Courses & Workshops
Workshops
Online Courses
Introduction to Humanistic Psychology
An On-line Course for Psychologists by Dr. Serlin and Sage DeBeixedon, PhD
3 CE credits - $29
This is an introductory course on Humanistic Psychology. Humanistic Psychology provides a treatment model that is client-centered, emphasizes strengths rather than pathologies and is devoted to the discovery of meaning and purpose in work, relationships and life. Because of the underlying values embraced by Humanistic Psychology, it enables clients to live authentically and to attain their optimal selves. The course reviews the foundations and basic principles of Humanistic Psychology and its applications to special populations.
This course will teach psychotherapists to:
• Identify the history, theory and basic issues in humanistic psychology.
• Apply basic issues of humanistic psychology to the psychology of trauma.
• Apply basic issues of humanistic psychology to the psychology of women.
• Compare and contrast humanistic psychology with the related new field of positive psychology.
The course is available now at www.drzur.com/humanisticpsychologycourse.html.
For more information, contact Zur Institute, Innovative Resources and Continuing Education,
at the Zur website www.drzur.com, e-mail drzur@drzur.com, or phone 707-935-0655.
Past Courses Taught by Dr. Ilene Serlin
Psychotherapy and the Arts - This course helps experienced clinicians use expressive therapies in a brief therapy model. By directly accessing the central metaphors of a client's problem, both client and therapist can understand, experience, and shift them more quickly than when the therapy stays with the discursive story line of the client's situation. In addition, the power provided by movement or enactment can bring energy to a stuck place, shifting it even further. Listening to the metaphors is developed in the language of poetry, visual image, kinaesthesia, music and drama. Participants have the opportunity to practice skills of clinical integration of modalities while tracking central themes and metaphors of the client's process.
Part I presented the foundations of the history, theory and practice of expressive arts therapies.
Part II demonstrated clinical examples of integration.
Part III provided an opportunity to practice in small groups.
Ecopsychology and Creative Arts Therapies - Ecopsychology is one of the newest movements in psychology in the United States, growing out of the global ecology crisis and the understanding that psychology must move beyond a concern for the personal psyche to a concern for the sustainability of the environment. This course covers the theory of ecopsychology, and examines the role of the artist-healer in the context of the natural world.
 Space, Movement and Healing - This talk for a San Francisco architecture office focuses on the interrelationship of space, movement and healing, with particular attention to how buildings are constructed to evoke certain movements, both historically and in the present. Labanotation, a movement observation language system, is used to describe parameters of time, weight, space and flow in the vocabulary of movement and space. Examples are given of healing and movement work done in the context of a support group for women with breast cancer.
The Anne Sexton Complex - The Anne Sexton complex describes, in a language deriving from the arts rather than psychopathology, the lure and seductiveness of the Underworld. Recent films about Sylvia Plat and Sabina Spielrein and books about Christiana Morgan and Sexton illustrate renewed interest in the relationship between women, creativity, and suicide. It is very important for therapists to understand this dynamic.
This presentation for The Dream Institute of Berkeley, juxtaposes case vignettes with selections from Sexton's poetry and life to illustrate how this dynamic shows up in ourselves and those with whom we work. 4 hours CEU.
Continuing Education
USHA offers a range of continuing education courses in adult education including the 3 unit course, "Psychotherapy in the Arts." $50.00 per packet. For more information, email Dr. Ilene Serlin or call 707/235-7959 or 415/931-3819.
Past Events
Dr. Serlin presented at the 4th Annual Int'l Conference Engaging the Other: the Power of Compassion on
November 12-15, 2009 in San Mateo, California. More info
Dr. Serlin presented a workshop on Kinesthetic Imagining at the annual Existential Humanistic Institute Conference in San Francisco.
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2009 CALIFORNIA PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONVENTION
On Saturday, April 19, 2009, Dr. Serlin chaired a panel on Whole Person Approaches to Trauma: Post-Traumatic Growth at the 2009 California Psychological Association annual convention in Oakland, California.
