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Cathy Malchiodi - Full Day Workshop, Monday October 7
Dr. Cathy Malchiodi PhD, LPAT, LPCC, ATR-BC, is a leading international expert, syndicated writer, and educator in the fields of art therapy and art in healthcare. She is a research psychologist, a Board Certified and Licensed Professional Art Therapist, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, and has had over 25 years of experience and education in trauma intervention and disaster relief and integrative approaches to health. Cathy is the founder, director and lead faculty member of theTrauma-Informed Practices Institute, dedicated to teaching trauma-informed intervention that integrates neurodevelopment, somatic approaches, mindfulness, and positive psychology. In particular, it supports the use of creative arts therapies including art therapy, music therapy and movement therapy, play therapy, integrative expressive arts therapies, and mind-body approaches for recovery and wellness in children, adults and families. Cathy is also the President of Art Therapy Without Borders and is one of its founders.
Publications & Syndicated Writing
Cathy has published numerous books, including, The Art Therapy Sourcebook, The Soul’s Palette: Drawing on Art’s Transformative Powers, Breaking the Silence: Art Therapy with Children from Violent Homes, Handbook or Art Therapy (1st and 2nd eds.), Expressive Therapies, Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children, Medical Art Therapy with Adults,Medical Art Therapy with Children, and Understanding Children’s Drawings, all of which are standards in the field. She has served as Editor for several journals including Trauma and Loss: Research and Interventions (8 years) and Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association (ten years); she has also published more than 50 of invited book chapters and refereed articles and reviews various mental health and medical journals. Cathy’s blog, The Healing Arts atPsychology Today Online covers topics related to art therapy, expressive arts therapy, trauma, body-mind approaches, neuroscience and the arts, creativity, and integrative health practices (with occasional bouts of humor). It has been visited by more than 2 million readers since 2008, probably making her the “most widely read art therapist” on Planet Earth.
Cathy will be presenting on Monday October 7 for the full day. See below for workshop descriptions.
Resilience and Trauma-Informed Practice: Expressive Arts Approaches for Helpers
This presentation covers the basics of trauma-informed practice and the importance of resiliency-building in addressing trauma and loss. It also introduces attendees to the foundations of trauma-informed expressive arts approaches as essential methods for addressing traumatic events, including mass tragedies and violence. The emphasis is on using these approaches to address the body’s response to stress and the value of sensory-based intervention in work with children, adults and families. This presentation will include lecture, brief film clips and a short hands-on experiential to demonstrate key practices.
Participants will:
1) be able to identify five components of trauma-informed practice;
2) be able to identify at least four expressive arts methods used in trauma-informed intervention;
3) be able to define why sensory-based, arts interventions are essential in reducing the body’s response to stress;
4) be able to define the role of resilience in trauma-informed practice.
Trauma-Informed, Sensory-Based Approaches to Safety and Self-Regulation
This presentation highlights why safety and self-regulation are essential to the early stages of trauma intervention and why these are essential components in reducing the impact of stress reactions. Examples of arts-based and body-mind approaches with children, adolescents and adults are presented with an emphasis on how these approaches can be applied to ameliorate posttraumatic responses. This presentation includes lecture, brief film clips and hands-on experiences.
Participants will:
1) be able to define the concept of safety as it relates to trauma-informed practice;
2) be able to define the importance of self-regulation as it relates to trauma-informed practice;
3) be able to identify at least three expressive arts methods to explore and enhance the body’s sense of safety;
4) be able to identify at least sensory methods to support self-regulation.
Expressive and Sensory-Based Approaches to Enhance Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth
This session introduces participants to a variety of trauma-informed, expressive arts approaches that support resiliency and posttraumatic growth. Emphasis is on current best practices in the fields of resiliency and positive psychology that support trauma reparation and recovery. Participants will learn several expressive arts-based and sensory techniques to apply to resiliency-building in their work and how to adapt strength-based approaches to counseling with children, adults and families. This session includes lectures, group participation and indepth hands-on experientials
Participants will:
1) be able to define the concepts of resilience and posttraumatic growth in relation to trauma recovery;
2) be able to identify at least five characteristics of resilience;
3) be able to identify at least five expressive arts approaches to support resilience and posttraumatic growth;
4) be able to describe why self-compassion is a key factor in trauma recovery.
