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