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27th Annual International Trauma Conference in Boston June 1-4, 2016: Check it out here:
Amber is speaking on her work with refugees at the 27th Annual International Trauma Conference in Boston June 1-4. 2016. Check it out here: Seaport World Trade Center Boston, Massachusetts FULL PDF FLYER
The Art of Embodied Resilience: Dance and Movement Approaches to Promote Well-being for Our Clients and Ourselves
The Art of Embodied Resilience: Dance and Movement Approaches to Promote Well-being for Our Clients and Ourselves Date and Times: June Saturday 25th 10.45am – 5.30pm June Sunday 26th 9.45am – 5.00pm Venue: Studio 1, 15 Barrett Way, Richmond, 3121. (Behind Studio 9. Enter the arch by 36 Bendigo Street, Patch Café.) Workshop with Amber Gray in Melbourne, Australia. Flyer here; for information and registration contact Jane or Tess at:admin@dtaa.org.au This workshop will provide theoretical, scientific, and contemplative rationale for the use of movement as measure of protection, self-care, and increased resilience, as well as an emergent best practice approach for therapeutic work with survivors of trauma. We will simultaneously learn breath, movement, rhythm and dance based practices that promote resilience and that can be used in therapeutic work with survivor clients of all ages. Resilience is often referred to as something we build; resilience is actually a process that derives …
An Embodied Introduction to Dance Movement Therapy with Amber Gray, in Santa Fe
March 5, 2016 at CCA. Full Flyer Here
An Offering of Hands: Resilient Communities for Resilient Families
March 4th, 2016. Full Flyer Here
Tending the Helper’s Fire: A Staff Care TOT for Humanitarian Workers in Beirut
FEBRUARY 24-26, 2016. Full Flyer Here
In the presence of Love
Whales are everywhere, here: they literally punctuate the ocean with their movements. In the space of a few minutes, looking out over the horizon or around the sea our boat is gliding through, we see pairs and trios and pods of whales breaching, spy-hopping, tail slapping and diving. This is an annual pilgrimage site, for breeding and birthing. These prisms of gem-blue waters serve as a safe place for the whales to create new life and tend to their young before they begin their own journeys back to Antartica. This is big ocean. Tonga is in the middle of the South Pacific, and there is a lot of water. I am one of those unfortunate people who saw Jaws when it first came out, and am terrified of the deep. Having grown up near the ocean, and once been comfortable swimming long distances in it; I began to fear being …
The Annual Expressive Arts Summit in New York City
Amber presents at The Annual Expressive Arts Summit in New York City on November 6, 2015. Summit information here: http://summit.expressivemedia.org/
ADTA conference: celebrating 50 years of Dance Movement Therapy
October 22-25, 2015 is the annual ADTA conference; celebrating 50 years of Dance Movement Therapy. Check out Ambers workshops here: http://www.adta.org/2015-Conference
Restoring Core Rhythmicity: The Art of Play and Social Engagement for Trauma Dance Movement Therapy Playshops
Restoring Core Rhythmicity: The Art of Play and Social Engagement for Trauma Dance Movement Therapy Playshops With International presenter – Amber Gray December 4th, 5th and 6th, 2015, 9.45am registration for 10am-5pm. At Abbotsford Convent, Dorm 1, Rosina building, 1 St Helier Street, Abbotsford, Melbourne The playshops will simultaneously build on the Body as Voice: Restorative Movement Psychotherapy Trauma training the DTAA offered in 2013/2014, and new clinical insights and experiences to promote playful social engagement for work with adult and child survivors of trauma. Exposure to traumatic events literally and metaphorically “freezes” our bodies, minds and spirits in a “lock-down” of past memories. Current neuro-psychiatric research has shown that when someone is traumatized, a majority of traumatic memory is implicit— or sensory-motoric and image-based. Many of the researchers endorse the use of non-verbal therapies for survivors to fully integrate the past with the present and restore well-being and …
Australia & Continuum, Earth, Sky & Body: Spring 2015
There are still places in this world where the sky is awash with stars. Tasmania is one of them. In this Australian island, just off this most ancient land, the night sky is aglow with the light that emanates from the space that still illuminates the death of these once bright cosmic bodies. To lie on the ground and look into the stars is to look into the mirror. There are numerous citations re: the relationship between humans, and stars. It’s carbon, apparently, that connect us; I am not a scientist but I have read numerous references to the relationship between us, and the stars. In essence, that we are stardust. After guiding a Continuum Movement Depths Retreat, “At the Crossroads: The Serpents Dream”, outside Sydney; my husband and I traveled to Tasmania to visit a dear friend and to spend a week in the many places alive with raw …