Introduction
Trauma profoundly affects body and mind, yet most psychological approaches are verbal. Nonverbal approaches bring a symbolic working-through, resulting in changes in brain activity. This panel taught experiential approaches like imagery and movement, stress management and existential/integrative therapy in the context of military culture, and from a growth perspective.
Healthcare professionals in the US need to get ready to work with returning Iraqi veterans and their families. In 2008, a Task Force was established under the leadership of Miguel Gallardo and chaired by Ilene Serlin to address this need. This workshop presented an approach to working with trauma that is from a whole person perspective and emphasizes post-traumatic growth, and show examples learned from Israeli trauma centers.
Course description
Trauma profoundly affects the physiology of the body, as well as cognition and speech, yet most psychological approaches are verbal. This workshop identified whole person approaches to trauma and PTSD that address psychological, physical and spiritual aspects of loss and healing and demonstrate its roots in a growth perspective on psychotherapy.
Emerging mind/body approaches discussed in this panel include: Breathwork, relaxation, healthy lifestyle, meditation, writing, imagery, healing rituals, making sense of trauma (existential/humanistic), drama therapy, dance therapy, religious/spiritual faith and group therapy.
Cross-cultural examples using whole person approaches were provided from US and Israeli veterans. In each of these programs, the treatment goals included: 1) Bringing together the split body/mind that occurs with dehumanizing terror, 2) Finding meaning and purpose in disaster, 3) Providing a creative means for discharging aggression and restoring interpersonal connections, 4) Strengthening individual and community resilience, 5) Expressing and containing strong emotions like aggression and horror in a safe container, 6) Allowing creativity to symbolize traumatic losses and hopes for the future.
Whole person approaches to post-traumatic growth are cost-effective, humane, and non-invasive ways to work with individuals and groups that can be built into clinical treatment and training programs. Culturally sensitive, they can restore interpersonal connections in times of rapidly changing global identities and losses.
Chair: Serlin, Ilene, Whole Person Healthcare Approaches to Working with Trauma
Panelists
Beckner, Victoria, Integrating Post-Traumatic Growth Strategies into Treatments for PTSD
Harvey, Richard, Linking Spirituality and Resilience: Implications for Whole Person Practices
Gubkin, Rut, Personal Reflections and Clinical Implications of the Impact of Traumatic Events and Resilience
CREATIVE ARTS THERAPIES APPROACHES TO WORKING WITH CONFLICT AND TRAUMA
Academic Conference in Israel
On April 5-6, 2009, Dr. Serlin presented a workshop at this conference at Lesley University, Israel entitled Whole Person Approaches to Conflict: Post Traumatic Growth:
Personal and social transformation has always been a key aspect of creative approaches to working with conflict, as well as that of the new field of post-traumatic growth.
This workshop looked at how whole person approaches to conflict can promote transformation and growth. Working specifically with meditation, imagery and movement (kinesthetic imagining), it creatively addressed themes of conflict in the group. It then showed how post-traumatic growth is a natural perspective for arts and humanistic therapists that can help promote resiliency and positive affirmations of life.
2008 EXISTENTIAL HUMANISTIC INSTITUTE ANNUAL CONFERENCE
On November 15, 2008, Dr. Serlin presented a workshop entitled Kinesthetic Imagining at the annual conference of the Existential Humanistic Institute in San Francisco.
For more information, see the Pacific Institute website.
2008 APA CONVENTION
At the APA annual convention in Boston on August 13-17, 2008, Dr. Serlin participated in the following 5 panels:
1. Humanistic Psychology and Whole Person Approaches to Working with Trauma
Chair: Ilene A. Serlin, Ph.D, BC-DMT,
Presenters: Stanley Krippner, Ph.D, Debbie Joffe Ellis, Ph.D
Trauma profoundly affects the physiology of the body, as well as cognition and speech, yet most psychological approaches are verbal. This workshop will identify whole person approaches to trauma that address psychological, physical and spiritual aspects of loss and healing and demonstrate its roots in humanistic psychology.
Emerging mind/body approaches that will be discussed in this paper are: Breathwork, relaxation, healthy lifestyle, meditation, writing, imagery, healing rituals, making sense of trauma (existential/humanistic), drama therapy, dance therapy, religious/spiritual faith and group therapy.
