Creative Minds, UCLArts and Healing, and the CSUN Kinesiology Dept. presents...
On the Edge of Chaos: Finding Flow and Resilience through Creativity and the Arts
When: Sunday, April 7, from 10 am to 5 pm
Where: UCLA Schoenberg Hall
Cost: FREE (and reservations include lunch!)
Register at http://www.uclartsandhealing.net/
Speakers for the research panel include Dr. Ted Hutman from UCLA Center for Autism Research Treatment (CART).
Conference Details:
Focusing on enhancing strengths, rather than reducing deficits, creativity and the arts are uniquely able to facilitate flow, mind-body wellness, and transformation. With the growing cost of healthcare and increasing demand for preventative, patient-centered, and chronic care, it is important for future healthcare professionals and artists to be aware of effective and creative positive psychological approaches for both healing and wellness.
Conference Features:
Science: Leading experts present and discuss cutting-edge research on flow, creativity, stress, and self-regulation (including psychology, neurobiology, physiological functions, and emotional processes).
Performance: The CSUN dance and opera performances will portray key themes of social justice, equity and diversity related topics (autism, political detainees, chronic illness and loss). During the performance a dancer will wear a body suit that records her physiological responses to demonstrate, in real time, dissociation and flow in performing artists.
Application: Scientific researchers will present on the social-emotional and cognitive development of autism, mental illness, and trauma as well as conventional clinical interventions; creative arts therapists will discuss how they uniquely apply the creative arts to serve these populations.
Experience: Experiential breakout creative arts therapy workshops will give the conference participants active opportunities to engage, first hand, in two creative arts therapy workshops of their choice.
