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8th Biennial International Conference

August 12-15, 2009

Hosted by Lesley University
Cambridge, MA

 

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Registration will be open from 8-9 am in University Hall, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge.

(Schedule subject to change)

Pre-Conference Workshops
Wednesday, August 12
9:00 am – 5:00 pm

CHOOSE ONE

PRE-1 - SOLD OUT
Expressive Arts Therapy as a Process of Change
Shaun McNiff

PRE-2 - SOLD OUT
Creating Change in the World: Expressive Therapy Approaches
Vivien Marcow-Speiser and Phillip Speiser

PRE-3 - SOLD OUT
Social Action-Transformational Processes for the Collective:
Resiliency, Attunement and Attachment
Robert Macy and Dicki Johnson Macy

PRE-4 - SOLD OUT
Voices from the Underground: A Bouffon Workshop
Stephen K. Levine and Ellen G. Levine

PRE-5
CANCELED

PRE-6 - SOLD OUT
At RAW ArtWorks Site - This Is How We Do It 
RAW Arts:
Jason Cruz, Beau Diehl, Chris Gaines, Susannah Horwitz
Laura Menucci, J.P. DiSciscio and Silvia Lopez Chavez

PRE-7 - SOLD OUT
Creating Collective Resonance: Toward Healing Seven Generations
Natalie Rogers and Mukti Khanna

PRE-8 - SOLD OUT
Seed of Change: Cultivating a Community Expressive Arts Practice
Expressive Arts Florida LLC:
Kathleen Horne, Victoria Domenichello-Anderson
Elizabeth Bornstein and Tamara Teeter Knapp

 
Conference Workshops
Thursday, August 13 

1:30-5:00 pm

 

1:30-3:00 pm

3:30-5:00 pm

CHOOSE ONE
LONGER WORKSHOP

OR

CHOOSE ONE 'B' and ONE 'C' WORKSHOP

A1
Using Expressive Arts Therapies with Children Who Have Experienced Violence
(panel, lecture, experiential)
Ellen Brochmann, Graça Duarte Santos, Anna Marie Weber

 

B1
Peak Performance: Be the Best that You Can Be
(experiential)
Jean Winslow

C1 - FULL
Three Drama Therapy Approaches to Family Conflict
(experiential)
Becca Greene-Van Horn, Greta Schnee, Daniel Wiener

A2
The Transmutation of Symbols from Symbol Abuse to Political Action (experiential)
Kate T. Donohue, Linda Hammond

 

B2
Body Casting for Personal and Social Healing and Transformation
(lecture)
Celine Hunt, Michaela Kirby, Shannon Stevens

C2 - FULL
Using Group Art Therapy to Build Self-esteem (lecture)
Stephanie Brooke

A3
Follow Your Heart to Jerusalem – Crossing Borders with Expressive Arts Therapies
(experiential, film)
Tamar Reva Einstein

 

B3
“Re-inventing Whatever Our Lives Give Us:” A Workshop about ‘Zines and Blogs
(experiential)
Eve Lyons

C3 - FULL
Empowerment from Art and Dreams: Visual Self-Balancing
(experiential)
Ann Sayre Wiseman

A4 - CANCELED
Sociodrama Art Therapy (lecture, experiential)
Rosalie Minkin

 

B4
Mandala Circle Dance: Linking with Peace – Spiritual Environmental Expressive Arts
(experiential)
Cenira

C4
Going Upcountry: Applications of Poetry Therapy in Sierra Leone (lecture, experiential)
Cameron Marzelli

A5
Creating Growth with Elders
(panel, experiential)
Anne Foley Alper
Donna Newman-Bluestein
Danielle O'Brien

 

B5
Through this Art, Peace: Desearte Paz (experiential)
Gene Diaz

C5 - FULL
Healing through Art: Working with Trauma, Domestic Violence and Eating Disorders
(lecture)
Becky Fleetwood, Nicole Hahna, Michal Shanti-Canetti

A6 - FULL
Cultivating Peace and Compassion: Focusing-oriented Expressive Arts
and Meditation
(experiential)
Peggy Langley, Laury Rappaport

 

B6
Processing Grief through the Arts: Reconnecting to a Lost Healing Wisdom
(panel, lecture, experiential)
B. Alicia Diaz, Emily Johnson

C6
Navigating Personality Differences through Art and Conversation: Pathways to Peace
(lecture, performance)
Haley Fox, Tina Marie Thomas

