Expressive Arts Therapy

There are two great Music Therapy events this weekend. The Massachusetts Music Therapy Alliance is meeting Sat, Oct. 1 at 10:00 am. Registration begins at 9:30. Topic: Therapeutic Attunement and Improvisation Presenter: Mitchell Kossak PhD, LMHC, RPP Mitchell Kossak will do a presentation on Therapeutic Attunement as it relates to Improvisation. He will share ideas about experimentation, risk-taking, discovery and meaning-making in the process of creating community through improvisation. HONK! Festival ( http://honkfest.org/ ) is a revolutionary street spectacle of never-before-seen proportions that will converge for the sixth time in Davis Square, Somerville, MA, from Friday, September 30 (sundown) through Monday, October 3, 2011! These are socially conscious marching bands. These bands play music that is by, for, and of “the people.” The distinction between performer and audience, just like the distinctions between different musical genres, is just one more arbitrary

Trauma and Neuroscience Conference 2011 featuring Daniel J. Siegel, M.D . July 7-8, 2011 ~ Marran Theater, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA Thursday, July 7 at 7:00pm “The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Trauma Resolution” Sonnabend Lecture featuring Daniel J. Siegel, M.D . **Free and open to the public; please RSVP to echambe5@lesley.edu Dr. Daniel Siegel is a graduate of the Harvard Medical School, Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine, where he is Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center. He is an award-winning educator and internationally recognized expert on mindfulness and therapy. His clinical activities include work as a child, adolescent, adult and family psychiatrist. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed, bestselling The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being and the co-editor of The Healing Power of Emotion and Healing Trauma:

Summer 2011 Offerings Office of Continuing Professional Studies The Office of Continuing Professional Studies in the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences is designed to meet the needs of working professionals who are looking to deepen professional skills and training as well as explore new areas for personal and professional development. Lesley University is recognized by the National Board for Certified Counselors to offer continuing education for National Certified Counselors (Provider #4472). These credits are accepted by the Massachusetts Board of Registration for Licensed Mental Health Counselors (LMHC’s). To register, please contact Beth at 617.349.8833 or echambe5@lesley.edu , or visit www.lesley.edu/ce/ls for more information. WORKSHOPS: Arts and Healing Military Trauma **3 LMHC CEUS available Naj WIkoff DATE: Saturday, June 4 from 9:30-12:30am LOCATION: Lesley University COST: $45 (Lesley alumni/faculty: $40) DESCRIPTION: PTSD, Military Sexu

We had a great time spreading the word about Expressive Therapies and Creative Arts Therapy week in Porter Square. The Expressive Therapy and Social Action class went out into the streets to ask people "what does community mean to you?" and to raise awareness of Expressive Therapy and Creative Arts Therapy. Thank you Russ Ouellett for providing the video For more information: INTERNATIONAL EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY ASSOCIATION: http://www.ieata.org AMERICAN ART THERAPY ASSOCIATION: http://www.arttherapy.org AMERICAN DANCE THERAPY ASSOCIATION: http://www.adta.org NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DRAMA THERAPY: http://www.nadt.org AMERICAN MUSIC THERAPY ASSOCIATION: http://www.musictherapy.org NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR POETRY THERAPY: http://poetrytherapy.org AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY & PSYCHODRAMA: http://www.asgpp.org

It's National Creative Arts Therapy Week! The Expressive Therapy and Social Action class at Lesley University is going to be "Taking it to the streets" with a small social action project where we go into Porter Square and tell people about Creative Arts Therapy - and where we hear from them about their experience of community. Look for a post next week about our project! One way to get more jobs and recognition for the amazing work that we do is to spread the word about the work... Don't wait for someone else to do it - Let it BE YOU! From the website of the National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies: This is the 32nd anniversary of the National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies. In honor of the coalition building many creative arts therapy leaders have done over the years, we would like to invite you to celebrate within your community the extraordinary work of the creative arts therapists all over the world. - Host an open house with

Many of our summer classes are already full! But there are still a few elective openings and we hope you can join us! Tell everyone about them (supervisors, friends, colleagues), and register on-line - registration is already open. 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/lois and click on the "Real-time course schedules" link Thanks, Karen GEXTH-5010-01 and 02 Principles & Practices of Exth 7/18-7/22 Mon-Fri 09:00AM - 05:50PM AlAjarma, Y. and Barzilay-Shecter, K. GEXTH 5047 P&P of Drama Therapy 7/11-7/15 Mon-Fri 09:00AM - 05:50PM Bergman, J. GEXTH-6105-01 Power Privilege & Oppression Already FULL GEXTH-6206-01 Voice