Using KinAesthetic Imagining (KI), a dance therapy process based on an existential/humanistic approach, Dr.Serlin will share her work with immigrants and refugees in Jordan, Portugal, Istanbul and China. Vignettes, video demonstrations, and partner exercises will help participants to learn concrete steps to help people ground; create safe spaces and boundaries; contain and channel emotions; and create community rituals with people suffering from a broad range of grief and post-traumatic conditions in culturally sensitive ways.

Ilene Serlin, Ph.D, BC-DMT