Virtual Training Series

Connecting and communicating across differences has its challenges – particularly when we are bridging the gaps in our perception or relationships. We often seek to be heard and validated, to understand and be understood, to increase opportunities for positive and healing conversation and to accept and move easily through times of transition. But when others (and life in general) do not respond in kind, we have opportunities to recognize and challenge irrational beliefs that hold us back and to engage in ways of thinking and being that are more effective.

Join us for this three hour didactic and experiential workshop where we will explore our connections to self and others as well as examine our inter-generational legacies. Through the principles of REBT (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy) and techniques drawn from art therapy as well as from the traditions of poetry and narrative approaches, we will explore the stories we tell ourselves and others with an eye toward re-visioning our perspectives and entering into transformative dialogues.

This workshop is an introduction to the application of art and narrative modalities through the lens of REBT and does not substitute for more full training in any of these methods.

Nancy S. Scherlong, LCSW-R, PTR, CJT, M-S, is a licensed clinical social worker in the states of NY and CT, a registered poetry therapist, certified in journal therapy and a trainer in both methods. She is a holistic psychotherapist trained in experiential trauma approaches (EMDR, IFS, Somatic Experiencing and the action methods of Psychodrama) and has a multi-modal practice She is in full-time private practice and heads her consulting firm, Change Your Narrative LCSW PLLC, which allows her to provide continuing education and consultation services for area organizations, corporations, clinics and clinicians. She is a Senior Adjunct for Adelphi University’s School of Social Work as well as an Online Campus Advisor for Columbia University’s School of Social Work. She is on the faculty of Kint and the Therapeutic Writing Institute. Nancy has enjoyed the multi-modal use of the arts as a writer, teacher and clinician for over 25 years.

Robin D. Stone, MA, LMHC, is founder and clinical director of Robin D. Stone, LMHC, PLLC, a psychotherapy private practice where she engages the arts to promote recovery, resilience and personal growth. Her practice is located at Positive Psychology Associates, a progressive group practice in midtown Manhattan. Stone received her Master’s degree in Counseling for Mental Health & Wellness from the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She also has a Master’s in Health Arts & Sciences from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. Her post-graduate training includes creative arts therapies for trauma treatment at the Kint Institute, Certification in EMDR, and the Gottman Method for couples therapy. She is pursuing a Registered Poetry Therapist credential via the International Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy. Stone, who received her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Michigan State University, is a longtime a journalist and has written extensively about health and wellness for numerous outlets. She is author of No Secrets, No Lies: How Black Families Can Heal from Sexual Abuse and lead writer of The Black Woman’s Guide to Healthy Living by the editors of Essence magazine. Her blog, “The Color of Wellness,” appears on PsychologyToday.com.

Course Objectives:

• Apply at least 2 core principles of REBT to a selected communication difficulty
• Differentiate between an irrational story or belief and a re-visioned one through the use of narrative and visual art approaches
• Formulate ways in which art or narrative techniques can be applied to specific cases in their practice using structured or fluid approaches or combining both

Agenda

Content Level: Intermediate

Target Audience: Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, Occupational Therapists

CE credits available: 3 CEs. Click here for CE language.

Cancellation Policy: All registrations are non-refundable.

Certificates: Certificates are available following course completion at www.ceuregistration.com

Disclosure Statement: Nancy and Robin have no relevant financial or nonfinancial relationships to disclose.

3 CEs are available for purchase through R. Cassidy Seminars. Information will be sent to participants after the workshop.

For questions or concerns, please contact info@kintinstitute.org

The human experience is intrinsically embodied and, paradoxically, fundamentally metaphorical. Creative expression, in all of its varied forms and permutations, is our birthright. This workshop will explore how data from the fields of embryology and neuroscience can inform our understanding of how and why implicitly registered feelings, thoughts and memories that can’t be easily verbalized can so often be symbolically expressed through the process of making art. Clinical illustrations and experiential activities will help participants gain a more multidimensional, nuanced and embodied confidence in the power of the art making process, thereby increasing the clinical efficacy of their art-based therapeutic interventions.

Ani Buk, MFA, MA, ATR-BC, LP, LCAT, is a licensed art therapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan, where she works with children, adolescents, adults and couples. She is a graduate of the MFA program of the Yale School of Art; the Graduate Art Therapy Program of New York University, where she has been on the faculty since 1993; The Institute for Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; and the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society, where she is on the Permanent Faculty and a Training and Supervising Analyst. A nationally recognized trauma specialist with 30 years of clinical experience, Ani’s work and recommendations have been featured in newspapers and periodicals such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, The Chicago Tribune, and Scholastic News. She is the Clinical Advisor to Lalela, a non-profit that provides educational arts for at-risk youth in Africa and the US.