Session 1 Friday AM - 3 Hour Workshops

Filled A. The Drama of the Expressive Arts Therapist (psychodrama and therapeutic theatre) This workshop will be an unmasking process where we get in touch with and explore the way our emotional history has brought us to become expressive arts therapists. We will be invited to bring and share some of the ways in which we nourish (or damage) our immune systems as therapists.

Yaacov Naor, MA, TEP, CAGS; founder and director of The Inner Theatre Psychodrama Centre and ISIS-Israel Expressive Arts Therapy Training Program. He is a certified trainer in psychodrama, and a certified expressive arts therapist, teaching in Europe, the USA, Canada and Israel.

B. Conflict Resolution Through The Arts: An Arts Across Cultures Project An arts approach to facilitate change, learning and growth through the peaceful resolution of conflict within intercultural communities. We will discuss our work with therapists, educators, and community workers in Israel, South Africa, Russia, and Sweden. Participants will learn strategies for using the arts: to resolve conflict; for violence prevention; for promotion of better understanding between individuals of different races and cultures.

Phillip Speiser, PhD, REAT, RDT, Director of Arts Across Cultures; former executive co-chair of IEATA. Phillip is an expressive arts educator/therapist who has been developing and implementing integrated arts programs since 1980.

Vivien Marcow Speiser, PhD, REAT, ADTR, Professor, Expressive Therapies and Creative Arts and Learning; Director of International and Collaborative Projects at Lesley College, Cambridge, MA. She has taught extensively throughout Scandinavia, Israel, South Africa and the United States.

Filled C. A Transcendent Journey Through the Mother-line Every woman must journey through her own mother-line to discover her full potential. We must first journey to our own paradoxes, our compensations for early injuries and our passions. First travelling through the life and transcendent images of Southwest Artist, Helen Hardin, each participant will then create her own mother-line images through visual arts and movement.

Kate T. Donohue, PhD, REAT, is a founding member of IEATA, of the Professional Standards committee, and of the Expressive Arts Therapy Program at CIIS. Kate has a Jungian private practice. She has journeyed her mother-line and was inspired by the transcendent images of Helen Hardin.

D. Holding the Sacred Space The expressive arts therapist creates the space within which therapeutic work can occur. This experiential workshop will explore the theme of "holding Sacred Space" using ritual and a variety of expressive arts modalities.

Terri Chester, MA and Dr. Sally Atkins are faculty members in the graduate counselling program at Appalachian State University. They teach a course called Therapy and the Expressive Arts and are currently writing a textbook to accompany the course.

Filled E. The Creative Connection®: Opening Heart Through Art The Creative Connection process -- a sequence of movement, art, sound and writing -- allows us to peel the layers to find our inner essence -- our heart -- through our art. The environment is one of understanding and compassion.

Natalie Rogers, PhD, REAT, is founder of the Person-Centered Expressive Therapy Institute and an internationally known group facilitator. She is an artist and the author of Emerging Woman and The Creative Connection: Expressive Arts and Healing.

Filled F. The Art of Being Stupid: Clown as Therapeutic Metaphor In this workshop, we will find the game that arises between us when we give up being clever. The art of the clown will be explored in relation to the practice of expressive arts therapy.

Steve Levine is co-director of ISIS-Canada and a core faculty member of the European Graduate School. He has taught and performed as a clown in Europe and in North America, hoping to hear the laughter of the gods in the midst of the pain of the world. [ Bookstore ]

Session 1 Friday AM - 1 ½ Hour Workshops

Filled G-1. Sandplay, Soul's Play: an Introduction Jungian Sandplay Therapy is a culturally neutral, non-invasive, non-verbal therapy currently used with a wide variety of client populations here and abroad. I will discuss some of the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of this type of therapy and show a brief slide presentation of a case study to illustrate the Sandplay process.

Nena Hardie, PhD, a registered psychologist and licensed member of the International Society for Sandplay Therapy, has been practising and teaching in Toronto for over 20 years.

