Friday 22nd June 11:15 - 12 : 45 - Participants max : 20
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Marjon Wagenaar and Wendie Avila-Michel Inner strength Transforming surplus powerlesness through DvT Everyday cold and gray, even in June As I slowly fade away Struggeling with what life demands Dreaming of who I want to be Waking up realizing that I can be that person In play I start to feel the firmness in my muscles And the strenght inside of me (inspired by Toby and Marc) We are going to give a workshop about how DvT connects to and increase your inner strength. There will be exercises, perhaps clients material and play. What else can there be? Wendie Avilia Michel is graduated dramatherapist since 2006. During her studies she was already inspired and wrote a paper about DvT. She works as a coordinator in a grouphome for people with developmental disorders and mental illness. She gives trainings to social workers in the field about being present when dealing with aggression and helping teams organize in a self-steering-way. From 2004 she is participant in the DvT trainings group in the Netherlands. Marjon Wagenaar is dramatherapist since 2002. After several years working in mental health institutions, mostly daycare, she now has her own Dramatherapy Practice. She works with several kind of problems and illness, such as personality disorders, trauma and depression. Besides DvT she works with SFT- MBT- CBT- BAT. Since 2004 she is participant in the DvT training group and since 2015 she is secretary at Stichting DvT North in Netherlands. Anni Tosh & Maggie Dagge Reflections in a (muddy pool emerge)^The struggle to reflect on e’^ The struggle to express {clearly these two are having trouble expressing the title so come along and help them find it at the end of the workshop!} DvT is often practiced as a stand alone form, actively and deliberately without a space for reflection or analysis. It is also (it seems to at least one of the presenters anyway) a form that resists direct interpretation, any description somehow losing something of the essential and ephemeral quality of what feels more like an embodied poem or dance than a linear piece of prose. After struggling with the form of her therapy write up she realised that rather than fitting a square peg into a round hole it was more like fitting a round peg into a square hole. But the ability to self-reflect is an important skill as a playor, or indeed player, in life as well as in DvT. This workshop arises from the struggle to express both inside and outside DvT and find ways of reflecting that enhance and facilitate the ability to play. We are interested in exploring different forms of reflection, including free writing, free association, poetry, art, mandala and story, in terms of how they might impact on and be impacted by play, and DvT, and what they might have to offer within this form. Anni has been journeying into the dark woods in search of enlightenment, or at least an ability to play, for many years. She is an itinerant poet, storyteller, artist, psychologist, dramatherapist and clown, who is learning to stand up in herself more of the time. She has been wrestling with ways to express the inexpressible throughout her journey, and explored various forms of reflection interwoven with her experiences within DvT. She would like to share her this with others and find out more about their reflective journeys too. Maggie is moving into her role as a full-time dramatherapist (finally), has desires to graduate in DvT (finally) but struggles with a form of reflection that can capture her experience of WTF just happened! and how to write about it so it has reflective meaning for her: for others! She wants to get out of her head and back inside the m’. Nisha Sajnani, Navah Steiner,
Dr. Teresa Hurst: Discussant Welcome Home? A Living Inquiry into Place and Displacement How do histories of displacement influence our experience of home in the present? In this workshop Navah and Nisha will share their own historical and present day stories of home, loss and displacement. The participants will be invited to share their stories around this theme and play (or not) with the presenters, both in group and individual encounters. Our hope, as with all DvT, is to playfully inhabit the past while simultaneously loosening our grip on the present. At the end of the workshop, we will reflect on the impulses, images, roles, and stories that were shared between us and discuss what knowledge we carry about how our temporary community of DvT Playors and Players experience “Home”. Navah Steiner, MA, RDT/BCT, LCAT is excited to collaborate with Nisha in the beautiful city of Prague…Navah has been involved with the DvT world since 1996 (till death do us part!). Formally the Training Director in New York City, Navah is currently the Associate Director of the Institutes for Developmental Transformations. has a private practice in NYC, is a psychotherapist at the School of Visual Arts Counseling Center and teaches in various settings nationally and internationally. Navah is interested in DvT as form of embodied connection in a world that that is confused about one can just be with each other. Nisha Sajnani, PhD., RDT-BCT is looking forward to playing with Navah and with all of you. She is the Director of the NYU Program in Drama Therapy and Principal Editor of Drama Therapy Review (two very important roles that will n⬲t be deconstructed in the play!) . Nisha has been interested in DvT as a genre of embodied research and in the use of DvT in addressing issues related to bias, inclusion and exclusion. She is a graduate of the Institute of Developmental Transformations and maintains a small private practice in New Haven. |
