[Fwd: The School of Visual Arts MPS Art Therapy Spring Conference --- Global Art Therapy: Beyond Borders]

[Guest guest]

The School of

VISUAL ARTS

 MPS Art

Therapy Department

in

conjunction with

The

Visual Arts Foundation

Announces

Our 22nd Annual Art Therapy Conference

GLOBAL

ART THERAPY:

Beyond

Borders

Friday,

April 7, 2006

8:45am

– 4:00pm

McGraw-Hill

Conference Space

1221 Avenue of the Americas

New

York, NY 

Keynote

Speaker: 

Bessel

van der Kolk, MD

Special

Guest Speaker:

Malchiodi, ATR, LPAT, LPCC, REAT, CCBT

Workshop

Presenters Include:

, PhD, NCC

Dorr, ATR-BC, LCAT

Green, BFA

Paola

Luzzatto, PhD, ATR-BC

Seeley, PhD

Gaelynn

Wolf Bordonaro, PhD, ATR

Wise, ATR-BC, LCAT

 

Special

Luncheon Presentation: 

Herbert, MPS Candidate

All

proceeds from the conference will benefit the Ray Levine Art Therapy

Scholarship Fund of the Visual Arts Foundation

For more

information contact or acockle@...

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CONFERENCE INFORMATION

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Bessel van der Kolk, MD

The Global Impact of Art Therapy: The Role of Somatic Experience,

Purposeful Action, and Theatre in the Treatment of Trauma

The body is one of the theatres where the memory of trauma is

re-enacted. In the wake of the emerging understanding about the

neurobiology of trauma and the appreciation that physical action is

necessary to initiate new ways of perceiving reality and promote new

behavior patterns, this lecture will present a variety of programs that

work with physical action to process traumatic experience and create

new competencies for coping. Despite the fact that theatre and communal

rituals involving movement, imagination and transformation may be the

oldest ways in which communities have dealt with trauma, these

contemporary therapeutic programs can be considered fundamental shifts

from traditional therapeutic paradigms.  

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk has been active as a clinician,

researcher and teacher in the area of post-traumatic stress and related

phenomena since the 1970s. His work integrates developmental,

biological, psychodynamic and interpersonal aspects of the impact of

trauma and its treatment. His book, Psychological Trauma, was the first

integrative text on the subject, painting the far-reaching impact of

trauma on the entire person and the range of therapeutic issues that

need to be addressed for recovery. He was co-principal investigator of

the DSM IV Field Trials for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He has

taught at universities and hospitals across the United States and

around the world, including Europe, Africa, Russia, Australia, Israel,

and China. His latest book, Traumatic Stress:  The Effects of

Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society, co-edited with

McFarlane and Lars Weisaeth, explores what we have learned in

the past 20 years of the re-discovery of the role of trauma in

psychiatric illness.

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SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER

Malchiodi, ATR, HLM, CPAT, LPCC

Art Therapists Without Borders: Reflections on Art Therapists’

Contributions to Global Healing

This presentation will highlight the impact of art therapy on the

global community. Personal reflections and experiences on art therapy

in Asia, Europe, and other parts of the world will be presented along

with contemporary developments and accomplishments of ‘art therapists

without borders’. The overall goal of this presentation is to inspire

art therapists to see beyond our own self-imposed borders, embrace the

diversity of art therapy throughout the world, and to create pathways

to share the universal passion for art and healing.

Creating Nichos (Personal Shrines) for Inspiration and Motivation

Workshop

Partticipants will make ‘matchbox shrines’ to explore how this process

can help to focus creativity on goals for life, work, and/or

relationships. This experiential is based on Mexican tradition of

‘nicho’, creating a special or sacred place for images of inspiration.

Malchiodi is a licensed clinical mental health counselor,

art therapist, and faculty member of the National Institute for Trauma

and Loss in Children. She has more than 20 years of clinical experience

in working with people of all ages and has worked as an art therapist

with survivors of traumatic experience, including domestic violence,

physical and sexual abuse, disaster, and serious life-threatening

illnesses. Ms. Malchiodi is a frequent presenter on art and health care

throughout the United States, Asia and Europe, and has given more than

200 invited presentations. She has published over 70 peer-reviewed

papers on the use of art therapy and arts medicine.   