G-2. He(art)ful Inquiry Round table with researchers / artists frustrated with current research practices and interested in artful inquiry and representation. Presenters will share their current artful research explorations to spark dialogue and discussion to explore the meaning(s) of artful inquiry and the artful practice of researching the lives of self and others.

brenda brown explores "telling" practices as psychotherapist/researcher/artist and Suzanne Thomas teaches Intermediate Visual Arts in an elementary school.

NEW Filled H-1 Integrating Polarities Through Body and Mind The journey into the experience of opposite qualities often seems incompatible to the intellect, however, in the body, the opposites balance and support each other in unity. Addressing the polarities can become a means for exploring inner resources, and developing a deeper understanding of personal life meanings and metaphors. The xperience of polarities through movement enhances the process of integration and the fullness of life experience.

Irina Biryukova, a pioneer in dance/movement therapy in Russia, is a counseling psychologist, a founding member of the Dance/Movement Therapy Association, author and coordinator of a 3-year DMT training since 1995, a lecturer at the Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis since 1994.

Cancelled H-1. The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel: Joining Buddhist and Creative Perspectives on Compassion By examining how spiritual traditions such as Buddhism and Yoga view compassion, this workshop will help participants to gain a deeper understanding of compassion in their lives as an element of personal healing as well as in their work with others. We will be involved in a Buddhist meditation on compassion, which will be followed by an opportunity to use visual and poetic languages to expand upon the experience. No previous meditation experience is required.

Ana Bodnar, PhD, doctor in counseling and psychology and certified Ashtanga yoga teacher. Along with her clinical work she teaches meditation and leads expressive art therapy groups.

Isabel Fryszberg, B.Sc. O.T.(c), occupational therapist, multimedia artist and filmmaker. Isabel combines both her clinical experience working in mental health and her background in the arts for designing and leading community art programs and groups focussed on discovering and strengthening creative and artistic expression.

H-2. Women, Wisdom and Power Through inner journeys, exploration of archetypes, song, dance, drumming, art, writing, theatre improvisation, and ceremony, we will heal our wounds, open our hearts, reclaim our power, honour our life passages and celebrate our woman/Goddess spirit.

Kate Marks, LICSW, expressive therapist, bodyworker, Reiki master, sound healer, ceremonial guide, author of Circle of Song: Songs, Chants and Dances for Ritual and Celebration.

Session 2 Friday PM - 3 Hour Workshops

Filled A. Streams of Consciousness: A Workshop of Movement and Poetry Beginning with breath, we move from our quiet dwelling place into the watery realms of our imagining: streams and rivers, waterfalls, and open seas. Allowing movement, sound-toning and language-making to lead us into the form and content of the poem, we yield to body's wisdom and let the images arise from this continuous flow of association and connection.

Elizabeth Gordon McKim is a poet and educator working from the oral tradition of sound, movement, story and chant. A member of the graduate faculty of Lesley College with many books in print, she has performed throughout the world.

Sandra Wortzel, MA, is an expressive therapist and trainer in private practice. She founded the Center for Expressive Arts and Psychotherapy, promoting the arts as tools for healing.

B. Compassion in the Classroom: Keeping the Arts in Arts Education This session will focus on the use of the arts as a vehicle for self expression in educational settings. Together we will explore strategies developed in an innovative program called Learning Through The Arts. At the heart of this program is the conviction that the discipline, cooperation, creativity and self esteem developed in the arts are essential life skills and provide a pathway to deeper understanding.

Angela Elster is an arts educator who has trained extensively through music, Orff and arts integration. The soul of Angela's work offers pathways to spontaneous creativity and self expression in educational settings.

C. Holding in the Hollow of the Heart: Compassion & Containment The experience of compassionate containment is fundamental to creating an effective therapeutic relationship. This workshop will focus on the therapist's need for holding as well as the client's. Using artistic, meditative and reflective modes we shall explore this theme together.

