Expressive Therapies Summit | Saturday Special Symposium: Creative Teletherapy Strategies & Virtual Interventions for Coping with COVID & Cultural Bias Crises | (Virtual Lecture)
Creative Teletherapy Strategies & Virtual Interventions for Coping with COVID & Cultural Bias Crises
Date & Time:
Saturday November 14, 2020
9:30 AM- 5:30 PM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available online.
Course Description
Compounding the overwhelming psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic—including loss of daily normalcy, social isolation, and significant personal safety and financial concerns, the longstanding stress and frustration of racial inequities have resulted in massive civil unrest. This extraordinary confluence of factors has ignited a powder keg of emotional and psychological reactions, dramatically increasing the manifestation of existing disorders and, unfortunately, triggering new symptomatology at rates never before seen. Now, as mental health care professionals, it’s not only incumbent on us to incorporate culturally responsive interventions into our daily work, we must also practice our care-taking and healing primarily online. Although telehealth strategies have been essential in meeting the community’s needs for infection control and physical safety, to use them effectively, clinicians must also dedicate time to explore their own biases that can inadvertently block rapport with clients, especially those of color or other communities prone to discrimination. Working with patients to build a sense of security is harder than ever before because virtual and digital mechanisms impede physical body language and the more subtle and intuitive aspects of human communications necessary to create the sense of trust necessary for treatment to be successful. This daylong Symposium will explore new ways to develop those bonds, and help arts and play therapists to learn how to meet the requirements for responsible practice. Join us to learn about exciting recent arts-based research and discover new telehealth interventions that have proven even more effective than in-person interactions! Appropriate for practitioners of all disciplines, and at all levels of expertise.
About the Instructors
Kendra Carlson, MAAT, ATR-BC, Symposium Coordinator
Christian Bellissimo, LCSW, RPT
April Duncan, LCSW, RPT
Scott Giacomucci, DSW, LCSW, BCD, FAAETS, PAT
Brian Jantz, MA, MT-BC, LPMT
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.
Registration
http://www.cvent.com/events/2020-expressive-therapies-summit-ny-registration-site/event-summary-dc36db3df55c400da470725d6f5fc5dc.aspx
NYC DOE Office of Arts and Special Projects | Supporting Social Emotional Learning Through Dance Education: Session II Middle School 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 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.
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.
American Dance Therapy Association Virtual Conference| Tracing the Roots of Infant, Child and Adolescent DMT- Part 2: 18th Early Childhood Forum | (On Demand, Virtual Lecture)
Tracing the Roots of Infant, Child and Adolescent DMT- Part 2: 18th Early Childhood Forum
Date & Time:
Pre-recorded and available on-demand to ADTA conference participants
Thursday, October 15- Sunday, October 18, 2020
9:00 AM- 5:00 PM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available online.
Course Description
This forum continues to trace the history of infant, child and adolescent DMT from its origins to its growing applications today. It highlights five early innovators who exemplify diversity and multiculturalism in their ethnicity, methods and populations serviced. They discuss their influences on DMT with children, families and adults nationally and internationally as they developed their methods as either founding DMT mentors or highlighting those early mentors they worked with. These early mentors include Blanche Evan, Liljan Espenak and Dr. Baba Chuck Davis. Opening her school in 1934, Evan’s innovative approach to creative dance for children emphasized dance improvisation balanced with age appropriate physical development. Espenak, from Norway, worked at Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospital. She developed one of the earliest DMT training programs as well as seven Movement Diagnostic Tests, based on her work with developmentally delayed children, grounding her work with the concept “Motion causes emotion to flow”. Davis, founding artistic director of DanceAfrica always spoke of the therapeutic and healing components of dance and the arts. Collectively, the presenters have expanded the reach of their work in over 32 countries, providing training and treatment in: Asia, Australia and Oceania, North, Central and South America, Europe and Eastern Europe. They discuss how they and their mentors teach and provide culturally sensitive work servicing diverse populations across cultures. Their focus includes: marginalized populations; treatment from diagnosis to plan implementation; creating a developmental model integrating elements from emotional, physical, and psychological imperatives which unfold into a wholistic focus of healing and change; inpatient, outpatient, multi- family groups, homeless, from age three to one hundred and one with a wide range of clinical and medical diagnoses; and experiencing the joy of dance. Through experientials and videos each presenter describes their contributions and those that influenced their personal and professional journey.
