Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal | Embodied Parenting: Creating a Dancing Dialogue with Parents and Babies | (Virtual Lecture)
Embodied Parenting: Creating a Dancing Dialogue with Parents and Babies
Date & Time:
Saturday, March 5, 2022
10:30AM- 12PM
Location:
Virtual Lecture.
Course Description
Did you know that babies speak to us right from the beginning? They tell us how they are feeling through their facial expressions and how they move their whole body. They first learn about the world around them by exploring their bodies moving alone and with others. And our nonverbal responses tell the baby how we are feeling too: in fact, how we respond to them plays a significant role in their growing emotional and social development.
In this workshop, Dr. Suzi Tortora introduces her Embodied Parenting method. Based on dance/movement therapy principles and infant mental health, Embodied Parenting teaches parents and professionals how to attune to, engage and support the baby’s self-regulatory capacity and the co-regulatory relationship using a nine-step process called Lullaby Circles. Participants will learn how to understand the nonverbal cues expressed by infants and young children to create a dancing dialogue with baby using play, songs, dance, movement and breathing activities to enrich the parent-baby, body-to-body connection and enhance and strengthen the attachment relationship. These activities can be used with families or in groups and in dyadic and individual therapeutic, hospital, preventative, and childcare settings.
This event is presented by the National Centre for Dance Therapy and supported by the RBC Foundation. It is dedicated to all the dance professionals and health care professionals working with babies and families or to the parents who wish to better understand their baby’s needs.
This conference presentation is being presented with the intention to engage membership over a longer duration of time.
About the Instructor
Suzi Tortora, Ed.D., BC-DMT LCAT LMHC CMA has a full-time private practice in Cold Spring, NY, specializing in parent-infant/child and family therapy, trauma and medical illness. 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 American Dance Therapy Association. She teaches in Europe, South America, New Zealand, Israel and Asia; holds faculty positions in the USA, The Netherlands, Czech 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://grandsballets.com/en/calendar/detail/embodied-parenting-creating-a-dancing-dialogue-with-parents-and-babies/
92nd Street Y | Dance/Movement Psychotherapy with Infants and Children (Virtual Lecture)
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
American Dance Therapy Association Conference| Ethical Dilemmas: Understanding the World & Our Embodied Roles Within | (Virtual Lecture)
Ethical Dilemmas: Understanding the World & Our Embodied Role Within
Date & Time:
Saturday, October 16, 2021
1:15- 2:45 PM
Location:
Virtual Lecture.
Course Description
The social climate that we are experiencing today is calling for our current dance/movement therapy practices to find expansion culturally, and there is a need to understand our place in the therapeutic relationship that is ethical and held to standards that mirror our modern times. Cultural awareness and a need for understanding, witnessing, and learning from each other is needed now more than ever.
The contents of this conference presentation were influenced by the needs of the ADTA membership, identified via a survey sent in February, 2021. Of the seven recurrent themes that were identified, members of the Standards and Ethics Committee identified relevant themes and asked members of the cross cultural DMT community to share lived experiences of navigating ethical dilemmas in the areas of touch, social justice, and diversity. This conversation will be facilitated in a panel discussion composed of representatives from DMT associations around the world.
This conference presentation is being presented with the intention to engage membership over a longer duration of time.
Learning Objectives
Support participants in understanding what constitutes an ethical dilemma from multiple cultural lenses.
Broaden an understanding of other cultures and how DMT principles are used within these cultures, understanding ethical concerns around areas of touch, social justice, and diversity.
Offer information with the potential to create space and opportunity to further self-awareness for participants about ethics and their own personal relationships to this concept, as well as ways to navigate ethical dilemmas within their practices.
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.
Joan Wittig, MS, BC-DMT, LCAT, is the co-founder and former Director of the Graduate Dance/Movement Therapy Program at Pratt Institute in New York City, and continues to be a full time faculty member there. She developed and is the Program Director for the first dance/movement therapy training program in China, Inspirees International. She is the founder and Director of the New York Center for the Study of Authentic Movement. Joan has contributed to several journals and books, including the first book on creative arts therapy published in Japanese. She is a subject of a film on dance/movement therapy, “Moving Stories – Portraits of Dance/Movement Therapy”. She is currently serving as Chairperson of the ADTA Standards and Ethics Committee, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the ADTA Board of Directors. Joan teaches internationally, and has a private practice in New York City.
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.
Selena Coburn, BC-DMT, LMHC, lives in the Austin, Texas area. She is a descendent of Blackfeet, Klamath, and Pitt River tribes. She earned her BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase College. Selena's dance/movement therapy training includes the 92nd Street Y in NYC, and Lesley University. She believes in decolonizing dance as therapy, and culturally inclusive processing. Coburn has presented on Native American perspectives and participated in panel discussions locally, nationally, and internationally. Selena has served on the Texas chapter board for four years and founded the Native American Affinity Group as part of the Multicultural Diversity Committee of the ADTA. Selena received the Leader of Tomorrow Award from the American Dance/Movement Therapy Association in 2020.
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.
Megan Roberts Megz 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.
Brigitta Elsa White, MS, R-DMT, is a Registered Dance/Movement Therapist with the ADTA since 2007. She graduated from The Pratt Institute in 2007. She has held a certification in Children's Yoga since 2010. Brigitta is a Hispanic American who resides in Northern Virginia. She has held Board positions for the MD-DC-VA ADTA Chapter such as Program Director, PR Chairperson, President, and currently is the Multicultural Diversity Committee Liason. Brigitta started on the National Kids Yoga Conference Steering Committee in 2020. She proudly began her term with the ADTA Standards and Ethics Committee in 2021. Brigitta is a homeschool mom of 3 children under the age of 7.