Fran Harwood, MA Clin. Psyc., is a psychotherapist in Toronto. She enjoys leading groups on ritual for women and men. She has also taught Expressive Arts Therapy at ISIS-Canada.

Filled D. Listening to Psyche: Exploring Through Movement & Sound As we listen deeply to psyche's voice and follow her movement, we are required to approach her with an open heart and compassion. In this workshop, we will use 'authentic movement' and sound to listen, follow and explore that which is more meaningful for us.

Lori Goldrich, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, music therapist and expressive arts therapist in private practice in San Francisco. She is an adjunct faculty member at JFK University, a guest lecturer at the Authentic Movement Institute in S.F. and a past executive co-chair of IEATA. Her work focuses on using dreams, imagination and body wisdom as guides to following the movement of psyche.

E. Permission To Grieve Explore stages of grief and the depth and transformation that comes from loss. Honour this process so often disallowed and learn how to help others move through it lovingly. This workshop welcomes lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, heterosexuals and transgendered people.

Frances Fuchs, MA, REAT, CHT, Minister of the Association for the Integration of the Whole Person. In private practice since 1983, her life partner died four years ago and grief has been her most recent companion and teacher.

Filled F. Music, Imagery and Movement... Creating Heart Space in SACRED CIRCLES This experiential workshop is designed to create an opening into heart spaciousness of essence. Using a multi modality expressive approach we explore body wisdom and access unconscious understandings. These processes will provide an opportunity to integrate the personal, professional and spiritual aspects of your life as well as teaching the therapist a powerful therapeutic model to use for working with others. Drawing, writing and group sharing will also be used to deepen the healing experience.

Jan Otte, M.Div., MFCC; Syd Strong, PhD; and Betty Dimmick, MFCC, are founding members of SACRED CIRCLES, a global centre for healing and transformation through body wisdom. All three women are pioneers in the field of human consciousness and organic spirituality. This work releases emotional wounds so that relationships, the body and life can return to their natural state of grace.
 

Filled G. Why Does Music Heal? How Does Music Heal? In this workshop we will explore the ways in which music heals in a psychotherapeutic context by: improvising together on a wide selection of instruments; observing Kye work with someone individually; and discussing ideas from clinical work, relational theory and infant research.

Kye Marshall has practised as a music psychotherapist for ten years, has lectured extensively and has run music groups for women with eating disorders, for the developmentally delayed, and for those dealing with loss. She is also a professional composer and cellist.

Session 2 Friday PM - 1½ Hour Workshops

H-1. The Purple Tea Ceremony© invites people to be guests of honour at a Table where the holy and the hilarious are one. It's a come-as-you-are and then see who-you-become experience that celebrates one's sacred Self. In the familiar format of playing dress-up and having a tea party, a part of the sacred Self is welcomed and explored. Cookies and Purple Tea are passed along with crayons and feathers and jewels. Amazing questions are asked and answered. Love and laughter is served, as I celebrate with each the Wisdom of the Heart.

Sharon Lukens is an expressive arts performer who uses a variety of characters and formats in work grounded in the belief that when we play from our hearts, we meet in the very Heart of God. We know we are there when our words dance, our silence sings, and our art heals. "Dr. Toolie Rogers" and "The Purple Tea Ceremony" are copyrighted creations.

Filled H-2. Moving Heaven and Earth: The Theory and Practice of Elemental Movement™ Elemental Movement™ is a form of movement, art, therapy, and education inspired by the five elements. These ancient universal symbols provide potent yet concrete tools for exploring and expressing dimensions of the physical, psychological and spiritual self through the medium of movement.

Nancy Rae Johnson is a registered movement therapist, educator, and consultant. She is the director of Body of Knowledge® and the developer of Elemental Movement™.

NEW I-1 Creation Axis Dr. Goren-Bar's original model of the "creation axis", published in The Arts in Psychotherapy, vol. 24(5) 1997, will be presented didactically along with a 20 minute video manifesting the creation axis in plastic-arts, music and movement.  This model functions as a diagnostic tool and the lecture will show participants how to apply it in their work.

