More info. Contact Karen Bradley kbradley@umd.edu 301-405-0387
PEACEWORK: DANCING TO HEAL
A Dance/Movement Therapy Workshop for Dance Therapists and Movement
Professionals with David Alan Harris
Saturday, October 17, 2009, 10 AM – 5 PM
At Preinkert Dance Studio, University of Maryland College Park
About David Alan Harris, a dance/movement therapist who specializes in
fostering
resilience and recovery among survivors of egregious human rights abuse,
and war.
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PEACEWORK: DANCING TO HEAL
A Dance/Movement Therapy Workshop for Dance Therapists and Movement
Professionals with
David Alan Harris, MA, LCAT, ADTR
Saturday, October 17, 2009, 10 AM – 5 PM
At Preinkert Dance Studio, University of Maryland College Park
Cost: $30 for professionals
$20 for students and retired professionals
To register, email Teresa Redmon at TREDMON1964@COMCAST.NET
And send check, made out to MD/DC/VA chapter of ADTA, to
3018 Benefit Court, Abingdon, MD 21009
CEU'S AVAILABLE
For more information please call Karen Bradley at 202-669-3927
In this workshop you will:
* Be introduced to David's particular approach to working with
survivors of trauma and violence.
* Share best practices with movement professionals in working with
clients with stress and somatoform issues.
* Consider ways in which dance therapy might intersect with and
influence international relief work.
Come and learn from his stories. Read David Alan Harris's article on his
work in Foreign Policy in Focus at http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6187
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About David Alan Harris, MA, LCAT, BC-DMT, NCC, is a dance/movement
therapist who specializes in fostering resilience and recovery among
survivors of egregious human rights abuse, and war. As a
Clinician/Trainer for the Center for Victims of Torture in rural Sierra
Leone, he supervised a team of paraprofessional trauma counselors
providing therapeutic services in the aftermath of that country's brutal
conflict. He introduced Sierra Leonean and Liberian counselors to
dance/movement therapy (DMT) practice—in 2005, launching the first DMT
group in West Africa; and in 2006, apparently the first DMT group
anywhere for former child combatants.
David has presented on his DMT work at various U.S. and international
gatherings, including the IX International Rehabilitation Council for
Torture Victims Symposium in Berlin, in 2006, four annual conferences of
the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA), and at McGill's Division
of Transcultural Psychiatry in Montreal. The ADTA honored one of David's
academic articles about his dance therapy work with its 2007 Research
Award, and recognized his efforts more broadly, bestowing on him its
Leader of the Future award that year. A 2002 graduate of the Creative
Arts in Therapy program at MCP Hahnemann (now Drexel) University, David
has taught graduate-level courses on trauma treatment at Columbia
College, Chicago, and Naropa University in Boulder.
David also has more than 15 years' experience working for organizations
dedicated to sustainable solutions to the problems of refugees and
asylum-seekers, including for Doctors of the World-USA, the American
Friends Service Committee, and Human Rights Watch. In 2008, the U.S.
Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe, sponsored a series of training workshops
David and a colleague conducted there, designed to increase the
effectiveness of health professionals and other civil society workers
providing services to survivors of the country's ongoing political violence.
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