Pat B. Allen

Pat B. Allen, PhD, ATR., is an author, artist, art therapist, and teacher who connects to the Creative Source through art and writing. Her two books - Art Is a Way of Knowing (Shambhala 1995) and Art Is a Spiritual Path (Shambhala 2005) - explore the borders between art, psychology, spirituality, and social action

KEYNOTE:

IMAGINING THE WORLD WE WISH TO SEE:
This presentation is an invocation to the power of the imagination. Through visual images, sound, and movement expressive artists will be invited to tap into the archetype of the spiritual warrior and create energy to take their places at the forefront of cultural change.

PRESENTATION:

Studio Process of Intention, Attention and Witness - This workshop will teach the Studio Process of Intention, Attention and Witness described in Pat Allen's book Art is a Spiritual Path. Mark making, writing, movement and sound are the tools to create a day-long image community. We will explore the implications of the Studio Process in education, therapy, community enrichment and social change.

Kate Brizendine

Kate Brizendine, PhD has been coaching corporate executives for 20 years. She is a Reiki Master trained in clinical psychology, blending right & left-brain problem-solving styles. She is a founding member of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, a visionary artist and developer of the G.I.S.T.(TM) coaching model. See her art and sand tray coaching style at www.LightRabbit.com

PRESENTATION:

Guided Interactive Sand Tray: Seeing a problem from 5 viewpoints - Learn to see any problem or situation from 5 different viewpoints. Experience the (Guided Interactive Sand Tray) G.I.S.T.(TM) Coaching model. Dr. Kate Brizendine of the G.I.S.T. COACH(TM) Institute offers MFTs and LCSWs 3 CEU credits for this powerful, 3 hour introductory workshop. Hands-on learning with sand tray and characters provided.

Cynthia Rose Chimienti

Cynthia Rose Chimienti, MA is a psychotherapist in Portland, Oregon. She is a Graduate of Pacifica Graduate Institute and works from Jungian and Depth-oriented perspectives. Cynthia has been an artist, professional dancer, and performance artist since 1987. She currently works in the fields of Hospice, Grief /Loss and Eldercare.

PRESENTATION (with Lisa Sullivan):

Paidia/Paideia and the Treasury of Imagery:  Catching A Muse of Merriment Through The Imaginal World of Play - This workshop focuses on the connection between play (paidia) and education (paideia).  Playing has become simultaneous with time spent carelessly.  We propose the opposite - without play learning is minimal, without play psyche pines away. Perpetual play promotes behavioral flexibility, lessens aggression, and opens up new vistas of playful possibilities.

Emily Day

Emily Day, BS Theater Education, was trained in the 5Rhythms by Gabrielle Roth, Creative Dance by Barbara Mettler & Transformational Movement by Peter Geiler. She is the creator of Dancing Colors: Scarves and Videos for Therapists, Educators and Liturgists. Emily sees clients and group in her studio on Whidbey Island, WA. She presents workshops, residencies and Talking Dance: Peformance as Healing Art around the world.

ThURSDAY EVENING PRESENTATION:

Talking Dance and Touch Drawing, Collaborative Performance as Healing Art
Longtime neighbors and colleagues Emily Day and Deborah Koff Chapin invite you to join them in a moving retrospective celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Expressive Arts Training Institute, its graduates, and its founder, Dr.Jane Goldberg.

Vicky Edmonds is a poet and teacher who uses the written and spoken word as an opportunity for bringing our deepest truth to the page and to the world. She works with adults, adolescents, children, at-risk populations and therapists to deepen their understanding of the meaning of their lives.

PRESENTATION:

Writes of Passage… poetry as a therapeutic & spiritual practice – “Writes of Passage” is a series of workshops on using the art and practice of poetry as an opportunity for looking further into the mysteries that are still unsolved in our lives. No previous writing experience necessary. Bring journal & pen. Introductory class for practitioners or personal use.