Avi Goren-Bar, Ph.D is a clinical and educational psychologist, lecturer at Haifa University and Lesley College Extension Israel, and Director of the Expressive Therapy Clinic, Netanya, Israel

Canceled I-1. The Life Design Process: Photo Collage & Writing for Real-izing Your Dreams Images and words from magazines can breathe life into day dreams and night dreams. After creating a collage, right brain journal and poetry writing further illuminate personal symbolism, giving voice to the Creative Self and shaping visual affirmations.

Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATR, REAT, originator of The Creative Journal Method and Life Design Process, has authored 10 books, and lectures and conducts professional training internationally.

Filled I-2 Graduate Education in Expressive Arts Therapy: Current Issues Leaders of three accredited MA programs in Expressive Arts Therapy will interactively explore current issues facing graduate education such as: psychotherapist vs expressive arts therapist; licensing; the role of the arts; practicum; developing theory; social responsibility; etc.

Julia Byers, director, Expressive Therapies Graduate Program, Lesley College. Paolo Knill, Provost, European Graduate School. Jack S. Weller, director, Expressive Arts Therapy Program, California Institute of Integral Studies.

Session 3 Saturday AM - 3 Hour Workshop

Filled A. Focusing & Expressive Arts Therapy Focusing is a process developed by Eugene Gendlin that offers a gentle, safe way to look within to the wisdom and knowing of the body, and to discover a 'felt sense' of our experience. Focusing combined with the arts can lead to greater dimensions of compassion, trust, authenticity, self-love, healing, and change. (We will explore focusing primarily with visual art and movement).

Laury Rappaport, PhD, ATR, is an assistant professor and academic coordinator of the International Expressive Therapies Program at Lesley College. She is a certified Focusing trainer, a licensed marriage and family therapist, and a licensed mental health counsellor.

Filled B. SoundPlay: Finding Our Voice in Community Each person has a one-of-a-kind voice; a "soul-song" that is sacred. Using play, movement, drama and art with a person-centered approach, we will explore our relationship to our voice and what it means to be fully heard in our community.

Anin Utigaard, MA, registered expressive arts therapist, founding co-chair for IEATA and faculty member with Person-Centered Expressive Therapy Institute. Anin brings musical and artistic talents to inspire and ignite the creative process.

Filled C. The Body Poem: Embracing the Image as Practice in Forgiveness In this workshop experience you will learn a specific model for gaining access to images, for recognizing their origin, their gift and their function in the continuum from experience to meaning.

Evadne McNeil is founder / director of the Atira Expressive Arts Transformation Center where participants learn the discipline of creativity for physical and spiritual healing.

D. Imagery, Art and Health: a Slide Presentation of Drawings and Sandtrays with Medically Ill Clients (didactic & experiential) This slide presentation shows image-works collectively organized to demonstrate an 'impressionistic portrait' of the psychological phases of the experience of living with both life-threatening and quality-of-life-threatening illnesses. The images provide an opportunity to reconsider the nature of healing to include spiritual and aesthetic responses.

Wendy Miller, PhD, ATR, LPC, co-founder of Create Therapy Institute Inc., and an executive co-chair of IEATA, has practised in the field of art and expressive arts therapy since 1978 and in psychosynthesis since 1985. Miller has published on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and continues research and practice in the psychological experience of medical illness, loss and creativity.
 

E. Music: The Mythic Connection Music consists of archetypal patterns which link contemporary individuals with personal and collective ancestry through the use of commonly patterned energy forms. This experiential workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to experience the use of music and its therapeutic applications.

Ruth Skaggs, licensed professional counsellor, national certified counsellor, registered expressive arts therapist, Fellow of the Association for Music and Imagery, conducts the training program: Beyond Psychotherapy.

Filled F. Drawing Out Your Soul: An Experience of Touch Drawing Touch Drawing is a simple but profound process. As you draw without tools, it can feel as if your soul is pouring through your hands. This one experience will enable you to use Touch Drawing as a transformative process in your personal and professional life.