Examples using whole person approaches were provided from US and Israeli veterans. In each of these programs, the treatment goals included:
1) Bringing together the split body/mind that occurs with dehumanizing terror,
2) Finding meaning and purpose in disaster,
3) Providing a creative means for discharging aggression and restoring interpersonal connections,
4) Strengthening individual and community resilience,
5) Expressing and containing strong emotions like aggression and horror in a safe container,
6) Allowing creativity to symbolize traumatic losses and hopes for the future.
Mind/body approaches are cost-effective, humane, and non-invasive ways to work with individuals and groups that can be built into clinical treatment and training programs. Culturally sensitive, they can restore interpersonal connections in times of rapidly changing global identities and losses.
Part I: Whole Person Healthcare and Roots in Humanistic Psychology (Ilene Serlin)
Part II: The Wounded U.S. Warrior: From Soldier's Heart to PTSD (Stanley Krippner)
Part III: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy for Trauma Treatment - Healing Heart and Mind (Debbie Ellis)
2. Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy: New Horizons of Practice
This panel focused on exhibiting a diversity of practices within the existential-integrative (EI) therapeutic model developed in Schneider's recent edited book "Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy: Guideposts to the Core of Practice" (Routledge, 2008). Dr. Serlin spoke on EI and Kinesthetic Imagining.
3. New Works in Humanistic Psychology: Meet the Authors. Dr. Serlin was an author in attendance.
4. Humanizing an Inhumane World: Expression in the Service of Humanity Through the Arts. Moderated by Dr. Serlin and co-sponsored by Lesley University and Div. 32: Psychotherapy and the Arts.
Throughout history the arts have been used to engage and transform the most irresolvable conflicts and deepest pains. When all logical attempts to resolve individual and social problems have failed, the arts have reliably offered ways of expressing and re-visioning our struggles and shaping them into positive affirmations of life.
Faculty from Lesley University presented transformative aesthetic and psychological approaches to working with conflict through the arts. The panel was moderated by Ilene Serlin, reflecting the relationship between this approach and the humanistic tradition.
5. Healing and Feeling -- Stress, Support and Cancer. Dr. Serlin talked on Arts Medicine.
For more information, see the APA website.
2007 APA CONVENTION
At the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco on August 18, 2007, Dr. Serlin chaired the panel on integrative healthcare for the whole person.
Whole Person Healthcare
Mind/body therapies offer an exciting new healthcare frontier, addressing the complex interaction of mental, physical and spiritual dimensions of health and illness. Beginning with the introduction of the word “health” into the mission statement of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2001, an APA “Health Care for the Whole Person” Task Force in 2004 under the leadership of APA’s president Ron Levant, Tool Kits being introduced in the Practice Directorate, and a Task Force on Whole Person psychology under Laura Barbanel of Division 42 in 2006, the Whole Person approach to health care in psychology is beginning to gather evidence of the effectiveness and best practices of integrative collaborative care.
Whole Person Healthcare integrates the best evidence/based integrative therapies into a bio-psycho-social-spiritual model. The Whole Person approach considers the person in the context of his or her world, seeking to understand the meaning of symptoms, as well as their biological and behavioral causes. Learning Whole Person approaches is important for psychologists because the public and patients are already looking for quality professionals who can provide them.
Whole Person approaches to health deal with the whole person in his or her setting, rather than reducing illness to isolated disease entities or body parts. This panel is designed to introduce the healthcare professional into different areas of Whole Person health care, and provide a comprehensive overview of the field. It is transdisciplinary, drawing from practitioners and programs from psychology, medicine, clergy, public policy, and the arts. It lays a foundation of definitions and practices of integrative health care for the 21st century. It helps practitioners develop protocols and assess efficacy of alternative practices, emphasizes the relevance of integrative health care for the marginalized population, and discusses risk prevention, policy and issues of patient protection.