Flor Fernández Barrios

Flor Fernández Barrios was born in Cuba. She immigrated to the United States in 1970 when she was fourteen years old. She graduated in 1985 from International College with a Doctorate degree in Transpersonal Psychology. She also is a graduate of the Expressive Arts Training Institute. She is currently in private practice as a psychotherapist in Seattle. In addition to her practice, she is a nationally recognized workshop leader on multicultural issues and spirituality. Her book Blessed by Thunder was published in 1999. Her new book, The Mask of Oyá, will be published by Liaison Press in June 2006.

SATURDAY BOOK READING & BOOK SIGNING 1:00-2:30PM:
(Be sure to reserve your Box Lunch when you register)

Flor Fernández Barrios continues her story of personal growth that she began in Blessed by Thunder with this new book, recounting her education and experiences as a therapist and spiritual healer. She blends traditional methods (taught to her by her own grandmother and also by a wise Yucatan curandero) with modern psychology practices to bring balanced, hopeful methods of treatment for those in her care. The Mask of Oyá is a profound, thoughtful journey that will remain with the reader. Dr. Fernández Barrios' gentle, sympathetic discourse is reflective of her healing spirit, and her calm, matter-of-fact narration gives her an authenticity difficult to question.

Aviva Gold, MFA, CSW, ATR-BC, REAT, Art Medicine Woman, has been teaching inspired art for over twenty-five years as an experienced psychotherapist and workshop leader in healing centers worldwide.  She believes that authentic soul touching art comes from a divine place deep within and is central to individual and planetary healing.

PRESENTATION:

Painting From The Source - Imagine yourself painting with no hesitations, no conflicts.  Your brush dips into pots of vibrantly colored paint; inner inspiration guides your hand into line and shape; images find their perfect place on the paper.  Set aside the intellectual critique and self-doubt and reconnect with the Source... the Great Mystery which gives shape to everything.
(All Day Pre-Conference Event - Thursday Oct 5)

Drawing From The Source - In this introductory Source drawing experience, you will get a good taste of the image and transformational power of Source creativity flowing through you. We will use simple white paper and crayons (oil pastels) to reconnect with the Source… that Great Mystery which gives shape to everything. Come join us for the Sacred ritual of Art.
(3 Hour Workshop on Saturday Oct. 7)

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Jane Goldberg

Jane Goldberg, Ph.D., L.M.F.T., R.E.A.T., Board Certified C.E.T., received her doctorate in transformational psychology and is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist and a Board Certified Expressive Therapist. She founded the Expressive Arts Training Institute in 1986 and has been leading professional training programs and group workshops locally, nationally, and internationally for over 24 years. Dr. Goldberg designed the master's and doctorate programs in expressive arts therapy at San Diego University of Integrative Studies in 1999. She is also a founding member and previous board member of IEATA (International Expressive Arts Therapy Association) and is a distinguished fellow of NETA (National Expressive Therapy Association).
www.ExpressiveArtsTraining.com

OPENING KEYNOTE:

Discovering Hidden Treasure: The Quest of the Imagination
Expressive Arts opens the door to the imaginal world and invites us to venture forward to discover and to express the images that will stimulate the natural healing processes of the Self, allowing us to dip into the mystery of the soul, to connect to Source and to open the heart. This presentation will prepare us to receive the treasures and numinous moments that will be created and nurtured during this conference. We will come to see how the evolution of this field can contribute to the collective awakening of the planet and how each of us can truly make a difference right where we are.

COMMUNITY GATHERING AND CLOSING REMARKS:

The Treasures We Take Home
“Art “bodies forth” from the creative depths of the artist’s soul and takes form in time and space to touch the souls of others”
-David Elkins, Ph.D.

How do we bring back what we have found? How do we go forth now and motivate others to nurture their creativity and imagination? Let’s explore together what has bubbled up to the surface, re-engage the images, re-vision the future, deeply appreciate the gifts of the creative process and celebrate, as a connected creative community, in expressive arts fashion, the potentials and possibilites for actualizing a treasure-filled world.

Betsy Gutting is a Certified Expressive Arts Therapist, Soul Coach, author, and passionate facilitator of self-discovery play-shops. Ten years ago she left a law practice to create a life soulfully powered by her heart’s deepest longings. She lives with her two teen daughters in Seattle, WA.