Deborah Koff-Chapin has been developing Touch Drawing since 1974. She has taught internationally, and is the creator of SOULCARDS and the author of Drawing Out Your Soul.

Session 3 Saturday AM - 1½ Hour Workshop

G-1. Integrating Meditation and the Contemplative Arts into an Expressive Therapy Practice How does meditation compliment and enhance the work of the arts and therapy? This workshop will be one third experiential, one third group discussion and one third informal lecture. Geoffrey will also share his experience conducting a workshop in Nepal earlier this year.

Geoffrey Scott-Alexander, MA, PhD (candidate), began studying meditation twenty-five years ago, as part of his training as an actor. He is the director of Glass Lake Studio, NY and is on the faculty of the European Graduate School.

Filled G-2. Visions of Hope: Visual Art in Sexual Abuse Treatment An innovative project in Sarasota, FL, provides the basis for this experiential workshop that demonstrates the power of art-making to break the silence and facilitate healing. Participants will gain inspiration and practical assistance as they view selected client artwork and as they create, reflect, share and listen.

Kathleen Horne, MA, licensed mental health counsellor, with specialized training in expressive arts therapy. Kathleen is the co-ordinator of Visions of Hope, and the clinical director of the Sexual Abuse Treatment Program at the Child Protection Center in Sarasota, FL. She has a private therapy practice and facilitates expressive arts workshops.

G-3. Sounds of Music: the Experience of Musical Improvisation This presentation will be an experiential workshop in which participants have the opportunity to create musical improvisations and to discuss the process of improvising music. Participants will be able to listen to audio taped excerpts of their improvisations and to reflect on qualities of their own music. A variety of musical instruments will be provided. No prior musical education is required. The only requirement is your desire to explore the sounds of improvised music and spontaneously express your musical self!

Carolyn Arnason, MTA, teaches music therapy at Wilfrid Laurier University and supervises practica/internships. Her music therapy doctorate, New York University, focussed on group musical improvisation.

H-1. "No Problem Trance in Beauty's Dance": An Introduction to Oeuvre-Oriented Expressive Arts Therapy Lecture with Community Art Demonstrations. The field of psychotherapy in general undergoes a rigorous critique in our times. The provocative book by Hillman and Ventura is just one of the pointers toward this unsettling questioning. Can we offer answers that tap into existential resources like play, art and beauty, without falling into the trap of messianic problem solving?

Paolo J. Knill, PhD, Professor Emeritus from Lesley College, Cambridge, USA; Honorary Professor at the HFM University in Hamburg, Germany; Provost of the European Graduate School (EGS) in Leuk, Switzerland; and senior faculty of the European Network of Expressive Therapy Training-Institutes. He is the author of three books and has widely published in journals internationally.

H-2. Reclaiming Heart & Spirit for Business: An Organizational Development Approach This workshop will discuss the ways that the expressive arts have been used in significant change processes in several organizations. The challenges and opportunities to ensure that the right expressive arts methodology meets the identified need of the business will be explored. Bring a small object that symbolizes your hopes and dreams for your workplace.

Galina Coffey-Lewis is a senior consultant in organizational change. She was listed twice in Outstanding Women of America. She has been using expressive arts in her consulting practice for several years. She won the Johnson and Johnson Leadership and Innovation award four consecutive years.

H-3. The Fool: Reflector of Folly The fool is a compelling archetypal figure who keeps us alert to our shadowy ways. At critical points in our lives a trickster energy deep within the psyche urges us to be the fool. This presentation will explore the fool's journey, that leap into the unknown where instinct and intuition prevail.

Bruce Barnes, CS, MSW, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Toronto, Ontario. Writer, producer and co-director of the documentary, "A Journey of Journeys", broadcast on TVOntario and Vision TV, he is currently working on a script about "Being a Complete Idiot", reflecting his interest in fools and other sages. He is vice-president of the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts.

