- National Training for Professionals to Adopt the AIRY Model
- Recorded Webinars
- Referrals
- Internships
- Local AIRY Trainings & Presentations
NATIONAL TRAINING FOR PROFESSIONALS
If your organization if interested in adopting the AIRY model please contact Founding Director, Marney Schorr. Training packages include the AIRY Training Manual and Appendixes, 12 hours of live training and continued Consultation and Supervision.
RECORDED WEBINARS
Suicide Prevention with Young People: An Art Therapy Approach for All Clinicians
In this 2-hour workshop, participants are introduced to the nationally recognized art-based AIRY model of youth suicide prevention. The workshop discusses the contemporary challenges and risk factors that are driving young people to suicide, and how trauma-informed art therapy approaches can be incorporated by any clinician to help save their lives. An overview of trauma in the brain and how the pandemic is effecting youth, is followed by theories of suicidologists including Emil Durkheim, Mark Williams, Thomas Joiner, and David Jobes. Participants are guided in hands on demonstrations of DBT-informed art therapy methods that help social and emotional learning and creative youth development. Experientials include expressive writing and interactive drawing, as well digital media for youth suicide prevention including a virtual art show, short animatic film, and the documentary of the AIRY program, Messages of Hope by Raymond Brown. Participants will leave with a clear understanding of why so many young people are being lost to suicide, and how they can incorporate multiple evidenced-based art therapy strategies into their daily practices.
Fee: $100. To purchase this webinar, please contact Marney Schorr at airyberkshires@gmail.com.
REFERRALS
All AIRY clients must have an ongoing primary clinician with whom to coordinate care, emergency contact, and support person (family or friend) for safety measures. Please contact Director, Marney Schorr to obtain a Referral Form at airyberkshires@gmail.com.
INTERNSHIPS
NUarts Studios and Gallery in Pittsfield MA, offers internships with Master’s level Art Therapist and Teaching Artist, Marney Schorr, for undergraduate college internship credits (1-3 credits per semester) in art therapy, including placements with Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Studio Art and Arts Management programs and Springfield College’s Undergraduate Art Therapy Program.
If you would like to arrange an internship with your school, please contact Marney Schorr at airyberkshires@gmail.com.
LOCAL AIRY TRAININGS
In this workshop, Art Therapist and Author, Marney Schorr, will review and highlight art therapy methods, activities and materials which counselors and educators can use with students in a variety of situations. She will provide a short background of art therapy & its philosophies and discuss her work with the award winning arts based youth suicide prevention program, Arts in Recovery for Youth (AIRY). She will guide participants in the therapeutic use of arts in trauma-informed care and teach art therapy directives related to mindfulness, emotion regulation and self soothing that can be used by any helping professional inside or outside of a school setting. She will include art activities for the individual as well as for use with groups. Lastly, she will discuss and demonstrate the use of art therapy assessments and projectives which may help counselors glean rich material about their students’ inner lives. Handouts will be provided.
The type of work educators do by nature, makes us vulnerable to what has been called secondary traumatic stress, an often inescapable consequence of our desire to help and our empathic engagement with students facing the realities of trauma. Addressing the impact of our work on our bodies, minds and spirits is not only a personal but an ethical consideration. We have an obligation to our students and to ourselves to not be damaged by the work we do. In this workshop we will discuss how chronic stress alters one’s physiology and contributes to both physical and mental health problems. We will learn how to recognize our vulnerabilities by way of ongoing self assessment and monitoring to develop a professional self care plan that can include using art to cope. Art accesses a different part of our brains, reduces stress, engages our senses mindfully in the moment, and is an alternative language for when we can´t find the words.
November 5, 2020 from 10 am – 1 pm
10th Annual Expressive Therapies Summit New York – Online Workshop: ¨Suicide Prevention with Young People: An Art Therapy Approach for All Clinicians¨ with Marney Schorr
DESCRIPTION: Youth suicide has become a global public health problem across the country and in response to COVID-19. Clinicians need to learn to recognize the symptoms and become part of the solution. In this 3-hour workshop, participants will learn about the triggers that are driving young people to suicide, and how an art therapy approach can be incorporated by all clinicians to save young lives. We will review the traumatic factors of the pandemic and some ways to help prevent youth suicide with trauma-informed art therapy directives. We will also review DBT-informed art therapy methods to resolve risk factors for suicide as outlined by suicidologists like Durkheim, Williams, Joiner, and Jobes. Through the lenses of social and emotional learning and creative youth development, art therapy directives will be introduced and practiced hands-on using expressive writing exercises and interactive drawing. Participants will also be shown digital media such as animatic film, music, and poetry by teens and young adults from the award-winning Arts in Recovery for Youth (AIRY) program. Participants will leave with a clear understanding of why so many young people are being lost to suicide, as well as be able to incorporate multiple effective art therapy treatment strategies into their daily practices.
OBJECTIVES: (1) Identify three components of an evidenced based art therapy approach to youth suicide prevention. (2) Apply three theories in current suicidology for art therapy for youth suicide prevention. (3) Practice two hands on DBT-informed art therapy directives that target social and emotional risk factors for youth suicide.
To register, visit: http://www.summit.expressivemedia.org/
Arts in Recovery Symposium with Marney Schorr
1601 Broadway (enter on 48th Street)
Times Square, New York
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Arts in Recovery for Youth 