A Whole Person approach to health care also focuses on issues of meaning in illness, the role of spirituality, health and mental health, chaplaincy and pastoral care, and research and practice in yoga, meditation, imagery, QiGong, prayer, ritual, and death and dying. Finally, a Whole Person approach introduces the practitioner to the history and practices of art and health care throughout the ages. It presents the history of art and health in ancient healing rituals, shows the relevance of rituals in the growing number of international contemporary Art in Health programs, and discusses applications of art, music, dance, drama and poetry therapy programs at the bedside, in groups, and in cross-cultural conflict.
The Year of the Whole Person provides a timely window for a much-needed collaboration among health care professionals. This collaboration can bring together the best practices from the science and art of psychology and medicine for a comprehensive treatment approach. The current unsustainable healthcare system urgently needs a more efficient utilization of services; the underserved patients are demanding that their healthcare professionals talk to each and coordinate quality traditional and complementary practices, and healthcare professionals can rediscover their modern yet ancient roles as healers of the mind, body, and spirit.
1. Tool Kits for the Whole Person, Russ Newman, Ph.D, JD, Director, APA Practice Directorate
Health care practices are expanding from traditional medical settings into new areas such as rehabilitation, wellness programs, and community education, offering practitioners new opportunities and challenges. These developments are consistent with a variety of recent trends within psychology, such as the addition of the word “health” into the mission statement of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2001, and the “Year of the Whole Person ” (Serlin, 2001-2). An APA “Health Care for the Whole Person” Task Force in 2004, under the leadership of APA’s president Ron Levant, gathered evidence of the effectiveness and best practices of integrative collaborative care, and a Task Force on Health Care was organized by Division 42 in 2006 under President Laura Barbanel.
The Practice Directorate of the APA has begun to integrate new attention to areas of psychology like resiliency, positive psychology, coaching and wellness to teach practitioners how to bring these Whole Person approaches into their own practices. While some psychologists will choose to affiliate with medical settings and work on healthcare teams, others may want to bring integrative practices into their own private offices. This presentation will discuss efforts currently underway to address the crisis in healthcare by building on trends in Whole Person approaches and making these Tool Kits available to APA’s practitioners.
2. Integrative Healthcare at Center for Integrative Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center, David Spiegel, MD, Medical Director
Health care practices are expanding from traditional medical settings into new areas such as rehabilitation, wellness programs, and community education, offering practitioners new opportunities and challenges. These developments are consistent with a variety of recent trends within psychology, such as the addition of the word “health” into the mission statement of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2001, and the “Year of the Whole Person ” (Serlin, 2001-2). The Practice Directorate of the APA has begun to integrate new attention to areas of psychology like resiliency, positive psychology, coaching and wellness to teach practitioners how to bring these Whole Person approaches into their own practices. An APA “Health Care for the Whole Person” Task Force in 2004, under the leadership of APA’s president Ron Levant, gathered evidence of the effectiveness and best practices of integrative collaborative care, and a Task Force on Health Care was organized by Division 42 in 2006 under President Laura Barbanel.
This presentation describes the program at the Center for Integrative Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center as a model for biobehavioral and medical healthcare professional collaboration.
3. Envisioning Healthcare for the 21st Century, Pat De Leon, Ph.D, Past-President APA
Mind/body therapies offer an exciting new health care frontier. This series introduces the public, health care professionals, and students to this future. Mind/body therapies address the complex interaction of mental, physical, and spiritual dimensions of health and illness. Because these therapies deal with the whole person in his or her setting, rather than in terms of isolated disease entities or body parts, this integrative approach is being referred to as “Whole Person Health Care.” Each volume of this series demonstrates the application of mind/body therapies in a variety of contexts, showing their relevance across a wide range of settings and disciplines. Health care practices are expanding from traditional medical settings into new areas such as rehabilitation, wellness programs, and community education, offering practitioners new opportunities and challenges.
This presentation will focus on a policy perspective on healthcare in the 21st Century, as well as the place of psychology in an integrative model.