Session 4 Saturday PM - 3 Hour Workshop

A. Cultivating Compassion for Ourselves, Our Friends, Our Enemies & Everyone In Between This workshop combines spiritual practice and the arts. We'll explore meditation techniques that awaken compassion; stories and iconography of two beloved goddesses of compassion, Kuan-Yin and Tara; then deepen our process with mandala art-making and a dancing chant.

Suzin Green, musician, writer, counsellor and teacher of meditation, devotional singing and the sacred feminine; specializing in integrating spiritual practice, vision work and the arts.

B. Painting / Drawing from the Source Drawing from the Source is about creating purely for the joy of exploration and expression - about facing an empty paper and the rich, vibrant colors and letting your hand choose a colour and begin to move on the paper.

Aviva Gold, MFA, CSW, ATR-BC, has been teaching inspired art for over 25 years. She is an experienced psychotherapist and creative workshop leader world wide. She is the author of Painting from the Source: Awakening the Artist's Soul in Everyone, published by Harper Collins in 1998.

Filled C. Therapeutic Metaphor & the Arts: Helping Aggressive Children Become Positive Community Members This workshop will explore the origins of aggressive behaviour, the effective use of therapeutic metaphor, and the arts in work with aggressive children, through case illustrations. Practical experience for participants in the creation of a therapeutic metaphor.

Jennifer Pearson has, for over ten years, worked extensively with arts based programmes in Toronto's elementary school system. She co-developed and currently implements a school treatment programme using the arts to serve aggressive children.

NEW D. The Child Abuse Survivor Monument Project: Social and Personal Healing through community based social action art. ( www.childabusemonument.org ) Discussion of the unique healing properties of creative expressive activities directed at social healing and change. Experiential component will involve creating both personal and social art and poetry.

Michael C. Irving, PhD, Executive Director/ Artistic Director of the Survivor Monument Project. Sculptor, psychotherapist, he works extensively with survivors of child abuse. His sculptures have been exhibited internationally and he is a world leader in developping the theory of Natalism.

Cancelled D. When the Moment Sings One of the strongest symptoms of trauma survivors is the inability to be present in the here and now. They view life through the ''black whole'' of the trauma. The arts can facilitate the journey home to the body replacing the black whole with an artistic expression which may emerge from it. Through movement, art, drama and sound, we will explore our "house" and the story of the soul that belongs to it.

Melinda Ashley Meyer DeMott, MA expressive arts, CAGS, psycho-drama director and bioenergetic therapist. Melinda is co-leader and founder of the Norwegian Institute of Expressive Arts Therapy. She has been working at the Psychosocial Centre for Refugees, University of Oslo, since 1990. Today she is working toward her PhD, Trauma and Creativity.

Filled E. Moving Metaphors in Expressive Arts Therapy Movement: a language through which the wisdom of the body, imagination and soul can speak. Moving our life stories artfully will be the theme of this presentation. Participants will have an opportunity to explore a personal theme and also to learn a method which can be applied in work with clients or in group settings.

Daria Halprin, MA, CET, artist, teacher, therapist, author. Founding director of Tamalpa Institute, a movement-based expressive arts training centre internationally recognized for innovative work and training in the field.

Filled F. Our Omnipresent Soul: In the Struggle of Abandonment and Faith Deep issues in the struggle for humanity's survival surround us, impairing the strength of our deepest faith and our ability to feel. When we are left in solitude, wondering what lesson we are guided to learn after painful separation, there is the creative spirit which moves us, if we are attentive to it. This workshop focuses on the interplay of soul and spirit, and on our need to be artistically engaged in the dramatic act and struggle of existence, where evoking authentic expressive imagination can challenge hypocrisy. An intermodal experiential expressive arts session; any art form will be given space.

