Saturday October 29, 2016 – New Date!
Our 2nd annual Creativity and Wellness Conference for Educators, Counselors, Therapists, Health Care Providers and Parents. Join us for a day of experiential workshops to explore your own connection to Creativity and Wellness, nurturing yourself and becoming more present for your students, clients and children.
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Keynote: TBD
10:15-11:15 – Workshops A
Trauma and the Work of Art – Diane Kaufman, M.D.
Trauma and the Work of Art explores trauma from a body, mind and spirit perspective and will highlight Dr. Kaufman’s bringing arts into healing in her work as a child psychiatrist in Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Kaufman’s self-healing through the Therapeutic Arts Alliance of Manhattan will be explored, specifically her creation of the healing story, Bird That Wants to Fly, which is now a children’s opera. The opera (or clips thereof) will be shown and an arts experience for participants will conclude the lecture.
Yoga and Social Emotional Learning: An Integrated Approach – Lynea Gillen, M.S., LPC, E-RYT200
Learn how to combine mindfulness, simple yoga practices, and effective counseling techniques to help children develop skills for social and emotional well being. This whole-client approach supports the development of wellness habits and addresses some of the most persistent physical symptoms that accompany anxiety, depression, ADHD, loss, and trauma.
Yoga Calm® activities are effective for a wide range of ages, settings, and populations. Yoga techniques taught in this session are very simple and can be used by anyone, including those who have physical limitations and/or no prior yoga experience.
Restoration and Rejuvenation – Keeping Your Own Cup Full – Elsbeth Martindale, PhD
This is an experiential workshop offering discussion and play around the importance of restoration and rejuvenation, especially for healers and care providers. To be effective in helping others be whole and healthy, practitioners need to keep their personal cup full. Workshop participants will identify their own means for restoration and will creatively engage in claiming restorative actions in which they can partake. Everyone will leave with a dose of rejuvenation, hope, and a plan of action.
11:30am-12:30pm – Workshops B:
Beyond the Story – Christine Martell, MA
Come explore how visuals can help you see what is going on with clients or groups beyond the stories they usually tell. Visuals engage different parts of the brain to open up new possibilities. These techniques can be used in a wide variety of settings from coaching, therapy, group work, education, and in organizations.
Creativity in Motion – Aaron Wheeler Kay of Do Jump & Echo Theater!
An engaging and humorous lecture, sharing stories, discoveries, and lessons from my experience as a professional performer of 35 years, and teacher of 18 years in circus, movement and performing arts. Central to my presentation is the theory that creative problem solving, personal confidence, and collaboration are part of a recipe for healing and wellness for communities and individuals. Some of the material is based on my experiences as an ensemble member of the physical theater group Do Jump! and teacher in the Do Jump School, and some as a director and creator of original physical theater with amateurs and professionals.
Exploring the Mind-Body Healing Connection – Erin Brockmeyer, LAc
This workshop offers practical advice on how to interpret the messages your body gives you in regards to your health. Learn tools including self-massage, qigong breathing techniques and journaling in order to decipher your mental, physical and emotional symptoms. Acupuncturist Erin Brockmeyer will use her years of clinical experience to help you learn to take care of yourself in the midst of the chaos of life.
Creativity and Social Change – Kristine Bella, MA, ATR-BC, CADC1
Being involved in a community art project can be a highly dynamic rewarding experience that allows for people to have a place to express through visual means. When working with disenfranchised populations, this process has the power to unite individuals and create positive lasting change for the individuals themselves or for the community as a whole. Kristine Bella will engaged participants in a creative group process which will allow for a deeper understanding regarding arts catalytic power for community bonding, creative placemaking, and social advocacy.
1:30-2:30 – Workshops C:
Embodied Story-Sharing – Pearl Waldorf, M.S., M.A.
The stories we tell ourselves shape our world. In a connected and supportive circle, we’ll learn to sort what we think we know about ourselves from a truth only our deepest experience can illuminate. This exploration will call on our poet selves to put embodied language and images to the stories our bodies want to tell.
