ADTA 50th Annual Conference | MOTHER-SON TRANSGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF EATING ISSUES USING A CO-TREATMENT METHOD (San Diego, CA)
ADTA pre-conference intensive with Nancy Beardall, Amber Elizabeth Gray and Suzi Tortora
October 21, 2015
Hyatt Regency La Jolla San Diego, California
DMT, Mindfulness and Trauma: Creating Pathways for Healing and Compassion Across Cultures
Dance Movement Therapy as a therapeutic approach may provide the most direct access to mindful processing for clients who have experienced trauma. When we engage in movement, we access the neurological underpinnings of all our thoughts, feelings, behavior, and actions. Current research and emergent theories around interpersonal neurobiology, neuroplasticity, and social engagement all promote interventions for working with survivors of trauma that are inclusive of mindfulness practice and physical movement. Participants in this full day intensive will experientially explore being present and processing DMT as a comprehensive mindful and movement based therapy for working with trauma in a variety of contexts and with people of varied ages, experiences and cultures.
ADTA Friday Seminar
October 23, 2015, 10:15AM–12:15PM
Hyatt Regency La Jolla San Diego, California
Mother-Son Transgenerational Transmission of Eating Issues Using A Co-Treatment Method with Suzi Tortora and Jennifer Whitley
Celebrating our 15th year, this forum creates a DMT network, sharing ideas about working with children and their families. This year the focus includes the transgenerational transmission of complex family dynamics; eating issues related to individual regulation and co-regulation in the parent-infant relationship; and the use of a DMT program to support the family. The treatment design includes the DMTs working separately with the parent and child; and a specific sequence of multi-arts activities using drawing, dance-play and storytelling, to integrate the experiences on a mind-body-emotional continuum. Participants will explore these themes and methodologies through discussion and experiential activities.
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The Korean Society of Dance/Movement Psychotherapy | Families in Motion (Seoul, Korea)
August 28–30
Three days of workshops highlighting "Families in Motion: The Dancing Dialogue– Using the Power of Movement to Support Communication and Attachment with Infants, Young Children and Families using Ways of Seeing™.
August 31–September 1
"Ways of Seeing™: Dance Movement Therapy with Infants, Children & Families" two-day advanced training for professional DMTs
National Conference: Broadening the Spectrum: Dance and other expressive arts therapies for health and healing | Dancing Together From Home (Abbotsford, Victoria)
DTAA Conference Program
Saturday, July 11, 2015, 11:15AM
Teaching through Technology: Utilising video conferencing to bring DMT Knowledge to NZ
Anaia Treefoot
Dancing Together From Home: Connecting Through Cyberspace Using The Ways of Seeing™ International Webinar
Suzi Tortora, Chia-Chun Hu, Elizabeth Ng and Jung-Hsu Wan
New York Zero-to-Three Network 19th Annual Spring Conference | Stress, Risk & Resilience: The Interplay of Parenting, Child Development and Social Context (New York, NY)
Stress, Risk & Resilience: The Interplay of Parenting, Child Development and Social Context
Breakout sessions include:
Suzi Tortora / Jessica Anenberg / Jennifer Whitley
Shall We Dance? Collaboration Across Disciplines Including Integrative Medicine And Child Life To Support Medically ill Babies And Their Families In A Cancer Hospital
This presentation will discuss an innovative collaboration across disciplines including Dance/Movement Therapy and Child Life at a major NYC cancer hospital to provide integrative services that support long-term in-patient medically ill infants and their families. How key principles of infant mental health are used to support each infant’s social and emotional development to address complex family issues that challenge the baby’s medical treatment -- including socio-economic stressors and the lack of consistent caregivers at bedside -- will be discussed. This collaborative model will highlight the use of the creative arts therapies, including music and dance as an instrumental tool for coping and healing for both the baby and their parents.
NEUE UNIVERSITÄT, NEW UNIVERSITY, ALTE UNIVERSITÄT | 18th Herbstakademie: "The Circularity of Mind and Body" (Heidelberg, Germany)
Conference will be held in both the NEUE UNIVERSITÄT / NEW UNIVERSITY, Universitätsplatz 69117 Heidelberg and ALTE UNIVERSITÄT / OLD UNIVERSITY, Grabengasse 1 69117 Heidelberg
18th Herbstakademie: "The Circularity of Mind and Body"
The Circularity of Mind and Body is part of the series of Herbstakademie meetings dedicated to the topic of complex systems in psychology, neuroscience and related disciplines; 2015 will be the 25th anniversary of the series. Please submit (until December 1st) and/or register using this website
The meeting will take place at Heidelberg University, Germany, on March 26 - 28, 2015. We will address questions related to embodiment and dynamical systems theory: Which role does the body play in feeling and thinking? Which new perspectives arise for the philosophy of mind and the cognitive sciences? How can clinicians and psychotherapists incorporate principles of embodiment into their work? How does embodiment influence social and communicative processes?
Confirmed Keynotes by:
Steven Boker, psychology, University of Virginia, USA
Ezequiel di Paolo, theoretical biology and enactivism, Basque Science Foundation, San Sebastian, Spain
Marianne Eberhard-Kaechele, dance therapy, German Sport University, Cologne, Germany
Karl Friston, theoretical neuroscience, Wellcome Trust/University College, London, UK
Hermann Haken, theoretical physics and synergetics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Scott Kelso, biology and complex systems, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA
Mark Solms, neuro-psychoanalysis, Groote Schuur Hospital, Capetown, South Africa
You may attend one of the two pre-conference workshops on March 25:
Miriam Kyselo ""Enacting the self – a bodily exploration of self with others"
Thomas Heidenreich "Embodiment in mindfulness-based interventions"
Beijing Apollo Educational Consultant LLP (Beijing, China)
March 11 – 12 : Week day Therapeutic Group (Beijing)-Fully booked
March 14 – 15: Weekend Therapeutic Group (Shanghai)
March 16 – 17: Therapeutic Group (Shen Zhen)
March 19 – 20: Week day Therapeutic Group (Beijing)-Fully booked
March 21 – 22, 2015 Weekend experiential Workshop (Beijing)-Fully booked
March 23 – 26, 2015 Ways of Seeing 1 Workshop (Beijing)
Advancing the Mind-Body Connection: Seeking Embodiment in the Psychotherapeutic Process (New York, NY)
Winter 2015 Continuing Education Series
February 21, 28 & March 7, 2015
1:15PM – 4:30PM
The Body Speaks: Nonverbal Cues to Attachment Syles in Adult Treatment
Dr. Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, LCAT, LMHC is nonverbal analyst consultant for the Mothers, Infants and Young Children of September 11, 2001: A Primary Prevention Project, Dept. of Psychiatry, Columbia Univ. under Dr. Beatrice Beebe. She has a dance/movement psychotherapy practice in NYC and Cold Spring, NY. She manages Integrative Medicine Services Dréas Dream dance/movement therapy program for pediatrics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She is internationally known for her trainings, and publications including The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children. She has been featured on “Good Morning America”, “Eyewitness News” ABC–TV and in Malcolm Gladwell’s book, What the Dog Saw.
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Dance/Movement Psychotherapy with Infants and Children (New York, NY)
Sensitize yourself to the ways young children learn and express themselves through their movement and senses.
