The Song Never Sung and The Story Never Told* Journeys of Healing and Transformation with Survivors of Domestic Violence

[Guest guest]

Therapeutic Arts Alliance Manhattan©

Healing Communities Through Arts and Conversation

Nash, LCAT, Founder/Co-Director         Wise, ATR-BC, LCAT, Co-Director

The Song Never Sung and The Story Never Told*

Journeys of Healing and Transformation

with Survivors of Domestic Violence

Facilitated by Nash, LCAT, a Kohen, MFA,

Bushra Husain, LCSW, & Beth Silverman-Yam, DSW, LCSW

This workshop will invite participants into the healing journeys of women triumphing over the debilitating trauma of domestic violence.  Nash and a Kohen will share their process of deep, attuned listening as a way of discovering the metaphors that facilitate profound transformation. We will explore the essence of developing a holding environment, fostering feelings of safety and trust, and the art of creatively responding to that which presents itself spontaneously in a group session.

The leaders will share their experiences running creative arts therapy groups at Sanctuary for Families with women from Latin America, West Africa, and South Asia. We will examine the songs, dances, poems, and dramatizations that were organically born of their group work. Leaders will illuminate how each piece of art became the essential form through which a reclaiming of the self, a reawakening of the spirit, and a new way of being, could be discovered and lived.

We are honored to have Beth Silverman Yam, Clinical Director at Sanctuary for Families, and Bushra Husain, South Asian Community Counselor and Mentors Program Coordinator presenting with us.

Saturday June 9, 2012

10am-5pm

305 Seventh Ave (between 27th and 28th Street)

*Title from a story adapted by Simms

About the Facilitators

a Kohen, MFA, currently runs bilingual (Spanish and English) therapeutic theater workshops with survivors of domestic violence at Sanctuary for Families, and has worked with women who have been sexually trafficked at Restore. She had been running groups with Creative Alternatives of New York for the past eighteen years, where she has worked with psychiatric patients, recovering addicts, at risk-youth, refugees, victims of domestic violence, and teen moms to name some. She has also trained NYU interns and new staff members coming to CANY. a is a faculty member at TAAM and has also taught workshops nationally and internationally. She is a solo performer, and won the“Outstanding Solo Show”Award at the New York International Fringe Festival for her one-woman-show, Decoding the Tablecloth.”a is currently working toward her license and eventual PhD as a psychoanalyst at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies. She is a native of Argentina.

L. Nash, LCAT Founder & Co-Director of TAAM, is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist in the State of New York. She has been a leader in the field of therapeutic theatre for over thirty years during which time she has sustained an ongoing commitment to exploring the therapeutic and transformational potential of the creative arts, within the context of the group therapy experience. Her unique methodology views the arts as a deep language of interpersonal connection and a powerful means of developing reparative communities. Ms. Nash served as Artistic Director, and Director of Clinical Supervision for Creative Alternatives of New York (formally The Imagination Workshop) for thirty-five years where she first began developing her integrative approach with a broad spectrum of traumatized communities. She served as Core Faculty and Director of Supervision and Training with The ArtReach Foundation, where she worked in Bosnia and the Middle East with teachers and children traumatized by the aftermath of war. With ArtReach she helped develop and co led several train the trainers programs, training educators, mental health professionals, and artists, in the therapeutic use of the arts and group process, in preparation for working with youth suffering from the emotional and psychological after affects of war. Also with ArtReach, she co created along with Wise, an integrative therapeutic arts and training program for veterans struggling with PTSD and traumatic brain injury. Currently they are facilitating a creative arts therapy program at Veteran's Sanctuary, a holistic residential program to veteran's in recovery from addition. She co facilitates, with a Kohen, creative arts therapy groups at Sanctuary for Families with survivors of domestic violence and has just completed a pilot program running groups with Ms Kohen with trafficked women at Restore NYC. Ms. Nash has published chapters on her work and has presented her work extensively nationally and internationally. She maintains a private practice in NYC.

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