Creative Arts Therapy Collective Video

2009-04-20T15:19:00.001-04:00

This 5 minute video explains the purpose of the Creative Arts Therapy Collective at Nazareth College of Rochester. Viewers are welcome to join in the collaborative effort. The Creative Arts Therapy Collective has a group on Facebook. Search: Nazareth Creative Arts Therapy Collective group.

Brain Awareness Week 2008

2008-02-27T12:47:00.004-05:00

Check it out...
http://brainweek.dana.org/

Lecture/Seminar @ MCC 11/10

2007-10-19T11:16:00.000-04:00

Erasing Stigma & Creating Changes in the Mental Health System
Saturday, November 10, 2007
9:00am - 3:00pm
Monroe Community College

FEATURING: Steven Hyler, MD; Pete Earley; Michael Hogan, PhD
COST: $15 [the word is we can get the MCC student price]
DEADLINE: November 3rd

***Official flyer will be posted in pdf format soon on BlackBoard. The computers were locked this morning; I will get to it when I get back home. At least the specifics are posted here, so y'all can mark your calendars if interested.

Thanks to Devin for passing along this information and great opportunity!!

NeuroScience in Art Therapy Subgroup

2007-10-15T22:56:00.000-04:00

There is an official blog for this subgroup of the Collective. Please visit the link and join the discussion! Any and all other ATC subgroups deserve their own blog, too (or thread on Blackboard)!

NeuroScience in Art Therapy

UC San Diego Extention - art therapy and more

2007-10-15T22:02:00.000-04:00

This summer while doing research for who knows what at the time, I came across the fact that UC San Diego offers an art therapy program through their extension program. What I also noticed at the time was a variety of interesting programs, such as one day or weekend seminars, and lecture series that were of interesting topics in the realm of general but appropriate topics to our career paths.

http://www.extension.ucsd.edu/

I have since revisited the site, and there is not the selection that was offered during the summer; but there are some interesting things. Don't limit your navigating to just the art therapy certificate section - the good stuff is mixed in (like healthcare and behavioral sciences, then subheading counseling and therapy). I wanted to post it so that anyone interested could check it out periodically, just in case they offer another trauma and the brain weekend short course (which is one that I noticed when I originally stumbled across it's existence).

Anyhoo...just another possible resource to consider.

julie

October ATC Meeting

2007-10-03T16:07:00.000-04:00

The next Art Therapy Collective meeting will be Monday, October 15th at 4pm in the Media Seminar room B.

Meeting Monday, September 24th

2007-09-21T18:53:00.000-04:00

Hello Everyone!

The next meeting for the Art Therapy Collective will be on Monday, September 24th at 3:50pm (immediately after class for the 1st years) in the Library Media Room B (the same place we met last time).

We will be discussing a variety of new topics and doing some housekeeping. Please note that some of you agreed to do research or present on a topic during this meeting. Specifically: Lodging for AATA, ArtWalk summary, The Woodsman film discussion, etc.

Please e-mail us if you have any questions! We look forward to seeing you there.

ATC Member Profiles

2007-09-20T00:29:00.001-04:00

By request of fellow ATC members, this will be the beginning of what we hope will be a list of all the current members of the Art Therapy Collective. Here is how you can contribute your personal member profile: become "friends" with our MySpace page and your existing profile will be linked to the ATC's profile. Another way we can implement this is through a thread on the discussion board via Blackboard-- each member can post a photo and short description of themselves.

We welcome your feedback on this!

Art Therapy in Tanzania

2007-09-19T20:06:00.000-04:00

Last December, a fellow graduate Creative Arts Therapy student, Jordan Kroll, and I attended a lecture in New York City given by Dr. Rebecca DiSunno, an established/practicing art therapist for over 10 years. In her presentation, Dr. DiSunno described her experience volunteering in Northern Tanzania with Cross Cultural Solutions, a global non-profit organization, and illustrated how that experience cultivated her interest in the potential for art therapy as a modality for mental health intervention in Africa.

Given my own interest in using art therapy to address the mental health needs in Sub-Saharan Africa, Dr. DiSunno and I began a dialog regarding the possibility implementing a pilot art therapy program in Africa. Dr. DiSunno was eventually successful in arranging a three week internship through Cross Cultural Solutions for New York University graduate art therapy department and extended an invitation to the Creative Arts Therapy Department at Nazareth. Three students, including myself, were able to take advantage of this incredible learning opportunity; and on August 10th, we embarked on the three week journey exploring the potential of art therapy in Northern Tanzania.

While there, Day, Julie and I worked at Mahabusu Ya Watoto, a juvenile detention hall for adolescents (age 7-17) who have been accused but not yet convicted of their crimes. Over the course of the three week pilot program, we led both innovative group and individual art therapy sessions/interventions/activities that focused on increasing self-esteem, individual validation, and establishing universality. In addition, we engaged these adolescents with a group mural making experience that worked towards instilling hope, facilitating group cohesion and finally, promoting a progression towards rehabilitation.

Though challenging at times, the overall experience was incredible and I believe the work we did there (NYU students included) will prove to be a substantial contribution to the field of art therapy in a global context and the eventual rise of art therapy in Africa. Not only were we able to explore using art as a modality for addressing intercultural mental health issues, but we also gained incredible insight and experience working with multicultural populations that will inevitably enrich our perspectives as neophyte art therapists.

In order to share our experience, Day, Julie and I will be giving an extensive presentation (including a reception and viewing of artwork) on Monday, November 26th focusing on art therapy in Africa and our work at the detention hall. More information will be advertised in the coming month.