PRESENTATION:

Romancing Your Inner Muse - Soul-full, passionate, and creative living naturally arises from a deep connection with our soul’s deepest longings. We yearn to create relationships, work, play and adventure that will bring us closer to our divine nature. In beautiful sacred space, deepen into your creative heart and begin a playful romance with your inner muse!

Daria Halprin is the founding director of Tamalpa Institute considered one of the first expressive arts therapy and education training centers in the world. She has spent the last thirty years exploring the interface between art and psychology, articulating and teaching an approach to movement-based healing arts and education which grew out of her studies with Fritz Perls (founder Gestalt Therapy) and her training as a dancer and performance artist. She is a contributing author in Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy (edited S. Levine) and author of Coming Alive and The Expressive Body in Life, Art and Therapy. In addition to her work at Tamalpa Institute, she has taught at European Graduate School, CIIS, the Gestalt Institute, JFK University, UCSF Medical Center, Sonoma State, Esalen and various centers internationally. She maintains a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. www.tamalpa.org

PRESENTATION:

Acts of Embodied Imagination: body, movement and the living Arts - Experience the first movement-based expressive arts therapy approaches to shape the field. Body and imagination will be brought into life-art dialogues using movement/dance, drawing, poetic writing, reflective questions, improvisation and witnessing as participants tune into and express their sensations, feelings and images of the body, generating new resources to life challenges.

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Christine Havens

Christine Havens, MA, ABS, certified teacher of the 5Rhythms™  has studied with Gabrielle Roth for 16 years. She teaches classes and workshops in the 5Rhythms in Seattle and across the country. Christine is also a psychotherapist who has been in private practice in Seattle and on Bainbridge Island, WA. for 12 years. www.wavesdance.com

PRESENTATION:

Ecstatic Waves Dance - We will explore the beautiful mystery of the Self though the rhythms and undercurrents of emotions moving in our bodies. Moving with the soul language of the body, we will open into the treasure path of the Heart where "life is the Great Choreographer and we are dancers on the dancing path." No dance experience required No dance experience is required, just the desire to move and be moved..

Christine Wisedancer Hopkins

Christine Hopkins, MA, ADTR, NCC, CGP is a psychotherapist/expressive arts therapist in private practice in Seattle. Her training includes a M.A. in Dance/Movement Therapy), Expressive Arts Training Institute and post-graduate training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She is a member of the Academy of Dance Therapists Registered, National Certified Counselor, Certified Group Psychotherapist, Gypsie Nation’s community dance and American Dance Therapy Association.

PRESENTATION:

Dances With Clowns: Caricature & Melodrama Through Dance/Movement - The widespread, trickster-jester archetype pops up in many different cultures. What gifts do we receive from honoring and expressing our inner clowns? Access the ridiculous and sublime of your personal clown through creative movement and drama in the company of other fools. Together we’ll create scenarios of absurd wisdom for these crazy times.

Sylvia Israel

Sylvia Israel, MFT, Certified Psychodramatist, Registered Drama Therapist/Board Certified Trainer, founder and director of IMAGINE! Center for Creativity and Healing, adjunct faculty at California Institute of Integral Studies, 2006 American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama Conference, Director of Bay Area Playback Theatre Company and maintains a private practice in San Francisco and Marin County.

PRESENTATION:

Opening the Heart: Creating Inner Peace - We will draw from spiritual traditions, psychodrama, movement and guided imagery to identify, embody and practice roles that open our hearts. In the practice of non-judgmental acceptance of ourselves and others we find inner peace, thus contributing to the creation of a more peaceful world.

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Deborah Koff-Chapin

Deborah Koff-Chapin (BFA Cooper Union) has been developing Touch Drawing since 1974, and has presented it at conferences and graduate programs internationally. She is creator of SOULCARDS 1 & 2 and author of Drawing Out Your Soul . Deborah has served on the board of IEATA and is founding director of the Center for Touch Drawing. www.touchdrawing.com

PRESENTATION:

Drawing Out Your Soul - An Experience of Touch Drawing - Touch Drawing is a simple yet profound process. By touching paper that has been placed over a smooth surface of paint, impressions are created on the underside. A multitude of images emerge in a single session. The series of drawings are a visual record of a deep transformational process.