About the Instructors
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC (moderator) is 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.
Bonnie Bernstein
Dr. Nana Koch
Dr. Theresa Howard
Dr. Marcia Leventhal
Registration
https://adta.memberclicks.net/2020-virtual-conference-landing-page
University of Buffalo School of Social Work | Let’s Dance! Using Movement, Dance, Play, and Embodied Mindfulness | (Virtual Lecture)
Let’s Dance! Using Movement, Dance, Play, and Embodied Mindfulness
Date & Time:
Thursday, August 20, 2020
9:00 AM- 12:00 PM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available on Zoom.
Course Description
During this stressful time of COVID-19 isolation, social unrest, racial activism, justice, and equality how do we as people - both professionals and parents with young children – help children express the array of diverse feelings and questions they have but may not be able to find the words to express them? Equally challenging and vital, how do we find the time for our own personal reflection, when we have limited privacy and bandwidth while managing work and family life? And, as professionals working with “at-risk” families how do we hold a child’s attention through video conferencing – which may be our only means of connection for the foreseeable future? Though mindfulness activities are helpful, it can be very difficult to slow down, breathe and focus our own, and children’s minds when our bodies are feeling restless and agitated from confinement and inner chaos. Dr. Suzi Tortora, internationally acclaimed dance/movement therapist, teacher, author and senior dance/movement therapist at Integrative Medicine Services, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s MSK Kids, addresses these concerns introducing you to specific methods she has created to support you as a professional, parent and individual. Learn ways to listen and dialogue deeply with your own feelings, thoughts, images and sensations using her “Embodied Listening -Embodied Sensing” self-management method. From this grounded awareness, learn specific clinical tips and activities for children ages birth – seven, using movement, dance, and story to help families engage with their children, release stress, enhance self-expression and be able to implement mindful practices that support both caregivers and their children to support self-regulation and coping.
Target Audience: social workers, mental health practitioners, creative arts therapists, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and other interested individuals.
Completion Requirements This workshop requires individuals to participate in polls throughout the presentation. Participants must participate in at least 75% of the polls correctly to pass.
Customer Service
We are happy to respond to any concerns or questions you may have. Please contact us at by email at sw-ce@buffalo.edu or by phone at 716-829-5841.
ADA Accommodations: If you require any support for your ADA needs in the United States, please contact us by email at least 3 weeks prior to the event by email at sw-ce@buffalo.edu or by phone at 716-829-5841.
Learning Objectives
Describe (2) specific mindful movement and dance- based activities using the “Embodied Listening -Embodied Sensing” self-management method for coping.
Describe (2) specific movement and dance- based activities to support self- expression in young children while engaging the professional and child during video conferencing sessions.
Describe (2) movement and dance- based activities for parent and child to support positive engagement and co-regulation while at home.
Describe (2) movement and dance- based activities to help young children focus their attention reaching a mindful state of awareness to support self -regulation and coping.
About the Instructor
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.
https://ubswce.ce21.com/item/lets-dance-movement-dance-play-embodied-mindfulness-63698#tabDescription
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Feeling Good! Reclaiming Your Body Using Yoga and Dance | (Virtual Lecture)
Feeling Good! Reclaiming Your Body Using Yoga and Dance
Date & Time:
Saturday, August 1, 2020
12:00- 1:00 PM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available on Zoom.
Course Description
During cancer treatment, you may experience your physical body in a different way. Yoga can help you reconnect to your body, treat yourself with compassion and loving-kindness, and feel the strength and light that you carry inside. Dance/movement therapy can support this process as you re-engage with your body safely and joyfully while connecting with experiences that may be difficult to describe in words.
This online workshop combines dance with the grounding practice of yoga. In the workshop, an MSK yoga instructor and two MSK dance/movement therapists will guide you through activities and exercises to help you feel more at ease in your body and bring you to a place of awareness, forgiveness, and acceptance.
Audience
This class is open to people who have been treated for cancer and their caregivers.
About the Instructors
Clare Patterson, E-RYT, certified Yoga 4 Cancer™ instructor
Jennifer Whitley, MS, BC-DMT, LCAT, CMA
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC
Registration
https://www.mskcc.org/event/feeling-good-reclaiming-your-body-using-yoga-and-dance
POSTPONED: Codart University for the Arts | Families in Motion: The Dancing Dialogue (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Families in Motion: The Dancing Dialogue- Using the Power of Movement to Support Communication and Attachment with Infants, Young Children, and Families
Date and Time:
POSTPONED, new dates to be announced.