Registration
https://adta.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mcform&view=ngforms&id=2096250#/
Profectum| Hidden in Plain Sight: The Intersection Of Trauma and Unconventional Communication (Virtual Lecture)
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Intersection Of Trauma and Unconventional Communication
Overcoming the Harmful Effects of Chronic Stress and Trauma using the 5 C's (Comfort, Control, Communication, Confidence and Competence) and the Principles of the DIR® Model.
Date and Time:
Tuesdays, June 29, July 13, July 20, July 27, August 3, 2021
7:30- 9:00 PM
Location:
Virtual Lecture
Course Description:
This five week series will explore the risk factors and harmful effects of chronic stress and trauma in individuals with unconventional communication profiles. In collaboration with experienced interdisciplinary DIR® clinicians (mental health, speech-language, occupational and creative arts therapists and medical and education professionals), this series will help clinicians, parents, and educators identify the symptoms of chronic stress and understand the unique physiological and behavioral profiles of individuals who use socially unexpected and unconventional communication. Case based studies will be used throughout the series to illustrate how the feelings of comfort, control, communication, confidence and competence can help unconventional communicators overcome chronic stress and trauma and restore physical, emotional, and social wellbeing.
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.
Monica G. Osgood
Traci Swink, MD
Registration:
https://airtable.com/shr5yBFRHASNoXA9P
The World Association for Infant Mental Health| Master Class: The Dancing Dialogue: How our bodies tell the story! (Virtual Lecture)
Master Class | The Dancing Dialogue: How our Bodies Tell the Story
Date & Time:
Virtual Lecture
Friday, June 25, 2021
8:30-9:45 (Local Time- Brisbane, Australia)
Thursday, June 24, 2021
6:30- 7:45 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Location:
Virtual Lecture
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.
Registration:
https://waimh2020.org/
Therapeutic Art of Movement Institute | Families in Motion: Understanding the role of embodied experience in the early caregiver- infant relationship during the time of COVID-19 (Virtual Lecture)
Families in Motion: Understanding the role of embodied experience in the early caregiver- infant relationship during the time of COVID-19
Date and Time:
Friday, May 28, 2021
1- 3 PM EST
Location:
Conducted Virtually Online
Description:
The global pandemic has brought to light the need for family connection now more than ever. The need for social distancing and limited contact has required us to especially rely on interpreting nonverbal expressions and our embodied experience. This webinar focuses on the key elements of nonverbal expression that support the development of a secure caregiver - infant relationship and how to support this relationship during these stressful times. This is discussed within the context of understanding how to work with the dance/movement therapists’ own embodied countertransference experience to provide a secure holding environment for the whole family.
Instructor:
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC Dr. Tortora is a board certified dance movement therapist, Laban Nonverbal Movement Analyst, and specialist in the field of infancy mental health and development. Her expertise in early childhood development and the importance of early relationships inform her psychotherapeutic work across the life span. Dr. Tortora has a private dance movement psychotherapy practice, in New York City and Cold Spring-on-the-Hudson, New York. Dr. Tortora offers training programs and lectures about her dance therapy and nonverbal video analysis work with infants, children and families, at national and international professional meetings and universities.
She is on the board of the New York Zero-to-Three Network.
Dr Tortora has been featured on “Good Morning America” and Eyewitness Five-O’Clock News, WABC –TV; Women’s Day magazine; highlighted in Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker article and book titled What the Dog Saw and other adventures; has published numerous papers about her therapeutic and nonverbal communication analysis work with children, parent-infant dyads, and Autism Spectrum Disorders; has twice been guest editor of the Zero to Three Journal; and has a book with Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company titled The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children.
Dr. Tortora graduated with honors from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development Tufts University specializing in child development, education and psychology; received her dance movement therapy masters degree at New York University; and her doctorate with a specialization in infancy/early childhood development, psychology and education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
She has done extensive study and training in the field of infancy and early childhood research, development, education, communication and intervention through the Zero to Three Institute and Dr. Stanley Greenspan. She has studied Authentic Movement with Janet Adler & Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Dr Tortora is also a certified Laban Movement Analyst, and Kestenberg Movement Profiler.
Registration:
http://taomi.tilda.ws/#contacts
92nd Street Y | Dance with Children and Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum: Therapeutic and Educational Approaches (Virtual Lecture)
Dance with Children and Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum: Therapeutic and Educational Approaches
Saturday, May 15; Sunday, May 16; Saturday May 22; Sunday, May 23
12- 6 PM (Saturday, May 15 & Sunday, May 23); 12- 4PM (Sunday, May 16 & Saturday, May 22)
Location:
Live Online course. Students will receive a Zoom link when registered
Course Description:
This course is aimed at dance educators, dance/movement therapists, dance/movement therapy students, and others who want to learn how to use dance and movement activities to support toddlers, children, and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
In this didactic and experiential course, participants learn about characteristics and identification of autism spectrum disorder. Four experts in the field of dance / education and dance / movement therapy present a variety of educational and therapeutic approaches to engage the strengths of children with ASD and address relationship, behavioral and learning issues through dance.