Food As Metaphor, Food As Life – Dawnn McWatters, Psy.D.
Through mindfulness practices in general and mindful eating exercises in particular, investigate the nature of your relationship with food and the body. We will practice basic awareness of the breath, and explore sensory experiences of sound, smell, hunger, fullness, and taste preferences. We’ll also engage in a brief writing exercise (no special writing skills or sharing required!) to identify your unique “story” of food as it relates to past and present. Take home insights and tools to integrate into daily life and with your families (children too!).
Expressions of Living: Self~Community~Biosphere – Wendy Kathryn Tucker, MA, ATR, CYT
Expressions of Living takes participants on a creative exploration into what inspires them about the Self, their Community and the Biosphere and the personal thread that binds each of these areas together. Through a short mindful meditation, writing and visual art, participants will create a personal set of prayer-flags containing images that represent each of the three areas and the thread that binds them.
2:45-3:45 – Workshop D
Embrace the Timeless Dimension of Your Creative Life Force – Maura Conlon-McIvor, PhD
As adults, we lose touch with the sense of awe and wonder from our childhood. Yet our formative years constitute a critical map of our heart’s essential blueprint. Drawing from the fields of Quantum Physics, Literature and Depth Psychology, we will explore how embodied experiences from our life’s first fourteen years build the creative bedrock from which we can draw throughout our entire lives.
Art as Anchor: Essential Tools to Tap Sweet Syrup of Creativity in Everyday Life – MereAnn Reid, M.A.
We live as busy as bees, doing, being, caring for many people in our work and family lives. In the hub-bub of modern life, we often tend to our own needs last, especially as parents and helping professionals. Enter the restorative and grounding power of our creative spark! We’ll look at ways to craft perspective, inspiration, and breathing room by returning to–or revealing–our intuitive expressive voice.
The Daring Way – an Introduction to the work of Dr. Brene’ Brown – Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD Div, MFT
The Daring Way curriculum is based on the life work of Dr. Brene’ Brown studying shame and vulnerability and her best selling book, Daring Greatly. This program is designed to help people build resilience to shame, foster self-compassion as well as learn the key elements to living a wholehearted life.
Come and learn more about Daring Way™ curriculum and how it can help you and your clients identify what is holding you/them back in life and develop the skill set needed to live a more courageous and connected life.
Testimonials from Creativity & Wellness 2014
“Fabulous!!!”
“Everyone I met was so engaged and sincere.”
“The presenters were welcoming and full of knowledge.”
“Models of loving presence. Powerful performers (Marc & Melanya).”
“Quality speakers/workshops, great time to connect with other professionals.”
“Connecting with inspired practitioners from so many disciplines all of whom hold a passion for creativity as a whole life resource.”
“Beautiful experience! I am counting down the days until I can see the second half of their performance (Eternally Present Past).”
“Yoga and Social Emotional Learning was fantastic and the presenter was full of awesome & inspiring techniques to teach children! This was my favorite part of the day. Wow, super impressed and inspired.”
“Embodying Creativity. This workshop was intimate and welcoming. The instructor was knowledgable and supportive in creating and safe environment as we explored our inner- creative selves.”
“The quality of content and people who were there was amazing. I look forward to you doing it again and have already talked to many other coworkers/professionals that would enjoy it as well.”
Sponsors
Creative RootsAt Creative Roots, we inspire kids and adults to express their creativity and enhance their learning for optimal growth and development. Kids and adults alike enjoy programs including yoga, art classes, academic classes for homeschoolers, one-to-one tutoring and coaching, and many other offerings related to creativity, learning and wellness. We offer innovative programs to every member of the family – kids, teens and parents – incorporating an inspiring blend of alternative education, creativity, art, music and FUN! |
Arts Medicine For Health and Healing
The purpose of Arts Medicine for Health & Healing is to inspire and empower adults and children to recover from trauma through the power of their creativity. By envisioning and embodying the self as much more than one’s trauma, latent energies are released allowing the unique self to flourish.