Location:
Codarts University of the Arts
Kruisplein 26
3012 CC Rotterdam
Netherlands
Description:
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, at Codart University for the Arts, Masters in Dance Therapy. Director: Nicki Wentholt.
Instructor:
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC Dr. Tortora is a board certified dance movement therapist, Laban Nonverbal Movement Analyst, and specialist in the field of infancy mental health and development. Her expertise in early childhood development and the importance of early relationships inform her psychotherapeutic work across the life span. Dr. Tortora has a private dance movement psychotherapy practice, in New York City and Cold Spring-on-the-Hudson, New York. Dr. Tortora offers training programs and lectures about her dance therapy and nonverbal video analysis work with infants, children and families, at national and international professional meetings and universities.
She is on the board of the New York Zero-to-Three Network.
Dr Tortora has been featured on “Good Morning America” and Eyewitness Five-O’Clock News, WABC –TV; Women’s Day magazine; highlighted in Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker article and book titled What the Dog Saw and other adventures; has published numerous papers about her therapeutic and nonverbal communication analysis work with children, parent-infant dyads, and Autism Spectrum Disorders; has twice been guest editor of the Zero to Three Journal; and has a book with Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company titled The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children.
Dr. Tortora graduated with honors from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development Tufts University specializing in child development, education and psychology; received her dance movement therapy masters degree at New York University; and her doctorate with a specialization in infancy/early childhood development, psychology and education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
She has done extensive study and training in the field of infancy and early childhood research, development, education, communication and intervention through the Zero to Three Institute and Dr. Stanley Greenspan. She has studied Authentic Movement with Janet Adler & Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Dr Tortora is also a certified Laban Movement Analyst, and Kestenberg Movement Profiler.
Registration:
https://www.codarts.nl/en/master-dance-therapy/
Brecha: Buenos Aires: Conversation with Suzi Tortora: Dance/ Movement Therapy with Children and Families in the Hospital at the Time of COVID 19 | (Virtual Lecture)
Conversation with Suzi Tortora: Dance/ Movement Therapy with Children and Families in the Hospital at the Time of COVID 19 Hosted by Diana Fischman
Date & Time:
Thursday, June 25, 2020
9:00 AM- 10 AM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available on Zoom.
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.
https://www.brecha.com.ar/webinar/
POSTPONED: 92nd Street Y | June Intensive: Dance for Children and Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum (New York City)
June Intensive: Dance for Children and Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum
POSTPONED TO A FUTRE DATE
Sunday 1:30- 7:15 PM & Monday- Thursday 5:30- 9:30 PM
(15 hour training)
Location:
Harkness Dance Center at The 92nd Street Y Gilda and Henry Block School of the Arts
1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Course Description:
In this experiential course, participants learn about the characteristics and identification of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Four experts in the field present a variety of educational and therapeutic approaches to engage the strengths of children with ASD and address relationship, behavioral and learning issues through dance.
This course is fully approved by ADTA for Alternate Route credit for R-DMT. This dance therapy course is eligible for 15 CE hours. For further information about ADTA, visit adta.org.
About the Instructors
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.
Diane Duggan, PhD, BC-DMT, LCAT
Tina Erfer, MS, BC-DMT, LCAT, NCC Coordinator
Catherine Gallant, MA
Registration:
http://92y.org/classes/del-dance-for-autistic-spectrum
Dancing Dialogue Continuing Education Program | From Dancing to Mindfulness in the time of COVID: Movement and Dance-Based Activities to Support Families through Telehealth Sessions (Virtual Lecture)
From Dancing to Mindfulness in the time of COVID: Movement and Dance-Based Activities to Support Families through Telehealth Sessions
Date & Time:
Saturday, June 13, 2020
11 AM- 1PM
Location:
Offered Live and Online via Zoom.
Course Description:
As practitioners working with “at-risk” families how do you hold a child’s attention through video conferencing sessions? During this extended period of time when parents are asked to continue to maintain “stay-at-home” orders, what activities can they do to engage their children and support them to express the array of diverse feelings they have? Mindfulness activities are helpful, but how do you get children to slow down, breath and focus when they have been confined indoors and are quite literally “bouncing off the walls”? Dr. Suzi Tortora, internationally acclaimed dance/movement therapist, teacher, author and senior dance/movement therapist at Integrative Medicine Services, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s MSK Kids, will provide you with practical and creative clinical tips and activities for children ages birth – through early elementary age, using movement, dance and story to help families engage with their children, release stress, enhance self-expression and be able to implement mindful practices that support both caregivers and their children. Be ready to move and groove and you try out these ideas too!
