Client: For educators, artists and mental health providers
Title: Classroom management strategies: The art of making choices in the moment.
Description: What to do to avoid disruption, distraction, disbelief, excessive talking or lack of participation in working with adult diverse populations.
We will explore, and apply effective facilitation skills and strategies to redirect the energy and class flow.
In this training participants will analyze possible conflicts and threats that could arise in a hospital or health care center, jail, senior center, and refuges center -setting.
Client: For educators, artists and mental health providers
Title: Leading others In writing for health using a “ Bilingual Approach”.
Description: The curriculum will provide easily culturally sensitive material, appropriate and adaptable lessons, effective strategies, bilingual activities, and guideposts for anyone working in the healthcare field — physicians, nurses, mental health professionals, hospice workers, health coaches, and others — to use with their Spanish- speaking clients and patients.
Participants will learn:
✓ Challenging populations
✓ How to identify the therapeutic features of stories and poems.
✓ How to facilitate the story therapy experience using literature and expressive arts.
✓ How to connect to other interdisciplinary programs (Partnerships)
✓ How to use culturally appropriate assessments tools.
Client: For Librarians
Title: Building Resilience with Bibliotherapy
Description: This presentation will demonstrate how librarians can connect the dots on social emotional development and lifelong learning experiences using Bibliotherapy. By following the poetry therapy method, we will foster expression and creativity in the arena of emotional health for all communities.
Librarians will be able to:
✓ Learn how to use the therapeutic principles of Bibliotherapy and transformative writing for a support group (Clinical, educational,
and nontraditional settings).
✓ Recognize books, poems and literary materials that foster resilience inmarginalized communities. In English and Spanish
✓ Learn how to motivate diverse audiences to write their response to published literature drawing on their own experiences and emotions.
Client: Librarians
Title: Connecting literacy and expressive arts in Library Programs
Description: In this interactive workshop librarians and educators will learn step by step case studies of implemented intercultural programs, and demonstrated the many connections across art, literacy and social emotional development.
They also learn about dual techniques and principles necessary to assist bilingual audiences.
Client: Service Providers. Outreach
Title: The power of story and poetry therapy when working with refugees, cancer patients, and children with behavioral issues.
Description: In this workshops participants will learn how to use Bibliotherapy in an outreach capacity .
This session focuses on the fears, challenges, threats, barriers and opportunities librarians face when delivering outreach programs in nontraditional settings. It provided with effective strategies and skills to use when facilitating programs for marginalized populations.
During this session we will emphasize the evocative value of poetry therapy and literature to foster identification, sense of belonging, connection, and personal transformation.
Client: For seniors and senior centers
Title: Quilting Memories: Feelings change - memories don't.
Description: Connecting people across cultural barriers is crucial for building a healthy, vibrant society. Yet it can be challenging to find the points of connection that bring people together. Quilting Memories, a literary arts engagement project for Latino immigrant elders is designed to do just that through songs, music, storytelling, writing and painting.
Client: For educators
Title: Childhood Across Culture.
Description: The study of cultural differences in immigrant parents’ knowledge of child rearing and child development is particularly germane today in our diverse schools and educational settings. It is critical that educators understand the nature and composition of immigrant mothers’ knowledge of child development and child rearing. Knowing the messages, symbols and invisible childhood links English Language Learner children bring to the classroom will better equip and empower educators in their teaching strategies when working with children of immigrant parents.
Client: For educators, artist and mental health providers
Title: THE MAGIC BOX: Revealing poetry therapy for the young child.
Description: Participants learned how storytelling, drama, poetry and writing can help small children tap into their own resilience. Students will practice techniques on how to adapt picture books and poetry for children.
