Expressive Arts Therapy

Come to the 2014 Expressive Therapies Poster Session of Thesis Research! Friday, May 2, 1:30-2:30 Sherrill Library , Rooms 150-151 You will have the opportunity to talk to Thesis Students and Graduating MA Expressive Therapy students about research they've completed in expressive therapies at this informal gathering.  Students have done qualitative and quantitative research that adds depth and breadth to our growing field.  They are eager to share their results with you! We hope you will make it!

Graduate Expressive Therapies Division Student Exhibition presents… Shift, Flux, Leap Opening Reception and performances Friday, May 2 3:30-5pm, Performances, WASH Auditorium   5-6pm, Gallery Reception in Sherrill Library

Photo:  Norma Canner, 1970s SAVE THE DATE…. 40th Anniversary of the Expressive Therapies Program at Lesley University Conference and Celebration Saturday, September 20, 2014 Please stay tuned for further details as  an official save the date and invitation from the Alumni Office is forthcoming!   We hope to see you there! Expressive Therapies celebrates 40 years of making powerful inroads in the world In 1974, The Institute for the Arts and Human Development, housing both Expressive Therapies and Creative Arts in Learning, was founded at Lesley University. The Expressive Therapies program established in that year was one of the original graduate programs in the United States to train professionals in the emerging arts therapy field and the first to integrate all of the arts. ...

Lesley University Expressive Therapy Alumni Spotlight: Ilene Sperling Those of you who have been following my blog know that I have been trying in the last few months to highlight our alumni.  Unfortunately, we recently lost one of our most promising alum.  Ilene Sperling was a 2007 graduate of our Art Therapy Program , and was a visionary clinician, co-founder of the North Carolina Art Therapy Institute . Ilene worked with newly emigrated refugees from Burma in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro schools and also with students with special needs. She worked with adults looking for additional support, new perspectives and creative ways to manage stress, anxiety and depression.   In addition, Ilene offered clinical supervision in art therapy and mentored other expressive arts therapists.    In honor of Ilene, I wanted to spotlight her Institute and to encourage you to contribute to their cause . Ilene will be missed by many and we are proud to call her...

Lesley University's Expressive Therapy Electives - Summer '14 Tell everyone about them (supervisors, friends, colleagues), and register on-line - registration opens March 17. 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/searching-current-course-information/ and follow instructions. Click on the "Current Course Information" link, search Summer and Expressive therapies Thanks, Karen GEXTH-5001.01 Techniques of Play Therapy 6/16-6/20 Mon-Fri 09:00AM - 05:50PM J. Byers  GEXTH-5010.01   Principles & Practices of Expressive Arts Therapy 6/9-6/13 Mon-Fri 09:00AM - 05:50PM A. Pinna-Per...

Expressive Arts Therapy Alumni Spotlight: Nadia Womack Our Alumni often relocate all over the world after graduation.  We always hope that they will stay in touch and come back to campus.  Recently, Nadia Womack, Expressive Arts Therapy specialization grad, now residing in Baltimore, MD, came back to Lesley University to present a workshop on the use of sandtray in therapy, at the conference:   "Being Culturally Responsive in Urban Settings: A Conference for Mental Health Providers, Educators, and ALL Working with Culturally Diverse Families " The conference was sponsored through a partnership of the Boston Children’s Hosptial Neighborhood Partnerships Program , the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute , and VISIONS, Inc., sponsored by the Josephine & Louise Crane Foundation and hosted by the Episcopal Divinity School and brought together folks from around the region particularly interested in culturally responsive work. We were so proud of Nadia...

February 27-28 and March 1st 2014 Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala We are so excited to have two of our own Expressive Arts Therapy Faculty, Mitchell Kossak and Angelica Pinna Perez, presenting at the 1st Latin American Regional Symposium of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association The conference, Weaving The Americas/Tejiendo las Americas, brings together Expressive Arts Therapists from across Latin America. Their workshop entitled, Drumming up the primordial somatic unconscious, is listed with the following description: Art, in all its forms, makes manifest the unconscious embodied energies. The arts grant the soul an avenue for expression and an opening to self-awareness.  By playing with prmordial energies, expressive arts attempt to create a deeper resonance with universal truths.  Under the right conditions, the creative process will lead to new kinds of knowledge, insights, and a deepening connection with life.  This workshop will take ...