For those seeking DMT Alternate Route credit, a minimum of one introductory DMT course is a prerequisite.
About the Instructors
Tina Erfer, MS, BC-DMT, NCC, LCAT, is a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist, National Certified Counselor and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. For over thirty-four years, she has worked as a dance/movement therapist in educational and psychiatric settings, with children and adolescents with special needs. She has served as Coordinator of the Hospital School Program at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
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.
Diane Duggan, PhD, BC-DMT is a NYS licensed psychologist, board certified dance/movement therapist and dance educator. She began teaching dance in 1972 and has worked as a dance therapist since 1973. She conducted a therapeutic dance program in a New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) special education high school for adolescents with emotional and learning disabilities from May 1992 through August 2013. Her students performed in Lincoln Center, Central Park, South Street Seaport, St. Mark’s Church, NYU’s Frederick Lowe Theater, and the Apollo Theater.
Catherine Gallant, MFA (choreographer) has been creating work for more than 30 years. Ms. Gallant’s work often explores themes of chance, doubt and the body as a source of comfort and torment. She was the assistant director at 92Y Harkness Dance Center from 1994-96 just as DEL was beginning. She has presented work at 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, WestFest and most recently at Inwood Hill Park sponsored in part by the Partnerships for Parks.
Registration:
https://www.92y.org/class/del-dance-for-autistic-spectrum
Codart University for the Arts Dance Therapy Online Conference | Relationships: Facets Involving Interrelatedness in Dance/Movement Therapy on Multiple Levels (Virtual Lecture)
Relationships: Facets Involving Interrelatedness in Dance/ Movement Therapy on Multiple Levels
Date and Time:
Thursday, April 29, 2021
8- 9 AM EST
Location:
Conducted Virtually Online in collaboration with
Codarts University of the Arts
Kruisplein 26
3012 CC Rotterdam
Netherlands
Description:
How do we as dance/movement psychotherapists maintain a fresh and balanced presence during these stressful times that are affecting each of us worldwide? As we are navigating an international coronavirus pandemic, political strife and social injustices the arts have become more relevant than ever for self-expression and renewal. As we move within online platforms to do our work, dance/movement psychotherapists have to be even more resourceful to continue to nourish ourselves and stay active and attuned to our bodies. In this experiential workshop you will explore a meditation Dr. Tortora created from her Embodied Lyrical Mindfulness series called Embodied Listening Embodied Sensing. You can use this activity for yourself as well as a therapeutic intervention to help center, ground and support deeper attunement and discovery along the healing journey.
Instructor:
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC Dr. Tortora is a board certified dance movement therapist, Laban Nonverbal Movement Analyst, and specialist in the field of infancy mental health and development. Her expertise in early childhood development and the importance of early relationships inform her psychotherapeutic work across the life span. Dr. Tortora has a private dance movement psychotherapy practice, in New York City and Cold Spring-on-the-Hudson, New York. Dr. Tortora offers training programs and lectures about her dance therapy and nonverbal video analysis work with infants, children and families, at national and international professional meetings and universities.
She is on the board of the New York Zero-to-Three Network.
Dr Tortora has been featured on “Good Morning America” and Eyewitness Five-O’Clock News, WABC –TV; Women’s Day magazine; highlighted in Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker article and book titled What the Dog Saw and other adventures; has published numerous papers about her therapeutic and nonverbal communication analysis work with children, parent-infant dyads, and Autism Spectrum Disorders; has twice been guest editor of the Zero to Three Journal; and has a book with Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company titled The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children.
Dr. Tortora graduated with honors from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development Tufts University specializing in child development, education and psychology; received her dance movement therapy masters degree at New York University; and her doctorate with a specialization in infancy/early childhood development, psychology and education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
She has done extensive study and training in the field of infancy and early childhood research, development, education, communication and intervention through the Zero to Three Institute and Dr. Stanley Greenspan. She has studied Authentic Movement with Janet Adler & Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Dr Tortora is also a certified Laban Movement Analyst, and Kestenberg Movement Profiler.
Registration:
https://www.codarts.nl/en/events/25-years-dance-therapy-online-conference/
The Spectrum of Play Forum | An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Therapeutic Power of Symbolic Play | (Virtual Lecture)
An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Therapeutic Power of Symbolic Play
Date & Time:
Sunday, March 14, 2021
12- 3 PM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available online.
