Get ready to expand your Expressive Arts experience and training in 2021
with this amazing line-up of teachers in our Professional Development Series.
Registration will open soon.
These training workshops are open to anyone with an interest and/or background in Expressive Arts - students, practitioners, facilitators, therapists.
All live online; join from wherever you are!
We are really excited to bring these presenters to you.
Pat B. Allen and Rabbi Adina Allen
Taking it Off the Page: Adapting Your Expressive Arts Practice to Your Community of Choice
Monday March 15
6-8:30 pm ET
Expressive arts training is exciting, offering many opportunities for self - exploration and growth. The next step is figuring out how to adapt your insights, gifts and skills to make a contribution to your community of choice. This workshop will combine a presentation about how Rabbi Adina Allen adapted the Open Studio Process, the work of Dr. Pat Allen, to the Jewish world and an experiential exercise to help you assess your
resources and challenges and to create an image to map where your passion and the world’s need intersect.
Rabbi Adina Allen is a spiritual leader, writer and educator who believes in the power of creativity to revitalize our lives and transform Jewish tradition. Integrating a lifetime of experience in the expressive arts with her rabbinic training, Adina has taught clergy, educators and lay leaders in hundreds of Jewish communal
institutions across the country. She is a recipient of the Covenant Foundation’s 2018 Pomegranate Prize for emerging Jewish Educators and is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship. She was ordained by Hebrew College in 2014. Adina is Co-Founder and Creative Director of the Jewish Studio Project. www.jewishstudioproject.org
Pat B. Allen, Ph.D., A.T.R., is an author, artist, art therapist, and teacher who connects to the Creative Source through art and writing. Her books – Art Is a Way of Knowing (Shambhala 1995) and Art Is a Spiritual Path (Shambhala 2005) – explore the borders between art, psychology, spirituality, and social action and are considered classics in the field of expressive arts therapy. Her novel Cronation (Blue Jay Press, 2016) offers an inspiring vision of a world infused by the revolutionary creative energy of women. Author of
numerous professional articles, Dr. Allen lectures and delivers workshops nationally and internationally. Her artwork has been exhibited in a wide variety of juried and invited exhibits. Dr. Allen served on the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for twenty years and has taught at many colleges and universities nationally and internationally. Dr. Allen co-founded the Open Studio Project in Chicago and of Studio Pardes in Oak Park, IL. She is currently Senior Consulting Faculty
for the Jewish Studio Project, which was founded by her daughter, Rabbi Adina Allen. Pat is the delighted grandmother of Adina’s two boys, Remy and Tovi.
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Annie Rousseau
The Art of Grief: Developing a Grief and Loss Workshop
Monday March 29
6:00-8:30 pm ET
This session will outline the purpose and guidelines for developing a 6-session Grief and Loss workshop. This workshop was developed for the bereaved, however, it could be adapted it to suit those who are experiencing other types of loss: divorce, loss of identity, home, country, career, job, etc. Come prepared to work with a loss in your life.
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Annie Rousseau
I am an Expressive Arts Educator and Consultant, a certified Hakomi Counselor and Teacher, a Trainer and Senior Facilitator with The Painting Experience, and a Bereavement Counsellor with Comox Valley Hospice Society. Yes, all at the same time. I have a private practice and I divide my time between these organizations. My passion is helping people explore and discover their own inner landscape by tapping the
wisdom of the unconscious mind through art, movement, writing and all forms of self-inquiry. It enriches my life deeply to assist people in discovering this inner connection to themselves and a deeper universal wisdom.
Annie lives in Courtenay, B.C., Canada, and is graduate of Expressive Arts Florida Institute Certificate Training Program in Expressive Arts.
www.annierousseau.ca
www.processarts.com
www.vancouverhakomi.ca
Manju Jain and Aslam Khader
The Plane of Possibilities
Wednesday April 14:
6-8:30 pm ET
In this expressive arts workshop the facilitators will lead participants through understanding the mind and how it is our biggest strength, but how sometimes it can be our biggest weakness. We use the various modalities to explore a personal life situation and the different ways to look at that situation. Based on the model of the mind proposed by Dr. Dan Siegel, the workshop explores how we can use our
minds to help ourselves.
