2021 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
WORKSHOPS
Online via Zoom
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.
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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Fiona Chang
Solo-to-Duet:
Arts-based Couple Group Process
Wednesday Aug. 25
6-8:30 pm ET
Arts-based couple group model was empirically formulated in Hong Kong for couples with breast cancer challenges. Solo-duet-group activity design through expressive arts and person-centred facilitation were founded to be therapeutic in facilitating personal growth, couple relationship and group development.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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