Don Laffoon, BA, MA, RDT/BCT founder and executive director of STOP-GAP Theater, is a registered Drama therapist and Board Certified Trainer. He is former Chair of the National Coalition of Arts Therapies Association and is Past-President of the National Association for Drama Therapy. He is a member of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama.

PRESENTATION:

STOP-GAP Theater: Demonstration of Drama Therapy Workshop - Working with Who, What, Where cards that underpin the improvisational method and using examples of responses from actual cards that have been submitted, STOP-GAP will demonstrate how it builds interactive theater into a powerful tool to be used by the participants to inspire change in their lives. It was devised by Don Laffoon and is practiced extensively in support groups.

The STOP-GAP Method of Drama Therapy and STOP-GAP Touring Play - On the road of life, we encounter many difficulties and many challenges.  Working from the input of the participants, we share stories and create improvisations and characters to revisit some decisions we made in the past, and with the benefit of hindsight, discover how we might make decisions for our future.

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Kathleen Okamoto, MA Ed., began as a teacher of learning disabled children and then took a decade off to raise a family and study art. As an expressive artist, she is fascinated with the healing power of art and with life’s interwoven patterns. She lives and works in the Pacific Northwest.

Kristy Gjesme,  BS Art Ed, is a visual and intuitive artist, expressive arts therapist and art instructor.  She lives in Washington State and has taught painting, drawing and creative arts since 1995. From her studio she creates, sells and shows her art in various venues in the Pacific Northwest. 

PRESENTATION: 

Mandala, Drawing from the Center - Create your own personal mandala. Learn about the Sacred Circle as it is reflected in human cosmology, nature, art and architecture. Take a journey within, relax and return to the joy of color, pattern and design. Come away with newfound knowledge and curiosity about a timeless healing tool.

Gita Dorothy Morena

Gita Dorothy Morena, PhD, Licensed MFT, Teaching Member of STA/ISST
As a transpersonal psychotherapist, author of The Wisdom of Oz, and licensed MFT for over 30 years, Dr. Morena is particularly interested in mind-body-spirit connections. She incorporates a Jungian orientation and Buddhist perspective in her work, and specializes in Sandplay therapy. She works and resides in the San Diego area.

PRESENTATION:

Speak For Yourself With SandPlay
This experiential workshop explores the power of symbolic language and archetypal imagery for personal expression and therapeutic intervention. Participants will be led through a series of exercises that demonstrate how imagery taps into hidden areas of the psyche and encourages meaningful communication between couples and groups.

Joseph Moreno, MT-BC  is Professor Emeritus of Music Therapy at Maryville University and Director of the Moreno Institute for the Creative Arts Therapies in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He has long maintained an interdisciplinary approach to his work and is internationally recognized for his creative and groundbreaking work that has served to bring together the disciplines of music and psychodrama in group therapy processes. He is also known for his extensive field research into the indigenous world traditions of music and healing and the connections of these practices to further deepen our understanding of the role of the creative arts therapies in contemporary psychotherapy. Moreno has authored the book, Acting Your Inner Music: Music Therapy and Psychodrama 

PRESENTATION:

ACTING YOUR INNER MUSIC:MUSIC THERAPY AND PSYCHODRAMA IN MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
Participants will first enjoy a rich visual and musical introduction to the sources of the creative arts therapies in indigenuous shamanic world healing traditions.This will be followed by in-depth group experiences in music and imagery,music and psychodrama,and a celebratory and cathartic closing session in music therapy and the blues.

LAUGHIN` TO KEEP FROM CRYIN`: MUSIC THERAPY AND THE BLUES
Participants will join in a celebratory activity making use of the blues in music therapy.The group will sing and play the blues on provided instruments, experience creating personalized blues lyrics for individual issues,and realize the joy and catharsis inherent in this wonderful musical idiom.