Rebekah Alsterberg Wigemark, MA expressive therapy. Rebekah is a professional singer, artist, writer and expressive arts therapist/teacher. She has worked with refugees in the Balkans, including children and diplomats. Editor of the newsletters Art Perspectives International of Brussels and Caring for the Uprooted Soul, she is currently leading an expressive arts performance studio, Art in Motion, in Belgium.

G. Creativity as Spiritual Practice This experience includes guided visualization on compassionate self-acceptance; creation of Buddhist 'begging bowls' symbolizing receptivity to life's offerings; and a simple psychodramatic vignette enacting the personal gift in the vessel. "It's not pots we are forming, it's ourselves." (M.C. Richards).

In her 20 years as a psychotherapist and trainer, Penny Winestock has honed eclectic methods of discovery, expression, and integration, enabling people to achieve their potential through the depth of their experience.

Laura Divilio, a psychotherapist specializing in expressive arts, transpersonal ritual and expressive body work, is a student of Buddhism and the Western Mystery Tradition.

Session 4 Saturday PM - 1½ Hour Workshop

H-1. Compassionate Witnesses: An Exploration Through Art The presenters wish to explore the unique relationship between the creative process and compassion by engaging in a series of conversations and improvisations on compassion, using the role of witnessing and its connection to creativity.

Karen Estrella currently teaches Expressive Therapies at Lesley College. Denise Malis has exhibited her art work in Canada and the US for 20 years. Both have worked and supervised as expressive therapists in psychiatric day programs.

H-2. Dreamtime - The Soul's Terrain Our dreams express a symbolic language of the soul, representing innate movement toward healing. Through a guided creative process we will invite a dream guide to join us in our commitment to self-understanding and spiritual expansion through dreamwork and thus create a clearer path to the soul.

Maria Gonzalez-Blue, MA, is a hypnotherapist, expressive arts therapist and faculty member, Person-Centered Expressive Therapy Institute. Intrinsic to her work is an emphasis on spiritual exploration and research.

NEW I-1 Sustaining Creativity: Finding your Mazurka Chopin's prolific composing of Mazurkas suggests the value of finding a useful practice, a form that can be a ritual for re-connection that will serve as a starting place for the next discovery, a way to link form and feeling, the base of a body of work, the base of a narrative of our internal life journey. We will explore finding our own Mazurkas, how to dance them and how to use them as our internal journal, weaving them into a narrative story. Active, interactive and reflective process using clay, colour, sound, movement and words, together with excerpts from her films and illustrations of her own process.

Priscilla Sewall Gilbertson, PhD,REAT, licenced marriage family therapist in private practice. Teaches clinical counseling courses for Chapman University, conducts an expressive arts training sequence for therapists, and runs Liberating Your Creative Spirit workshops in California and New England. A water colour and ceramic sculpture artist, she has exhibited on both coasts. She has created two expressive arts films: "Moving Beyond Words With Expressive Arts Therapy" and "Clay Tears and Rainbows: An Adoptee's Journey With Expressive Therapy" She most loves swimming with the loons on Golden Pond.

Canceled I-1. Art and Soul: Keeping Alive Personal Creativity While Maintaining Professional Integrity Do you find enough time every day to connect with your creativity? Discover tools for your personal expressive arts path and creative rejuvenation to avoid professional burnout. Be supported to be more authentic, purposeful and free through exercises and discussions.

Lisa Longworth, PhD(candidate), MA psychology, BA (Magna cum Laude) fine art. A professional artist for 23 years, she has led over 4000 creativity groups and teaches at the University of California, San Diego.

I-2. From Artist to Arts Therapist: Developing Compassion Through Explorations of Imaginative Literature This workshop explores the use of women's stories and poems on aging and madness, to teach arts therapy students about compassion and compassionate intervention in the therapeutic relationship. A brief didactic presentation will be followed by participant involvement in story-reading, arts play and discussion.

Gerry Katz, currently teaching Therapeutic Process, Creative Arts Therapy, and Group Dynamics in the RMIT programme in Australia; professional practice in feminist psychotherapy, family therapy and group work using narrative and arts modalities.