Keynote Speakers

Ericha Scott, Ph.D., LPCC, REAT, ATR-BC is a Honorary Fellow for The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, Secretary for the Special Interest Group – Organized Extreme Abuse, published in peer review publications in the US and abroad. Has been granted awards for her work as a psychotherapist and for volunteerism.

Professional and Leisure Interests: art history, fine art, photography/painting, museums, for 2 years produced and directed a public cable TV show for artists entitled “The Freedom of Art”, have kept a dream journal for 40 years, lucid dreaming, mysteries (earthly and cosmic), spirituality and world religions, investigating the essence of what motivates people to be great, humor, concerns about social inequity and the environment, familial and organizational systems and how to help them be functional, international travel, cafes, movies, hiking, the beauty of nature, reading….

José Miguel Calderón is the co-founder of TAE Peru/ Barcelona Institute and the Director of the PhD program in Expressive Arts at the European Graduate School, Switzerland. His doctoral dissertation was titled Tinkuy: The Encounter between Expressive Arts Therapy and Peruvian Imaginary. He has received a master’s degree in theoretical psychoanalytic studies at University College London. He also holds a degree in clinical psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. As a therapist and expressive arts supervisor, he has led several community projects, where his interests are focused on arts-based research and the exploration of movement and creative writing.

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