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WORKSHOPS

Sharing Art’s Healing: Establishing Art Therapy Programming in

International Contexts

Gaelynn Wolf Bordonaro, PhD, ATR

The presentation will highlight children with multiple disabilities in

the Bahamas, and at mobile immunization clinics in Australia. The

unique role of the art therapist as a member of a multi-cultural team

will be addressed, with emphasis on an international art therapy

perspective.

Gaelynn Wolf Bordonaro is a faculty member of the art therapy

program at Emporia State University. She has taught art therapy at

Florida State University, University of Louisville, and La Trobe

University in Australia. She serves on the Coordinating Committee of

the International Networking Group of Art Therapists as the editor of

the ING/AT International Newsletter, and as Membership Coordinator.

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Art Therapy and Global Survivors of Trauma

, PhD

This workshop will show how art therapy is a successful approach to

empowering trauma survivors. What is empowerment and how does it relate

to art therapy? What approaches would be effective promoting

empowerment in these populations? What art approaches will NOT be

effective in promoting empowerment and why? How does art help trauma

survivors? What are the healing benefits?

has 10 years of teaching experience. She has

published three books on art therapy, along with several other

professional publications, many of which are critical test reviews. Dr.

has presented both nationally and internationally in the field

of art therapy. She is currently editing her fourth book, The Handbook

of the Creative Therapies.

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Full Circle: From Sierra Leone to Sri Lanka

Dorr, ATR-BC, LCAT

This workshop will explore the efficacy of using Mandalas and other art

therapy techniques throughout many cultures and experiences. Examples

will include Mandalas and artwork of children affected by 9/11,

adolescents in a school suspension program, refugee children from

Sierra Leone, and orphans in Sri Lanka. Aspects of working cross

culturally with trauma will be highlighted. Participants will be able

to create their own Mandalas with a ‘global spin’.

Dorr received her masters degree from the Graduate Art

Therapy Program at New York University and is a registered, board

certified and licensed art therapist who works at The Door, a Center

for Alternatives for Adolescents, in a second opportunity school

program for suspended youth. She is a Program Facilitator for Free Arts

New York running groups with families. has worked

cross-culturally, specifically with children affected by trauma,

including child refugees from Sierra Leone and children affected by

9/11.

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Belgian Psychotic Artists and the Artist Studio

Green, BFA

This workshop will consist of a portraiture exercise called Here’s

looking at you looking at me, and a presentation detailing

Green’s experiences with the ARTISIT studios in Belgium for artists

with enduring mental health problems; describing the full nature of the

studios, its general philosophy and future expectations.

Green is currently Head of Fine Arts at the University of

Derby, and until recently a Senior Lecturer in Therapeutic Arts at that

school. He has facilitated creative expressive workshops for art

therapists, dance therapists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and

counselors in Russia, Belgium and Kazakhstan. Educated in Fine Art and

Art and Psychotherapy at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels,

is a painter with work in private collections throughout the

United States, Belgium, Russia, Australia and Kazakhstan.

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Art Therapy in Uganda: Short Term Treatment of Pregnant Adolescents

Herbert, MPS Art Therapy Candidate

Herbert is an MPS Art Therapy candidate at the School

of Visual Arts and an intern at Incarnation Children’s Center. This

past summer she traveled to Uganda and spent two months volunteering as

an art therapist in a crisis pregnancy shelter and participating in

several short-term art therapy projects around that country.

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Reflections on the Use of Silence in Art Therapy: From the Open

Studio to the Assisi Retreat

Paola Luzzatto, PhD

Silence is an important part of any art therapy intervention, but it is

rarely presented as a specific therapeutic tool. Different art

therapists may use silence in different ways. Dr. Luzzatto will discuss

how silence and words may alternate in individual art therapy sessions;

how silence may be used in group art therapy, the open studio, and in

art therapy retreats. 

Paola Luzzatto was Director of Art Therapy Services at West

Lambeth

Health Authority in London working with adult psychiatric patients for

eight years. Dr. Luzzatto was the Director of the Art Therapy program

at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, which she started in 1995.

She has lead international retreats for cancer patients in Assisi,

Italy, from 2001 to the present. She has written numerous articles for

professional journals and has lectured throughout the world. Dr.

Luzzatto received the 2004 Clinician's Award for her work with adult

cancer patients from the American Art Therapy Association, as

well as Honorary Lifetime Membership to the New York Art Therapy

Association.  

