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Click here to download a printable version of the newsletter! All News is Big News in 2012 for ArtReach: Many Big ‘Firsts’ Fire Up the Foundation From the Year Gone By! “Real art connects. It connects us with ourselves and one another. It leads us to discover new truths and helps to illuminate the humanity we share.” -Queen Rania-Al Abdullah of Jordan Message from the Founder: As we share a time of struggle for so many, we also share hope for this New Year to bring joy and possibility for a better future. Despite the challenges during 2011, The ArtReach...
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January 28 Introductory Workshop was held at St Bede’s, Tucker GA, was filled to capacity and a great success. Clinicians, veterans, civilians, and volunteers participated in the creative and expressive arts, led by ARF Trainers Karimah Dillard, MA ADT, Karen McCarty, LPC LMFT, and Christiane O’Hara PhD. Susan Anderson, ArtReach Founder, and George Wieder, LTC USAF (Ret.), Project America Co-Chair, met with the participants at lunch for an informal presentation on our domestic and international Projects and our volunteer opportunities. Participants were guided through meditation and visualization, art, creative writing, drama, dance, music, and movement to access personal metaphors and...
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Melissa Walker, MA, ATR and Christiane O’Hara, PhD, ArtReach Trainers, presented an ArtReach Project America workshop at the Second International Expressive Arts Summit in New York City on Veterans Day 2011. Drama, art, and dance therapists, as well as a military chaplain, participated in this didactic and experiential workshop. Barry Cohen, ATR, a senior art therapist researcher who was a featured speaker at the ArtReach GTRI July 2011 Conference in Atlanta, coordinated the Summit. Workshop participants explored the metaphor of nature names in art, music, dance, and creative writing, integrating their work into a powerful dramatic presentation to close the...
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Christiane O’Hara, our Co-Chair for ArtReach Project America heads to Boston later this week to present at A Better Welcome Home: Transformative Models to Support Veterans and their Families Conference on November 2nd. This conference will be hosted by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. The ArtReach Foundation is thrilled to have two back to back opportunities to spread the word about how we are helping our military personnel and their families. Go here to find more information: http://www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/News-Events/Events/A-Better-Welcome-Home-Transformative-Models-to-Support-Veterans-and-Their-Families...
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Members of the ArtReach Project America team, Christiane O’Hara, PHD and Timothy Puetz, PHD were pleased to present at an invitation only National Summit called Arts in Healing for Warriors held in Washington D.C. October 14-15. This summit created stimulating, interdisciplinary dialogue that highlighted important elements of the future of arts and medicine in the military. A keynote presenter Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, along with other prominent speakers described the evidence base for the efficacy of arts programs in promoting recovery from illness and injury, with special emphasis on resilience, psychological healing, family strengthening, reintegration, and other topics of interest...
At the Invitation of the International Academy of Medicine’s Annual Summit on Cardio Metabolic Syndrome, Susan Anderson and Christopher Morley, MPH presented the use of the ArtReach Model® in a session called “Beyond Trauma: Novel Stress Reduction Techniques In Post-Operative Cardiovascular Patients, Families, & Providers”. This June gathering in Amman, Jordan of 400 physicians learned about published research evidence with the regards to the use of the creative arts in medicine. This presentation also included the history, development, and anecdotal data of The ArtReach Foundation’s work in various populations....
Twitter Updates
- We're exactly 1 month away from our Project America Military Personnel and Veterans workshop to help those with PTSD - http://t.co/cySWWmpZ
- ArtReach has a story in : 'Global Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth' by Emily Mendenhall http://t.co/LvP388c0
- Looking to volunteer with ArtReach? New training workshops have been posted for March - http://t.co/HzqiViE6 #nonprofit
- Check out this article that features one of our trainers, Melissa Walker! http://t.co/o4OhDAAK #trauma
- Get in the loop with all of the big and exciting things happening in 2012 with our newsletter - http://t.co/aOoNhvH5
- Thank you to all who attended our training sessions to volunteer with ArtReach. For future sessions, check our site - http://t.co/Giibkls3
