EXA Happenings
Expressive Arts Therapy (MA)
Faculty
Tina Stromsted PhD
Will be offering Awakening Body Wisdom: Dreamdancing & Authentic Movement--A Five-Day Retreat May 6-12 in Mill Valley, California.
Linda Hammond LMFT, RDT, REAT
Will be facilitating a Workshop Series: Addiction And The Impact on Children and Families in San Rafael beginning May 12. "We will explore how addiction affects the child's psyche, behaviors and relationships to self and other. Sandplay will be a focus of how children can heal from an addictive family system."
Lauren Cunningham, MSW. LCSW
Will be a keynote speaker at the National Sandplay Conference, May 31-June 3 in Berkeley, California.
Maria Gonzalez-Blue, M.A., REAT
Will be facilitating LIFE, YOUR OWN HEROIC JOURNEY a Four-Day Expressive Arts Retreat/Workshop June 14-17 at Mountain Home Ranch retreat center, located in the hills near Calistoga, California.
John Fox, Certified Poetry Therapist
Will be co-facilitating THE HEALING ART OF WRITING: A Conference and Writing Workshop at Dominican University of California July 8 - July 14, 2012. "Our conference offers a unique experience in bringing together caregivers and patients who share a passion for writing about the mysterious forces of illness and recovery."
He will also be offering a retreat in the practice of poetic medicine, When Someone Deeply Listens with Janet Childs June 14 through 16, 2012.
Alumni
Julia Ellis, MFTI
Will be offering a four week Poetry and Grief Group at Sutter Care at Home in Concord, California.
Valerie Tate, MFT
Offers weekly phone meditations which cover enticing, juicy, controversial, subtle, paranormal, daring, sexy, provocative topics!
Rhea St. Julien, MFTI
Has been chosen to read a piece from her blog in the the San Francisco event Listen to Your Mother, a national series of live readings by local writers in celebration of Mother's Day. The event will be held at the Cowell Theater on May 10th.
Mireya Alejo, MFT
Check out her schedule of upcoming events including holotropic breathwork, astrology for beginners, and altar making. Mireya will begin her Summer/Spring sessions of Tending the Fire beginning May 1st in Berkeley and Oakland. This series is for women who are ready to dive deep within, transform and nourish through the language of metaphor, symbol, body, breath and BEING.
Nicki Koethner, MFT
Offers monthly workshops: Making Sacred Masks, Playdates With the Soul at Terra's Temple in Berkeley, California.
Rachel Walker, MFT
Offers Divorce/Separation support groups for women in Berkeley, California.
Phil Weglarz, MFT, REAT
Will be offering Active Imagination Summer Arts Camps for Boys THIS Summer, 2012!
Alexander Warnow
Offers sf:Springboard, a 3.5 month long workshop for artists & creatives who want to bring community and accountability to their creative projects. Summer 2012 workshops are starting in May. He will also be offering FREE introductions and project brainstorming sessions in San Francisco and the East Bay.
Students
George Brais
Experience a creative process unlike anything you've experienced before! George Brais offers Euphorah, a collaborative multimodal group that combines its member's artistic passions with the natural healing power of the expressive arts. This is a free group that will work on original pieces with the intention of staging them for a live audience.
If interested, please contact George Brais at: director@euphorah.com or 209-915-4005.
Community
Sophia Reinders, Phd, MFT, REAT
Will be offering Reawakening the Wild Heart of Wonder: Ecopsychology and Expressive Arts as Pathways towards Transformation and Healing. This will be a forty-hour Expressive Arts Certificate Program with CEUs available for California MFT and LCSW license holders. This course is begins in May and will be held in San Rafael, California.
Ilene Serlin PhD
Dr. Ilene Serlin, Nationally acclaimed dance and movement therapist offers Moving Toward Health: Dance and Movement for Serious and Chronic Illness or Pain at the Five Points Fitness Gym in Corte Madera every Thursday.
She will also be offering Posttraumatic Growth and Expressive Therapies in Corte Madera on Saturday June, 9th.