Publications & Syndicated Writing
Cathy has published numerous books, including, The Art Therapy Sourcebook, The Soul’s Palette: Drawing on Art’s Transformative Powers, Breaking the Silence: Art Therapy with Children from Violent Homes, Handbook or Art Therapy (1st and 2nd eds.), Expressive Therapies, Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children, Medical Art Therapy with Adults,Medical Art Therapy with Children, and Understanding Children’s Drawings, all of which are standards in the field. She has served as Editor for several journals including Trauma and Loss: Research and Interventions (8 years) and Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association (ten years); she has also published more than 50 of invited book chapters and refereed articles and reviews various mental health and medical journals. Cathy’s blog, The Healing Arts atPsychology Today Online covers topics related to art therapy, expressive arts therapy, trauma, body-mind approaches, neuroscience and the arts, creativity, and integrative health practices (with occasional bouts of humor). It has been visited by more than 2 million readers since 2008, probably making her the “most widely read art therapist” on Planet Earth.
Cathy will be presenting on Monday October 7 for the full day. See below for workshop descriptions.
Resilience and Trauma-Informed Practice: Expressive Arts Approaches for Helpers
This presentation covers the basics of trauma-informed practice and the importance of resiliency-building in addressing trauma and loss. It also introduces attendees to the foundations of trauma-informed expressive arts approaches as essential methods for addressing traumatic events, including mass tragedies and violence. The emphasis is on using these approaches to address the body’s response to stress and the value of sensory-based intervention in work with children, adults and families. This presentation will include lecture, brief film clips and a short hands-on experiential to demonstrate key practices.
Participants will:
1) be able to identify five components of trauma-informed practice;
2) be able to identify at least four expressive arts methods used in trauma-informed intervention;
3) be able to define why sensory-based, arts interventions are essential in reducing the body’s response to stress;
4) be able to define the role of resilience in trauma-informed practice.
Trauma-Informed, Sensory-Based Approaches to Safety and Self-Regulation
This presentation highlights why safety and self-regulation are essential to the early stages of trauma intervention and why these are essential components in reducing the impact of stress reactions. Examples of arts-based and body-mind approaches with children, adolescents and adults are presented with an emphasis on how these approaches can be applied to ameliorate posttraumatic responses. This presentation includes lecture, brief film clips and hands-on experiences.
Participants will:
1) be able to define the concept of safety as it relates to trauma-informed practice;
2) be able to define the importance of self-regulation as it relates to trauma-informed practice;
3) be able to identify at least three expressive arts methods to explore and enhance the body’s sense of safety;
4) be able to identify at least sensory methods to support self-regulation.
Expressive and Sensory-Based Approaches to Enhance Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth
This session introduces participants to a variety of trauma-informed, expressive arts approaches that support resiliency and posttraumatic growth. Emphasis is on current best practices in the fields of resiliency and positive psychology that support trauma reparation and recovery. Participants will learn several expressive arts-based and sensory techniques to apply to resiliency-building in their work and how to adapt strength-based approaches to counseling with children, adults and families. This session includes lectures, group participation and indepth hands-on experientials
Participants will:
1) be able to define the concepts of resilience and posttraumatic growth in relation to trauma recovery;
2) be able to identify at least five characteristics of resilience;
3) be able to identify at least five expressive arts approaches to support resilience and posttraumatic growth;
4) be able to describe why self-compassion is a key factor in trauma recovery.
Dr. Siegel - Resiliency and Neural Integration: Harnessing the power of relationships and reflection to cultivate and maintain well-being
Dr. Daniel Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. He served as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at UCLA, studying family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behavior, autobiographical memory and narrative.
Dr. Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center. An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person lectures that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. His psychotherapy practice includes children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. He serves as the Medical Director of the LifeSpan Learning Institute and on the Advisory Board of the Blue School in New York City, which has built its curriculum around Dr. Siegel’s Mindsight approach.
Dr. Siegel has published extensively for the professional audience. He is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Guilford, 1999). This book introduces the field of interpersonal neurobiology, and has been utilized by a number of clinical and research organizations worldwide, including the U.S. Department of Justice, The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, Microsoft and Google. The Developing Mind, Second Edition was published in 2012. Dr. Siegel serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which contains over two dozen textbooks. The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (Norton, 2007) explores the nature of mindful awareness as a process that harnesses the social circuitry of the brain as it promotes mental, physical, and relational health. The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration (Norton, 2010), explores the application of focusing techniques for the clinician’s own development, as well as their clients' development of mindsight and neural integration. Dr. Siegel’s latest book is Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook of the Mind (Norton, 2012).
Dr. Siegel will be presenting via live feed on Resiliency and Neural Integration: Harnessing the power of relationships and reflection to cultivate and maintain well-beingThis presentation will immerse participants in an intensive experiential and didactic overview of the power of relationships and reflection to promote the growth of integrative fibres of the brain. Seen through the lens of the interdisciplinary field called Interpersonal Neurobiology, resilience can be seen to reflect how a set of nine functions are cultivated including bodily regulation, compassionate communication, emotional balance, flexibility, fear modulation, insight, empathy, morality and intuition. These functions emerge from the integrative fibres of the prefrontal cortical areas that coordinate and balance a wide range of neural circuits. We will review how both secure parent-child relationships and mindfulness practices promote these functions, and how mental health in fact may emerge from the process of integration. We'll dive into a "wheel of awareness" reflective practice that can be used to promote both mindful states as well as neural integration. The benefit for clinicians and other care providers is to promote resilience for those working with highly stressed and traumatized individuals.
