Date + Time:

Thursdays, May 11, 18, 25 and June 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2023
6:30pm - 8:30 pm

Location:

Dancing Dialogue LCAT LMHC PLLC
41 Union Square West, Suite 1528

New York, NY 10003

Course Description:

This workshop explores how to use your body as a therapeutic tool to achieve intersubjective and inter-sensory attunement with your clients. To do this, the practice of Authentic Movement (AM) will be used along with Dr. Suzi Tortora’s Ways of Seeing approach to build the therapist’s inner witness that is key to achieving deep embodied attunement with your clients and an understanding of your own somatic and countertransference experiences. The goal of this workshop series is to understand how your own embodied countertransference can emerge while working with clients and incorporate how to use these as a supervision tool. You will learn how to use the practice of AM to explore work with clients and the Ways of Seeing method to structure this practice. 

The workshop series will be held as a group experience with the opportunity to share within the group. Each week, this AM exploration will include a variety of creative processes to hold the depth of your work with clients which might include mandala-making, improvisation movement, and body awareness exercises. You will use various arts-based tools (artmaking, writing, movement) to document the deep dive into self-exploration and to recognize stresses, resistance, and compassion fatigue.  The aim is to provide clinicians with a useful experience to hold their own work, as well as provide tools to be used to support supervisees in diving deeper into their work. 

Learning Objectives Include:

1. Identify and understand the concept of embodied countertransference.  

2. Define Authentic Movement and Ways of Seeing as well as engaging in experientials to learn the practices and methods.

3. Learn to use arts-based tools to guide you gently into deeper awareness of your clients and yourself from an embodied experience.  

4. Increase your inner witness, body awareness, and emotional capacity to develop deeper intersubjective and inter-sensory attunement with your clients.

5. Learn how to use the practice of Authentic Movement and the Ways of Seeing approach/method as a supervision tool

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is appropriate for all mental health practitioners who are interested in gaining a deeper understanding about their embodied countertransference experience and wanting to deepen their supervision skills: licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed creative arts therapists, psychoanalysts, psychologists, and psychiatrists.

About the Instructor

Jenn 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. 

Jenn is a member of the Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO), the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) where she is currently serving on the Standards & Ethics Committee and serves on the board for the Andréa Rizzo Foundation.  

Jenn practices out of our New York City office.

Price:

The cost for all eight sessions of the course $560 ($70/ sessions). In order to earn 16 continuing education credits, participants must attend at least 7 of the 8 sessions. No partial continuing education credit is available.

Cost is $35/credit hour. Cancellations prior to two weeks before a scheduled training receive a refund minus a $15 processing fee. Participants who cancel their enrollment less than 10 days before the first continuing education session will not be refunded but can receive credit towards a future training. A full refund or credit is given to participants with unexpected medical or personal emergencies. If Dancing Dialogue LCAT LMHC PLLC cancels the entire workshop or training your paid fee will be refunded in full or credited to another workshop at your request. If you transfer to another workshop and then cancel, do not attend or leave early there is no further transfer.  For clinicians with more than one license, an additional CE certificate can be purchased towards your second license CE requirement at the cost of $25.

Dancing Dialogue LCAT LMHC PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists #CAT-0066, licensed social workers #SW-0512 and licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0131.

Date + Time:

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

6:00- 8:00PM

Location:

Dancing Dialogue LCAT LMHC PLLC
41 Union Square West, Suite 1528

New York, NY 10003

Course Description:

This workshop explores how to use your body as a therapeutic tool to achieve intersubjective and inter-sensory attunement with your clients. To do this, the practice of Authentic Movement (AM) will be used along with Dr. Suzi Tortora’s Ways of Seeing approach to build the therapist’s inner witness that is key to achieving embodied attunement with your clients and an understanding of your own somatic and countertransference experiences. The goal of this workshop is to introduce the practice of Authentic Movement and the Ways of Seeing Method and explore how they can be used as a tool to understand embodied countertransference. You will be introduced to the practice of AM and the Ways of Seeing method to structure this practice. 

