WEBINARS
These provide short informational experiences that introduce participants to some of the main themes and new resources in arts and healing.
Webinar: Innovative Insights for Understanding and Overcoming the Roots of Trauma and Stress
December 4, 2020
In this webinar, an expert panel examines trauma, stress, and anxiety from humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, and psychoanalytic viewpoints. Insights include:
- Trauma as an entirely normal outcome of development
- Applying new models of the whole person in treating trauma
- Strengths/drawbacks of complex trauma treatments
- How trauma may endow people with exceptional abilities
- Tools to mindfully combat Zoom fatigue and “tech stress”
- Simple, patient-friendly ways to alleviate anxiety and panic
PRESENTERS:
Ilene Serlin, PhD, BC-DMT, APA Fellow
Carl Shubs, PhD
Richard Harvey, PhD
Elizabeth McMahon, PhD
Stanley Krippner, PhD, APA Fellow
Tamara McClintock Greenberg, PsyD
Michael Jawer, CAE
Webinar: Tapestries of Tolerance: Weaving Contemplative Practices, Embodiment, and the Arts to Build a Mindful Middle East
IACASE Global Connection Webinar Series #9
November 23, 2020
Contemplative creative practices, embodiment, and the arts have the potential to positively contribute to a culture of tolerance, understanding, nonviolence, and freedom of expression. As creative artists, embodied practitioners, researchers, artists, and movers we are reminded to work together to explore and focus on one sphere whose power and importance is often underestimated: the embodied contemplative arts. In times of conflict and political crisis, the arts hold answers to unwritten questions and weave fragments of narratives into a tapestry of tolerance.
This international webinar serves as a platform for connections and seeks to shed light and weave the presentations into a collective body of work that focuses on harnessing the healing power of the arts across the Middle East region. By sharing their own experience, participants were invited to witness the embodied tapestry and be reminded that the whole is larger than any sum of its parts.
Webinar: China-US Whole Person Dance Psychotherapy Training
American Dance Therapy Association
October 16, 2020
Presented as a symposium for the American Dance Therapy Association conference in October 16, 2020, this webinar documents the work of students and faculty from the China-US Whole Person Psychotherapy Training program in Beijing. Dr. Serlin, psychologist and dance movement therapist, discusses cross-cultural issues regarding an existential/humanistic approach to embodied psychotherapy with members of the China Institute of Psychology. Grace Zhou, student in the program, presents her work with pastoral care counselors in a support group. Chloe Liu discusses a theoretical understanding of similarities between existential psychology and Chinese philosophy, and Julia Huang presents a case of working with anger issues in a movement group.
Webinar: Trauma-Informed Dance Movement Therapy:
Real Life Trainings with Syrian Refugees, China and US COVID-19 Hotline
31st Annual Marion Chace Foundation Lecture by Dr. Serlin
(Originally broadcast at the 55th Annual American Dance Therapy Association Conference on October 16, 2020)
The rising tide of suffering, displacement and natural disasters calls for expanded available human services. Creative and mind-body approaches to working with trauma and PTSD can complement available services with cost-effective and humane methods. This lecture focuses on understanding how working with the body through DMT can help heal trauma, using examples from Jordan, China, and the United States.
In this webinar, Dr. Serlin gives the annual Marian Chace Foundation address of the American Dance Therapy Association meeting in 2020. Introduced by Dr. Marcia Leventhal, Dr. Serlin talks about her experience working with Syrian refugees in Jordan and her most recent project using DMT with the COVID-19 hotline in China. A training film supported by the Marian Chace Foundation to help doctors in Jordan work with Syrian refugees is also shown.
