Psychotherapy and the Arts
February 2020
Profiles in Psychotherapy and the Arts
- Mirrors and Theater of the Mind, Los Angeles
Arts project thrives as a unique celebration of psychology, creativity, culture and community.
- How to learn the secrets of the body in dance movement therapy and know yourself better
A one-hour lecture/demonstration on dance movement therapy for an online psychology training program.
Poetry
- 'Cheering the Golden Years'
Creatively flourishing as an oldie and not feeling “being put out to pasture” bolsters an oldie’s mental health.
Workshops, Conferences, Institutes and Residencies
- Movement, music and dreams: Active approaches to reshaping trauma narratives
Clinical workshop integrating narrative, dreamwork and arts approaches to healing trauma and dissociation.
- The horse archetype and social consciousness: Roadmap to biopsychospiritual healing
Workshop celebrating horse-human relations and the horse archetype as a roadmap for personal and planetary healing.
- Female Rainbow in Greece: Authentic movement, yoga, healing arts
An embodied spiritual retreat to let your powerful, multifaceted, wise and beautiful female soul to emerge and blossom.
- National Association for Poetry Therapy: 40th annual conference
Exploring and embracing diversity through poetry therapy.
- Creative Arts Therapies (CATS) in APA’s Div. 10
Invitation to Creative Arts Therapists for new Div. 10 conference, to be held Nov. 6-8, 2020, at Drexel University.
- Living a Life in Full
How to change the world through the creative arts and activism.
- Initiating 'Beyaz Keçi,' Expressive Arts Institute in Istanbul, Turkey
“We must find playful forms of life and responsive institutions that can sustain us by honoring our fundamental impulses…”
- Therapeutic residency for artists in Goa, India
An international residency which combines therapeutic self-awareness and healing with creative exploration and development in India.
Publications
- Back to the future: A case study Existential Psychology East-West, Vol 2: Colorado Springs, Colorado: University Professors Press. pp. 203-207
This afterword in a new book on humanistic psychology that, as it looks at the future of humanistic psychology, remembers and supports the inclusion of embodied approaches that include the feminine.
- The use of oral histories as a healing tool
Using storytelling as a healing tool just to tell your story, to create your family legend to help immigrant families to bond and to heal.
- Upcoming book on creative therapies
Upcoming book focuses on creative therapies from prehistory to the present.
- Life narratives in documentary films
Models of narrative creation in photography and film.