Pre-Conference
Thursday
 NOV 6th

Friday
NOV 7TH

Sunday
NOV 9TH

California State approved CEUs will be available for California LMFTs and LCSWs.

29TH ANNUAL NADT CONFERENCE

November 6-9, 2008
 Crowne Plaza Hotel SFO
1177 Airport Blvd.
Burlingame, CA 94010

CONFERENCE - DAY 2
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8th
7:30 am - 11:00 am
Registration
 

 MORNING WARM-UP

7:45 am - 8:45am

W2: Morning Yoga Warm Up  
Sarah Ratliff, MA

As drama therapists, we believe in using the body as a tool. This method of yoga focuses on breathing, listening to the body, accepting where your body is at the moment, letting go of competition, letting go of judgment, letting go of expectation, and staying present in the moment.
 

 MEETING

7:45 am - 8:45 am

M4: Alternative Training Track Meeting
 Sally Bailey, MFA, MSW, RDT/BCT, Facilitator

This is a session for students either on, or considering, the Alternate Training track to Professional certification as an Registered Drama Therapist (RDT). Bring your questions.

 ALL-MORNING WORKSHOPS

9:00 am - 11:50 am

B1: Research:  Get to How in the Now
Barbara Bornmann, MA, RDT, LCAT
Daniel Wiener, Phd, RDT/BCT

This experiential workshop offers participants an opportunity to gain a better understanding of both qualitative and quantitative drama therapy research through role-play, improvisation, and enactment. After warming up, participants will carry out an experiment from inception to presentation, taking various roles that teach pivotal steps in the research process.

B2: enGENDERing Sensitivity: Drama Therapy and Gender Variance
Mark Beauregard, RDT, LCAT

This workshop will explore issues in treating transgender and gender variant clients. Why drama therapy is effective, specific interventions and methods, developmental considerations in treatment planning, and fostering a gender sensitive clinical approach will be covered. Participants are encouraged to bring case examples/anecdotes.

B3:  Think Universally, Act Transpersonally: 
Integrating Spirituality and Drama Therapy with Varied Populations
Saphira Linden, MA, RDT/BCT, LCAT
Bobbi Ausubel, MFA, RDT
Shoshana Simons, PhD
Annie Coffey, PsyD, LCP, RDT
Jonathan Stein, MA, RDT

RDT’s trained in Omega Transpersonal Drama Therapy present their work from national and international venues: Children/adolescents, people battling multi diagnoses, working with global social concerns, i.e. prostituted women/ sex trafficking in Asia, catastrophe victims in Thailand. How meditation-spiritual practices come alive in their drama therapy practices will be presented.

B4:  Creating Musical Theatre with Youth: 
The Lovewell Method of Development through the Arts
Norman Fedder, PhD, RDT/BCT
David Spangler, BFA, PhD
La Vonne Canfield, BFA
 
The Lovewell Method of creating musical theatre with youth in three weeks is an aesthetic, educational, and therapeutic process promoting personal and social development though artistic training, cooperative learning, and self-esteem building. Lovewell’s founder/director, David Spangler, and his co-presenters will describe and demonstrate the process through lecture, discussion, videos, and activities.
 

B5: Lives in Time: Creative Arts Treatment Protocol for At-Risk Adolescents
 Ted Rubenstein, MFA, RDT, PsyD
Keith Whipple, MA
Luv Seamon, MA DTR

This workshop demonstrates the way a live role playing game can be used to help students identified as “at-risk” to learn to make healthier choices. The participants of this program were 18 adolescents between the ages of 15 and19. All the students were enrolled in an alternative high school. Each student was diagnosed with an emotional and behavioral disorder.

B6: Self-REVolutions: A Performance Series by Queer Women
 Sara Korda, MA
 Jamie Ben-Azay, MA, MFTI
Alisa Peck, MA, MFTI
Lila Leshan, MA, MFTI

 Self-REVolutions is a series of performances by queer women who recently graduated from the drama therapy program at CIIS. We welcome the audience to witness this public ritual that invites viewers to participate in the performer's live transformation.

 
 EARLY MORNING WORKSHOP

9:00 am - 10:20 am

B7: Presence, Smell and the Drama Therapy Encounter
Maria Hodermarska, LCAT, RDT, CASAC, MA
Kate Hurd, MA, RDT/BCT, LCAT

 Smell is elemental to intimacy. Utilizing storytelling and embodiment, this workshop examines the impact of smell in the therapeutic encounter. Regardless of its effect on us, smell is part of the “mutual perfume” or sensory road map of presence with another human being.

 LATE MORNING WORKSHOP

10:30 am - 11:50 am

B8: Theatre Improv as a Meditative Practice
Paula Patterson, MS, RDT/BCT, CP, LMHC

Participants will experience breath and movement warm-ups that promote creative improvisation. Basic tenets of improv and more advanced scene work will be explored. Participants will have the opportunity to serve as both actor and audience in a mock performance. The presenter will share examples of ways she uses improv in drama therapy.

