25th National Training Institute (NTI) | Connecting Science, Policy, and Practice (San Diego, CA)
"Military Families and Complicated Parental Death: Supporting the Youngest Child in the Context of Traumatic Loss and Suicide"
Expressive Therapies Summit | Institute of the Arts in Healing presents The First Annual Expressive Therapies Summit (New York City)
This creative arts therapeutic approach for children and families draws upon each participant's personal creativity and expressivity to care for their psychological, emotional and physical health.
Coming Back to Self Authentic Movement Workshop (Cold Spring, NY)
Teacher – Dr. Suzi Tortora
Ed.D, BC-DMT, LCAT, LMHC, CMA
An inner focusing movement meditation practice involving listening to your body & allowing your body to move you
Authentic Movement is a type of mediation that occurs by closing your eyes and listening to your body - as you listen to your body with this inward focus, you will find a natural state -- through an unfolding process that can be active, taking you through the room; or deeply internal, where you may not be moving in any perceivable way to your outside observer. This observer is called the witness. The experience occurs in pairs. One person moves while another person witnesses, from a place of respect and attunement. The witness stays attuned to his/ her inner experiences & reactions to your movements. It is an active place of observing. After your movement experience you both have the opportunity to process and share your experiences, through art work, writing and talking. Verbal sharing is done in a very particular way, respecting that you always have the options to not share your experience. The witness never assumes s/he knows what your experience is for you, but rather explains the images and sensations that have come up for her or him. As you listen, you attend to your reactions, to see if any of these images resonate with your experience. Then you switch, with your witness moving and you witnessing.
Experienced in a group setting, the witnesses sit in a circle around a clear open space in which the movers move. Several movers are moving simultaneously, with their respective witnesses attending to them personally. All moving together with eyes closed or inwardly focused, can be quite a profound process. Unknowingly movers will often pick up on each others actions, moving in synchrony and harmony. Often, as you stay attuned to yourself, sub-conscious and unconscious material will rise to your consciousness through your felt-sense. It is a very respectful and insightful process that involves deeply listening & allowing you to be "seen" by another.
This Coming Back to Self workshop series invites both experienced and new explorers of movement meditation to dialogue with their "sensational voice" as it unfolds their life story. Processing elements include breath awareness, journaling, music, poetry and art media.
Date: October 16 & November 6, 2010
Time: 10:30 – 2:00 PM
Fee: $40 for 1 session; $70 for both sessions
Location: Cold Spring on the Hudson, NY
Call or e-mail: questions – register – directions
Coming Back to Self Authentic Movement Workshop (Cold Spring, NY)
Teacher – Dr. Suzi Tortora
Ed.D, BC-DMT, LCAT, LMHC, CMA
An inner focusing movement meditation practice involving listening to your body & allowing your body to move you.
Authentic Movement is a type of mediation that occurs by closing your eyes and listening to your body – as you listen to your body with this inward focus, you will find a natural state -- through an unfolding process that can be active, taking you through the room; or deeply internal, where you may not be moving in any perceivable way to your outside observer. This observer is called the witness. The experience occurs in pairs. One person moves while another person witnesses, from a place of respect and attunement. The witness stays attuned to his/ her inner experiences & reactions to your movements. It is an active place of observing. After your movement experience you both have the opportunity to process and share your experiences, through art work, writing and talking. Verbal sharing is done in a very particular way, respecting that you always have the options to not share your experience. The witness never assumes s/he knows what your experience is for you, but rather explains the images and sensations that have come up for her or him. As you listen, you attend to your reactions, to see if any of these images resonate with your experience. Then you switch, with your witness moving and you witnessing.
Experienced in a group setting, the witnesses sit in a circle around a clear open space in which the movers move. Several movers are moving simultaneously, with their respective witnesses attending to them personally. All moving together with eyes closed or inwardly focused, can be quite a profound process. Unknowingly movers will often pick up on each others actions, moving in synchrony and harmony. Often, as you stay attuned to yourself, sub-conscious and unconscious material will rise to your consciousness through your felt-sense. It is a very respectful and insightful process that involves deeply listening & allowing you to be "seen" by another.
This Coming Back to Self workshop series invites both experienced and new explorers of movement meditation to dialogue with their "sensational voice" as it unfolds their life story. Processing elements include breath awareness, journaling, music, poetry and art media.
Date: October 16 & November 6, 2010
Time: 10:30 – 2:00 PM
Fee: $40 for 1 session; $70 for both sessions
Location: Cold Spring on the Hudson, NY
Call or e-mail: questions – register – directions
American Dance Therapy Association 45th Annual Conference | The Essential Role of the body in the Parent-Child Relationship (Brooklyn, NY)
A comprehensive review of research discussing the infant's experiences that occur outside of verbal conscious awareness, described by Stern as "implicit knowledge" will be presented. Discussed from a developmental and attachment perspective, the important role qualitative aspects of nonverbal expression and exchange with be highlighted using a parent-infant attachment relationship analysis system.
Trauma, Stress and Postpartum Depression | Moving From Within (Freising, Germany)
A Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Suzi Tortora
Trauma, Stress and Postpartum Depression
Dear Prospective Participants!
After our very successful first congress in 2007, due to the interesting contributions, the beautiful location, and fruitful international exchange, I am very pleased to announce the second international conference on movement analysis, Moving from Within. The second congress, as the previous one, is aimed at interested people from the fields of dance, therapy, education, and science. This time the focus of the congress will be on movement analysis of interactions.
What can we learn from movement during interactions between caregivers and children, couples, or families? What needs to happen on a body level in order to shape or maintain attachment?
In order to gain insight on new aspects on the work of movement analysis, different instruments will be introduced.
We are not only inviting you to interesting workshops and lectures but also to an exchange with colleagues from around the world. On Sunday we invite you to a dance per-formance with a buffet and dancing afterwards.
Other keynote speakers:
Dianne Dulicai: Nonverbal Assessments of Family Systems and Groups
Susan Loman: Interaction with Children with Aggression
Dr. Fabian Ramseyer: Synchronisation of Nonverbal Interaction in Psychotherapy
Infancy in times of transition (Leipzig, Germany)
Suzi Tortora poster session: Thursday, July 1, 2010:
Trauma Stress and Postpartum Depression: Video-analysis of a parent-infant attachment relationship
Suzi Tortora Workshop: Saturday, July 3, 2010:
The Essential Role of the Body: How movement and nonverbal experience inform implicit knowing and intersubjectivity in early childhood development
Educating The Creative Mind An International Conference on Arts-Based Education | Creative Arts Workshops (New York City)
Children's Creative Arts Day: Engaging the Creative Mind
1st International Conference Pediatric Psychological Trauma in Infants and Young Children from Illness, Injury and Medical Intervention (Los Angeles, CA)
Exploring research and practice in the identification and treatment of trauma resulting from terrifying and disruptive medical experiences
Fordham University | Creative Arts Therapy Day (New York, NY)
This unique, half-day creative seminar in group therapy will introduce participants to Psychodrama and Art Therapy as intervention techniques through experiential and didactic methods. There will be an opportunity to participate in a classic Psychodrama.
Harkness Dance Center | Dance Therapy Program at the 92nd Street Y (New York, NY)
Sensitize yourself to the ways young children communicate, learn and express themselves through their movement and senses.
Fordham University | Creative Arts Therapy Day (New York, NY)
This unique, half-day creative seminar in group therapy will introduce participants to music, dance, and poetry as therapeutic techniques, Participants from the first CAT workshop will deepen their skills and learn new techniques.