Dr. Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center. An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person lectures that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. His psychotherapy practice includes children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. He serves as the Medical Director of the LifeSpan Learning Institute and on the Advisory Board of the Blue School in New York City, which has built its curriculum around Dr. Siegel’s Mindsight approach.
Dr. Siegel has published extensively for the professional audience. He is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Guilford, 1999). This book introduces the field of interpersonal neurobiology, and has been utilized by a number of clinical and research organizations worldwide, including the U.S. Department of Justice, The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, Microsoft and Google. The Developing Mind, Second Edition was published in 2012. Dr. Siegel serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which contains over two dozen textbooks. The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (Norton, 2007) explores the nature of mindful awareness as a process that harnesses the social circuitry of the brain as it promotes mental, physical, and relational health. The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration (Norton, 2010), explores the application of focusing techniques for the clinician’s own development, as well as their clients' development of mindsight and neural integration. Dr. Siegel’s latest book is Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook of the Mind (Norton, 2012).
Dr. Siegel will be presenting via live feed on Resiliency and Neural Integration: Harnessing the power of relationships and reflection to cultivate and maintain well-beingThis presentation will immerse participants in an intensive experiential and didactic overview of the power of relationships and reflection to promote the growth of integrative fibres of the brain. Seen through the lens of the interdisciplinary field called Interpersonal Neurobiology, resilience can be seen to reflect how a set of nine functions are cultivated including bodily regulation, compassionate communication, emotional balance, flexibility, fear modulation, insight, empathy, morality and intuition. These functions emerge from the integrative fibres of the prefrontal cortical areas that coordinate and balance a wide range of neural circuits. We will review how both secure parent-child relationships and mindfulness practices promote these functions, and how mental health in fact may emerge from the process of integration. We'll dive into a "wheel of awareness" reflective practice that can be used to promote both mindful states as well as neural integration. The benefit for clinicians and other care providers is to promote resilience for those working with highly stressed and traumatized individuals.
Dr. David Berceli - Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE)
Re-attaching to one’s self is often the primary step for many trauma survivors. When large-scale traumas such as natural disasters, poverty, violence or mass shootings occur, many people are left on their own to deal with their recovery process. This workshop will introduce a unique method for self-attachment, inner awareness and eventual self-healing that can be achieved when professional assistance is not available. Large-scale disasters often affect the disadvantaged or disenfranchised when more traditional therapeutic methods are unavailable. In these situations the attachment process can still be successfully achieved through familial and social relationships. This workshop will be didactic and experiential. All participants are asked to wear comfortable clothing to participate in the Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) www.traumaprevention.com that provide an experiential application of the theoretical foundation that will be presented.
David Berceli, Ph.D. has worked in the field of mass trauma world-wide. He is an international expert in the area of trauma recovery and intervention for large populations. David brings a keen understanding of the interactive dynamics of the neurology, biology and physiology of trauma that underlies the expressions of post trauma symptoms. He is the creator of a revolutionary and unique set of Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) that helps release physical tension, and reduces the psycho-emotional distress of traumatic events. David’s academic training includes Social Work (PhD, MSW), Theology (MA), Arabic and Islamic Studies (MA), and certification in Bioenergetic Analysis (CBT), and Massage Therapy (MT), Board Certified Neurotherapist & Certified Neurotherapy Instructor, Board Certified Psychoneurologist.
*Please note that we reserve the right to modify conference program or substitute speakers should unforeseen circumstances arise.
David Berceli, Ph.D. has worked in the field of mass trauma world-wide. He is an international expert in the area of trauma recovery and intervention for large populations. David brings a keen understanding of the interactive dynamics of the neurology, biology and physiology of trauma that underlies the expressions of post trauma symptoms. He is the creator of a revolutionary and unique set of Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) that helps release physical tension, and reduces the psycho-emotional distress of traumatic events. David’s academic training includes Social Work (PhD, MSW), Theology (MA), Arabic and Islamic Studies (MA), and certification in Bioenergetic Analysis (CBT), and Massage Therapy (MT), Board Certified Neurotherapist & Certified Neurotherapy Instructor, Board Certified Psychoneurologist.
*Please note that we reserve the right to modify conference program or substitute speakers should unforeseen circumstances arise.