in group therapy will be taught by five professional arts therapists.  Experientially and didactically, participants will be introduced to the use of art, music, dance, poetry and psychodrama as therapeutic techniques.  Sunday, January 11, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Fordham in Harrison. Registration requested by December 15. 

Psychodrama -- Gay French-Ottaviani is a certified psychodramatist, group therapist and licensed clinical social worker with a private practice in Pound Ridge, New York.

Dance Therapy -- Suzi Tortora is a nationally known certified dance therapist, specializing in pediatrics. She is a private practitioner, author and senior dance therapist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Art Therapy  -- Ker Beckley, a clinical art therapist and artist in her own right, is the Director of Art Therapy at Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital in Katonah, NY.

Poetry and Journal Therapy  -- Nancy Scherlong is
a registered poetry therapist as well as a clinical social worker in a private practice, an EMDR practitioner, a certified hypnotist, an AMRC disaster mental health clinician and an internal family systems practitioner.

Music Therapy  -- Karen Popkin provides music therapy services within the Integrative Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Fee: MSW students, $80; Fordham MSW alumni, $90; community, $100.

Contact Jane Edwards, Associate Dean of Social Work Program, Fordham Westchester Campus, jedwards@fordham.edu to sign up.
There is a limited number spaces for participants, so sign up now. We will be accepting people on a first come first serve basis.

Jan. 31 - Feb. 1 - Sat. & Sun.
& Feb. 7, 2009 - Sat.
1:30 - 6:30pm

Registration will be available
online on December 4th 

SAVE THE DATE! - DANCE THERAPY AND FOCUSING

Dear colleagues and friends,

• This movement improvisation and experiential focusing intensive course (3 five-hour sessions) should interest people from a variety of orientations:
• Dancers, movers and dance movement therapists
• Focusers who integrate focusing into their work and focusing oriented therapists
• Researchers studying nonverbal systems.
• Psychotherapists and psychoanalysts interested in the study of mutual regulation, attunement,  improvisation and the implicit.
• Child Therapists and educators working with children of all ages.
• What Winnicott called "nonverbalists" of all kinds-that means all of us.

The experiential/didactic course will offer an introduction to two modalities:  dance movement improvisation and Eugene Gendlin’s methodology and philosophy of experiential focusing.

Each modality provides us with a different perspective on the concepts of attunement, mutual regulation, improvisation and the realm of the implicit.

If your approach is through the world of movement and dance, you will find Experiential Focusing to be an extraordinary link between the nonverbal and the creative use of language.

If your approach is through Focusing, you will see how bodily felt sensing is actualized through movement improvisation.

If you are a psychotherapist you will find direct applications and theory to enrich your work and orientation.

These creative processes can help us to appreciate what is beautiful in our unique ways of being in the world.  They also inspire us to use that uniqueness to create therapeutic relationships that make a real difference in the lives of our clients.

We hope you can join us!

Sincerely yours,

Joan Lavender, Psy D., Suzi Tortora, EdD., ADTR, LCAT, CMA, LMHC

Miriam Roskin Berger, PhD., ADTR

Registration will be available online on December 4th 

DANCE THERAPY AND FOCUSING - Joan Lavender, PsyD;  Miriam Roskin Berger, ADTR; Suzi Tortora, Ed.D., ADTR, CMA, LCAT, LMHC

Gendlin's Experiential Focusing is a bodily-centered therapy process which gives you access to a deep level of knowing, leading to inner transformation you can feel immediately and apply to your life.  While most approaches to therapy are based on the assumpton that it is good to be more "in touch" with yourself, Focusing teaches you how to do this. Focusing is a highly-regarded and well-researched process that has been shown to correlate with positive life change, enhanced self-esteem, and the experience of integration and wholeness. This workshop will explore the relationship from the dimension of Focusing to the world of movement and dance improvisation. Identify felt senses (as distinct from emotions) in your body. Enable the felt sense to communicate its message to you, from the edge of your awareness. Use dance movement improvisation and felt sensing together for healing.

Sat & Sun, Jan 31 – Feb 1, & Sat, Feb 7, 2009 - 1:30-6:30pm, 3 sessions - $250

92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, 1395 Lexington Ave, NYC

REGISTER HERE and save 50% on the registration fee or call 212.415.5500

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SPRING WEEKEND WORKSHOP

DANCE THERAPY AND FOCUSING Suzi Tortora will be co-presenting with Dr. Miriam Roskin Berger, ADTR and Dr. Joan Lavender, PsyD

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SPRING ONE-DAY WORKSHOP

Dance Movement Psychotherapy: Infants and Young Children with Suzi Tortora, Ed.D., ADTR, CMA, LCAT, LMHC

Cost: $75 plus reg. fee (save 50% on reg. fee by registering online below)
Where: 92nd Street Y - 1395 Lexington Ave, NY, NY 10128 - Buttenwieser Hall, 2nd Floor or call 212.415.5500

Sensitize yourself to the ways young children communicate, learn and express themselves through their movement and senses. Gain hands-on experience information that is useful for all professionals and parents of young children, with or without special needs. Learn about Dr. Suzi Tortora’s Ways of Seeing dance movement psychotherapy program through exploring nonverbal cues expressed by infants and young children and experiencing movement activities that support early attachment relationships and social, emotional, and cognitive development. For parents, caregivers, and professionals, these activities can be used with families or in groups and in dyadic and individual therapeutic, hospital, preventative and childcare settings.

October 30, 2008
Thursday

LECTURE - EMOTION IN MOTION
"Nurturing relationships through multisensory interaction in dance movement therapy”
Suzi Tortora is the invited lecturer for a half day pre-conference workshop
for the American Dance Therapy Association 43nd Annual Conference, Austin, Texas.

INTERVIEW WITH MYRON HOFER, MD - New York Zero-to-Three Network

The Effects of Psychology on Biology: The Impact of the Parent - Infant Relationship on Healthy child Development
Tenth Annual Hedi Levenback Memorial Evening with a Zero-to-Three Pioneer
Suzi Tortora will be interviewing Myron Hofer, MD
Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (120 W. 57th St., Room 306, New York, New York

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DECEMBER 2008

December 6, 2008
Saturday

LECTURE - BEYOND CRYING

“Beyond Crying: Pain, Trauma, and Stress in Early Childhood”

ZERO TO THREE, 23th NTI: Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, CA.

LECTURE - ANNI BERGMAN PARENT INFANT TRAINING PROGRAM

Suzi will be lectureing about the The Anni Bergman Parent Infant Training Program

Location : 224 West 20th Street, NYC, NY.