Manju and Aslam are a husband-wife team dedicated to making emotional well-being practices universally accessible.
Manju Jain As a young child growing up in India I would cry when I saw street dogs, and poverty in its various visible forms, especially street children begging for their livelihood. By the time I became a teenager, I wanted to make a difference, but I did not know how. My drive to help vulnerable populations started playing out as a psychology student working with street children in the slums of
India. As both my parents were psychologists, I entered the world of psychology as an undergraduate student, and was immediately drawn to the Rogerian concepts of unconditional love and acceptance as a way for a person to be validated, seen, and feel that they matter. This validation facilitated the person to being their best-self and feeling empowered. In discovering Natalie Rogers’ expressive arts process I found a powerful process of non-verbal connection. My need to make a difference
combined with my education in psychology, counseling, and the expressive arts has led me to where I am today. The need for validation has been true for me personally, and in all the work that I have done over the last 30 years. Social causes are my passion and my joie-de-vivre. I bring heart, expertise, a global perspective, a lifelong thirst for learning, and an empathic and collaborative approach to all that I do. And I still cry. http://www.acreativepause.net/
Aslam Khader I am a computer and electronics engineer who has worked in technology for over 35 years. My work in managing teams in India, Japan and the US has been a wonderfully rich learning experience. In my last position as Chief Product Officer at AWS Elemental, an Amazon company, I was privileged to see how a $35B organization can still innovate. I am passionate about the science of the mind and
our ability to lead fulfilling lives by using the arts to enable neuroplasticity towards positive outcomes. I completed a course in InterPersonal NeuroBiology (IPNB), a 36-credit program offered by the MindSight Institute and Dan Siegel in 2020. I have been a junior partner to Manju in this work since we got together, and in 2019 when I joined Manju full time in her work, I quickly took to the challenge and the joy of engaging with an underserved population. I got hooked on being able to use my
skills to make a difference. I bring the skills of a senior executive, a continued need to learn, a systems approach and an internal drive to make a difference in the world. We have facilitated expressive arts workshops for over 5000 participants from 40+ organizations. For a list of organizations see completed projects. Since the start of the pandemic we have moved our work online and have facilitated workshops for over 15 groups worldwide.
Markus Scott-Alexander
Magical Child
Saturday May 1
Noon-2:30 ET
The Magical Child is the ambassador of your essence This training calls upon several art forms to intimately enrich the relationship between your inner magicalness and your ability to bring that magic into the world.
Markus Scott-Alexander, PhD, REAT is a leader in the field of phenomenological expressive arts education with a focus on intermodal, cross-cultural art-making, exploring how every individual can be included in the building of an ensemble.
He was senior faculty member of the European Graduate School (1997 to 2020) and is currently the director of World Arts Organization offering online expressive arts courses as well as supervision. Markus has co-facilitated many international community-art gatherings with expressive arts pioneer, Paolo Knill. Originally from New York, he now resides in
Edmonton, Canada. Markus is the author of Expressive Arts Education and Therapy: Discoveries in a Dance Theatre Lab through Creative Process-based Research (2020), available through Brill Publishing. “In moving forward, it helps to return to what precedes our distortions, creating art that reflects and embodies our journey home”.
Deborah Koff-Chapin
Touch Drawing - Integrating it into Your Expressive Arts Practice
Tuesday June 1
6-9 pm ET
A workshop for Expressive Arts students and professionals who are interested in facilitating Touch Drawing in your in intermodal work. This Touch Drawing experience will be focused on deepening your personal experience of the process, while also learning the essential elements needed to apply Touch Drawing appropriately in the settings within which you work. Prerequisite: participation in at least one introductory TouchDrawing
workshop, familiarity with set up and supplies.
