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Please read the enclosed about the SVA Art Therapy Conference on Friday,

October 17th.

The MPS Art Therapy

Department at the School

of Visual Arts,

in conjunction with

the Visual Arts Foundation,

announces our 24th

Annual Art Therapy Conference:

Mindfulness in Art

Therapy

Friday, October 17,

2008

9:30AM–4PM

Museum of Jewish Heritage

36

Battery Place

New York, NY

10280

Keynote Speaker:

Ellen Langer, PhD

Special Guest

Speakers:

, PhD

Isis, PhD, LMHC, ATR-BC

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REGISTRATION

INFORMATION

Conference

Fees:

General

public: $75

Non-SVA

students: $50

SVA

On-Site Supervisors:

FREE

SVA

students, alumni, and

staff: FREE

Please make checks/money orders payable to the Ray

Levine Scholarship

Fund and mail them to the Art Therapy Department, School of Visual

Arts,

209 East 23 Street, NYC, 10010.

CEC’s available for ATR-BC’s.

Attendees may pre-register and pay at the door the

day of

the event by RSVP-ing to or arttherapy@....

For more information, or to RSVP, please contact

or arttherapy@....

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PROGRAM INFORMATION

Mindfulness in Art

Therapy

Complete, creative

engagement in all that we do is the natural response to our world; it

need not

be extraordinary at all.

--Ellen Langer, PhD

The experience of being in the present, with a

sharpened and

heightened clarity, can be an effortless, simple process. It does

require,

however, that we give up the fixed way in which we have learned to look

at our

world. By paying attention to the here and now, to observing one’s

thoughts

without being critical or judgmental is what many call mindfulness. By

not

limiting our options and having different perspectives we are engaged

in

mindfulness. To understand that other people may not be so different

allows us to

empathize and enlarges our range of responses, making us less likely to

feel

locked into a polarized struggle. In addition, when we apply this to

our own

behavior, change becomes more possible. This ability to transcend

context is

the essence of mindfulness and central to the creative process.

In our commitment to make the benefits and power

of art

therapy known to as broad a range of the population as possible, the

MPS Art

Therapy Department at the School of Visual Arts is proud to have as our

keynote

speaker best-selling author Ellen Langer, who will be speaking about

the of mindfulness.

In addition to Dr. Langer, the conference will feature two special

guest

speakers, Dr. and Dr. Isis. It will be a

dynamic day

with three strong speakers exploring art therapy’s role in

understanding the

concept of mindfulness and how it pertains to one’s own work and

everyday life.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Ellen Langer, PhD,

is a professor of psychology at Harvard University.

She is a

recipient of The Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award for Distinguished

Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest from the American

Psychological Association, the Award for Distinguished Contributions of

Basic

Science to the Application of Psychology and the Distinguished Research

Achievement Award, American Psychological Association, Division of

Adult

Development and Aging. Dr. Langer has written several best selling

books: Mindfulness, which has sold more than

150,000 copies in thirteen languages, The

Power of Mindful Learning, and On

Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself through Mindful Creativity,

and has brought mindfulness into the

mainstream of medicine and society.

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER

, PhD

Sound,

Silence, Movement, Ink: Meditations into Mindfulness

This presentation

will offer

four pathways into the experience of mindfulness; the breath, the Asian

gong,

the Blackfoot Indian Dance of the Four Directions, the blank page. Dr.

will lead participants into experiences and discussions of

each of

these modalities.

, PhD,

storyteller/musician/poet/actor/ music therapist, was nominated for a

2006

Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience for his production of

The

Frog Bride on Broadway. He has created numerous productions including

the

critically acclaimed shows Sofrito! and Mytholo Jazz, both of which

enjoyed sold-out

runs. In 1998 he was honored with the Helen Performing Artist of

the Year

Award. His poetry was featured at Lincoln Center’s

Out-of-Doors

Festival, Bill Moyers’ documentary Fooling

with Words on PBS, as well as NPR’s All

Things Considered. Dr. received his doctorate in Music

Therapy

from New York University School of Education. He has taught at NYU for

10 years

and conducted numerous seminars, workshops and lectures at colleges and

universities.

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER

Isis,

PhD, LMHC, ATR-BC

Art Therapy and

Lovingkindness Practice

In order to cultivate the practice of lovingkindness toward self and

others, participants will create imagery in response to poetry, breath

and body

scan meditations. Processing of the artwork and implications for

clinical use

will be addressed.

Isis, PhD, LMHC,

ATR-BC, holds a doctorate in the expressive therapies with an

emphasis on

art therapy. Additionally, Dr. Isis is a licensed mental health

counselor in Florida

and a board

certified registered art therapist. She has practiced art psychotherapy

since 1980

and currently provides full time services in the public school system

while

maintaining a private practice. She also teaches mindfulness-based

stress

reduction classes for a large urban hospital and has integrated several

art

therapy tools within the curriculum. Dr. Isis is a nationally and

internationally known speaker in art/expressive therapies and

mindfulness.

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