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Saturday, November 6th
Note: NADT Conference sessions are valid for the following types of
Continuing Education credits: NADT RDT CE Hours and CEUs for
California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT) and
Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW).
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Registration: 7:30 am – 11:00 am
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
W1: Hospitality Room
M3: BCT Meeting
B1: Yi Shu: Expressive Arts Therapy East and West Shu Gong, PhD, ATR, TEP, LCSW Shu Yu You Yi Shu simply means the art of living with change. The fundamental thesis in Yi Shu is that healing is a constant process of balancing and harmonizing the psychological, biological, social and spiritual realms of the self. Yi Shu fuses healing processes from diverse cultures into a powerful, unified experience.
B2: The Drama of Attachment and the Tragedy of Trauma
Travis Merrell, MA, RDT, LCAT John Bergman, MA, RDT/MT
Attunement is a verb: attaching to another, mirroring another, organizing oneself around the existence of another. Trauma, with it’s fiery memory and encoding, is the tragic enemy of attachment. This workshop explores the use of experiential brain-based techniques to attune and heal, building a wellness bridge to safe attachment. B3: Becoming Magnificent! Drama Therapy with Children and Teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Loretta Gallo-Lopez, MA, RDT/BCT, LMHC, RPT-S Lisa Powers, MA, RDT, LCAT
Drama therapy is uniquely effective in addressing issues and behaviors specific to ASD including rigidity and deficits in communication and social skills. A successful drama therapy approach will be presented, including the ACT Project - a group program that culminates in performance. Video of group sessions and performances will be shared. B4: Surplus Reality – Pushing the Boundaries of Time and Space
Heidi Landis, MFA, RDT, LCAT, CP/PAT, CGP Louise Lipman, LCSW, TEP, CGP Surplus Reality is defined as an intersection between different realities, known and unknown. The ego’s ability to control and distinguish ceases, challenging the ego’s usual tendency and moving us into unfamiliar territories, pushing the boundaries of time and space. We will experience this process through the psychodramatic exploration of dreams.
B5: The Next Step: Moving into the Career of Your Dreams
Nancy Sondag, MA, RDT/BCT, LCAT, CDP Barbara McKechnie, RDT/BCT, LPC
Students and clinicians may perceive many boundaries in moving their ambitions forward and in creating the job of their dreams. This experiential workshop provides an opportunity for participants to map their vocation and to develop networking, interviewing and marketing techniques to build their careers while they strengthen the drama therapy profession. B6: Reaching and Teaching Children of Poverty: Transforming Classrooms through Drama Therapy
Linda Gregoric-Cook, MA, RDT/BCT
This experiential workshop will demonstrate how the integration of drama therapy techniques in classroom instruction can help identify and repair the cognitive, social and emotional deficits that block learning in children of poverty. Neuroscience, Emotional Intelligence, and Role Theory will be featured as we explore new roles in education.
B7: The Liminal in Transpersonal Drama Therapy: Theory and Practice
Antonio Ramirez-Hernandez, PsyD Ancient cultural and spiritual traditions suggest using the liminal as a way to develop spiritually. Liminal spaces are fundamental for psychotherapy. This workshop addresses the theoretical bases of Transpersonal Psychotherapy and will explore how to use shamanic practices in Drama Therapy.
B8: You Arrive: An Arts Based Research Auto-Ethnography Performance
Bonnie Harnden, MA, RDT Shea Wood, MA
Londa Daniel, MA
Chloe Frisina, MA
Natasha Amendolara, MA
The process of therapy comes alive in this illustration of the intersection between theatre and research. Performance Auto-ethnography seeks to illuminate; this research/performance piece will illuminate the therapeutic process of a female client as she struggles with familial trauma, sexuality and individuation. The liminal space of arrival and healing is explored.
K1: Keynote Address: The Power of the Liminal Playspace to Heal and Transform - Reflections on 25 Years in the Field of Drama Therapy Liminality is key to understanding how people heal and transform through Drama Therapy processes. Following my own 25-year journey as a Drama Therapist, and citing the work of other Drama Therapy practitioner/theorists, I will use videoclips and PowerPoint to demonstrate why this theory is so significant to our own field.
B9: Crisis in the Schools: The Function of Drama Therapy in Education Drama therapists from two programs in New York City and New Haven, Connecticut will bring their common and distinct experiences in working with inner city youth to bear on a critical problem facing American society. How can drama therapists contribute to this effort? What is our role?
B10: Abandoning the Field for Greener $ Pastures?: Potentials in the Career of Drama Therapy
Alice Forrester, PhD, RDT/BCT This presentation will be a conversation about the history of mental health professions, dangers of role restriction and the hidden potentials in those skilled in the practice of drama therapy.
B11: Multi-Cultural Suicide Awareness and the Arts Project
Yehudit Silverman, MA, RDT, DTR This presentation will expound on the Multi-cultural Suicide Awareness and the Arts Project which brought together representatives from Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Inuit, GLBT, East Asian, and other communities to dialogue through the arts about the important issue of suicide. Video, photos, and discussion will be utilized to explore the Project.
B12: An Integrated Approach to Creative Arts Therapies: The Institute for Therapy through the Arts
Katherine Dillingham, MA, RDT, LCAT Keith Whipple, Alternative Training Student
Research shows that learning is acquired most effectively through multiple pathways, including kinesthetic, auditory and visual. ITA's approach applies this principle to healing through therapy. A panel of creative arts therapists will discuss the challenges and rewards of a multi-modal approach to clients, practitioners and the CAT field.
B13: Liminal Healing: Medical Clowning as Drama Therapy: The Dream Doctors Project
Susana Pendzik, PhD, RDT
Amnon Raviv, MA
The clown represents the limen: challenging authority and blurring hierarchies allows them to help where others fail. Clowns are sacred healers in many cultures - a practice known today through the therapeutic modality of the Medical Clown. This presentation showcases the Dream Doctors Project, which crosses borders between cultures and works in disaster zones.
M4: Student Forum This is a session for current and prospective drama therapy students. Bring your questions, network with peers and find out what’s happening at various institutions.
B14: Our Body of Ethical Knowledge
Maria Hodermarska, MA, RDT, CASAC, LCAT Alan Pottinger, MA, RDT, LCAT
Sara McMullian, MA, RDT/BCT, LCAT
The body is the undeniable and indelible presence in drama therapy from which we base our clinical and ethical decisions. This all-conference presentation will explore embodied ethics through a staged performance and a facilitated discussion. We invite a conscious communal dialogue on boundary, communion, liminality and its deeper meanings.
R1: President’s Reception and Ball This is a chance to relax, connect, and celebrate our community as President Kate Hurd presents this year's RDT and BCT awards, followed by music and merrymaking.
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