Deborah Koff-Chapin, BFA Cooper Union, is an artist, vocalist, author, ceremonialist and facilitator. She has been developing the process of Touch Drawing since it came to her in revelatory play in 1974. Through her years of Touch Drawing, Deborah has tapped into a universal level of the human soul. She is creator of the best selling decks, SoulCards 1&2 and SoulTouch Coloring Journals. Deborah is author of Drawing Out Your
Soul and The Touch Drawing Facilitator Workbook. She is releasing a new deck entitled Portal of Presence in spring 2021. She has also begun offering her Song Baths live online.
Deborah is founding director of The Center for Touch Drawing and has convened the Annual Touch Drawing Gathering since 1997. She encourages the dissemination of Touch Drawing worldwide through workshops, media and online community. Deborah has presented in numerous venues including Esalen, Omega Institute, California Institute of Integral Studies, The International Expressive Arts Therapy Association and the Expressive Therapies Summit.
Deborah has been Interpretive Artist at many conferences including The Parliament of World Religions, the Conference on World Affairs, Dawn of Interspirituality, Findhorn’s New Story Summit, and Seeds of Compassion with the Dalai Lama.
Deborah and her husband Ross cofounded the Island Long Dance circle in 1983. They have continued to meet for quarterly since that time. https://touchdrawing.com/
Laury Rappaport
Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts: The Felt Sense as a Doorway to Intermodal Expression
Monday June 14
6-8:30 pm ET
Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®) is a mindfulness and somatic based approach to the expressive arts developed by Dr. Laury Rappaport. This workshop provides an overview of the history, foundational principles, and main approaches of FOAT®— and teaches how the felt sense is a doorway to all of the expressive arts modalities and intermodal expression. The workshop includes a theoretical overview along with experiential
exercises to teach an introduction to Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®) as an intermodal approach.
She has been on the faculty of the Expressive Therapies Division at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA for 40 years, where she was the Academic Coordinator of their International Expressive Arts Therapies programs. Laury has also served as Associate Professor at Notre Dame de Namur University, and been on faculties at other universities.
Laury pioneered the development of Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®) that can be applied to clinical, educational, community, organizational and other settings. She is the founder/ director of the Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute which provides training programs in the United States and throughout the world, including the University of Hong Kong, University of Guatemala,
and Japan.
Laury is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (CA), Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT) Board Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC) and a Certifying Coordinator and Trainer with The International Focusing Institute. Laury has extensive clinical experience in wide variety of settings and currently has a private practice in Santa Rosa, CA. https://www.focusingarts.com/
Pat B. Allen and Rhonda Johnson
Your Storylines: Points in Racial Awareness
Wednesday July 14
6-8:30 pm ET
Transforming our racial awareness is an inside job. Using Open Studio Process (OSP) we will identify points in personal history that make up our racial understanding. We invite you to join us in an exploration of the strengths and vulnerabilities in our personal and collective stories.
Participants will
- set an intention about exploring racial awareness
- create art about a point of personal history
- witness their process
Rhonda Johnson, ATR-BC graduated Wellesley College with a degree in Economics, then pursued a career in corporate marketing. Reprioritizing her love for art, years later she made a mid-course correction to pursue a graduate degree in Creative Art Therapies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. As a board-certified art therapist, and certified Open Studio Process facilitator, she offers art experiences in her home
studio as well as at various community spaces. Before the pandemic, Rhonda worked at a behavioral health center in Newark, NJ, creating and running their art therapy program for over 50 children and teens. Rhonda now provides art therapy via telehealth to kids who can benefit from art as a means of self-expression. In her spare time, she indulges in Britcoms, knitting, drawing and reading.
Pat B. Allen, PhD, ATR see bio above.