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Julia Norton

Julia Norton, VMTR, has been singing her whole life and teaching voice for 15 years.
She studied classical singing and jazz before training in Voice Movement Therapy in the UK with founder Paul Newham. Julia has a busy private practice in the Bay Area, she is also a performer and composer. www.julianorton.com

PRESENTATION:

The Songs Which Transform Us – An Introduction To Voice Movement Therapy.
Using breath, movement & free vocalization, we are taken on a journey into our personal stories. Reconnect the body, voice and spirit. Relax the tube and let your voice pour out. Be prepared to move and make some noise! No prior singing experience necessary. Wear clothes to move in, bring water and a journal for your thoughts.

Free your Voice and Improvise (Sunday Morning Session)
Warm up, connect with more sounds in your vocal paint box & use breath to help build confidence. We'll experiment with styles and rhythm individually and in pairs then come together as a group to create a 'free voice orchestra'! (no one will be made to sing alone).

Maria Rowe, MA, MFT, CEAT is a psychotherapist and artist who holds a Certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy. In her private practice in Newport Beach, CA, as well as in groups for grief, divorce recovery, anger management and domestic violence, she has incorporated the expressive arts to facilitate empowerment, self discovery, integration and healing.

PRESENTATION:  

Playing with Polarities: Body Wisdom and the Tension of Opposites - Participants will move through a body-led expressive encounter with a polarity of their choosing. Through drawing, movement, and writing exercises, participants deepen their sensitivity to opposites, experiencing how holding the tension between two seemingly irreconcilable positions—without needing resolution—can result in the emergence of something new.

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Mollie Shea, HHP, CET, NCTMB is a Holistic Health Practitioner, Certified Expressive Therapist, Certified Therapist for Massage and Bodywork, and a Classical Homeopath. She is the Director of Essential Motion, a holistic healing center utilizing expressive arts and integrative healing modalities to restore wholeness; and, a graduate of and staff member for Byron Katie’s School for The Work.

PRESENTATION: 

The Art of L.O.V.E.: In this session, we’ll be developing four key skills that support expansion into the foundation of our true nature: Listen..Open..Verify..Embrace.

Through meditation, movement, storytelling, writing, and drawing, we’ll deepen our Listening, Open our minds and hearts, learn to Verify the truth of reality, and Embrace the beauty of life.

Dennis Patrick Slattery, PhD. Dennis, a teacher for 38 years, is the author/editor of 9 books, including two volumes of poetry, and over 250 articles on myth, literature and culture. Currently he is Core Faculty, Mythological Studies, Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpentaria, California. He lectures and offers workshops in the United States, Canada and Europe on the mythic imagination.

PRESENTATION:  

The Imaginal Space Of Myth: Joseph Campbell And Personal Mythology - The nature and structure of myth is often enigmatic, opaque, shifting and thus difficult to interpret. The mythologist Joseph Campbell’s two journals as well as parts of his wide range of writing on the qualities of mythic consciousness, will lead us into several poetry exercises. Through them participants will be guided to discover the dynamics and contours of their own personal mythology.

Christine Stevens, MSW, MT-BC, is a pioneer in drumming for teambuilding, diversity training, therapy, and wellness.  She is a member of a leading interdisciplinary research team.  She is the author of The HealingDrum Kit, The Art and Heart of Drum Circles and two critically acclaimed drumming CDs. With an itinerary that has included Hong Kong, China, and Western Europe, Christine has exposed over 10,000 people to her vision this year alone. Televised media credits include: CBS This Morning, KABC–Los Angeles, London Tonight, Living Better TV, and the Hong Kong News. www.ubdrumcircles.com

PRESENTATION:

Treasures in Rhythm – Drumming for Personal Wellness and Creative Expression
There is a treasure of musical spirit within the soul of every human being. Come discover the scientific basis of drumming for holistic health and as a powerful tool for your therapy practice. Drums provided or bring your own!

Tina Stromstead

Tina Stromsted, PhD, ADTR, university instructor, international workshop leader and author integrates body-oriented, Jungian and expressive arts therapy approaches to psychotherapy. In addition to having three decades of clinical experience, she is past co-founder of the Authentic Movement Institute in Berkeley and a Candidate at the C. G. Jung Institute in San Francisco.

