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.