Gloria Simoneaux, Brandon Okoth, Rina Pratik
Expressive Arts projects in Kenya and Nepal
Saturday Aug. 7
1-3:30 pm ET
This workshop will familiarize you with the Harambee Arts Expressive Arts methodology that focuses on a culturally sensitive, collaborative, and relational approach to working with different societies around the world. Rina Pratik from Nepal and Brandon Okoth from Kenya, both long time staff members of Harambee Arts, will lead exercises and be available to answer questions. Rina facilitates groups for young girls who have been rescued
from trafficking, HIV+ women and those who have experienced domestic violence. Brandon works with children who live in poverty in Kenya’s largest slum, Kibera. They will share their innate wisdom, lessons learned and how expressive arts has supported them to become empowered and courageous members of their community.
Rina Pratik is a Safe Home Coordinator of Shakti Samuha, the first organization in the world established and run by survivors of human trafficking. When she was age 14 she was trafficked to India. In that time she faced so many of problems like social stigma, stress and she felt emotionally weak. In 2012 she met Gloria and Harambee Arts and she learned so many things; how to manage anger and stress and
especially about the meaning of her life. She took Harambee Arts as medicine and now she is an Expressive Arts Facilitator. In this long journey she found her own family. She could cry, she could be angry and share the story of her life. Currently she is working with survivors of sexual violence, children with downs syndrome and girls rescued from human trafficking. Her dream is to be very strong working with trafficking survivors as she also suffered the same kinds of problem while she
was trafficked.
Brandon Okoth was born and raised in Kibera, Kenya. He is currently pursuing his diploma in counselling psychology at the Kenya Association of Professional Counsellors. He found his passion in Expressive Arts through Harambee Arts Kenya where he is currently working as one of the staff members and has been affiliated since 2007.Brandon is also committed to bring change in his neighbourhood, Kibera slum, by joining
hands with Gloria to help connect kids who are determined and willing to go to school but their families aren’t able to provide for the school fee. So far, he has been able to connect 12 children to different sponsors world wide.
Gloria Simoneaux, MA, REAT is founding director of Harambee Arts, an expressive arts organization and training program based in sub-Saharan Africa and Nepal. Harambee Arts is designed to serve children and women globally who have been traumatized by illness, poverty, violence, trafficking, autistic spectrum disorder and other crises. Gloria
taught Expressive Arts to counselors in Nairobi as a Fulbright scholar, affiliated with the Kenya Association of Professional Counselors. She is the Founder of DrawBridge: An Arts Program for Homeless Children, has worked with pediatric oncology patients in San Francisco hospitals and is currently a consultant with Save the Children, Railway International and other international NGOs. She will be working in Dominica as a Fulbright scholar in 2021.
Fiona Chang
Solo-to-Duet: Arts-based Couples Group Process
Wednesday Aug. 25
6-8:30 pm ET
Learn about therapeutic facilitation of arts-based couples group through experiential activities, tales, arts and creativity.
Fiona has 25 years of expressive arts practice in a variety of settings. She initiated expressive arts projects with Orphans with HIV in Cambodia, a Wellness CD project for cancer patients, and hosted the IEATA Conference in Hong Kong in 2015. She is currently the Vice-chairperson of “Art in Hospital”, the advisor of the "Art Therapy Without Borders" and the South Western College in Santa Fe. She is a former Executive Co-chair
and board member of IEATA. Fiona pioneered the Patient Resource Centre in public hospitals. She received the H.K. International Cancer Congress Young Investigators’ Award, Outstanding Staff Award of Hospital Authority, Distinguished Social Work Alumni of HKU and IEATA Shining Star Award.
Fiona wrote several chapters on expressive arts therapy for internationally and locally published books, including "The Creative Connection for Groups: Person-centered Expressive Arts for Healing & Social Change”, “Art Therapy in Asia: To the bone or Wrapped in Silk”, “Art Therapy and Health Care”, "Mindfulness and the arts therapies", “Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care in Hong Kong: The first decade” and "Group Case
book" Her Chinese book "Expression ‧ Arts ‧ Therapy" was published in 2015.
