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92nd Street Y | Dance/Movement Psychotherapy with Infants and Children (Virtual Lecture)


  • HARKNESS DANCE CENTER AT THE 92Y GILDA AND HENRY BLOCK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (map)

Dance/Movement Psychotherapy with Infants and Children

Friday, January 28; Saturday, January 29; Sunday January 30, 2022

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:

https://www.92y.org/class/dance-movement-psychotherapy

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