Van Damme Matisse and Van der Straeten Mathieu The art of depolarization with persons with substance abuse. The reason why clients with substance abuse come in treatment, is often because they experienced a state of crisis. This crisis can come along with a very polarized view on their self's, others, their abuse and important life events. Throughout treatment at the Psychiatric Institution Sint-Jan Baptist in Zelzate (Belgium), some of these clients encounter DvT. After being in treatment, these polarities often became less rigid, more dimensionalized, resulting in a more nuanced view. Dimensionalization is one of the core concepts in Developmental Transformations. Dimensionalizing experience can be achieved via a process of Varielation within the Playspace. Thus, we assume that this process of dimensionalization takes place. But how can we prove this? How can we track shifts in perspectives, affect, and behavior? And does this contribute to the treatment of substance abuse and to the chances to stay clean. To try to answer these questions a qualitative case study has been conducted at this institution. Tracking the depolarization process of clients being treated with DvT. During this workshop, we will create a platform to address this subject. We will be sharing the main results and insights of the research and open up a discussion. Warning: Experiential investigation may occur! Matisse Van Damme is studying at Zuyd University for applied science, Heerlen, Netherlands and has been training in DvT for several years at the Belgian DvT institute. For his graduation research thesis at Zuyd University, he conducted a research on 'the depolarization process of clients with substance abuse through treatment with DvT', on behalf of and in collaboration with Mathieu Van der Straeten. Mathieu Van der Straeten is working as a drama therapist in a psychiatric institution in Belgium where he works with several populations, often in combination with substance abuse. He teaches dramatherapy and Creative Arts Therapies at Artevelde University College Ghent. At both places he has been practicing DvT for several years. Mathieu leads the Belgian DvT institute and is the former president of the Belgian Association of Arts Therapy (BVCT-ABAT) and Vice-president of the Belgian Department of Dramatherapy. Barbara Lau and Shelley Bockstael
To fuck or not to fuck: is that the question? Jouer à jouir In this presentation, we will present different aspects of how involved the body is in DvT. To some, who are not familiar with the method, it can be perceived as dangerous, or as potentially harmful to the participants and the therapist. Because DvT pushes the boundaries as far as possible in the playspace, there is a need for the therapist to be highly aware of its own boundaries. When desire arises, when sexuality is brought in the game, when bodies get very close, how can we make sure we are not going too far? We will first do a small performance, “From psychoanalysis to DvT”. Then, we will talk about the psychoanalytical approach of “jouissance”. We will talk about how psychoanalysis works through or around the jouissance as a mixture of present and past relationship covered in the transference and countertransference of the client and the psychoanalyst. How they introduce grammatical stops and set boundaries to too destructive jouissance in order to keep the psychoanalytical process going. And how can we translate that into DVT technics. We will give concrete examples of moments we had with clients, where boundaries where questionable. We will then make a parallel with BDSM, in order to illustrate the following: if you want to go far in a practice, there need to be rules. It's the price to pay for everyone to feel safe. Barbara Lau is a French dramatherapist (MA) working with children, teenagers and families in schools and social settings, using DvT, biographical writing, puppetry, theatre and story telling. She is also an actress, story teller and author. She worked with issues such as being out of the school system, immigration, birth complications, family history... She is currently training as a systemic therapist. She is the secretary of the French Federation of Arts Therapies (FFAT) and the secretary of the National Association of Dramatherapy (AND). She is currently the co-leader of the French DvT institute. Shelley Bockstael is a Dutch dramatherapist working with children, teenagers, adults and families in schools and health care centers, using DVT, improvisation, EPR, Role-play, Puppetry, theatre, psychodrama and story telling. She is also a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, play therapist and psychotherapist in different educations (experiential therapy and system therapy). She works in different clinical settings, including het own practice and is currently working on a school project according to the principles of ALIVE in New Haven. She is currently the co-leader of the Dutch Dvt Institute. 