Course Description
Symbolic Play offers a safe pathway to re-enact, regulate and master emotional ideas and experiences. The child’s impetus to create a fantasy has many sources from wish fulfillment, to claiming power, defending against anxiety, or repairing intolerable frustrations and trauma. With its many facets and meanings, symbolic play is a powerful therapeutic modality for parents, teachers and therapists of all disciplines. This session will begin with a shared case study to set the stage for small group, case-based, breakout sessions to examine the development, meaning and complexity of symbolic play, the impact of neuro-biological differences across trauma, emotional difficulties and autism, and the methods and effectiveness of intervention. Participants may discuss questions related to their use of symbolic play and learn from the perspectives of other disciplines to deepen their understanding of the therapeutic process and outcomes. Profectum’s distinguished Faculty of psychologists, social workers, physicians, educators, and speech and language, occupational and creative arts therapists will facilitate themed groups, including groups for parents. Each themed group will have three facilitators and participants will be surveyed as to their group preference following registration. As a result of this presentation, participants will be able to: ● Describe the underlying complexity of symbolic capacity related to neurobiology, psychodynamics, and developmental readiness. ● Describe how different disciplines contribute to deeper understanding, enriched intervention and better outcomes. ● Explain how the therapists’ feelings help understand what is happening in the child’s symbolic play
About the Instructors
Gilbert Foley, EdD (Moderator)
Serena Wieder, PhD (Moderator)
Mona Delahooke, PhD (Moderator)
Connie Lillas, RN, MFT, PhD (Moderator)
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC (Group Facilitator for Breakout Sessions) his the founder and director of Dancing Dialogue, a 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 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://profectum.org/2021-conference-spectrum-play/
ISMETA Engaging Embodiment Conference | Somatic Movement and Health Panel | (Virtual Lecture)
Somatic Movement and Health Panel
Date & Time:
Sunday, March 7, 2021
10:20- 11:20 AM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available online through the ISMETA Engaging Embodiment Conference
Course Description
TBA
About the Instructor
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC his the founder and director of Dancing Dialogue, a 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 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://ismeta.org/engaging-embodiment-conference-2#1580762166283-f2f01349-07e2
ISMETA Engaging Embodiment Conference | Focusing on the Dance in Dance/Movement Psychotherapy: The Role of the Dancing Body in Embodied Healing | (Virtual Lecture)
Focusing on the Dance in Dance/Movement Psychotherapy: The Role of the Dancing Body in Embodied Healing
Date & Time:
Sunday, March 7, 2021
9- 10 AM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available online through the ISMETA Engaging Embodiment Conference
Course Description
Dance/movement therapists and somatic movement educators work from the premise that our bodies are a map holding and expressing our experiences. From the beginning of life, our bodies speak to us and we speak to others through our actions. Through body sensations and actions, we learn about the world and connect to others. These experiences influence our nonverbal movement signatures. Specific events that especially impact our live become imbedding into our movement signatures as movement metaphors. Movement metaphors exist on an implicit level in our psyche, out of our conscious awareness, as nonverbal responses to these events. These nonverbal responses are associated with events that may be unresolved, creating traumatic triggers, or resolutions that have been created to soothe and organize ourselves. How we develop these movement patterns throughout our lives is a fascination that Dr. Tortora has studied throughout her over 35 years of clinical practice with people along the whole life span. She believes true healing occurs when one is fully embodied. Full embodiment occurs at the intersection of the body—mind—emotion connection. Dr. Tortora has specifically examined how and what differentiates movement and dance activities in the healing process. Through experiential learning participants will explore different methods of somatic inquiry, gaining insight into how multisensory imagery, sensing and dance each singularly contribute to the healing journey and self-discovery.
Learning Objectives
1.Understanding about how imagery, multisensory sensing and dancing are used in dance/movement psychotherapy practice to support healing
2.Add dancing activities to somatic practice
3.Understanding of the four essential needs we all have to support a secure sense of self and self in relationship to others, that goes beyond age, race, color and ethnicity.
About the Instructor
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC his the founder and director of Dancing Dialogue, a 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 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://ismeta.org/engaging-embodiment-conference-2#1580762166283-f2f01349-07e2
Rider University | Dance/Movement Therapy with Infants, Children and Families (Virtual Guest Lecture)
Dance/ Movement Therapy with Infants, Children and Families
Date and Time:
Tuesdays, March 2, 9 and 16
Location:
Conducted Virtually Online in collaboration with
Rider University
2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Description:
A three-week guest lecture series for second year Dance/Movement Therapy students at Rider University
Instructor:
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC Dr. Tortora is a board certified dance movement therapist, Laban Nonverbal Movement Analyst, and specialist in the field of infancy mental health and development. Her expertise in early childhood development and the importance of early relationships inform her psychotherapeutic work across the life span. Dr. Tortora has a private dance movement psychotherapy practice, in New York City and Cold Spring-on-the-Hudson, New York. Dr. Tortora offers training programs and lectures about her dance therapy and nonverbal video analysis work with infants, children and families, at national and international professional meetings and universities.
She is on the board of the New York Zero-to-Three Network.
Dr Tortora has been featured on “Good Morning America” and Eyewitness Five-O’Clock News, WABC –TV; Women’s Day magazine; highlighted in Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker article and book titled What the Dog Saw and other adventures; has published numerous papers about her therapeutic and nonverbal communication analysis work with children, parent-infant dyads, and Autism Spectrum Disorders; has twice been guest editor of the Zero to Three Journal; and has a book with Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company titled The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children.
Dr. Tortora graduated with honors from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development Tufts University specializing in child development, education and psychology; received her dance movement therapy masters degree at New York University; and her doctorate with a specialization in infancy/early childhood development, psychology and education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
She has done extensive study and training in the field of infancy and early childhood research, development, education, communication and intervention through the Zero to Three Institute and Dr. Stanley Greenspan. She has studied Authentic Movement with Janet Adler & Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Dr Tortora is also a certified Laban Movement Analyst, and Kestenberg Movement Profiler.
Registration:
https://www.rider.edu/academics/colleges-schools/college-education-human-services/graduate/dance-movement-therapy
Codart University for the Arts | Families in Motion: The Dancing Dialogue (Virtual Lecture)
Families in Motion: The Dancing Dialogue- Using the Power of Movement to Support Communication and Attachment with Infants, Young Children, and Families
Date and Time:
February 20, 21, 22 and 23, 2021
6AM- 1 PM EST
Location:
Conducted Virtually Online in collaboration with
Codarts University of the Arts
Kruisplein 26
3012 CC Rotterdam
Netherlands
Description:
Families in Motion: The Dancing Dialogue- Using the Power of Movement to Support Communication and Attachment with Infants, Young Children, and Families using Ways of Seeing, at Codart University for the Arts, Masters in Dance Therapy. Director: Nicki Wentholt.