 KEYNOTE LUNCHEON & NADT Special Awards

Noon - 2:15 pm

K1: Keynote Address: Twenty-Five Years of Training Drama Therapists
… and the Present Moment
Renee Emunah, PhD, RDT/BCT

The Drama Therapy Program at CIIS, which Renee Emunah founded and has directed since its inception in 1983, turned 25 this year. Dr. Emunah will reflect on the development of our profession over the past quarter century, the possibilities of expansion in our field in the years to come, and the present moment—the essence of our work that transcends time.

 AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS

2:30 pm - 5:20 pm

B9:  State of the Art: the Status of Assessment in Drama Therapy Today  
Stephen Snow, PhD, RDT/BCT
Miranda D’Amico, PhD
Robert Landy, PhD, RDT/BCT, LCAT
Alice Forrester, PhD, RDT/BCT
David Read Johnson, PhD, RDT/BCT
Nisha Sajnani, ABD, RDT
Susana Pendzik, PhD, RDT
Daniel Wiener, PhD, RDT/BCT

The purpose of this panel is to present an informative and eye-opening session on the place and function of Assessment in the field of Drama Therapy. Panel members, all of whom have extensive experience with this issue, will aim to demonstrate the vital significance of Assessment to our evolving field.

B10:  Drama Therapy and Alzheimer’s Disease
 Nancy Sondag, MA, RDT/BCT, LCAT, CDP
Rosimar Hernandez, MA, QDCP

This workshop addresses the needs of persons with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers. It will provide a plan for using drama therapy in nursing homes, hospitals, and community centers. Participants will learn techniques that will enable their patients to maximize their skills and share in a therapeutic community.

B11: Play as an Ethical Form of Freedom:  Developmental
Transformations at Burning Man
 Fred Landers, MA, RDT/BCT, LCAT
Nicole Brucato, MA
Brad Stoller, MFA

After a session of imaginative, interactive play within structures provided by the co-leaders, workshop participants will discuss Developmental Transformations (DvT) as a practice of freedom, and compare it to other “practices of freedom” in terms of ethics and harm. The co-leaders will present their experiences bringing DvT to the Burning Man Festival.

B12: Sacred Performance:  Expressing the Divine Presence  
Claire Schrader, BA, MA, SRAT

An experiential workshop exploring our divine presence through Sacred Performance. Follow the call of your inner divine spirit through creativity and dramatic expression. Experience and express your divine nature through ritual theatre and transformation techniques that will make your Spirit sing.

B13:  Engaging the Shadow: The Taboos of Drama Therapy
 Robert Sarison, MA, LMFT, RDT
Craig Garfinkel, PhD

This experiential workshop will engage participants in a journey of collective self-exploration using dramatic play and creative ritual to approach taboos and explore the shadow as it pertains to our professional identity, our experiences in the field of Drama Therapy, and our clinical work as therapists.

B14:  We There: An Integrative Experience of Drama Therapy and Filmmaking
Janna Browning, MA
Rena Marie Jones, MA
Maria Breaux, MFA

We There is a compelling film that tells the story of what it’s like growing up in one of the most violent neighborhoods in the country. In this session, we will begin with a screening of We There, followed by an interactive workshop exploring themes from the film.

 EARLY AFTERNOON WORKSHOP

2:30 pm - 3:55 pm

B15:  Rehab, Roles and Reality: Addiction as an Identity Crisis
 Andrew Gaines, MA, RDT, LCAT
Darby Moore, MA, RDT/BCT, LCAT

Who is the Addict beyond the substance(s)? Join two Rehab-Savvy Drama Therapists for the low-down on how to bring the power of play and imagination into the recovery process. Participants will learn important rehabilitation concepts as well as experience particular techniques that address assessment, treatment, and termination.

 LATE AFTERNOON WORKSHOP

4:05 pm - 5:25 pm

B16: No Unwounded Soldiers: Living in the Moment – A Path to Healing
(film & discussion)
Mary Lou Lauricella, MA
Rebecca Abbott, MFA, MA

“No Unwounded Soldiers” is a documentary film made at the VA Hospital, West Haven, CT by Quinnipiac University Professor of Film Rebecca Abbott. The film follows a small group of veterans as they explore – through their work in drama therapy – the way war changes those who fight.

M5: Student Forum
Marvin West, BA
Abigail Stone, BA
Lauren Schwartzberg, BA
Sarah Harkness, BA
Tia Jennings, BA

Through discussion and experiential exercises, we will explore issues relevant to current students. Issues include: networking with one another and the larger community, diversity, the future of the field, and job and practicum opportunities. Bring your own concerns. This is also a time to socialize and network with fellow students.

M6: Ethics Forum
Nisha Sajnani, ABD, RDT

This forum affords a chance to discuss NADT Ethics Guidelines and their application.

 EARLY EVENING PLENARY

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

B17: Embodying the Body of Knowledge
 Gary Raucher, LMFT, RDT, Moderator

An interactive exchange among drama therapists of different “generations.” Now that NADT is pushing 30, and the field somewhat established, what are newer drama therapists bringing to the profession? What are their expectations, values, motivations, and life experiences? And, how are they embodying the legacy of their mentors?
 
 PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION
8:30 pm - 9:45 pm

R1: President’s Reception - RDT & BCT Awards
Hosted by Carlos Rodriguez-Perez, MA, RDT/BCT, LCAT

 
 EVENING ENTERTAINMENT
9:45 pm - 11:30 pm

Interactive Improvisation