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:
Identify and understand the concept of embodied countertransference.
Define Authentic Movement and Ways of Seeing as well as engaging in experientials to learn the practices and methods.
Learn to use arts-based tools to guide you gently into deeper awareness of your clients and yourself from an embodied experience.
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.