Instructor:
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC Dr. Tortora is a board certified dance movement therapist, Laban Nonverbal Movement Analyst, and specialist in the field of infancy mental health and development. Her expertise in early childhood development and the importance of early relationships inform her psychotherapeutic work across the life span. Dr. Tortora has a private dance movement psychotherapy practice, in New York City and Cold Spring-on-the-Hudson, New York. Dr. Tortora offers training programs and lectures about her dance therapy and nonverbal video analysis work with infants, children and families, at national and international professional meetings and universities.
She is on the board of the New York Zero-to-Three Network.
Dr Tortora has been featured on “Good Morning America” and Eyewitness Five-O’Clock News, WABC –TV; Women’s Day magazine; highlighted in Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker article and book titled What the Dog Saw and other adventures; has published numerous papers about her therapeutic and nonverbal communication analysis work with children, parent-infant dyads, and Autism Spectrum Disorders; has twice been guest editor of the Zero to Three Journal; and has a book with Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company titled The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children.
Dr. Tortora graduated with honors from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development Tufts University specializing in child development, education and psychology; received her dance movement therapy masters degree at New York University; and her doctorate with a specialization in infancy/early childhood development, psychology and education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
She has done extensive study and training in the field of infancy and early childhood research, development, education, communication and intervention through the Zero to Three Institute and Dr. Stanley Greenspan. She has studied Authentic Movement with Janet Adler & Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Dr Tortora is also a certified Laban Movement Analyst, and Kestenberg Movement Profiler.
Registration:
https://www.codarts.nl/en/master-dance-therapy/
92nd Street Y | Dance/ Movement Psychotherapy with Infants and Children (Virtual Lecture)
Dance/ Movement Psychotherapy with Infants and Children
Friday, January 8; Saturday, January 9; and Sunday, January 10, 2021
6:30- 9:30 PM (Friday); 10AM- 1PM & 2:30-5:30 PM (Saturday and Sunday)
(15 hour training)
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 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.
Registration:
https://www.92y.org/class/dance-movement-psychotherapy
Ways of Seeing International Webinar, Semester 4 (Fall 2019-Spring 2021)
Semester 4, Spring 2021
Expressive Therapies Summit | Saturday Special Symposium: Creative Teletherapy Strategies & Virtual Interventions for Coping with COVID & Cultural Bias Crises | (Virtual Lecture)
Creative Teletherapy Strategies & Virtual Interventions for Coping with COVID & Cultural Bias Crises
Date & Time:
Saturday November 14, 2020
9:30 AM- 5:30 PM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available online.
Course Description
Compounding the overwhelming psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic—including loss of daily normalcy, social isolation, and significant personal safety and financial concerns, the longstanding stress and frustration of racial inequities have resulted in massive civil unrest. This extraordinary confluence of factors has ignited a powder keg of emotional and psychological reactions, dramatically increasing the manifestation of existing disorders and, unfortunately, triggering new symptomatology at rates never before seen. Now, as mental health care professionals, it’s not only incumbent on us to incorporate culturally responsive interventions into our daily work, we must also practice our care-taking and healing primarily online. Although telehealth strategies have been essential in meeting the community’s needs for infection control and physical safety, to use them effectively, clinicians must also dedicate time to explore their own biases that can inadvertently block rapport with clients, especially those of color or other communities prone to discrimination. Working with patients to build a sense of security is harder than ever before because virtual and digital mechanisms impede physical body language and the more subtle and intuitive aspects of human communications necessary to create the sense of trust necessary for treatment to be successful. This daylong Symposium will explore new ways to develop those bonds, and help arts and play therapists to learn how to meet the requirements for responsible practice. Join us to learn about exciting recent arts-based research and discover new telehealth interventions that have proven even more effective than in-person interactions! Appropriate for practitioners of all disciplines, and at all levels of expertise.
About the Instructors
Kendra Carlson, MAAT, ATR-BC, Symposium Coordinator
Christian Bellissimo, LCSW, RPT
April Duncan, LCSW, RPT
Scott Giacomucci, DSW, LCSW, BCD, FAAETS, PAT
Brian Jantz, MA, MT-BC, LPMT
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC his the founder and director of Dancing Dialogue, a 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 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
http://www.cvent.com/events/2020-expressive-therapies-summit-ny-registration-site/event-summary-dc36db3df55c400da470725d6f5fc5dc.aspx
NYC DOE Office of Arts and Special Projects | Supporting Social Emotional Learning Through Dance Education: Session II Middle School Educators (Virtual Lecture)
Supporting Social Emotional Learning Through Dance Education: Session II: Embodied Lyrical Mindfulness: Using Dance to Support Self-Expression, Self-Regulation and Coping
Date & Time:
Thursday, October 22, 2020
5:00 PM- 6:30 PM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available online for NYC DOE employees.
About the Instructors
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC his the founder and director of Dancing Dialogue, a 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 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.
