Expressive Arts Therapy

Check out our January and Spring elective offerings in Expressive Therapy Lesley University is offering several courses this January and Spring that can add revitalization to your practice: For more info go to: http://www.lesley.edu/current/oncampus/index.html and click on the “Real-time course schedules” link January classes GEXTH 5010.J2 Intermodal Expressive Therapy: Principles and Practices of Expressive Therapy Monday-Friday 9:00 am -5:50 pm Jan 5-9 GEXTH 5045.J1 Arts and Healing Monday-Thurs 9:00 am -6:30 pm, Friday 9-12 Jan 12-16 GEXTH 6025.J1 Family Art Therapy Fridays 6:00-9:50 and Sat and Sun 9:00 am -5:50 pm Jan 9-11 and 23-25 GEXTH 6206.J1 Voice and Music Therapy Fridays 7:00-9:50 pm and Sat and Sun 10:00 am -6:50 pm Jan 9-11 and Jan 16-18 GEXTH 6367.J1 Art Therapy Studio Monday – Friday 9:00 am -5:50 pm Jan 5-9 GEXTH 6400.J1 Holistic Approaches to Pain and Stress Fridays 6:00-9:50 pm and Sat and Sun 9:00 am -5:50 pm Jan 2-4 and Jan 9-11 Spring classes GEXTH 5001 Techniques

We are really excited to have Steve and Ellen Levine, the co-authors and editors of many texts you will read in the program, teaching a 1-credit special topics course this fall! The course - GEXTH 5888 Special Topics: Poiesis and Human Existence - will be held the weekend of September 19-21. The class will meet Friday 7-10 pm, and Sat/Sun 10 am -5:30pm. This course is a required course for first year ET specialization students but we are opening up a few slots to other students and alum as well. If you would like to take this course please contact me directly - estrella@lesley.edu . You will need to register for this class before Sept 16, so let me know ASAP. Also, we still have openings in several of our ET electives, although you must enroll in these ASAP as classes have begun and you don't want to miss any classes. Again, the drop/add period ends Sept 16. Here is a list of the open electives - please let others know! And enjoy the beginning of the year, Karen GEXTH 6019 Story

click on the one-page brochure below to read

We are so proud of our 72 graduating students from the Expressive Therapies program here at Lesley University - graduating with specializations in Art Therapy, Dance Therapy, Music Therapy and Expressive Arts Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling. Each of our graduates are required to do two years of clinical internship training in addition to scholarship and research in their respective modalities. And many students also opt to do thesis research. This year's theses include: Arrants, K. (2008). Creating acceptance: Expressive therapy with lesbian and bisexual women. Berry, C. (2008). When the glass slipper doesn’t fit: A study of fairy tales and disability. Corbin, S. (2008). A treatment protocol for the use of music therapy in meeting the special education goals of children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders. Dawkins, R. (2008). Attachment, relationships and Alzheimer’s: A group art therapy process. Eskridge, C. (2008). Emotion: The intangible pirate ship. Ho, S. (2008). C

Annual Spring Conference New England Chapter of American Dance Therapy Association Co-Sponsored by Lesley University , Division of Expressive Therapies, Dance Therapy Program Building Bridges & Extending Connections: Dance/Movement Therapy in 2008! Saturday, April 5, 2008 Rainbowdancers: The Art & Technique of Isadora Duncan . Dancers: Dicki Johnson Macy, Valerie Blanc, Kristen Belcher, Zoe Ulrich, Nancy Beardall, Kellly Mezzatesta, Hui Chao Hsieh Workshops given by: Dicki Johnson Macy, ADTR; Terri Halperin Eaton, ADTR; Marcia Spindell, ADTR; Julie Leavitt, ADTR; Nancy Jo Cardillo, ADTR; Caroline Loupe, ADTR. Continuing Education Hours provided by American Dance Therapy Association* (*ADTA is an NBCC approved provider of continuing education)

We are trying to encourage the community to consider taking a Summer elective course... Tell everyone about them (supervisors, friends, colleagues), and register starting Mar 17, 2008. Help us fill these classes so they are not canceled. Please consider coming back and taking an elective!!! Sign up today. And tell all your colleagues about our great offerings! Check out our Summer elective offerings in Expressive Therapy Lesley University is offering several courses this Summer that can add revitalization to your practice: For more info go to: http://www.lesley. edu/current/ oncampus/ index.html and click on the "Real-time course schedules" link GEXTH-5010-01 Principles & Practices of Exth 08/06-08/12 Wed-Fri, Mon-Tues 09:00AM - 05:50PM Kossak,M GEXTH-5010-02 Principles & Practices of Exth 08/06-08/12 Wed-Fri, Mon-Tues 09:00AM - 05:50PM Estrella, K GEXTH-5021-01 Focusing and Exth 06/09-06/13 Mon-Fri 09:00AM - 05:50PM Rappaport, L. GEXTH 5047 P&am

The Expressive Therapy Division at LEsley University is proud to announce once again that our students, faculty and alumni will sponsor V-Day Lesley University (The Vagina Monologues) As part of the 2008 V-Day College Campaign , the students of Lesley University are proud to present a benefit production of The Vagina Monologues to raise awareness and funds for local organizations working to end violence against women and girls. Performances: 15 February 2008 - 7:30 PM 16 February 2008 - 7:30 PM Marran Theatre 47 Oxford Street Cambridge Massachusetts 02138 Beneficiary: Womansplace Crisis Center Sponsor: The Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences Tickets price: $5 donation To purchase tickets: Contact Abigail at Abigail.Moldover@gmail.com Cast and Crew: Abigail Moldover - Organizer Erin McGreevy - Director Lou Lim - Publicity Crew

Celebrate with Lesley University Dance Therapy Program and Expressive Therapies Division! Monday January 28, 2008 4-7 pm Join Us to Honor Program Founder, Norma Canner and Rejoice in Our New Approved Program Status* CELEBRATION LECTURE BY David Gere, 2008 Sonnabend Fellow 4:00pm University Hall Amphitheatre David Gere, Ph.D., is director of MAKE ART/STOP AIDS, an international network of artists intervening in the AIDS epidemic. In addition to directing the Art/Global Health Center at the University of California - Los Angeles, he is associate professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures teaching courses in AIDS/arts activism. His most recent book, How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004), received the award for outstanding book publication from the Congress on Research in Dance. CELEBRATION RECEPTION 5:30-7:00pm University Hall 3-094 As one of the first graduate dance/movement therapy training programs