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Friday 22nd June 15:30 - 17:00 - Participants max : 20
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Christine Mayor, MA, RDT/BCT Lost, Hidden & Unknown: Playing with Po’a Dealing with absence and incompleteness is perhaps one of the most difficult and destabilizing of the instabilities. Yet it is fully embedded within our daily experience, found in the desire to know the other, a fleeting moment, ends of relationships, secret keeping, looking under beds for monsters, trying to find words to put to experience, death. We desire to have the full picture, to be fully known, to know another, to maintain predictable patterns, to hold onto the good forever, to cling to a moment. We are throwninto the instability of absence when these change. This playful workshop will include a variety of exercises, games, and embodied activities to help participants play with po’a. Developed when assisting a course on death and dying taught in a prison, and again with training DvT’rs, these exercises were designed to be evocative and structured in order to help us be less afraid of acknowledging that which is no longer there come closer to that which is lost, hidden or unknown. Following the exercises that are infused with a DvT “sensibility”, participants will engage in DvT play and a brief discussion. Christine Mayor, MA, RDT/BCT is a DvT graduate and current full time PhD student at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada where she researches the intersection of racialization, trauma, and schools. She is the Co-Director of Polaris DvT Institute in the Midwest and is a guest faculty member of iWest in California. She currently serves as the Associate Director of Drama Therapy Review and is on the editorial board of A Chest of Broken Toys: A Journal of Developmental Transformations. Christine is the former director of ALIVE and the Director of Public Health and Social Policy at the Post Traumatic Stress Center in New Haven, CT. Gidish, Marchland & Bridge the Splidge
Dreaming our minds and dancing our bodies away Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and deep forest skies Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies… The play scales... (this is how it works) Yes? No! Maybe... I find my 'NO!'... holding on... Me... I find 'Yes… We… Maybe!' Yes! No / Know? Maybe... Find 'inner-know' now… Me – You - WE Maybe... Gidish Marchland Bridge the Splidge Renée Pitre
The ‘ing’ theory ‘ing’ is probably the most important addition to a verb. ‘Ing’ is a ‘present participle’ and it helps us to do just that, stay present. Perhaps more precisely, it helps us to stay present within our description of something – to remain present with the current action. The ‘ing’ of language serves the purpose of describing something that has limitations to it (ex. time) and also that which will not be permanent. This rings very true to our work in DvT. Therefore, we must try to describe it, even if it is about to change! Renée has been working on an action oriented language to talk about our work and would love you to join in the conversation. We may even decide, as a group, to get on our feet and actually ‘ing’ it. Renée Pitre is an advanced playor, the director of iWest, the voice of This DvT Life, and a curious fiend when it comes to play. She’s also working on her PhD in play. Yes, play! Her passion is in training players into playors and she is so grateful that she has the privilege to travel around the world, encountering so many strange and lovely people, while doing what she loves. What a bless-ing. |
Martin Redfern An experiment with embodying Internal Family Systems (IFS) to inform DvT: Can embodying our inner parts shed new light on the complex play of a DvT session? We play… and straight away our defenders come out, our fighters and our negotiators… and then maybe our lovers and leavers. We play deeply and wildly and safely enough and our vulnerable parts emerge. These are our shamed, scared and exiled parts… and then back come our fighters to distract or protect in some way. And sometimes we move back and forth in peek-a-boo style to connect with the exiles until, just maybe, we get to play out their stories, help release their burdens and embrace them again. In this workshop we’ll play at embodying how our inner parts can come out to play with a DvT therapist. Hopefully we’ll watch how different varielation techniques can help. The plan is to revisit DvT through an Internal Families Systems (IFS) lens – to set up an embodied experiment that mixes IFS and DvT and watch what happens. Volunteers will consciously