Ashley Ervin, MS R-DMT CAT-lp is a registered dance/movement therapist and holds a creative arts therapy limited permit. She earned a MS in dance/movement therapy from Pratt Institute. Ashley interned under the tutelage of Dr. Suzi Tortora and Jennifer Whitley at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center with pediatric oncology. She is also being trained in the Ways of Seeing Method by Dr. Tortora. She has experience in providing services for groups and individuals who have ADHD, ODD, anxiety, developmental delays, autism spectrum disorder, medical illness, and endured traumatic experiences. Ashley has also interned in acute mental healthcare facilities with adults and community settings with children. In addition to Dancing Dialogue, Ashley currently works as a movement specialist for children and adults on the Autism Spectrum and is a Clinical/Rehabilitative service provider for children in the foster care system.
NYC DOE Office of Arts and Special Projects | Supporting Social Emotional Learning Through Dance Education: Session I Elementary Educators (Virtual Lecture)
Supporting Social Emotional Learning Through Dance Education: Session II: Embodied Lyrical Mindfulness: Using Dance to Support Self-Expression, Self-Regulation and Coping
Date & Time:
Thursday, October 15, 2020
5:00 PM- 6:30 PM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available online for NYC DOE employees.
About the Instructors
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC his the founder and director of Dancing Dialogue, a 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 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.
American Dance Therapy Association Virtual Conference| Tracing the Roots of Infant, Child and Adolescent DMT- Part 2: 18th Early Childhood Forum | (On Demand, Virtual Lecture)
Tracing the Roots of Infant, Child and Adolescent DMT- Part 2: 18th Early Childhood Forum
Date & Time:
Pre-recorded and available on-demand to ADTA conference participants
Thursday, October 15- Sunday, October 18, 2020
9:00 AM- 5:00 PM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available online.
Course Description
This forum continues to trace the history of infant, child and adolescent DMT from its origins to its growing applications today. It highlights five early innovators who exemplify diversity and multiculturalism in their ethnicity, methods and populations serviced. They discuss their influences on DMT with children, families and adults nationally and internationally as they developed their methods as either founding DMT mentors or highlighting those early mentors they worked with. These early mentors include Blanche Evan, Liljan Espenak and Dr. Baba Chuck Davis. Opening her school in 1934, Evan’s innovative approach to creative dance for children emphasized dance improvisation balanced with age appropriate physical development. Espenak, from Norway, worked at Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospital. She developed one of the earliest DMT training programs as well as seven Movement Diagnostic Tests, based on her work with developmentally delayed children, grounding her work with the concept “Motion causes emotion to flow”. Davis, founding artistic director of DanceAfrica always spoke of the therapeutic and healing components of dance and the arts. Collectively, the presenters have expanded the reach of their work in over 32 countries, providing training and treatment in: Asia, Australia and Oceania, North, Central and South America, Europe and Eastern Europe. They discuss how they and their mentors teach and provide culturally sensitive work servicing diverse populations across cultures. Their focus includes: marginalized populations; treatment from diagnosis to plan implementation; creating a developmental model integrating elements from emotional, physical, and psychological imperatives which unfold into a wholistic focus of healing and change; inpatient, outpatient, multi- family groups, homeless, from age three to one hundred and one with a wide range of clinical and medical diagnoses; and experiencing the joy of dance. Through experientials and videos each presenter describes their contributions and those that influenced their personal and professional journey.
About the Instructors
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC (moderator) is the founder and director of Dancing Dialogue, a 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 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.
Bonnie Bernstein
Dr. Nana Koch
Dr. Theresa Howard
Dr. Marcia Leventhal
Registration
https://adta.memberclicks.net/2020-virtual-conference-landing-page
University of Buffalo School of Social Work | Let’s Dance! Using Movement, Dance, Play, and Embodied Mindfulness | (Virtual Lecture)
Let’s Dance! Using Movement, Dance, Play, and Embodied Mindfulness
Date & Time:
Thursday, August 20, 2020
9:00 AM- 12:00 PM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available on Zoom.
Course Description
During this stressful time of COVID-19 isolation, social unrest, racial activism, justice, and equality how do we as people - both professionals and parents with young children – help children express the array of diverse feelings and questions they have but may not be able to find the words to express them? Equally challenging and vital, how do we find the time for our own personal reflection, when we have limited privacy and bandwidth while managing work and family life? And, as professionals working with “at-risk” families how do we hold a child’s attention through video conferencing – which may be our only means of connection for the foreseeable future? Though mindfulness activities are helpful, it can be very difficult to slow down, breathe and focus our own, and children’s minds when our bodies are feeling restless and agitated from confinement and inner chaos. Dr. Suzi Tortora, internationally acclaimed dance/movement therapist, teacher, author and senior dance/movement therapist at Integrative Medicine Services, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s MSK Kids, addresses these concerns introducing you to specific methods she has created to support you as a professional, parent and individual. Learn ways to listen and dialogue deeply with your own feelings, thoughts, images and sensations using her “Embodied Listening -Embodied Sensing” self-management method. From this grounded awareness, learn specific clinical tips and activities for children ages birth – seven, using movement, dance, and story to help families engage with their children, release stress, enhance self-expression and be able to implement mindful practices that support both caregivers and their children to support self-regulation and coping.
Target Audience: social workers, mental health practitioners, creative arts therapists, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and other interested individuals.
Completion Requirements This workshop requires individuals to participate in polls throughout the presentation. Participants must participate in at least 75% of the polls correctly to pass.
Customer Service
We are happy to respond to any concerns or questions you may have. Please contact us at by email at sw-ce@buffalo.edu or by phone at 716-829-5841.
