SESSIONS OF SPECIAL INTEREST
A selection of sessions on particular themes
You'll find listings below for these specialties:
GRIEF & LOSSNATURE BASED APPROACHESOVERCOMING RESISTANCEDRUMMINGINTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS (IFS) & THE ARTS
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Thursday, April 15 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Soul Work Focusing on Grief and Loss: Integrating Jungian Practices with Art Making & WritingEvie Lindemann, ATR-BC, ATCS, LMFT 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Healing Traumatic Grief & Loss Through Play for All Ages: A Bottom-Up Brain Approach in Three Stages Leslie Baker, MFT, NCC, RPT-S Mary Ruth Cross, MS, MFT, NCC, RPT-S 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Creative Interventions for Children's Anticipatory Grief and BereavementJennifer Allen, MS, ATR-BC, LMFT Sunday, April 18 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Writing Through Bereavement: Reconstructing Meaning in LossRobert A. Neimeyer, PhD Thursday, April 22 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Artful Dying: Alleviating Death Anxiety and Finding Closure Through Art, Music & DramaPatricia Jauchler, MS, MA, RDT/BCT Friday, April 23 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Creative Rituals for Processing Grief & Celebrating LifeGabrielle Kauffman, MA, LPCC, BC-DMT, NCC Jennie Linthorst, MA, CAPF Stacie Amon Yeldell, MA, MT-BC, AVPT Sunday, April 25 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Artful Grieving: A Creative Multimodal Approach to Grief Work with Children & TeensPatricia Jauchler, MS, MA, RDT/BCT 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Liberating Joy from Loss Through Prescriptive Memory-Making and Dyadic CreativityNancy Gershman, LMSW Saturday, May 1 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Containers for Grief, Memory, and Hope: Exploring the Sacred Space of the Shrine Laura Bauder, MA, ATR Charlotte Reed, MSW, MA, ATR-P Sunday, May 2 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Doll Making in the Treatment of Traumatic LossSharon Strouse, MA, ATR-BC, LCPAT Sarah Vollmann, ATR-BC, LICSW
Thursday, April 22 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM NaturePlay Therapy with Children, Teens & FamiliesJamie Lynn Langley, LCSW, RPT-S Thursday, April 29 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Nature-Based Expressive Approaches for Healing from Medical Illness: Coping Despite COVID Alessandra Colfi, PhD, RYT-200, ZIN® Sharon Frances (Chappell), PhD, MA< br/> Tessie Herrasti, MA Saturday, May 1 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Partnering with the Earth Through Eco-Connection: It’s All About CreationMadelyn Rugh, PhD, ATR-BC Sunday, May 2 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Prescribing Nature & Expressive Arts: Language & Landscapes of Eco-Connection Madeline Rugh, PhD, ATR-BC, Symposium Coordinator Eliza Sweeney, MA, Mphil Eric Pierce, MT-BC, LCAT Kate Thompson, MA, CJT 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Nature and Culture-Based Healing for Intercultural Resiliency in Kids & Their FamiliesJoanne Ginter, MA
Saturday, April 24 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Reaching Resistant Clients of All Ages Through Art: Techniques for SuccessErica K. M. Curtis, LMFT, ATR-BC Sunday, April 25 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Reaching Uncommunicative, Resistant & Nonverbal Clients Through Music Therapy StrategiesDan Walsh, MS, MT-BC Thursday, April 29 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Aggression & Resistance in Children Impacted by ASD: Strategies for the Playroom and BeyondEsther B. Hess, PhD Friday, April 30 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Engaging Adolescents with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders: Overcoming Resistance to ArtmakingSusan Loesl, MA, WATRL, ATR-BC
Thursday, April 15 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Facilitating Drum Circles for Counseling, Psychotherapy and Community Dan Walsh, MS, MT-BC Mary E. Knysh Saturday, April 24 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Facilitating Drum Circles: A Master Class for Clinicians & Educators Helen Dolas, MS, MT-BC John Fitzgerald Thursday, April 29 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Beat the Odds®: Social and Emotional Skill Building Delivered in a Framework of Drumming Ping Ho, MA, MPH
Friday, April 16 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Internal Family Systems (IFS) & Art Therapy: Our “Parts” in the Pandemic Era Peggy Kolodny, MA, ATR-BC, LCPAT Salicia Mazero, MA, LPC, ATR Amanda Bechtel, MS, ATR-BC, LCPC, LCPAT Thursday, April 29 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Enhancing Internal Family Systems Work (IFS) Using Expressive Writing & Action MethodsNancy Scherlong, LCSW, PTR, M/S, CJT Friday, April 30 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Sandtray with Internal Family Systems: Establishing Safety Through Metaphor (Part 1)Lauren Spaulding, LMFT, LPC 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Sandtray with Internal Family Systems: Establishing Safety Through Metaphor (Part 2)Lauren Spaulding, LMFT, LPC Sunday, May 2 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Illuminated Healing: IFS, Relational Experientials & Visualizations with GuidesAdrienne Glasser, RDMT, LCSW
Friday, April 16 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Phototherapy & Therapeutic Photography: Creative Techniques for All Clinicians Sarah Kremer, PhD, ATR-BC, LPCC Sunday, April 18 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Digital Arts for Social-Emotional Skills in the Classroom, Counseling & Psychotherapy Martha Rand, LCSW, SSW, CGP, ACSW Kendra Carlson, MAAT, ATR-BC Laki Vazakas, MA Sunday, April 25 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Liberating Joy from Loss Through Prescriptive Memory-Making and Dyadic Creativity Nancy Gershman, LMSW Friday, April 30 9:00 Am - 12:00 PM Therapeutic Photography: Faces of Shame in Selfies Deborah Cluff, PhD