[Fwd: School of Visual Arts MPS Art Therapy Department Open House Announcement and Community Lecture and Workshop Series Schedule --- January 2006]

[Guest guest]

 The MPS Art Therapy Department will be conducting an Open House for

prospective students on Saturday, January 21, 2-4pm at The

School of Visual Arts’ MPS Art

Therapy

Department Open Studio, 132 West 21 Street, 3rd Floor, between Sixth

& Seventh Avenues, NYC.

Please let me know if you would like to attend.

In addition, below please find our SPRING 2006 Community

Lecture and Workshop Series

Schedule.

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SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS

MPS ART THERAPY DEPARTMENT

COMMUNITY LECTURE and WORKSHOP SERIES

SPRING 2006

All lectures and workshops take place at The School of Visual Arts’ MPS

Art Therapy Department Open Studio, 132 West 21 Street, 3rd Floor,

between Sixth & Seventh Avenues, NYC.

Attendees must RSVP.

CEC’s available for ATR-BC’s.

Lectures are FREE to the public. Workshops are $20 for

the general public; free for SVA students, staff, faculty and alumni.

Please make checks payable to:

School of Visual Arts MPS Art Therapy Workshop

For more information or to RSVP, please contact acockle@...

or .

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MPS Art Therapy Community Lecture

A Space in Sri Lanka: Creative Art Therapy in a Sri Lankan Orphanage

Dorr, MA, ATR-BC

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 --- 6:30–8:30 pm

In August 2005 Dorr traveled to Wattala, Sri Lanka where she

volunteered in an orphanage with children affected by ethnic war,

poverty, and the tsunami. She spent three weeks at the

Gokulam-Bhaktivedanta Children's Home and ran art therapy groups while

immersed in the culture of this home with these very special children.

This lecture will focus on three art therapy projects done with the

children, while touching upon the challenges, surprises and discoveries

of working as an art therapist in a completely different culture.

Dorr is a registered, board certified art therapist who works at

The Door, a Center for Alternatives for Adolescents, for a second

opportunity school program for suspended youth. She is also a Program

Facilitator for Free Arts running groups with families for the Parents

and Children Together with Art Program (P.A.C.T.). She has worked with

children around issues of trauma including groups affected by 9/11, as

well as with child refugees from Sierra Leone.

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MPS Art Therapy Workshop*

The Healing Power of Stories

Fisher, PhD

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

6:30-8:30pm

Myths, folktales, religious texts hold the collected wisdom of human

experience. The most profound stories touch us both consciously and

unconsciously, and contain raw material that can spark a creative and

potentially healing process.  In this workshop we will explore one or

more stories as springboards to an exploration of their personal

meanings. After a story has been shared with the group participants

will be asked for their personal associations and reflections. Based on

these reflections the group will be invited to role-play improvised

scenes that have particularly touched us. Therefore, rather than

interpret the story as an intellectual exercise we will come to know it

in a deeper and more personal way. No participant will be required to

play a role; observing and reflecting on the process is just as

meaningful. 

Participants will create an artwork in response to the story which will

serve to further deepen the experience arising from both the story and

the group-play. In this way verbal and non-verbal, conscious and

unconscious aspects of our experience will be enriched. The workshop

will include ample time for reflection and questions.  Special emphasis

will be placed on apply this method of working to carious clinical

settings.

Fisher, PhD, a senior psychologist at the i Medical Center

and on the faculty of the SVA Art Therapy program. He has conducted

workshops using stories for studies, health care professionals and the

general public over the past 15 years.

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MPS Art Therapy Community Lecture

The Creative Journey

Bonnie , ATR

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 --- 6:30-8:30pm

The Creative Journey was developed as an art therapy program for cancer

patients at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center by Paola Luzzatto,

PhD, and Bonnie . It is a series of ten workshops, using a

variety of ideas and art materials to help patients develop images and

personal metaphors to transform their traumatic experiences and

strengthen their self-confidence. 

This program has been presented at both the Psycho-Oncology and AATA

conferences.  It provides helpful art therapy projects that can be used

in myriad settings, and is not limited to hospital use.

Bonnie is a registered art therapist at Memorial

Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as well as North General Hospital where

she works with psychiatric, alcoholic and substance abuse patients in

both in-patient and outpatient settings. Bonnie assisted and helped

develop the adaptation of the in-patient bone marrow transplant

patient’s portion of the Creative Journey.  She has co-authored

numerous articles and presented this workshop since 1997.

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MPS Art Therapy Community Lecture

MARI Mandala Assessment

Bader, MPS, ATR-BC, NCPsyA

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 – 6:30-8:30p.m.

Art Therapy Assessments are tools used both clinically and for research

by trained art therapists. The MARI Mandala is a particularly

fascinating assessment.  It incorporates the mandala, which Jung

considered to be an archetypal symbol representing the self.  The MARI

Cards provide a symbolic way to map stages of psychological growth

incorporating psychosocial, physiological and spiritual aspects of

human developments.  Bader is certified in MARI Mandala

Assessment levels 1 & 11 and can speak eloquently on this topic, as

well as show many examples of her work. She has a slide and music show

based on the mandala created from images sent to her by people from all

over the world.

Bader, MPS, is a Board Certified Art Therapist as well as a

Nationally Certified Psychoanalyst.  She is the Executive Director of

the Institute for Expressive Analysis as well as on the faculty of the

School of Visual Arts MPS Art Therapy Program and the New School for

Social Research. In addition she has a highly successful private

practice.

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MPS Art Therapy Community Lecture

Art Therapy in Prisons

Kathleen Shargo, MA, ATR

Date TBA, April 2006 --- 6:30-8:30pm

Kathleen Shargo developed an Art Therapy program for prisons while

still an intern at New York University. She has brought this program to

several prisons and will be presenting several in depth case studies of

her work. Some of the topics covered will be working with the mental

health problems typically found in prison settings such as adjustment

to incarceration, depression, suicidal ideation and sociopathic

individuals.

Kathleen Shargo is a registered Art Therapist who graduated from New

York University. She is presently working at Northern State Prison in

Newark, New Jersey where she is working with Special Needs in-mates.

Previously she worked at East Jersey State Prison where she developed

the first Art Therapy program. 

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*Workshops are $20 for the general public; free for SVA

students, staff, faculty and alumni. Attendees must RSVP.