Objectives
Gain an understanding about how a child’s body actions [ages birth - early elementary] and behaviors are nonverbal cues that can be transformed into meaningful movement and dance-based self – expressive activities during telehealth sessions/lessons.
Learn how to create individualized movement and dance- based activities to release stress in children [ages birth - early elementary] and engage them with their therapist/teacher during telehealth sessions.
Explore and learn how to use movement and dance activities to transform dysregulated behaviors into more regulated actions that focus a child’s [ages birth - early elementary] attention to obtain a mindful state of awareness the child can use during and after telehealth sessions/lessons.
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.
Postponed: The World Association for Infant Mental Health| Master Class: The Dancing Dialogue: How our bodies tell the story! (Brisbane, Australia)
Master Class | The Dancing Dialogue: How are Bodies Tell the Story
Date & Time:
POSTPONED to a later date
Location:
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Cnr Merivale & Glenelg Streets
Southbank, Brisbane
Queensland Australia
Course Description:
TBD
About the Instructors
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:
http://waimh2020.org/preview/registration.php
University of Auckland | Ways of Seeing: Dance/ Movement Therapy with Children with Disabilities (Virtual Lecture)
Ways of Seeing: Dance/ Movement Therapy and Autism
Date & Time:
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
10:15- 11:45 AM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available on Zoom. Not open to the public
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.
New York Zero-to-Three Network | Family Dance Party: Dancing to Mindfulness in the time of COVID (Virtual Lecture)
Family Dance Party: Dancing to Mindfulness in the Time of COVID
Date & Time:
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
12 PM- 1 PM
Location:
Offered Live and Online via Zoom. Link to Zoom meeting available by registering here.
Course Description:
During this stressful time of quarantine, what tools can we, as practitioners, give parents to help their children express the array of diverse feelings they have and still find a place of calm and regulation? How do you hold a child’s attention through video conferencing? Mindfulness activities are helpful, but how do you get children to slow down, breath and focus when they have been confined indoors and are quite literally “bouncing off the walls”?
Please join us for this lunchbreak workshop where Dr. Suzi Tortora will share specific clinical tips and activities for children ages birth to five, using movement, dance and story to help practitioners and parents engage with their children, release stress, enhance self-expression and be able to implement mindful practices that support both caregivers and their children.
This workshop is being provided to our community at no cost by New York Zero-to-Three Network and Dr. Suzi Tortora, recognizing the challenges we are all facing during this time and the importance of coming together as a community.
Objectives
Learn two (2) specific movement and dance- based activities to support self- expression in children [ages birth -toddler] and engage the therapist /teacher and child during telehealth sessions/lessons; and/or the caregiver and child to support positive engagement.
Learn two (2) movement and dance- based activities for parent and child [ages birth -toddler] to support positive engagement.
Learn two (2) methods for how to use movement and dance- based activities to help toddlers focus their attention reaching a mindful state of awareness to support self -regulation during telehealth sessions/lessons.
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.eventbrite.com/e/family-dance-party-dancing-to-mindfulness-in-the-time-of-covid-tickets-104982716130
University of Auckland | Ways of Seeing: Dance/ Movement Therapy and Autism (Virtual Lecture)
Ways of Seeing: Dance/ Movement Therapy and Autism
Date & Time:
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
10:15- 11:45 AM
Location:
Virtual Lecture Available on Zoom. Not open to the public
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.
POSTPONED: Music Together Worldwide Annual Conference | Keynote Address: The Magic of Music and Dance with Young Children... PRIVATE EVENT (Princeton, NJ)
Keynote Address: The Magic of Music and Dance With Young Children and Their Caregiver (Private Event)
POSTPONED, new time TBA
Not Open to the Public
Location:
Princeton, NJ, USA
Course Description:
“The Magic of Music and Dance with Young Chidlren and their Caregivers,” is the keynote address at the annual meeting of Music Together licensees and teachers, being held in Princeton, NJ. Music Together is a research-based, developmentally appropriate early childhood music and movement program for children ages birth through eight—and the grownups who love them. First offered in 1987, classes are now offered in 3000+ communities in 40 countries around the world. Learn more at musictogether.com.
