Dance Movement Therapy with Survivors of War, Torture and Violence

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You have until Wednesday, April 20, 2011 to register for this course. This is a special opportunity for those of us who live in the East coast. Besides getting a great four day educational opportunity that is rarely available on the East Coast, you will get 30 hours towards your continuing education requirements. The only caveat is that you must register in time. Please share this announcement with others who may be interested in the topic.Dance Movement Therapy with Survivors of War, Torture and ViolenceThe CenterPost Trauma & Resiliency Framework (“CPF”) derives its name from the Kreyol words Poto Mitan, which describe the potent healing and transpersonal space that is integral to many ancient forms of healing. The name acknowledges the influence of Haiti’s Fran Guinee tradition of Vodou – the oldest form of Vodou which arrived on Haiti’s shores with the slave ships.The essence of Vodou is universality – our interconnectedness with all of life. Spirit and grace are considered to be ever present. Vodou tradition holds the principle that we have an innate capacity to heal which is sourced through our innate capacity to love.CPF and its clinical counterpart, Restorative Movement Psychotherapy (RMF), integrate multiple pathways, both ancient and cutting edge, to help individuals and collectives to access their own most potent healing space. The pathways integrated into CPF and RMP include current neurobiological research such as Porge’s Polyvagal Theory, Dance/Movement therapy, expressive arts, and developmental psychology.CPF and RMP have been developed over years of working with individuals and groups around the world who have experienced and continue to experience extreme trauma including torture, genocide, war, and natural disasters. It is a phasic, developmental framework that specifically addresses and honors the complexities of working across cultures and the impact that long-term trauma has on survivors’ lives. Both models seek to evoke the profound resiliency present in human beings as a pathway to restoration and recoveryThis training will benefit all dance/movement therapists, and mental health professionals who work with survivors of trauma and wish to integrate body-based and creative arts approaches into their work. The work is applicable to individual, family, group or community contexts.InstructorAmber Gray, MPH, MA, LPCC, BC-DMT, is both a longtime practitioner of body-centered arts and sciences and an advocate of human rights. She has worked internationally and nationally as an activist, an artist, a mental health professional, a program director and a trainer/consultant on behalf of victims of human rights abuses. As a human rights professional, Amber’s expertise is in the development of culturally congruent programs that reinforce individual and communal resilience for communities that have experienced mass social trauma such as war or natural disaster. Amber has collaborated with Dr. Porges, whom she met in 2000, and has applied his theories to her work she does ever since. She combines somatic psychology, dance-movement therapy, ritual, creative arts, drumming, and Continuum Movement in her work. Currently, she is Director of Restorative Resources Consulting and Training (www.restorativerersources.net) and its non-profit affiliate, Trauma Resources International (www.traumaresorucesinternational.com). She is also the Board Vice-Chair for TASSC International. Her work has taken her to Haiti, Indonesia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Central America, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Darfur-Sudan, Norway, Sweden and Denmark and Lebanon.Your investment in this 30-hour, 2 credit course is $650.00. A 50% deposit will hold your place in the class. Please make checks or money orders payable to Kinections. To pay by credit card, please go to http://www.kinections.com/credit.php. Balance is due no later than Tuesday, June 28 so you have ample time to save money for this special program. Please contact me asap if you are interested in taking this innovative seminar. If you wish to create a payment plan, please contact jeffreymehr@...Dani Fraenkeldaniellefraenkel@... __________________________________________________le Fraenkel, Ph.D., BC-DMT, NCC, LCAT, LMHC, CGPDirector,Kinectionsat Imagine Square718 University AvenueRochester, NY 14607USATel: FAX: www.kinections.com