Jim Albertson

World Children's Festival [in retrospect]

2007-09-14T15:53:00.000-04:00

Back in June, three Collective members represented Nazareth College and the graduate Creative Arts Therapy Department at the World Children’s Festival of the International Child Art Foundation held in Washington DC. This was the first year that ICAF hosted art therapy lectures and interactive/experiential sessions. After submitting multiple program designs, we (the 3 collective members + 1 really awesome faculty adviser) were selected to lead three group art therapy interventions over the course of the weekend. Though art therapy received hefty competition from the Lego Creation Nation, our interventions had them scrambling for table (and/or ground) space as well. We took kids on a magic carpet ride, walked on sidewalks across the globe, and explored the superhero within.

There is nothing like seeing three seemingly uninterested inner-city adolescent males sit down in front of a large piece of felt, listen nonchalantly to the inspirational Shel Silverstein poem, grab the glitter, and go to town - creatively participating for the entire hour time-slot while other children came and went after 10 minutes. For our superhero intervention, a passerby could have easily confused us with the Lego tent, what with the mobs of kids and adults crowding for the chance to create their very own superhero out of spongy magical clay.

Our interventions were a hit; and the word of art therapy was spread across our nation’s capitol, and essentially the world, in just 3 days.

[presentation or discussion to follow at a collective meeting in the future]

ICAF Website
Lego Creation Nation

ArtWalk Alive! Information

2007-09-13T22:09:00.000-04:00

Hi all. Here is a schedule for those who have volunteered for ArtWalk Alive, and thank you. Our space is on University and Merriman - see the City newspaper insert.

Set-up 11:30ish - Jordan, Amity, & Roderick

12pm: Jordan, Amity, & Roderick

1pm: Roderick, Jaime B, Jim

2pm: Julie, Jim

3pm: Jordan, Liz, & Day

Break-down: Anyone who is around at this time

Here is a schedule and map (.pdf)
ArtWalk Rochester website

See you there!

ATC

*Originally posted by Jordan, the leader of the ArtWalk event for ATC.

Michael White Workshop

2007-09-10T22:39:00.000-04:00

Michael White will be offering a workshop on October 8th and 9th at Hochstein Music School here in Rochester, NY. Click on the image to view the full size flyer. The title of the workshop is: Responding to Families Affected by Violence, Loss, and Trauma.

Meeting Details for 9/10

2007-09-08T15:38:00.000-04:00

Hello All,

Here is a rough outline of what we will be covering at the meeting this coming Monday: Collective websites orientation, fund raising, events organization (including organization of a fund raising mixer and ArtWalk), ideas for Collective "field trips" (i.e., lectures, area visits, trips).

We apologize for originally scheduling the meeting during class time for the first year students. We will also be discussing our next meeting time so that we can make these meetings convenient for at CAT students.

Hope to see you there!

Collective Meeting 9/10/07

2007-08-10T13:54:00.000-04:00

The first meeting of the 2007 - 2008 school year will be held on September 10^th2007 at 3:50pm, Media Room B of the Nazareth College library [downstairs]. Updates will be coming soon regarding the contents of this meeting. We look forward to seeing you there!

Donation Letter and the Silent Auction

2007-08-04T13:22:00.000-04:00

Just wanted to let you know that a donation/fund raising letter has been posted in the Course Information section on Blackboard. It is our idea and hope that we can hold a silent auction at Nazareth sometime during the fall semester to raise money for the AATA conference. If you would like to participate and benefit from funds raised, print the letter and sign it. Then pick area businesses, present the letter, and 'plead our case'. The letter is pretty self explanatory; if there are any questions...Day is our resident fund raising specialist. :)

Also, if you have been to area businesses, could you please post which ones (successful attempts or not). This will limit on our doubling up and annoying people.

Thanks
julieR

Elizabeth Layton’s Art Legacy

2007-08-04T13:17:00.000-04:00

Hey Everyone,

I was looking on the AATA website and I came across this quick article about Grandma (Elizabeth) Layton and her art legacy. She is the woman we learned about who did the contour drawings in her 60's as a way to deal with her depression. I thought it was interesting consideing that we watched a video about her in the Fall. I have posted the link below in case anyone would like to check it out.

-Jim

Source

Presentation Topics

2007-08-04T13:13:00.000-04:00

Hi All,

This post is for open discussion on what members' interests are and if you would be willing to present them to the Collective in a meeting sometime down the road. Since our meetings are monthly, there is some time to plan ahead for each one.

In general, the idea is to have one or two students per meeting present on a topic that interests them. Using powerpoint, internet resources, and/or demonstrations, you could present on an area of interest that you are currently researching (and have a special passion for), a thorough book review, or an art-therapy related topic that you think would be beneficial to the other Collective members to learn about. Think of it as practice at giving an in-service to your fellow (soon-to-be) professionals :) . We would like every member to present on a rotating basis.

Please post your interest area/topic and a date you would be ready to present (you can give a month or more specific date if you know when the next meeting is scheduled).

Thanks!

A Creative Arts Therapy Podcast

2007-08-03T18:02:00.000-04:00

Follow this link to hear a podcast from a movement therapist. Here is the description:

Episode 1 with special guest registered and licensed dance therapist Rena Kornblum, MCAT, ADTR, DTRL.

Rena is the executive director at the Hancock Center for Movement Arts & Therapies, Inc. in Madison, WI. She has worked with a variety of populations and has developed a violence prevention program for the local school system. Rena is also the author of Disarming the Playground: Violence Prevention through Movement and Pro-Social Skills. To learn more about Rena and the Hancock Center please visit www.hancockcenter.net