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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.

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NYC DOE Office of Arts and Special Projects | Supporting Social Emotional Learning Through Dance Education: Session II Middle School Educators (Virtual Lecture)