NADTA 2024 Conference

NADTA 2024 Conference

Welcome to the NADTA 2024 Annual Conference

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8:00am EDT

Breakfast and Networking Churchill Ballroom - 2nd Floor Family Lactation Room James - 3rd Floor Play Space/Art Hive Turner - 3rd Floor Quiet Space Austen - 3rd Floor

8:30am EDT

Opening Ceremony - Land Acknowledgement & Keynote Churchill Ballroom - 2nd FloorLaureen (Blu) Waters • Kyle Sipkens

10:00am EDT

10:15am EDT

Costuming in Drama Therapy: Design, Build, Mend, Heal Scott - 3rd FloorAmanda Sasser Dis/ability Justice and Restoration for Dis/abled Drama Therapists: Creating Space in the Classroom and the Profession Rossetti - 3rd FloorCaitlin McFann • Maria Hodermarska • Angelle Cook • Sho Glick Liberation-based Peer Supervision: Confronting Colonialism, Capitalism, and Racism Using Role Carlyle - 3rd FloorRowena Tam, MA, CCC • Amanda Rothman MA RDT LCAT Poetry in Motion - Balade Poetique Stevenson - 2nd FloorValerie Chatain, MA We Need to Talk about Psychedelics Seymour - 2nd FloorCarlos Rodriguez Perez, LCAT RDT/BCT

11:45am EDT

12:00pm EDT

Celebrating Research: Marking 10 Years of Drama Therapy Review and Research in the Field Churchill Ballroom - 2nd FloorAngelle Cook • Jason S. Frydman, PhD, RDT/BCT, NCSP • Calli Armstrong, MA, PhD, RDT • Nisha Sajnani, PhD, LCAT, RDT/BCT • Dr. Christine Mayor

1:30pm EDT

1:45pm EDT

Class and identity: ideas that can help us to think about repair and change. Seymour - 2nd FloorAnna Seymour, PhD PFHEA HCPC reg. Dramatherapist The Multiverse of Grief: A Multicultural + Expressive Arts Approach to being in relationship with diverse grief narratives Scott - 3rd FloorAdam Stevens MA, RDT, LCAT-P • Jakob von Eichel, MA Can theatre reduce bias in healthcare service delivery? Rossetti - 3rd FloorNisha Sajnani, PhD, LCAT, RDT/BCT • Sheila O'Keefe-McCarthy • Valerie Michaelson • Anamarija Vuic, MA • Kevin Hobbs, MA • Sherri Vansickle, MEd, OCT • Margot Francis, PhD • Mona Sawhney, PhD, NP • Camryn Hafner, MA • Andrea Cordova McCadney How to Talk to Children About Death: The Training of The Truth Wren - 3rd FloorStephanie Omens, MA, RDT-BCT, LPC, LCAT Turning Points! Unearthing and Transforming wounding life-scripts! Carlyle - 3rd FloorArmand Volkas LMFT, RDT/BCT, • Ornelia Kapetani, RDT, TRT

3:15pm EDT

Break Churchill Court - 2nd Floor

3:30pm EDT

A Mirror, A Threshold, A Song: Medicines of Healing in Theater Arts and Restorative Justice Stevenson - 2nd FloorTatiana Chaterji Integrating Consent-Based Practices and Drama Therapy Scott - 3rd FloorAlivia Holkesvig, B.S., B.A • Sabrina Rodriguez, M.A.

5:00pm EDT

Attitudes Toward Research Among North American Drama Therapists Seymour - 2nd FloorAngelle Cook Education Forum Wren A/B - 3rd FloorChyela Rowe Ethics Forum Carlyle - 3rd Floor Family, Art and Storytelling at Home Rossetti - 3rd FloorAnabelle Segovia Reyes, MA • Caroline Beauregard, PhD, MA Student Forum Scott - 3rd Floor

6:00pm EDT

Dinner on your own Required BCT Annual Meeting & Policy/Procedure Updates Churchill Ballroom - 2nd FloorChyela Rowe

7:30pm EDT

2 Women, 2 Mothers: Stories of Mother/Daughter Transformation Rossetti - 3rd FloorMerry Ross MFT, RDT • Vicki Dello Joio Always Have Been: A Staged Reading from Qualitative Research. Stevenson - 2nd FloorMichelle Yadon, MA, RDT/BCT, CTRS • Stephen Lewis