4. Treating the Whole Person, Marie A. DiCowden, Ph.D
This presentation will focus on a model that combines physical, psychological and spiritual protocols in rehabilitation and overall healthcare. Based upon the Biscayne Institutes of Health & Living, Inc., a HealthCare Community©, the philosophical basis for combining traditional medical and psychological approaches with complementary approaches will be presented. The HealthCare Community© model, which has been providing services for over 17 years will be used to illustrate both the administrative and clinical feasibility for providing an integrative approach to healthcare. The historical basis for this combined approach will be reviewed. Protocols for pediatric and adult patients with both emotional and physical disabilities will be presented.
Research data, as well as case illustrations of protocols, will demonstrate the method and efficacy of combining traditional rehabilitation with non-traditional approaches. Traditional methods include neuropsychological and psychological assessment and treatment, along with speech, physical and occupational therapy, applied in currently accepted healthcare delivery. Non-traditional treatments include the application of visual and music arts to the healing process; the use of music and drumming to change brain waves of neurologically impaired individuals; relaxation exercises and acupuncture in combined protocols to address pain management; mind awakening exercises, e.g., yoga, visualization, and “journeying” in treatment of disabled children; and mindfulness meditation used to address physical and psychological impairments for both adults and children.
An overview of how this model can be adapted for other institutions and private practice will be addressed.
5. Spirituality and Health, Bruce Feldstein, MD
There is strong evidence in the medical literature of the relationship between spirituality and health and the importance of spiritual care (Anandarajah and Hight, 2001, January 2). As a result of illness or trauma and its treatment, including hospitalization, patients, families as well as healthcare providers will encounter various degrees of suffering such as alienation, anger, anxiety, guilt, indecision, turmoil, intrusiveness, anguish, questioning, hopelessness, confusion, fear, and grief (Katonah, 1985). They can also experience profound blessing, awe, appreciation, gratitude, a sense of connection and belonging, vision, meaning and inspiration.
Spiritual care involves recognizing and responding to these multiple expressions of spirituality. Spiritual care is everyone’s job—the patient, their family and friends, members of the health care team, as well as chaplains and clergy (Mohrmann, 1995). There are many crucial moments in healthcare that call for a spiritual presence and response—a listening ear, a gentle touch, a compassionate word and sometimes a blessing or prayer. So often the physician or nurse or other health care provider is the one who is available. It is not only appropriate but sometimes necessary for them to provide a spiritual response (Feldstein, 2001). And yet, while spiritual care may be everyone’s job, it is not everyone’s primary role. Furthermore, physicians, nurses and healthcare workers can themselves be overwhelmed and unprepared to respond to these needs.
In the healthcare setting, it is the primary role of the healthcare chaplain to provide for the spiritual care of patients, families and staff. This presentation will demonstrate the role of the chaplain who works closely with others in a health care team to provide integrative treatment in a clinical setting.
6. Imagery: Multiple Modalities, Kirwan Rockefeller, Ph.D
Imagery has its roots in ancient philosophical and spiritual practice. However, imagery has become a central part of preventive and traditional Western medicine in the past 20 years. Psychologists can be trained in basic imagery techniques and applications. And more and more therapists are employing such approaches. Research has demonstrated the efficacy of imagery, especially in the treatment and rehabilitation of cancer patients.
Since imagery is verbal, visual and kinesthetic, this presentation will introduce the audience to the theory, clinical case examples and hands-on training in multi-modal approaches to imagery.
The first section of this presentation will present theories of multiple intelligence as well as research and case examples of verbal, visual and kinesthetic images. The second section will demonstrate Tool Kits that teach clinical applications of multi-modal approaches to imagery using case studies and experiential training.
Overall, this presentation will give participants an opportunity to experience innovative clinical skills that build upon psychologists’ role as agents of social change. The focus of non-traditional approaches, e.g. imagery, will be discussed in improving the lives of the disenfranchised; contributing to healthy communities through prevention and treatment; illustrating an emerging role of psychologists in combining mental health and healthcare; demonstrating best practices in education and training; developing specific strategies for working with diverse populations; and showing the many roles of culture and the arts in psychology and rehabilitation.