The virtual workshop will be held as a group experience with the opportunity to share within the group. Arts-based explorations will also be included to support further processing which might include mandala-making, improvisation movement, and body awareness exercises. The aim is to provide clinicians with a useful experience to contain their work, as well as provide tools to be used to support diving deeper into the therapeutic process.  

Learning Objectives Include:

1. Identify and understand the concept of embodied countertransference.  

2. Define Authentic Movement and Ways of Seeing as well as engaging in experientials to learn the practices and methods.

3. Learn to use arts-based tools to guide you gently into deeper awareness of your clients and yourself from an embodied experience.  

4. Increase your understanding of the inner witness, body awareness, and emotional awareness to develop deeper intersubjective and inter-sensory attunement with your clients.

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is appropriate for all mental health practitioners who are interested in gaining a deeper understanding about their embodied countertransference experience and wanting to deepen their supervision skills: licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed creative arts therapists, psychoanalysts, psychologists, and psychiatrists.

About the Instructor

Jenn 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. 

Jenn is a member of the Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO), the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) where she is currently serving on the Standards & Ethics Committee and serves on the board for the Andréa Rizzo Foundation.  

Jenn practices out of our New York City office.

Price:

The cost for this course is $70. Participants who complete the course will receive two (2) New York State LCAT, LMHC, LCSW or LMSW in-person continuing education credits.

Cost is $35/credit hour. Cancellations prior to two weeks before a scheduled training receive a refund minus a $15 processing fee. Participants who cancel their enrollment less than 10 days before the first continuing education session will not be refunded but can receive credit towards a future training. A full refund or credit is given to participants with unexpected medical or personal emergencies. If Dancing Dialogue LCAT LMHC PLLC cancels the entire workshop or training your paid fee will be refunded in full or credited to another workshop at your request. If you transfer to another workshop and then cancel, do not attend or leave early there is no further transfer.  For clinicians with more than one license, an additional CE certificate can be purchased towards your second license CE requirement at the cost of $25.

Dancing Dialogue LCAT LMHC PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists #CAT-0066, licensed social workers #SW-0512 and licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0131.

Date + Time:

December 2, 2018
2PM – 5PM

Location:

Dancing Dialogue LCAT LMHC PLLC 25
505 W 18th Street 9th Floor NY, NY 10011

Course Description:

A major struggle that many family therapy practitioners face is how to engage with family members of different ages and with varying abilities to verbally communicate thoughts and feelings in a single, meaningful, and unifying manner. Therapeutic art making and play can have the profound ability to bridge this communication gap while also modeling new and enjoyable ways that the family can connect outside of therapy. These activities equalize the communicative vocabulary between children who are often more fluent in art making or play and parents who are more fluent in verbal expression leading to new avenues for intergenerational understanding, while also bringing to life emotions and conflicts that can be difficult to talk about it even for the most verbal adult. In this lecture, a variety of art, play, and psychodrama interventions and projects will be introduced that model generative, age-appropriate roles, increase connectedness and strengthen healthy boundaries within the family. A variety of experientials will be offered to illustrate the profound ability that therapeutic activities have to unify people of different ages and ability levels by increasing empathic understanding.

Learning Objectives Include:

1. Identify four (4) methods that family therapists can utilize to transform traditional stage theories of development into actionable art, psychodrama or play directives that model appropriate developmental roles.

2. Learn five (5) ways that children can “scaffold” adult’s learning during art making, play or psychodrama tasks upending and momentarily equalizing traditional family roles to build empathy on the part of the adults and a sense of competency on the part of the children.

3. Identify different strategies to integrate art therapy, play therapy and psychodrama seamlessly into four (4) different styles of conducting family therapy including structural family therapy, strategic family therapy, systemic family therapy and narrative therapy.

4. Learn three (3) strategies to design strengths-based art, play or psychodrama activities that utilize the unique skill levels of family members of different ages and cognitive abilities.