About the Instructor
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC Dr. Tortora is a board certified dance movement therapist, Laban Nonverbal Movement Analyst, and specialist in the field of infancy mental health and development. Her expertise in early childhood development and the importance of early relationships inform her psychotherapeutic work across the life span. Dr. Tortora has a private dance movement psychotherapy practice, in New York City and Cold Spring-on-the-Hudson, New York. Dr. Tortora offers training programs and lectures about her dance therapy and nonverbal video analysis work with infants, children and families, at national and international professional meetings and universities.
She is on the board of the New York Zero-to-Three Network.
Dr Tortora has been featured on “Good Morning America” and Eyewitness Five-O’Clock News, WABC –TV; Women’s Day magazine; highlighted in Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker article and book titled What the Dog Saw and other adventures; has published numerous papers about her therapeutic and nonverbal communication analysis work with children, parent-infant dyads, and Autism Spectrum Disorders; has twice been guest editor of the Zero to Three Journal; and has a book with Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company titled The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children.
Dr. Tortora graduated with honors from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development Tufts University specializing in child development, education and psychology; received her dance movement therapy masters degree at New York University; and her doctorate with a specialization in infancy/early childhood development, psychology and education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
She has done extensive study and training in the field of infancy and early childhood research, development, education, communication and intervention through the Zero to Three Institute and Dr. Stanley Greenspan. She has studied Authentic Movement with Janet Adler & Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Dr Tortora is also a certified Laban Movement Analyst, and Kestenberg Movement Profiler.
Registration:
PRIVATE EVENT. Not open to the public.
POSTPONED: Erikson Institute | The Dancing Dialogue: Using dance, movement, music, rhythm and the analysis of nonverbal... (Chicago, IL)
The Dancing Dialogue: Using dance, movement, music, rhythm and the analysis of nonverbal communication to support babies, their families and the professionals that care for them
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
(6 hour training)
Location:
Erikson Institute
451 N. LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL 60654
Course Description:
The embodied experiential nature of our interactions can build emotional expression, social engagement, and strengthen the attachment relationship between infants/young children and their caregivers. It is not just what you say but how you say it - with your body - that counts. We communicate with babies, and each other before we even say a word. Babies also talk to us right from the beginning through their facial expressions, body actions, the quality of their vocalizations and even the way they look at us. This embodied experiential nature of our interactions can be used to understand the underlying meaning of an infant and young child’s behaviors as well as build emotional expression, social engagement and strengthen the attachment relationship.
Throughout this training Dr. Tortora will demonstrate how dance, movement, music and rhythmic activities can be used to support infants, young children and their families who have experienced trauma and are “at-risk”. Participants will learn a nonverbal analysis tool that can be used for clinical observation; assessment; and video-feedback parenting- infant education and intervention. During the afternoon the instructor will include embodied activities supporting reflective practice and self-care for the practitioner.
Learning Objectives
Understand the role of embodied, multisensory, and preverbal experience in early infancy and childhood emotional/social development.
Understand the role of nonverbal analysis for assessment and clinical intervention with infants, young children and their caregivers.
Winnicott to neuroscience, learn how object relations theory and current neuroscience research provide a foundation for creative and movement-based interventions.
Learn how creative, multimodal and interactive explorations using dance, movement, dance-play, music and nonverbal expression are used to facilitate psychobehavioral change with infants and young children “at-risk” and who have experiences trauma.
Learn embodied and mindfulness activities to support reflective practice and self-care for the practitioners working with this population.
Who Should Attend?
The emotional and behavioral challenges seen as children grow older are often related to gaps and lapses in the foundation of their development. These gaps can derail basic capacities to relate and communicate, share attention and self-regulate. Developmental disturbance can disrupt the formation of empathy and comprehension of the world around and the capacity to communicate thoughts and feelings with words, play and other symbols. These disruptions in development can have life-long consequences without intervention.
The focus of this series i.e., understanding the foundations of development and early experiences, make sense for any clinician who is interested in training that will support and enhance their work with families and children of all ages such as Social Workers, Developmental Therapists, Pediatricians, Psychiatrists, Neonatologists, Nurse Practitioners, Midwives , Speech Pathologists, Psychologists, Early Care and Education providers and teachers, Obstetricians, Family Therapists, Professional Counselors, Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, and others whose work impacts the lives of infants, young children and families.