7. Art and Health, John Graham-Pole, MD
The quickly expanding field of arts medicine and the arts therapies is finding an essential place in three major areas of modern Western healthcare: (a) Clinical: the care of patients and their families; (b) Education of both professional and non-professional groups; and (c) Research into the efficacy of the arts and arts therapies as healing modalities. In this presentation I will briefly describe each of these, including a review of the expressive arts therapies as one aspect of mind-body medicine, a review of the history and scientific rationale of this evolving discipline, and a comprehensive coverage of world trends in the arts medicine field. Specific sections are also devoted to the visual arts, music, dance, drama and poetry therapies respectively, each seen from clinical, educational, and research perspectives.
Clinical: The most conspicuous aspect of healing art is its contribution to the aesthetic quality of physical healthcare environments, through architecture, signage, and installations of art and sculpture. Of even more significance, however, are the clinical practices of artists and expressive arts therapists at the hospital bedside and other health settings, which make use of a constellation of arts media (McNiff, 1992; Samuels and Lane, 1998; Graham-Pole, 2000). Artists thrive on a kind of deconstruction and reconstruction of chaos, allowing them to bring to their work in healthcare a certain fearlessness in the face of the kind of chaos that every seriously ill person’s life has become. Educational: The arts are being used to educate all students of healthcare, for example, through medical humanities programs (Charon and Montello, 2002), which have become widespread in medical and nursing training, and incorporate the literary, visual, musical and dramatic arts. Educational courses in the healing arts are also attracting the attention of a wide diversity of healthcare and related professionals. Research: A growing body of research related to arts medicine, both quantitative and qualitative in scope, has emerged over the past fifty years. The science of creativity and health that underlies all assessment of art as therapy is reviewed.
 2006 APA CONVENTION
At the 2006 annual meeting of the American Psychological Association held August 10-13, 2006 in New Orleans, Dr. Serlin presented in the following panels:
1. Shaping Post 9/11 Dialogue: Task Force Assessments and Comments sponsored by APA Division 48, Peace Psychology. This symposium engages the study of violence and aggression as related to terrorism, in relation to Western disillusionment.
2. Health & Living: Life After Rehabilitation sponsored by APA Division 22, Rehabilitation Psychology.
Rehabilitation is often narrowly defined as the formal application of professional treatment provided within a structured inpatient or outpatient setting. However, The National Institute of Health Consensus Report on Traumatic Brain Injury (1998) indicated almost 10 years ago that in some cases "rehabilitation can be lifelong." This can also be true for individuals needing rehabilitation for other traumas and/or chronic illness.
On-going quality of life for persons with disabilities has long been discussed in rehabilitation circles. Now a new paradigm is emerging that defines healthy functioning and quality of life on a continuum for all individuals. This presentation explores how rehabilitation can take place over the long-term in non-traditional settings and make health and quality living the ultimate goal for persons who need rehabilitation.
A model for healthcare delivery is presented that specifically defines rehabilitation services in a more humanistic manner on a continuum of overall health related care. Cutting edge assistive technology that enhances functioning as well as alternative practices that have ancient roots in spiritual approaches are cited along with research data that supports the integration of these approaches in current care. The role of the arts in healing arts is discussed as well as the concept of disability as a transformational experience. Additionally, a therapist, who is herself a brain injury survivor and now serves as a peer mentor to other individuals with traumatic brain injury, speaks about her own poignant journey and "life after rehab."
Health and quality of life for individuals with a disability is a reflection of how we as society perceive health and quality of life for everyone. "Life after rehab" is an important concept, especially when we consider that we are all one step away from disability.
3. Evidence-Based Outcome: Humanistic and Arts Therapies sponsored by APA Division 32, Humanistic Psychology and APA Division 10, Psychology, Creativity and the Arts.
For information about upcoming APA conventions, go to the APA convention website.
2005 APA CONVENTION
Dr. Serlin made the following two presentations at the American Psychological Association annual convention in Washington, DC on August 20, 2005. Both were sponsored by APA Division 1, the Society for General Psychology:
1. Challenges & Creativity -- a symposium presented by Dr. Ilene Serlin, Dr. Marie DiCowden, and Dr. Tobi Zausner.
This symposium discussed the central role of psychology in facilitating the creativity of challenged individuals and also in examining their creative processes. Psychology helps challenged people uncover their gifts and find a path to wellness through creative expression.
