[Adta] DANCE THERAPY WORKSHOP NYC October

[miriam berger]

FALL WEEKEND WORKSHOP OCT. 20 and 21, SAT and SUN, at the Harkness Dance
Center of the 92nd Street Y 
(92nd St and Lexington Avenue, NYC)
Applicable to ADTA CEUs and Alternate Route Training.

TO register and for more information contact: 
Kathryn Wilkening, Program Manager <KWilkening at 92y.org> Tel: 212-415-5553

DANCE/MOVEMENT THERAPY FOR PEOPLE WITH TRAUMATIC INJURY, CHRONIC ILLNESS OR
TERMINAL ILLNESS
SAT and SUN, Oct 20 & 21, 1 - 8:30pm, 2 sessions, $250 plus $22 reg. fee

Faculty: Cathy Appel, LCSW, LCAT, MFA, ADTR
This workshop will examine the clinical applications of dance/movement
therapy for people coping with traumatic injury, chronic illness or
terminal illness.  We will cover assessment, engagement, treatment planning
and clinical interventions, as well as methods and techniques of D/MT for
use with specific populations and clinical settings.   Areas of focus will
be identifying movement qualities, mourning physical losses, issues of
transference and counter-transference, adapting to physical differences,
developing a personal and group movement repertory, stress and pain
management, self-advocacy and maximizing resources, such as culture, music
or spirituality.  Sessions will comprise lecture, discussion, movement
experiences and video.     

CATHY APPEL, LCSW, LCAT, MFA, ADTR directs the Creative and Movement Arts
Psychotherapy Program she founded in 1992 at ICD (International Center for
the Disabled) in the Behavioral Medicine Department.  A former ballet
dancer, Ms. Appel trained at the American Ballet Theater School and with
Leon Fokine.  She performed with the Pennsylvania Ballet Company and later
attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she was introduced to modern dance.
Ms. Appel performed in Doris Humphrey's Day on Earth with Dance Junction
and with her own company until the mid 1980s.  Influenced by the work of
Meredith Monk to explore multi-media performance that resonates within the
body as it reflects and interacts with the imaginal, external and
archetypal world, she went on to study Body-Mind Centering and Authentic
Movement.  As part of her exploration of verbal and nonverbal expression,
and to broaden her creative work, Ms. Appel earned two MFAs in Writing from
Vermont College and Warren Wilson College, culminating in her thesis,
Recognizing the Dance.  She has published poems in journals, textbooks and
anthologies.  As her focus shifted to the relationship between dance and
healing, she pursued an MSW and an MS in dance therapy from Hunter College.
She has taught workshops and classes at the School of Visual Arts, Goddard
College, NYU and Sarah Lawrence and at organizations such as the Red Cross,
the MS Society and Montefiore Hospital.  Ms. Appel was Senior Editor and
author of two chapters in the Second Revised Edition (2005) of the dance
therapy textbook, Dance Movement Therapy: A Healing Art (F. Levy Ed.). She
was co-editor of the American Journal of Dance Therapy and has a private
practice in New York City.