ADA Accommodations: If you require any support for your ADA needs in the United States, please contact us by email at least 3 weeks prior to the event by email at sw-ce@buffalo.edu or by phone at 716-829-5841.
Learning Objectives
Describe (2) specific mindful movement and dance- based activities using the “Embodied Listening -Embodied Sensing” self-management method for coping.
Describe (2) specific movement and dance- based activities to support self- expression in young children while engaging the professional and child during video conferencing sessions.
Describe (2) movement and dance- based activities for parent and child to support positive engagement and co-regulation while at home.
Describe (2) movement and dance- based activities to help young children focus their attention reaching a mindful state of awareness to support self -regulation and coping.
About the Instructor
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC his the founder and director of Dancing Dialogue, a 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 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.
https://ubswce.ce21.com/item/lets-dance-movement-dance-play-embodied-mindfulness-63698#tabDescription
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Feeling Good! Reclaiming Your Body Using Yoga and Dance | (Virtual Lecture)
Feeling Good! Reclaiming Your Body Using Yoga and Dance
Date & Time:
Saturday, August 1, 2020
12:00- 1:00 PM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available on Zoom.
Course Description
During cancer treatment, you may experience your physical body in a different way. Yoga can help you reconnect to your body, treat yourself with compassion and loving-kindness, and feel the strength and light that you carry inside. Dance/movement therapy can support this process as you re-engage with your body safely and joyfully while connecting with experiences that may be difficult to describe in words.
This online workshop combines dance with the grounding practice of yoga. In the workshop, an MSK yoga instructor and two MSK dance/movement therapists will guide you through activities and exercises to help you feel more at ease in your body and bring you to a place of awareness, forgiveness, and acceptance.
Audience
This class is open to people who have been treated for cancer and their caregivers.
About the Instructors
Clare Patterson, E-RYT, certified Yoga 4 Cancer™ instructor
Jennifer Whitley, MS, BC-DMT, LCAT, CMA
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC
Registration
https://www.mskcc.org/event/feeling-good-reclaiming-your-body-using-yoga-and-dance
POSTPONED: Codart University for the Arts | Families in Motion: The Dancing Dialogue (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Families in Motion: The Dancing Dialogue- Using the Power of Movement to Support Communication and Attachment with Infants, Young Children, and Families
Date and Time:
POSTPONED, new dates to be announced.
Location:
Codarts University of the Arts
Kruisplein 26
3012 CC Rotterdam
Netherlands
Description:
Families in Motion: The Dancing Dialogue- Using the Power of Movement to Support Communication and Attachment with Infants, Young Children, and Families using Ways of Seeing, at Codart University for the Arts, Masters in Dance Therapy. Director: Nicki Wentholt.
Instructor:
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC Dr. Tortora is a board certified dance movement therapist, Laban Nonverbal Movement Analyst, and specialist in the field of infancy mental health and development. Her expertise in early childhood development and the importance of early relationships inform her psychotherapeutic work across the life span. Dr. Tortora has a private dance movement psychotherapy practice, in New York City and Cold Spring-on-the-Hudson, New York. Dr. Tortora offers training programs and lectures about her dance therapy and nonverbal video analysis work with infants, children and families, at national and international professional meetings and universities.
She is on the board of the New York Zero-to-Three Network.
Dr Tortora has been featured on “Good Morning America” and Eyewitness Five-O’Clock News, WABC –TV; Women’s Day magazine; highlighted in Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker article and book titled What the Dog Saw and other adventures; has published numerous papers about her therapeutic and nonverbal communication analysis work with children, parent-infant dyads, and Autism Spectrum Disorders; has twice been guest editor of the Zero to Three Journal; and has a book with Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company titled The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children.
Dr. Tortora graduated with honors from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development Tufts University specializing in child development, education and psychology; received her dance movement therapy masters degree at New York University; and her doctorate with a specialization in infancy/early childhood development, psychology and education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
She has done extensive study and training in the field of infancy and early childhood research, development, education, communication and intervention through the Zero to Three Institute and Dr. Stanley Greenspan. She has studied Authentic Movement with Janet Adler & Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Dr Tortora is also a certified Laban Movement Analyst, and Kestenberg Movement Profiler.
Registration:
https://www.codarts.nl/en/master-dance-therapy/
Brecha: Buenos Aires: Conversation with Suzi Tortora: Dance/ Movement Therapy with Children and Families in the Hospital at the Time of COVID 19 | (Virtual Lecture)
Conversation with Suzi Tortora: Dance/ Movement Therapy with Children and Families in the Hospital at the Time of COVID 19 Hosted by Diana Fischman
Date & Time:
Thursday, June 25, 2020
9:00 AM- 10 AM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available on Zoom.
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.
https://www.brecha.com.ar/webinar/
POSTPONED: 92nd Street Y | June Intensive: Dance for Children and Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum (New York City)
June Intensive: Dance for Children and Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum
POSTPONED TO A FUTRE DATE
Sunday 1:30- 7:15 PM & Monday- Thursday 5:30- 9:30 PM
(15 hour training)
Location:
Harkness Dance Center at The 92nd Street Y Gilda and Henry Block School of the Arts
1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Course Description:
In this experiential course, participants learn about the characteristics and identification of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Four experts in the field present a variety of educational and therapeutic approaches to engage the strengths of children with ASD and address relationship, behavioral and learning issues through dance.