2. The Postmodern War on Terrorism -- an invited paper presented by Dr. Ilene Serlin as part of a panel on 21st Century Psychology.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN ISRAEL: Creative Arts in Conflict Resolution
Imagine: Expression in the Service of Humanity --
Creative Approaches to Dealing with Conflict in Groups.
April 2-6, 2006 in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel
This conference focuses on the development of creative therapeutic tools appropriate for dealing with conflict in general and the Israel-Palestine conflict in particular. The predominant theme is touching and understanding the pain of the other as a vehicle for growth and development and to explore new ideas and approaches.
The conference brings together a multidisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners from group psychotherapy and group analysis, psychology, psychiatry, the expressive therapies, education, social work and related areas of inquiry, as well as from the arts. The program will incorporate presentations by distinguished speakers, simultaneous symposia, workshops and panels. Some of the topics include: Living with Conflict and Ongoing Trauma, Conflict Resolution Among Indigenous Societies, Developing Dialog During a Time of Conflict, Building Resilience in the Face of Existential Survival Issues, Artistic Responses to Difficult Times, Social Trauma - Conscious and Subconscious Consequences.
Moving Through Conflict: Understanding Personal and Cultural Differences through Movement Style.
Workshop presented by Dr. Serlin and Mimi Berger. At the pre-conference on April 2-3, 2006 at Mormon University in East Jerusalem
SYMPOSIUM IN SAN FRANCISCO: Creative Arts Therapies
First Annual Creative Arts Therapies Symposium of the Dance Therapy Institute:
Wisdom of the Arts in Life, Therapy and Research
March 9-11, 2006 at Fort Mason Conference Center, San Francisco, California
COLLOQUIUM IN GERMANY: Dance Movement Therapy
Second International Research Colloquium in Dance Movement Therapy sponsored by the German Dance Movement Therapy Association in cooperation with the German Dance Research Association
February 10 - 11, 2006 in Pforzheim, Germany
SKIP: Serlin Kinaesthetic Imagining Profile
Presentation by Dr. Serlin at the Poster Session, Saturday, February 11, 2006, 11:30 AM - 12:25 PM
BREAST CANCER PREVENTION: REDUCING RISK THROUGH LIFESTYLE
October 11, 2005 - Integrative Medicine Clinic of Santa Rosa
Starfish Health Partners Forum Series
Presented by Bob Dozor, M.D. and Ilene A. Serlin, Ph.D, BC-DMT
COMMUNITY EVENT: Race for the Cure - Please join us for the 15th Annual San Francisco Race for the Cure, September 25, 2005 and at our warm-up before the race.
SUPPORT GROUP: Bereavement Spiritual Support Group
for those living with the loss of a loved one facilitated by Rabbi Aliza Berk and Dr. Ilene Serlin
sponsored by the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center
SHORT COURSE: Whole Person Health Care: Integrating Mind-Body Therapies into Clinical Practice
presented by Dr. Ilene Serlin at the Univ. of California Extension, Irvine, CA - May 21, 2005
WORKSHOP: Integrative Psychology, A Whole Person Approach
presented by Dr. Ilene Serlin, Dr. Kirwan Rockefeller and Dr. Jean Chin
at the California Psychological Association annual convention in Pasadena, CA - April 9, 2005
WORKSHOP: Body Image: A Class for High School Women
In this class women explore what is real and what is ideal. Who is "the real you"? Is she a bad girl, a good girl, a wounded child, or a warrior woman?
COURSE: Foundations of Dance/Movement Therapy - Sonoma State University
This class builds a foundation on the history and essential practices of Dance/Movement Therapy. Students become acquainted with the field and learn about its application.
WORKSHOP: Movement Choirs As Transformative Process
A Community Healing Dance Ritual by Dr. Ilene Serlin and Margie Pulamano Torres
A workshop at the Sixth Conference of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA), "Expressive Arts: Voices for Peace and Transformation"
March 3-6, 2005 - Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
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