embody and play inner parts and we’ll watch how our inner managers, exiles and firefighters can show up in the playspace. This might be in repetitive patterns, divergent and emergent varielation, rage or vulnerability. IFS focusses mainly on our inner world. DvT pays more attention to our external interpersonal world. But of course our external world shapes our inner world which in turn shapes our external actions and reactions and we have a circle with repeating cycles. It is one. I propose that if we can see our inner world played out in this way it will help us to step back and further dimensionalize our being and our play. And maybe we can see how our new DvT theory, where we agree to alter the given circumstances of the drama, gives permission and surplus space for our individual parts to be encountered and witnessed more fully. Martin Redfern works extensively with children and young people within the UK’s Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). He is a graduate DvT practitioner who uses DvT most frequently with adopted and fostered children and young people. He lives in the south west of England, UK. Kate Hurd
Expanding the Playor In reviewing the various interventions available to us as playors in order to “enhance, extend or disrupt existent imagery” (The Text For Practitioners, p. 76) how comfortable are we with the techniques and the references behind them? How can we expand our own repertoire, in order to be more versatile as a playor? If we are to have a performative practice, let us create opportunities to have fun with practicing new ways of dimensionalizing the play and expanding ourselves. In this workshop, we will discuss and practice select convergent, congruent, emergent and divergent varielations. We will attempt to do this in some spontaneous way, but (fair warning) we will be faced with constraints due to the very premise of the workshop. I can guarantee’ that this workshop will leave you ~^unstable even as you try and attain more mast‡ry of experience. Please join me as I forever strive towards definition and completeness despite the premise that this does not exist. Perhaps we can collaborate on defining a “new:” intervention emerging from the influence of Václav Havel. We are in Czechoslavakia, after all! Kate Hurd is #6 in terms of graduate order from The Institute. Not 6’, not 6^, but 6, as training order is taken quite seriously by the Director(s) of The Institute, with multiple emails quantifying and verifying this standardized order without it ever being seen on our website, as it is not discrepant enough. She was a DvT Training Director of Institute East in New York from September 2007 to June of 2011, Institute West in California from September 2003 to February of 2007, and has been involved in trainings at various points in Beijing, London, Gent, various parts of The Netherlands. She oversees Off Center: A Creative Space for the Arts in Psychotherapy in NYC, also works as Director of Therapeutic Activities at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. |
Saturday 23rd of June 11:00 - 12:30 - Participants max : 20
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Jason Butler, Viktor Dockal, Kate Hurd, Navah Steiner, Marc Willemsen, Gideon Zehavi Foreign Forests Building a playspace is an ethical practice. There is the restraint against harm, the boundary between reality and fantasy, mutuality of the relationship, sharing of power and giving room for diversity, integrity, mutuality, and mobility. How do you navigate as a playor the contrast between the possibilities of the playspace with the culture(s) surrounding it? How does one handle as a playor/trainingtherapist situations where you are only available for a very short period of time while the (training-) therapy process is intense and the player has a limited support system? How are differences between the bodies, gender, sexuality, race, and spirituality explored? What do you take into account and are particularly sensitive about when you try to build a play-space in a foreign forest? Annet Warringa The Butterfly A case on a triad. How Jack and his mum bounced back. I am going to tell you about a DvT therapy process in which Jack, with severe trauma, and his mother bounce back. It is a case about the complicated and troubled attachment between mother and child, and about their journey to re-connect. As a DvT therapist, I was surprised by the resilience of both Jack and his mother. Their play and inventiveness impressed me. I’d like to share with you how I experienced the awful and awesome play with them. You will hear you about attachment, mistrust