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Creating Cultural Genograms

Seeley, PhD

As we work more closely with clients whose cultural backgrounds differ

from ours, our standard therapeutic tools may require adaptation. For

example, conventional genograms do not portray clients’ complex

cultural histories and patterns in adequate detail; nor do they

sufficiently convey clients’ bicultural identities. Following a brief

discussion of biculturalism and presentation of a clinical vignette,

this workshop will introduce techniques for creating cultural genograms

that foreground significant cultural information. Participants will

have the opportunity to practice these techniques by making a cultural

genogram.

Seeley is a lecturer in Anthropology at Columbia

University, where she teaches courses on culture and mental health,

trauma, and cultural psychology. She received a Masters in Education

from Harvard University, a Masters in Social Work from New York

University, and a PhD in Education, specializing in Cultural

Psychology, from the University of Pennsylvania. She writes and

lectures widely on culture and mental health, and is currently writing

a book about psychotherapists and 9/11. She has a private psychotherapy

practice in New York City. 

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Running Away from Home: Art Therapy with New Orleans Children

Evacuated to Baton Rouge

Wise, ATR-BC, LCAT

In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina thousands of families

who had been able to evacuate from New Orleans were streaming into

parishes and cities through the Gulf Region and beyond. Five days after

the initial storm, the population of Baton Rouge literally doubled in

size creating havoc upon the city infrastructure and leaving evacuees

and residents having to adjust to a ‘new normal’. Ms. Wise will

describe and document the trauma art therapy work done within this

crisis situation. She is trained as a Critical Incident Responder and

it was initially in that capacity that she was hired to work in Baton

Rouge. All of the families and children she worked with, indeed, had

been running away from their homes.

Wise received her masters degree from the Graduate Art

Therapy Program at New York University and earned her certificate from

the International Trauma Studies Program at NYU and the International

University Center for Mental Health and Human Rights. She also

specialized, through the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic

Stress, as a Trainer for Acute Traumatic Stress Management. She is on

the faculty of the graduate Art Therapy Program at New York University.

She is a member of the Art Reach Foundation Team and a Critical

Incident Response Specialist with a national critical incident response

organization and maintains a private practice in New York City. 

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SCHEDULE

OF EVENTS

McGraw-Hill

Conference Space

Friday,

April 7, 2006

8:45am –

4:00pm

All proceeds from the conference will benefit the Ray Levine Art

Therapy Scholarship Fund of the Visual Arts Foundation

    8-8:45am            Registration and Refreshments

 

    8:45-9am            Welcome and Opening Remarks

                                            Deborah Farber, Chair, MPS

Art Therapy Department

 

    9-10:30am           Keynote Address

                                            Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

        

    10:45am-12pm     Workshops

    12-1pm                Lunch Break

    12:30-1pm           Luncheon Presentation

                                             Jen Herbert, MPS Candidate

 

    1:15-3:15pm         Presentation and Workshop

                                             Malchiodi

    3:15-4pm             Closing Reception

 

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REGISTRATION

INFORMATION

Conference

Fees:

General

public – full day: $75

General

public – keynote only: $60

SVA Art

Therapy On-Site Supervisors – full day: $50

SVA

Alumni/non-SVA students – full day: $50

SVA

students – full day: FREE

ALL

PROCEEDS BENEFIT THE RAY LEVINE ART THERAPY SCHOLARSHIP FUND

OF THE

VISUAL ARTS FOUNDATION

For more

information, or if you have any special needs, please email

acockle@...

CEC’s

available.

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Global Art

Therapy: Beyond Borders

REGISTRATION

FORM

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Workshops

are filled on a first come, first served basis.

Please

designate a first and second choice.

10:45am – 12pm Workshop

____ A. Sharing Art’s Healing: Establishing Art Therapy Programming

in International Contexts, Gaelynn Wolf Bordonaro, PhD, ATR

____ B. Art Therapy and Global Survivors of Trauma,

, PhD

____ C. Full Circle: From Sierra Leone to Sri Lanka,

Dorr, ATR-BC, LCAT

____ D. Belgian Psychotic Artists and the Artist Studio,

Green, BFA

____ E. Reflections on the Use of Silence in Art Therapy: From the

Open Studio to the Assisi Retreat, Paola Luzzatto, PhD

____ F. Creating Cultural Genograms, Seeley, PhD

____ G. Running Away from Home: Art Therapy with New Orleans

Children Evacuated to Baton Rouge, Wise, ATR-BC, LCAT

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