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International Expert in Creative Arts Therapies Coming to Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Brock University is considering developing a program in Creative Arts
Therapies, and on March 28 - 31, 2007, is
bringing together leaders in this field for a symposium to which the public
is invited to attend.

Please visit the website www.brocku.ca/CAT for more information.
Conference programme:

Wednesday, March 28
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Phil Jones
"What makes the art therapies work?"

Thursday, March 29th
Panel discussions and workshops: "Creative arts therapies applications at
Brock, in Niagara, and beyond"
Dr. Phil Jones, Dr. Suzy Lister, Athena Madan

Friday, March 29th
Panel discussion: "How do I become a Creative Arts Therapist? Information
for potential CATs students at Brock"
Janet Zanutto

Saturday, March 30th
Master Class: "The creation and embodiment of symbol and metaphors within
storywork and drama in therapy:
Dr. Phil Jones

*Media Release Backgrounder:

Philip Richard Jones
Keynote Speaker, Wednesday, 28 March 2007, 8:00 p.m.
**Academic South 216, Walker Complex, Brock University

**Panelist and Workshop Leader, Thursday, 29 March 2007, 10:00 a.m.
**Rodman Hall Arts Centre, 109 St. Paul Crescent, St. Catharines
*
*Leader of Master Class, Saturday, 31 March 2007, 10:00 a.m.
**Pond Inlet, Brock University
**
*Reader, Carnegie Faculty, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, Philip has
lectured and published widely on a variety of subjects. He is currently
writing and editing books on contemporary services for children (Pearson),
clinical supervision (Routledge) and the arts therapies (Routledge). His
background includes twenty years as a principal lecturer and course leader
in the arts therapies, and work with the arts and education in a variety of
settings from practice with children with autistic spectrum disorders
through to young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties. He was
director of the Artsreach arts in education project in London and has been
trainer, advisor, consultant and on the board of directors for a wide range
of organisations from the Arts Council of Great Britain to the Portuguese
Occupational Therapy Association, from the Graeae Theatre Company to the
Canadian Mental Health Association. He has lectured widely from New York to
Athens, from Newfoundland to Dublin. His books have been translated and
published in China, Greece and Korea.

*Suzanne Lister* (PhD, ATR, OATR, CACPT)*
Panelist and Workshop Leader, Thursday 29 March 2007, 10:00 a.m
**Rodman Hall Arts Centre, 109 St. Paul Crescent, St. Catharines
*
Assistant Professor in the Department of Creative Arts Therapies at
Concordia University, Montreal, she received her PhD from Concordia in
Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on meaning-making in bereaved
parents. Suzanne received her art therapy training at the University of
Western Ontario and previously ran the pediatric oncology art therapy
program at Children's Hospital of Western Ontario and was one of the
founding members of the London Arts Therapies Centre. Suzanne is a previous
President of the Ontario Art Therapy Association. Suzanne's research
interests are on bereavement, illness, mind-body connections in the art of
ill children, and art therapy with developmental disabled adults.

*Athena Madan* (MA)
*Panelist and Workshop Leader, Thursday 29 March 2007, 10:00 a.m
**Rodman Hall, 109 St. Paul Crescent, St. Catharines
*
A practitioner in the Niagara region, she received her MA in Creative Arts
Therapies (emphasis drama therapy) from Concordia University in Montréal.
Her writing and publication research include: attachment and
psychopathology; bereavement with survivors of suicide; symbolic play in
child trauma due to domestic and organised violence; and creative arts in
meaning-making with survivors of torture. Previous experience includes
conduct disorder, youth at-risk, juvenile delinquent, drug and alcohol
addiction, schizophrenia, and terminal illness (cancer, AIDS) populations.
Having shared a private practice in Montréal before relocating to the
Niagara region, Athena is currently working at the* Centre de santé
communautaire* with trauma, abuse, and mental health cases.

*David Fancy* (PhD, Trinity College, Dublin)
*Organizing Committee and Registrar
*
Assistant Professor, Dramatic Literature, and Theatre at Brock University
since July 2004, Dr. Fancy combines research interests in postcoloniality,
critical theory, the aesthetics of contemporary performance and theatre for
social change with experience in a range of experimental companies in Europe
and North America.*

*He is currently a Chancellor's Chair for Excellence in Teaching, exploring
the confluence of mindfulness meditation practices, contemporary critical
theory and various movement practices.  He also teaches in the
interdisciplinary Master's  Program in Social Justice and Equity Studies.
In 2006, in collaboration with the Breast Cancer Research and Education Fund
he led the Chiron project, which introduced healing through the expressive
arts to breast cancer thrivors.

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Marie Balsom, Co-ordinator
School of Fine and Performing Arts
Brock University
St. Catharines, ON  L2S 3A1
Tel.     905-688-5550, extension 4765
Fax 905-984-4861
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