About the Instructor
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC Dr. Tortora is a board certified dance movement therapist, Laban Nonverbal Movement Analyst, and specialist in the field of infancy mental health and development. Her expertise in early childhood development and the importance of early relationships inform her psychotherapeutic work across the life span. Dr. Tortora has a private dance movement psychotherapy practice, in New York City and Cold Spring-on-the-Hudson, New York. Dr. Tortora offers training programs and lectures about her dance therapy and nonverbal video analysis work with infants, children and families, at national and international professional meetings and universities.
She is on the board of the New York Zero-to-Three Network.
Dr Tortora has been featured on “Good Morning America” and Eyewitness Five-O’Clock News, WABC –TV; Women’s Day magazine; highlighted in Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker article and book titled What the Dog Saw and other adventures; has published numerous papers about her therapeutic and nonverbal communication analysis work with children, parent-infant dyads, and Autism Spectrum Disorders; has twice been guest editor of the Zero to Three Journal; and has a book with Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company titled The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children.
Dr. Tortora graduated with honors from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development Tufts University specializing in child development, education and psychology; received her dance movement therapy masters degree at New York University; and her doctorate with a specialization in infancy/early childhood development, psychology and education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
She has done extensive study and training in the field of infancy and early childhood research, development, education, communication and intervention through the Zero to Three Institute and Dr. Stanley Greenspan. She has studied Authentic Movement with Janet Adler & Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Dr Tortora is also a certified Laban Movement Analyst, and Kestenberg Movement Profiler.
Registration:
https://www.erikson.edu/courses/74-the-dancing-dialogue-using-dance-movement-music-rhythm-and-the-analysis-of-nonverbal-communication-to-support-babies-their-families-and-the-professionals-that-care-for-them/
CHKD | When Words Do Not Say It All! How the Dance/Movement Therapy Supports the Mind, Body, and Spirit of Pediatric Patients and Their Families (Norfolk, VA)
When Words Do Not Say It All! How the Dance/Movement Therapy Supports the Mind, Body, and Spirit of Pediatric Patients and Their Families
Thursday January 23, 2020 8:00am- 9:00 am
(Grand Rounds)
Location:
Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters (CHKD)
601 Children’s Lane Norfolk, VA 23507
Course Description:
A pediatric cancer diagnosis affects the whole family. As the medical team attends to the child’s cancer treatment finding a treatment that provides emotional support for the patient and family members is challenging. A dance/movement therapy (DMT) creative arts program fulfills this need. Using the creative arts as a means of expression creates a safe environment where the patient and family can safely share their emotional responses, manage difficult medical procedures and experience ways to enjoy childhood. This presentation demonstrates the core elements that go into a DMT session. How these activities provide support during pediatric medical procedures, pain management, and overall coping with the emotional themes that arise with medical illness for all family members is highlighted. A core focus of this medical DMT program addresses the specific challenges that a potentially life-threatening illness bring to the family dynamics and the child’s developmental process. Through discussions, evidenced-based practice and experientials, participants learn about the key elements that build a strong pediatric DMT program as part of Integrative Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The depth of versatile engaging activities, from calming to activating, that are utilized to adapted to the patient’s and family’s moment- to-moment presenting behaviors and symptoms is discussed. Collaboration across disciplines include music therapy, mind-body therapy, massage, child life, psychiatry, social work, nursing, and the physicians. A multi-sensory protocol developed by Dr Tortora that helps families and even infants and toddlers cope with treatments with painful side effects, is highlighted. How key principles of infant mental health are used to support each child’s social and emotional development to address complex family issues that compromise the child’s medical treatment is included.
Learning Objectives
1. Learn how to develop a DMT program in a pediatric cancer hospital within the context of evidenced-based practice.
2. Learn specific DMT –based treatments to support emotional expression and painful medical procedures.
3. Learn specific early childhood developmental stages to support when working young hospitalized medically ill children.
About the Instructor
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC
Dr. Tortora is the founder and director of Dancing Dialogue PLLC, her full-time private 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.
Affiliations:
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY.
- Dancing Dialogue PLLC LCAT LMHC
Registration:
https://www.chkd.org/for-medical-professionals/education/continuing-medical-education/pediatric-grand-rounds/