and trust, resilience, wolves, bears and witches. I will share the story of this triad by showing videos of the therapy sessions, so you can experience the intensity of the events. You are invited to respond and engage in a dialogue, to deepen our understanding of what we as DvT therapists can (or cannot) do. Annet Warringa is a drama therapist and has been working in child and youth psychiatry since 2000. She works with children and adolescents who are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder including trauma. One of her specialties is working with children and their parent. Renée Pitre - Off Program - Lunch with Renée 12:42 - 13:48 Title of the event/activity/workshop/paper/play: The Playspace Lab: A virtual community Abstract: The Playspace Lab was created many years ago as a think tank for DvT playors at the Post Traumatic Stress Center to watch video of their work and wonder about what the heck was happening in the play. Today, it is being worked into an online community that will be for advanced practitioners (level 2 and higher) to grow their skills and connect with each other. Courses, forums, and the opportunity to add your own content (and maybe make some $ € £ ¥ Kč etc.). Join this workshop to have a sneak peek into the website and offer your insights into its development! Please !! Renée Pitre is an advanced playor, the director of iWest, the voice of This DvT Life, and a curious fiend when it comes to play. But she is not a computer webmaster despite her desire to create an online community for DvT. Her passion is in training players into playors and her hope is to have a training community that just as rich in its diversification and transparency as the Vltava. If that Vltava is, of course, as described above. Participants max. : No Max (sorry Max) 
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Mathilde Grün-Levy The five media of expression – from development to the individual encounter - how and why? Abstract: Encounter: we face each other and then what happens? We intentionally and unintentionally communicate with each other through the five media of expression. How can our knowledge of the developmental continuum support us as playors in individual therapy? If Encounter, Embodiment and Transformation are fundamental to DvT then how do they manifest in movement, sound, image, role play and verbalization? How do we varielate in them with our clients and experience greater levels of play? Come and join me in an exploratory workshop where we will varielate, zoom in and out and experience how the media of play fuels and transforms our embodied encounters in the playspace. Mathilde Grün-Levy: I am a dramatherapist (M.A.), a level II trainee from Institute Israel and am currently working on my graduation paper. I treat children, youth and adults individually and in groups, in the school system and privately. I also assisted teaching DvT at The University of Haifa. I currently live in Denmark and promote the field of drama therapy there. Wouter Desmet
A one year DvT-process captured on tape. This presentation will give you an idea of what a DvT process may look like. There will be focused on what the client has been through, the choices that the therapist has made (or should’ve made) and the insecurity’s from the therapist that comes with the work. This is not a perfect, clean presentation but one with hesitations and reflections. There will be some text and video material of DvT sessions during a year of process. After the video there might be time for discussion. Wouter Desmet is a Belgian drama therapist, graduated at the south university in the Netherlands and has been working in several psychiatric institutions. He combines his job as drama therapist at a psychotherapeutic center with a job as systemic psychotherapist, working with individuals, couples and families in a private practice. His main focus lies in working with people who suffer from trauma, depression and anxiety disorders and personality disorders. Wouter is board member of the Belgian association of drama therapists and trainer of DvT Belgium. Eva Boorsma &