About the Instructor

Kelley Linhardt, MA LCAT ATR-BC is an art therapist in private practice at the Dancing Dialogue with extensive postgraduate family and couples therapy training, culturally-competent trauma treatment and in play therapy and dance and movement therapy. Kelley has over a dozen years of clinical experience with almost every client population under the sun.

Price:

$105 ($35/ credit)

Cost is $35/credit hour. Cancellations prior to two weeks before a scheduled training receive a refund minus a $15 processing fee. Participants who cancel their enrollment less than 10 days before the first continuing education session will not be refunded but can receive credit towards a future training. A full refund or credit is given to participants with unexpected medical or personal emergencies. If Dancing Dialogue LCAT LMHC PLLC cancels the entire workshop or training your paid fee will be refunded in full or credited to another workshop at your request. If you transfer to another workshop and then cancel, do not attend or leave early there is no further transfer.  For clinicians with more than one license, an additional CE certificate can be purchased towards your second license CE requirement at the cost of $25.

Dancing Dialogue is a New York State Continuing Education Provider #SW-0512, CAT-0066, & MHC-0131

Date + Time:

December 2, 2018
9AM – 1PM

Location:

Dancing Dialogue LCAT LMHC PLLC 25
505 W 18th Street 9th Floor NY, NY 10011

Course Description:

The world is speeding-up with more technology and sound bites of information coming at us daily. How does this fast-paced environment affect infants, children and parenting practices? This course will provide a comprehensive review of the literature and research over the last 30 years describing the changing landscape of early childhood activity and engagement from the perspective of social, emotional, cognitive, communicative and physical development. This experiential course will address how creative arts therapy activities can be used to support the development of executive functioning skills including emotional and physiological regulation, attention and impulse control in individual, dyadic and group therapy. Strategies to help children and parents navigate this changing accelerating world, including strategies for help with media exposure will be discussed.

Learning Objectives Include:

1. Describe the important role embodied experience plays in young children’s development.

2. Explain how sensory processing and integration of multisensory information greatly affects a child’s behaviors and ability to communicate effectively in his/her social surroundings.

3. Define three (3) key elements of optimum sensory integration functioning.

4. Apply the concepts of sensory threshold, rate, intensity, and duration of sensory input, as they influence planning activities that support optimum functioning.

5. Describe three (3) intervention strategies that support executive functioning skills using: mindfulness, yoga, breath work, guided imagery and/or dance/movement-based activities.

6. Plan an individual or social skills group session to facilitate increased regulation, dyadic engagement and social interactions using these tools.

About the Instructor

Suzi Tortora Ed.D, BC-DMT, LCAT, LMHC, NCC is a licensed creative arts therapist and board certified dance/movement therapist with her doctorate from Teacher’s College, Columbia University in infancy education, development and psychology. She has a private dance/movement therapy practice in Cold Spring, NY and NYC for over 30 years, specializing in parent- infant/child and family therapy; trauma and medical illness. University faculty positions in New York and internationally include, graduate and post-graduate creative arts therapy masters and certificate programs at: Pratt University, Brooklyn; New School for Continuing Studies, NYC; Dance Therapy 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, NYC; Tanter Association for Dance Movement Therapy of Czech Republic; Codarts Rotterdam, The Netherlands; and Brecha, Argentina. She has published numerous papers and a book, and is a national and international speaker about the creative arts therapies including this topic.

Price:

$140 ($35/ credit)

Cost is $35/credit hour. Cancellations prior to two weeks before a scheduled training receive a refund minus a $15 processing fee. Participants who cancel their enrollment less than 10 days before the first continuing education session will not be refunded but can receive credit towards a future training. A full refund or credit is given to participants with unexpected medical or personal emergencies. If Dancing Dialogue LCAT LMHC PLLC cancels the entire workshop or training your paid fee will be refunded in full or credited to another workshop at your request. If you transfer to another workshop and then cancel, do not attend or leave early there is no further transfer.  For clinicians with more than one license, an additional CE certificate can be purchased towards your second license CE requirement at the cost of $25.

Dancing Dialogue is a New York State Continuing Education Provider #SW-0512, CAT-0066, & MHC-0131