PRESENTATION:

Dreamdancing: Engaging Soul’s Body through Authentic Movement - Dreamdancing provides a resonant gateway to the unconscious, engaging dreams in the body and providing avenues for integrating new, vital energies in waking life. Authentic Movement, drawing and poetry will assist in deepening your explorations, enriching the insights of the ancients with contemporary Jungian and somatic perspectives.

Fred Sugerman is a Dance Alive Facilitator and is masterful at guiding people deeply into themselves and into more profound relationship with others. Originally, a professional actor and dancer, Fred trained extensively in improvisation, emotional release and various forms of relaxation. He embraces the therapeutic effects of expressing one’s internal life through movement.

PRESENTATION:

Medicine Dance: A Body-Based Inquiry Into Our Well Being - Join us for a verbally guided, music driven exploration of capturing the present moment, thought, feeling and sensation and allowing them to be expressed through the body. Physically exhilarating, mentally stimulating and spiritually uplifting, this workshop will leave you feeling restored and revitalized.  No dance experience necessary.

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Lisa Sullivan

Lisa Sullivan, MA, LMFT, CEAT is a psychotherapist and holds Certification in Expressive Arts Therapy. A Masters from Norwich University and a Graduate of Pacifica Graduate Institute, she approaches psychology and the culture from a Depth/Jungian perspective. Founder of Circle et Eros, she "plays" by creating Communal Initiation Rites as founder of Circle et Eros, a group dedicated to Tending Soul in the World.  www.circleeteros.org

PRESENTATION (with Cynthia Rose Chimienti) :

Paidia/Paideia and the Treasury of Imagery:  Catching A Muse of Merriment Through The Imaginal World of Play - This workshop focuses on the connection between play (paidia) and education (paideia).  Playing has become simultaneous with time spent carelessly.  We propose the opposite - without play learning is minimal, without play psyche pines away. Perpetual play promotes behavioral flexibility, lessens aggression, and opens up new vistas of playful possibilities.

COMMUNITY GATHERING AND CLOSING CEREMONY (with Jane Goldberg)

Treasures of the Imagination Awake
"Every good idea and all creative work are the offspring of the imagination..." C. G. Jung

Community comes alive in a display of ritualized creativity of sharing and play. Finding the treasures within, and making them manifest through the expressive arts, we conclude with performance art and a group ritual transformance. A transformance combines ceremony with a theatrical display, participating and initiated by what we make with own hands and by honoring what is handmade by others.

Armand Volkas, MFT, RDT/BCT, a drama therapist since 1975, is an actor, director and psychotherapist. He is Associate Professor in the Drama Therapy and Expressive Arts Therapy Program at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. As founder and director of Healing the Wounds of History, The Living Arts Counseling Center and Living Arts Playback Theatre Ensemble, Armand has developed innovative programs using drama therapy and other expressive arts for social change, conflict resolution, reconciliation and intercultural communication. He is a Board Certified Trainer in Drama Therapy and works internationally.
The Living Arts Playback Theatre Ensemble is a member of the International Playback Theatre Network and performs for corporations, schools, hospitals, community celebrations, conferences and for the general public. This ensemble has established itself as an innovative local and national resource for transformation. www.livingartscenter.org/bio/Armand.html

SATURDAY NIGHT PRESENTATION:
The Living Arts Playback Theatre Ensemble Presents an Evening of Playback Theatre:
Personal stories, dreams, visions of the future and treasures from our collective imagination shared by audience members then instantly transformed by the ensemble into improvised theatre pieces.
Armand Volkas, Director
FEATURING:
John Chung * Yshai Hope * Vicki Dello Joio * Ruth Jovel * John Kadyk * Christine Kalb * Gregg Lavender * Joyce Lu * Merry Ross *
Lisl Schoeplin * Scott Skinner *

SUNDAY MORNING PRESENTATION:
Healing the Wounds of History: Drama Therapy in Intercultural Conflict Resolution – This workshop interweaves theatre, expressive arts and creative ritual elements. Legacies of historical trauma and the issues that arise from it—identity, victimization and perpetration, meaning and personal and collective grief—are explored. Attendees are invited to reflect upon traumas and use drama, music, ritual and dialogue. Participants will begin to give shape and meaning to their historical legacies.