Denise de Jong van Lier EXPRESS your zzztrezzzzz Please bring your worries. You know what you are here for: Back to school. Share your worries, deal with them. So you can do what you’re supposed to in school. Or not. Do something else. Decide. 15 minutes of play. Just for you. Get ALIVE, via EXPRESSiva. Sense and nonsens about stress and reduction. Some results. Some experiences. Some sharing. How fast can we do it? A workshop about stressreduction sessions in the Dutch educational system (elementary school, secondary school and university). A chance to get to know how we work, experience it and try it out yourself. Eva Boorsma works as a dramatherapist in a school for adolescents with severe behavioral and/or psychiatric problems. In addition she works in a privat practice for adults and children. She is a graduate at the international institute of DvT and co-leads the Northern Dutch training institute, where she leads several traininggroups and provides trainingtherapy. She is one of the initiators of Express, a program of stress reduction sessions in schools in The Netherlands. She has led workshops at (inter)national conferences and published articles about DvT. As a guest lecturer she is connected to the Creative therapy program of the Hogeschool Utrecht University. Denise de Jong van Lier works as drama-teacher and student-mentor at Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Social Work (Enschede). She started a pilot- program of stressreduction (Express) for students to reduce risk of burn-out, drop-out and study-delay. She is also a dramatherapist and DvT-practicioner in private practice, where she works with adolescents and (young) adults. She is trainer of DvT-traininggroups of the Northern Dutch DvT-Training Institute. She intends to graduate at the international institute of DvT in the near future. |
Saturday 23rd of June 16:00 - 17:30 - Participants max : 20
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Jaap Welten Warming up to play as playors and players This workshop emphasize the importance of taking time to a good three steps warming-up. It counts both for players and playors. In this workshop three stepping stones: Self, the Space and the Other are explored in a guided physical and theatrical warming up. The given sensitivity, sound and movement exercises and methods can help you to enhance the contact with yourself, vitalize your dramatic body, become aware of your catch of the day-play, expand your expression and dramatic spontaneity and renew the playful meeting with the other. The used warming-up method enables you to cope with resistance to play, with short-nights, stressed meetings, broken toyness and financial problems. This is what can happen before you step through the curtain. Jaap Welten, MADth, is senior lecturer in dramatherapy at Zuyd university of applied sciences in Heerlen ,The Netherlands. He graduated in 2013 in DvT and is training- director of the DVT-Zuid course. Working with physical play and physical theatre has been the motivation force in his professional work for over 40 years. Warren R McCommons & Barbara Lau
Will We Really Really Really Go~ Into the :Deepest Part of the Forest^The Playspace^Our Brokenness^Our Deaths and hold onto our DvT beliefs? Following in the steps of Socrates, David Johnson^Me^You have been accused of moral corruption of the youth of the world and of introducing~ new deities^concepts^instabilities into existence and thereby increasing the instability of the world. How shall we play with this? Will we stand by our DvT beliefs as Socrates did? Warren Randy McCommons, RDT/BCT, DvT graduate 007, has been self-banished to the wilds of a lessor known region of a now deeply questionable country outside of Europe. He is known to still travel to Asia, corrupting the youth there with all sorts of nonsense. Although one of the oldest members of the institute he is much too focused on death. Barbara Lau is a French dramatherapist (MA) working with children, teenagers and families in schools and social settings, using DvT, biographical writing, puppetry, theatre and story telling. She is also an actress, story teller and author. She worked with issues such as being out of the school system, immigration, birth complications, family history... She is currently training as a systemic therapist. She is the secretary of the French Federation of Arts Therapies (FFAT) and the secretary of the National Association of Dramatherapy (AND). She is currently the co-leader of the French DvT institute. Welcome to Prague, June 22nd and 23rd 2018 3rd European DvT Conference Welcome to Prague, June 22nd and 23rd 2018 3rd European DvT Conference Welcome to Prague, June 22nd and 23rd 2018 3rd European DvT Conference Welcome to Prague, June 22nd and 23rd 2018 3rd European DvT Conference Welcome to Prague, June 22nd and 23rd 2018 3rd European DvT Conference Welcome to Prague, June 22nd and 23rd 2018 3rd European DvT Conference Welcome to Prague, June 22nd and 23rd 2018 3rd European DvT Conference Welcome to Prague, June 22nd and 23rd 2018 3rd European DvT Conference Welcome to Prague, June 22nd and 23rd 2018 3rd European DvT Conference |