Topaz Weis
The Body Sings: Explorations in Embodied Voicework
Tuesday Sept. 14
6-8:30 pm
This training workshop draws on techniques from a range of practices to explore the transformative power of expressing oneself with an embodied voice. Through the combined use of breath, vocalizing, movement, and improvisation we will engage in a mindful exploration of the body’s numerous songs.
The tongue can paint what the eyes can not see —- Chinese proverb
Topaz Weis, REACE is an Expressive Arts Facilitator. She is the founder of Expressive Arts Burlington in Vermont, USA where she offers workshops, trainings and individual expressive arts sessions to an international clientele in person, by phone/zoom, and in sponsored engagements.
Topaz’ offerings are informed by many years of study and work in multi-modal expressive arts. Her authentic voice work was born out of a call to deeply connect with nature and reclaim the power of the archetypical feminine. For many years the arena for this work was the stage, be it theater, dance or as a singer/songwriter.
No longer a performer, Topaz now offers her brand of authentic voice, embodied practices to others. These experiences of profound play refresh the spirit and provide new and exciting pathways towards growth and wholeness. Topaz is also a graduate of Expressive Arts Florida Institute Certificate Training Program in Expressive Arts. www.expressiveartsburlington.com
H. Fay Wilkinson
Expressive Arts Adventures from rural Ontario, Canada
Saturday Sept. 25
12-2:30 pm
A whistle stop tour of offerings that have guided people to make the invisible, visible through Expressive Arts in a rural context and beyond. Hear about innovative programs that have been designed for those living with cancer and/or mental health challenges as well as individuals navigating stress and anxiety. An experiential component will round out our time together.
Fay Wilkinson, REACE is an independent Expressive Arts Practitioner. For over 30 years she has designed and delivered Expressive Arts experiences for both individuals and groups with a current focus on mental health and those living with cancer. Her published paper (in the international, peer reviewed Journal of Arts & Health), contributes to the growing body of evidence that now supports the value of
engaging in creative processes on our mental and physical well-being. Fay was awarded the Fellowship of Applied Education from Fleming College, nominated for the Innovation and Creativity Award from the Chamber of Commerce and is the founder of Visible Voices, a virtual community hub which encourages everyone to respond creatively to things that matter. She has been invited to speak about her innovative work nationally and internationally including the International Arts & Health Conference
in Australia. https://vimeo.com/55992979
Mitchell Kossak
Embodied Empathy and Expressive Arts
Tuesday Oct. 19
6-8:30 pm ET
The word empathy was originally derived from the German word ‘einfuhlung’, and earlier from the Greek ‘empatheia’, both referring to the physical and emotional connection when viewing a painting or sculpture. As we view a piece of art or when we witness a dance, listen to a musical expression or spoken word piece, our mind translates this into a sensory embodied response, and we are ‘moved’. When we engage in the arts, we enter into a
deep and intimate relational encounter with the materials, sounds, colors, shapes or the space we are moving within, as well as the interactions between individuals in a dyadic or group situation. Engagement in this way can lead to flow states that help to form an embodied resonance response that is directly linked to the sense of embodied empathy. This flow state has been called ‘limbic resonance’ or the capacity for sharing deep emotional states including what is called ‘empathic
harmony’.
In this workshop we will work with breath, sound, rhythms, movement and imagery to explore embodied empathy, with self, with others, in communities and in a larger metaphysical realm.
Mitchell Kossak Ph.D., LMHC, REAT is a Professor and former director in the Expressive Therapies program at Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a licensed clinical counselor and registered expressive arts therapist and has presented his work and research on rhythmic attunement, improvisation,
psychospiritual and community-based approaches to working with trauma at conferences nationally and internationally. He is the past Executive Co-Chair for the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association and recipient of the Shining Star, lifetime achievement award in 2017. He is the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Applied Arts and Health and author of Attunement in Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward an Understanding of Embodied Empathy. In 2019 he helped to create Voces Arts and Healing, to work with asylum seekers in Juarez Mexico. He is also a professional musician, performing for the past 35 years in the
Boston area.