This course is fully approved by ADTA for Alternate Route credit for R-DMT. This dance therapy course is eligible for 15 CE hours. For further information about ADTA, visit adta.org.
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.
Diane Duggan, PhD, BC-DMT, LCAT
Tina Erfer, MS, BC-DMT, LCAT, NCC Coordinator
Catherine Gallant, MA
Registration:
http://92y.org/classes/del-dance-for-autistic-spectrum
Dancing Dialogue Continuing Education Program | From Dancing to Mindfulness in the time of COVID: Movement and Dance-Based Activities to Support Families through Telehealth Sessions (Virtual Lecture)
From Dancing to Mindfulness in the time of COVID: Movement and Dance-Based Activities to Support Families through Telehealth Sessions
Date & Time:
Saturday, June 13, 2020
11 AM- 1PM
Location:
Offered Live and Online via Zoom.
Course Description:
As practitioners working with “at-risk” families how do you hold a child’s attention through video conferencing sessions? During this extended period of time when parents are asked to continue to maintain “stay-at-home” orders, what activities can they do to engage their children and support them to express the array of diverse feelings they have? Mindfulness activities are helpful, but how do you get children to slow down, breath and focus when they have been confined indoors and are quite literally “bouncing off the walls”? Dr. Suzi Tortora, internationally acclaimed dance/movement therapist, teacher, author and senior dance/movement therapist at Integrative Medicine Services, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s MSK Kids, will provide you with practical and creative clinical tips and activities for children ages birth – through early elementary age, using movement, dance and story to help families engage with their children, release stress, enhance self-expression and be able to implement mindful practices that support both caregivers and their children. Be ready to move and groove and you try out these ideas too!
Objectives
Gain an understanding about how a child’s body actions [ages birth - early elementary] and behaviors are nonverbal cues that can be transformed into meaningful movement and dance-based self – expressive activities during telehealth sessions/lessons.
Learn how to create individualized movement and dance- based activities to release stress in children [ages birth - early elementary] and engage them with their therapist/teacher during telehealth sessions.
Explore and learn how to use movement and dance activities to transform dysregulated behaviors into more regulated actions that focus a child’s [ages birth - early elementary] attention to obtain a mindful state of awareness the child can use during and after telehealth sessions/lessons.
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.
POSTPONED: The World Association for Infant Mental Health| The Psyche-Soma Connection: Helping Medically Ill Babies Tell Their Story (Brisbane, Australia)
The Psyche-Soma Connection: Helping Medically Ill Babies Tell Their Story through Their Nonverbal “Bodily-Felt” Experience and Expression
Date & Time:
POSTPONED to a later date
Location:
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Cnr Merivale & Glenelg Streets
Southbank, Brisbane
Queensland Australia
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.
Dr. Miri Keren, MD Affiliations: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Tel-aviv University Sackler Medical School, and Community Infant Mental Health Unit affiliated with Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Petah, Tiqwa
Registration:
http://waimh2020.org/preview/registration.php
POSTPONED: The World Association for Infant Mental Health| Master Class: The Dancing Dialogue: How our bodies tell the story! (Brisbane, Australia)
Master Class | The Dancing Dialogue: How are Bodies Tell the Story
Date & Time:
POSTPONED to a later date
Location:
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Cnr Merivale & Glenelg Streets
Southbank, Brisbane
Queensland Australia
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.
Registration:
http://waimh2020.org/preview/registration.php
University of Auckland | Ways of Seeing: Dance/ Movement Therapy with Children with Disabilities (Virtual Lecture)
Ways of Seeing: Dance/ Movement Therapy and Autism
Date & Time:
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
10:15- 11:45 AM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available on Zoom. Not open to the public
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.
New York Zero-to-Three Network | Family Dance Party: Dancing to Mindfulness in the time of COVID (Virtual Lecture)
Family Dance Party: Dancing to Mindfulness in the Time of COVID
Date & Time:
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
12 PM- 1 PM
Location:
Offered Live and Online via Zoom. Link to Zoom meeting available by registering here.
Course Description:
During this stressful time of quarantine, what tools can we, as practitioners, give parents to help their children express the array of diverse feelings they have and still find a place of calm and regulation? How do you hold a child’s attention through video conferencing? Mindfulness activities are helpful, but how do you get children to slow down, breath and focus when they have been confined indoors and are quite literally “bouncing off the walls”?
Please join us for this lunchbreak workshop where Dr. Suzi Tortora will share specific clinical tips and activities for children ages birth to five, using movement, dance and story to help practitioners and parents engage with their children, release stress, enhance self-expression and be able to implement mindful practices that support both caregivers and their children.
This workshop is being provided to our community at no cost by New York Zero-to-Three Network and Dr. Suzi Tortora, recognizing the challenges we are all facing during this time and the importance of coming together as a community.
Objectives
Learn two (2) specific movement and dance- based activities to support self- expression in children [ages birth -toddler] and engage the therapist /teacher and child during telehealth sessions/lessons; and/or the caregiver and child to support positive engagement.
Learn two (2) movement and dance- based activities for parent and child [ages birth -toddler] to support positive engagement.
Learn two (2) methods for how to use movement and dance- based activities to help toddlers focus their attention reaching a mindful state of awareness to support self -regulation during telehealth sessions/lessons.
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.eventbrite.com/e/family-dance-party-dancing-to-mindfulness-in-the-time-of-covid-tickets-104982716130