A7
Tools for the Peace-Maker: Honoring Deganiwidah in the World
(experiential)
Jane Goldberg, Mollie Shea

 

B7
Exhibits and Public Art Shows as a Social Change Agent for Clients
(panel, lecture)
Shalene Hatton, Jordan S. Potash

C7
Transforming the Bullying Cycle through the Expressive Arts (experiential)
Maryam Mermey

A8 - FULL
Enhancing Inner and Outer Diversity through Voice Movement Therapy (experiential)
Deborah Crane

 

B8 - FULL
Peace-ing: “A Way of Knowing” through Metaphoric Words and Images
(experiential)
Marisa Cornell, Diane J. Guelzow

C8 - CANCELED
Exile, Identity and Creation: Empowering Immigrant Women through Art
(lecture)
Vera Heller

A9 - FULL
Embodying Peace through Mask and Other Expressive Arts Processes
(experiential)
Sophie Glikson, Marina Strauss

 

B9
Intercellular Peace, Healing Intergenerational DNA Utilizing Somatic Therapies with Psychodrama (experiential)
Rebecca M. Ridge

C9 - FULL
EnVision: Creating Transformation through the Art of Intention and Visual Journaling  (experiential)
Sheri Gaynor

A10 - FULL
Mindfulness-based Expressive Therapy: Empathic Presence, Sensory Awareness, Meditation and Metaphor
(panel, lecture, experiential)
Rosa Granadillo-Schwentker, Daniel Herring, Carol Marks Stopforth

 

B10
Bridging Cultures: Music Therapy for Social Action
(lecture)
Irene Antonellis, Jessica Kaptcianos, Jared Leaderman

C10
Using Expressive Media in Virtual Reality: New Multi-Cultural Paradise (experiential)
Niela Miller

 

 

B11
Council Practice as a path to Peace and Social Justice
(experiential)
Stella Bay

C11
The Ethics of Care: Connecting Personal and Societal Actions
(lecture, experiential)
Denise Malis, Amy Morrison

 

 

B12
Quilting and Social Change
(panel, lecture, experiential)
Anna Densert, Michelle Harris

C12
The Veil: The Symbol of Islamic Covering (experiential)
Gloria Mahin

    B13
Multicultural Expressive Arts for Global Peace:
Acknowledging differences with mindfulness-compassion

(lecture, experiential)
Rosa Granadillo-Schwentker
 

 
Conference Workshops
Friday, August 14 

1:30-5:00 pm

 

1:30-3:00 pm

3:30-5:00 pm

CHOOSE ONE
LONGER WORKSHOP

OR

CHOOSE ONE 'E' and ONE 'F

' WORKSHOP

D1
The Use of Expressive Arts with HIV+ Women Prisoners in Nairobi, Kenya (experiential)
Gloria Simoneaux

 

E1
Empowerment through Drama: Theater of Witness for Validation and Change
(lecture)
Rachel Brandoff

F1
Mentoring, Social Action and the Expressive Arts
(lecture, experiential, performance)
Nancy Beardall

D2
Building and Arts with Post-Conflict Communities (experiential)
Joanne Robinson, Dot Walsh, Alan O’Hare and Colleen Brown

 

E2
“El Tendedero” The Clothesline: Different Faces with One Pain Through Breaking Silence We Re-create Consciousness
(lecture)
Michelle Contreras, Michelle Harris, Erika Lally

F2
Creative Process as a Catalyst to a Group Performance
(performance)
PhD group:
Ethelyn Anguluan-Coger (Mila), Rachel Brandoff, Jodi Brereton Souter, Becky Fleetwood, Susan Firestone, Nicole Hahna, Hod Orkibi, Michal Shanti-Canetti, Ralitza Vladimirov

D3
Moreno’s Codes and Formulas for Awakening Consciousness and for Social Healing
(experiential)
Ed Schreiber

 

E3
Artsbridge, Inc.:
Making a Difference through Art

(lecture)
Deborah Nathan

F3
Transforming a Shadow World: Expressive Arts to Enhance Empathy and Promote Pro-social Behavior 
(panel, lecture, experiential)
Lisa Merrell, Travis Merrell,
Amy Pfenning

D4
Knowing the Cultural Self: Multicultural Competencies in Clinical Practice (experiential)
Mariagnese Cattaneo

 

E4 - FULL
The Use and Transformation of Archetypes along the Road to Peace (experiential)
Shelley A. Jackson

