Embodied Parenting: Activities to Engage, Soothe, and Support Young Children and Families During Stressful Times

Saturday May 13, 2023

12-2 PM EST/ 19:00-21:00 Turkey

Location:

Live Online course. Students will receive a Zoom link when registered

Course Description:

In times of extreme stress, it is crucial for caregivers to create a sense of security and order despite the uncertainty of the current situation. Accurately reading a young child's nonverbal statements and understanding how to respond to them is the primary step in creating a meaningful sense of connection and stability.

Body Parenting program, observation, play, song, dance, movement, breath and awareness

Emphasizes the important role of non-verbal communication in building relationships using activities. Through a nine-step process called Lullaby Circles, caregivers and therapists will learn specific activities that enhance body-to-body communication to create a danced dialogue with young children. Lullaby Circle activities develop the caregiver's body awareness and self-regulation style, creating a relationship and self-regulation capacity that actively adapts, calms and supports the child.

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.sanatpsikoterapileridernegi.org/afetwebinar.html