Eleanor Zeal, John Bowtell, Ryya Bread Make Your Own Personal Existential Diorama and Do DvT with it. In this workshop you will be asked to consider a dramatic and metaphorical form for your life, projectively creating your current existential state as a cardboard diorama, that states place, time and who or what props/ scenery/actors are involved in a preciseish and metaphoricalish moment. Using modified and adapted for DvT exercises from Meisner and Grotowski we will explore what the diorama reveal. We may enter and attempt to embody each other’s diorama. ( safely!).We may combine the prop free space of DvT with actual and inexact representations of our psyches. Eleanor Zeal, once an award-winning writer,performer and director. Now a dramatherapy and DvT practitioner, trainer and supervisor, in schools and universities. John Bowtell is sometimes a theatre director who once toured John Osborne’s ‘Look Back in Anger’ in a boxing ring with a set constructed entirely out of cardboard. He now recycles using DvT-informed Playback Theatre and dramatherapy in arts and mental health mainly in the UK http://jbow.tel/ Ryya Bread is committed to artful living. She is a bi-coastal USA native, based in Cornwall, UK; holding a doctorate in embodied methods of performative fine art research. She is interested in mindfulness practices that support holistic wellness and facilitate interpersonal connections. She also has extensive experience working with artists. Stephen Legari, Zuzana Ševčíková, Jason D. Butler
Once Upon a Training Playspace How does DvT impact our relationship - particularly our training relationships? Our intimacies? And how do our relationships impact our training? Beyond the multiple relationships and complex institutional boundarying, what are the consequences when we play together for long periods of time in these training settings? Through the playspace and DvT training, deep friendships are made, intimacies fostered – our lives can become entwined. How does that impact our play? For this workshop, participants will observe and participate in short sessions, comparing sessions between close friends and sessions between strangers. We will explore the nature of the varying layers of play, the expansion and contraction of t’space, and the impact of repeating forms. What are the consequences of playing with people in the messiness of our institutes? What about playing for years with the same people? Can anyone leave unscathed? Stephen Legari is a DvT graduate, a Registered Art Therapist, a Couple and Family Therapist, and a professional member of the Association des arts thérapeutes du Québec. Stephen holds a Masters of Applied Science in Couple and Family Therapy, a Masters degree in Creative Arts Therapies and a Bachelor of Fine Arts, with a photography major from Concordia University. Stephen has worked extensively with at-risk youth, addictions recovery, in community art therapy, and more recently with children and their families. Stephen is currently the Program Officer for Educational Programs in Art Therapy at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Stephen has provided individual and group therapy work through the method of Developmental Transformations. Zuzana Ševčíková is a Registered Drama Therapist, a Registered Dance/Movement Therapist and a DvT graduate. She holds an MA in Drama Therapy and a BFA with a contemporary dance major from Concordia University in Montreal. She is a graduate of the Dance/Movement Therapy Alternate Route Program from the Harkness Dance Centre in New York City. She is a graduate of Duncan Centre dance conservatory and a Physiotherapy graduate from a Higher Medical school in Prague, Czech Republic. Zuzana currently works with children in public schools, with people living with Parkinson’s disease at Parkinson en Mouvement and also maintains a private practice. Developmental Transformations is an important approach in Zuzana’s both professional and personal life. Jason D. Butler is the training director of DvT Montreal and the coordinator of the drama therapy program at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a former president of the North American Drama Therapy Association and has previously taught drama therapy at Concordia University in Montreal and at New York University. His research has focused on DvT with schizophrenia and drama therapy education. Jason has faked his way through DvT presentations in the UK, Egypt, China, the Netherlands, Israel, and the Deep Forest of the Czech Republic and looks forward to fumbling his way through another presentation at this conference. |