F4
Living Newspaper as a Vehicle for Intergroup Dialogue
(experiential)
Ofra Armoni-Faiman
June Rabson Hare

D5 - FULL
Nourishing the Roots of the World Tree/Sañando las Raices del Arbol Mundial (experiential)
Graciela Bottini, Maria Gonzalez-Blue, Kyoko Ono

 

E5
Weaving a Web Around the World
(lecture)
Connie Carringer, Meredith Casper, Leanne Maloo Haynes, Betsy Naylor, Lindsey Smith

F5
Looking Beyond the Veil: Can You Know the Other
(experiential)
Kendall Dudley

D6 - FULL
New Song Long Dance: Creative Cauldron of Individual and Community (experiential)
Deborah Koff-Chapin

 

E6 - FULL
Intention, Direction, Action: Imaginal Processes and Creative Change
(experiential)
Dorit Netzer

F6 - FULL
Body Eloquence: The Healing Power of Storytelling
(experiential)
Nancy Mellon

D7
Social Action with Developmental Disabilities (experiential, lecture)
Barbara Devaney, Ellen McManus, Victoria Buckley Michaela Kirby, Kristin Falvey, Carylbeth Thomas

 

E7
Artistic Expressions of Marginalization:  A K-8 Public School Community Arts Project
(lecture, experiential)
Teresa Lee, Liz Rose,
Anna Ward

F7 - FULL
Arts and Healthcare: Finding Hope and Overcoming Illness through Rituals and Imagery
(panel, experiential)
Heather Cameron, Aya Kasai

D8
Imprisoned by Concepts of Manhood: Freeing the Man Behind Bars  
(experiential, lecture)
Evan Hastings, Suraya Keating, Nicki Koethner

 

E8 - FULL
Action Theater Improvisation: An Experiential Workshop in Movement, Sound and Language (experiential, performance)
Billie Jo Joy

F8
Staying Light on Our
Feet
: Forbidden Response to Oppression
(experiential)
Rowesa Gordon, Lisa Herman

D9
Aesthetic Action: Research Panel
(panel, lecture. experiential)
Sally Atkins, Marisa Cornell, Diane J. Guelzow, Hadass Harel
Ellen Landis, Helaine Sheias

 

E9
Motherblood, a Short Play and Interactive Process Exploring Middle East Peace
(performance)
Susan Nisenbaum Becker,
Saphira Linden

F9
Confronting Domestic Violence through Expressive Arts Therapy:  Finding Hope in Safety (panel, experiential)
Janet Novotny, Lisa Silveria

 

 

E10 - FULL
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle: Peacemaking Begins at Home
(lecture, experiential)
Suzanne Laberge

F10
Move On! Social Paralysis into Social Action using Expressive Arts (experiential)
Urusa Fahim,
Shoshana Simons

 

 

E11
A Year of Long Distance Creative Exchange and Regeneration
(lecture, experiential)
Adriana Marchione
Rebekah Windmiller

F11
Crossing Borders 30 Years Later: Two Muses Reunite in Story
(experiential, performance)
Terri Halperin-Eaton,
Colleen Hillock

 

 

E12
Community Action through Art in El Salvador
(lecture)
Ruth Guttfreund

F12 - FULL
Introduction to the Non- Directive Approach to Play and Expressive Arts (experiential)
Anna Clarke, Charlotte Yonge

 
Post-Conference Workshops
Saturday, August 15
1:00-5:00 pm

CHOOSE ONE

POST-1 - FULL
Rituals of Compassion
The Appalachian Expressive Arts Collective:
Sally Atkins, Joan Woodworth, Harold McKinney, Liz Rose, Jack S. Weller

POST-2
Inner Peace, Serenity and Passion through Japanese Culture
Kyoko Ono

POST-3 - FULL
The Sound of Community: Midwifing the Voice
Nina (Anin) Utigaard

POST-4
Peace-ing the Roots
Graciela Bottini and PCETI Argentina

POST-5
The Expressive Body: The Work of Tamalpa Institute
Adriana Marchione and Anne Foley Alper

POST-6
A Piece on Peace
Keren Barzilay-Shechter and Yousef Al-Ajarma

POST-7
Coming from Somewhere Else: Experiences of Transparency in “Waiting”
Julia Byers

POST-8
The Arts as a Catalyst to Spark Civic Dialogue
Lisa Donovan and Prilly Sanville

 

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lesley university

Lesley University in Cambridge, MA
will host the 2009 conference.

 

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