Vendors
Creative RootsAt Creative Roots, we inspire kids and adults to express their creativity and enhance their learning for optimal growth and development. Kids and adults alike enjoy programs including yoga, art classes, academic classes for homeschoolers, one-to-one tutoring and coaching, and many other offerings related to creativity, learning and wellness. We offer innovative programs to every member of the family – kids, teens and parents – incorporating an inspiring blend of alternative education, creativity, art, music and FUN! |
Free Arts NWFree Arts NW provides arts experiences that empower underserved youth to find their creativity, passion, and voice. Through arts education, collaborative projects, and ongoing mentorship, Free Arts NW cultivates individual artistic exploration while strengthening youth participants’ connections to their community. Belonging,Interdependency,Accomplishment |
Arts Medicine For Health and HealingThe purpose of Arts Medicine for Health & Healing is to inspire and empower adults and children to recover from trauma through the power of their creativity. By envisioning and embodying the self as much more than one’s trauma, latent en |
Bridges Middle SchoolBridges provides a highly creative and focused school setting for students who benefit from small class sizes and individualized instruction. Our goal is to give students with learning differences the academic foundation, social skills and confidence to successfully transition into, and graduate from, traditional high school settings or other specialized academic endeavors. |
The Brooklyn Bay TheaterSupporting people who want their most important relationships to be more nourishing. Helping you re-wire the patterns that are limiting your life. Our patterns of relating and the unconscious expectations of what will or won’t happen in our lives are woven into our brains, bodies and hearts from the very earliest part of our lives. We learn them implicitly from our families and our culture. They are so basic to our way of viewing the world that we are mostly unaware of them and how strongly they affect our lives now. When you can access your most basic relational patterns in an embodied way and get support to loosen their hold on your life, new neural pathways are literally created in your mind and body. And these old patterns no longer have the power to run your life. |
Child’s Play Toys
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Courage to BloomCourage to Bloom offers therapists and educators creative tools for psycho-education. Through card decks and handouts psychological concepts can be explored and integrated. |
Creative Arts Therapies AssociationPortland’s Creative Arts Therapies Association (CATA) is a voluntary group and welcomes creative arts therapists, health workers, and others who use creative arts for healing and are interested in seeing creative arts therapies become more entrenched locally in professional health services. |
Earth TonesEarthtones Music Therapy Services has used music to make a notable difference in people’s lives for more than twenty years. Music is an art form for expression and connection that transcends individual, generational and cultural restrictions to connect our life experiences. |
Echo Theater and Do Jump! SchoolThe Echo Theater Company is a community of performers, aerialists, acrobats, and educators exploring the intersection of ensemble theater and circus arts. Through playfulness, collaboration, creative problem-solving, and physical discipline we celebrate the potential in all of us. The Do Jump School encourages physical confidence, freedom, and grace in a creative, non-competitive atmosphere. Students develop strength, balance, flexibility, and their imaginations while working together with peers to explore the intersection of ensemble physical theater and circus arts. |
Family Empowerment NetworkFamily Empowerment Network understands that parents, given the information and support they need and deserve, are the “experts” in knowing what is the best solution for their unique situation. Family Empowerment Network’s Parenting Guides support parents in connecting with their children as they grow and in creating a caring network for themselves and their children. |
VisualsSpeak
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PDX VoxPDX Vox is a cross between a chorus and a voice band, where pop songs are performed with voices only, and many voices sing the parts of instruments.There are no voice auditions for PDX Vox. Any previous singing experience qualifies you to join, so long as you have an appreciation for a variety of pop songs. As a participant of PDX Vox, you will improve your singing, learn a bit about the history of a cappella music, and have a great time meeting and harmonizing with other music lovers. |
Yoga CalmYoga Calm® engages heart, mind and body through its unique blend of physical yoga, social skills games,mindfulness activities, and counseling techniques. It helps kids develop emotional intelligence, communication skills, trust and empathy. It nurtures teamwork and leadership. It provides for a calmer home and more productive school environment. |
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