Chandini Harlalka and Belinda Rego
DEVI
Many Faces of the goddess
Wednesday November 17
7-9:30 EST
As we weave through the mythology of Parvati, Durga and Kali lets meet these powerful energies within ourselves.
As we weave through the myth of one goddess who has many faces, an experiential session where you can engage with art, movement and ritual.
Chandini Harlalka is a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist( REAT) from IEATA (International Expressive Art Therapy Association) and a Psychodrama Director (PD) from the Moreno Institute, Germany. She also holds an MFA in Art history. Chandini’s work is rooted in experiential methodology and Eastern contemplative traditions.
Inspired by insights into the human experience, Chandini is committed to a path of self-inquiry, examining the nature of mind and reality by applying critical enquiry and direct embodied experience. Through her work, Chandini aims to re imagine habitual patterns of behaviour by challenging perception and self-reinforcing systems of belief that lock us into cycles of dissatisfaction. Her work combines the use of fine arts,
authentic movement, drama, sand-play and other experiential forms to create a representation of thoughts and feelings, while allowing them to surface through the act of personal discovery, to foster bottom-up transformation.
Belinda Rego is an Expressive Arts Therapist, who passionately believes that every individual has the potential to use their creativity and imagination to tap into inner wisdom and participate in their own healing.
As a therapist she sees herself as one who facilitates and holds the space for this process of partnering with Soul, and working through layers that come in the way of the expression of one’s true Self.
Her educational background is in the Visual Arts and has a Masters in Fine arts from the prestigious Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati university.
She is drawn to Jungian psychology and the transformative power of symbols and images in the therapeutic process. She is also trained and certified in Psychodrama which she incorporates in her work.
Chandini and Belinda will be joining us from Bangalore, India
Nicki Koethner
Shadow and Light Work:
Being in your soul's essence and embracing your ego.
Friday December 3
3-5:30 pm EST
Through a guided movement sequence with elemental energies and free-flowing movement we connect to the wisdom and resources of our innate body wisdom. The movement will lead into deeper exploration and connection with our true essence as well as shadow material through painting, drawing and writing.
The shadow of our egos are manifested through thoughts that are critical and judgmental against ourselves and/or others and life circumstances, i.e. a non-acceptance of what is.
Embracing the pain of our egos is a task that brings us in connection to our souls that opens us up to the larger dimension of universal energies that support our wholeness and belonging within the larger earth body.
In this exploration you will gain a greater connection to yourself and the truth of your soul and also have an outlet to move, shift and be with the pain and grief of disconnection and separation.
Nicki Koethner, MA, MFT is a Somatic Expressive Arts Psychotherapist, Educator and Consultant and Multi-Media Artist. She has a private practice in German and English in Berkeley. She provides workshops internationally. She is the founder of Express-Explore-Expand, which encourages people to live authentically and transform
trauma into empowerment. She is adjunct faculty for the Expressive Arts Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and Sofia University Master of Counseling Psychology Department. ((She is a former advisor and executive co-chair of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association,former Board member of BodyTales and former organizer for the Northern California Dance Collective and Terra’sTemple. She supervised and co-managed the Expressive Arts internship program at
Contra Costa County Medical Center in the Arts of Health and Healing department. www.express-explore-expand.com
Nicki is contributing Author to: Anxiety Warrior, Volume Two. "Anxiety meets Compassion." Anxiety Warrior, Volume Two, 29.92, released April 8, 2018.
TRAINERS GUIDE- UNLOCKING STIGMA: Working with LGBTQI2S children, TAY, adults and older adults. Pacific Center for Human Growth for Alameda County, 2015.
Co-Author: Resilience, Well-Being, And Burnout: An Expressive Arts Workbook For Healthcare Workers. 2020.
Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, REACE, REAT
Tamara Teeter Knapp, MA, MHC Intern, K-12 Art, REACE
Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, MA, REACE
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