iMPAC WORKSHOP
For professionals in the uses of the creative and expressive arts therapies in education, therapy, community, health, and mental health
Wednesday 20th March 2024
16 Middleway, Kabulonga, Lusaka – Open Window University; Auditorium
$14 / K350
“There is now emerging over the horizon a new conception of human sickness and of human health… Perhaps we shall soon be able to use as our guide and model the fully growing and self-fulfilling human being, the one in whom all his potentialities are coming to full development, the one whose inner nature expresses itself freely…”
-Abraham Maslow
The development of the creative and expressive arts therapy fields in Zambia draws upon traditional practices, ceremonies, rituals, and communal living practices, combined with contemporary psychological principles and clinical training, caters to the diverse interpersonal, social, cultural, and spiritual needs of diverse educational, community and clinical populations. The arts are effective because they give aesthetic form to the capacity to negotiate between worlds, between consensus and individual expression and between the individual and society. Arts-based practices are the form around which larger issues can be addressed, and, in this way, the arts contribute to individual and cultural understanding and healing of individual and group issues by engaging in creative processes.
This workshop and the associated professional conference offered by Open Windows University will constitute the academic launching of conversations and engagements towards a professionalization of the creative and expressive arts therapy fields in Zambia. Drawing upon the belief that the arts mobilize passions and courage in the service of our common survival and embodying the idea that the arts can and have built bridges that cross boundaries and have the capacity to unite people through their common humanity and need for creative expression. In addition, The Creative Arts are a time-honored form of holistic medicine encompassing Self-Regulation and Balance, Creativity, Rejuvenation, Ritual and Healing. This workshop aims to provide allied professionals in education, health and mental health with an understanding of the theoretical and practical bases of the applications and uses of creative and expressive arts therapies. This workshop will provide an overview of the development of these fields worldwide and in Southern Africa. Participants will gain an understanding of various creative and expressive arts therapies concerning working in Zambia and elsewhere with a variety of populations and settings.
This workshop is intended to strengthen the awareness, capacity, and willingness of healthcare institutions to incorporate the arts as part of integrated care deliveries that will further quality, cost-effectiveness, and patient/family satisfaction. The arts and expressive enactments are ways of ‘telling the story’ in symbolic ways that can ‘hold and contain”, that is, to have to coexist within the complex and, at times, contradictory elements. Telling stories and expressing personal narratives to a community of witnesses through various art forms can be a powerful tool for individuals to work through difficult experiences.
Participants will be introduced to various media (music and sound, dance and movement, storytelling, poetry, the visual arts, and drama) and their integration to professional practice. There will be a focus on experience, understanding and application of creative and expressive arts therapy techniques among a variety of clinical populations.
$14 / K350
Only 40 Seats Available
Training for Professionals in the Uses of the Creative and Expressive Arts Therapies in Education, Therapy, Community, Health, and Mental Health.
Nsamu Moonga
MMT| BA Psych. Coun.| Dip. Coun Psych.| Dip Mus. Ed. is a music therapist and psychotherapist born and raised in Zambia.
He earned a BA in Psychological Counseling from the University of South Africa and an MMus in Music Therapy from the University of Pretoria. Nsamu, a PhD candidate at the University of Pretoria, is conducting research innovating arts-based psycho-oncology resourceful utilisation by people with cancer of the indigenous musical arts to manage anxiety and distress.
A therapist grounded in holistic anti-oppressive practice, he works with people exploring health and lifestyle choices, medical complications, human sexualities and gender, spiritualities and religious experiences, psychosocial support, and learning enhancement. HIS music therapy experiences span health, medical, school settings, human development programming, design and facilitation, community infrastructure and social development, and cross-cultural living and working. He is a classically trained singer and enjoys dancing, with interests that include lifelong development, learning, critical theory, and indigenous methodologies-informed research.
Vivien Marcow Speiser
Ph.D. LMHC, REAT, BC-DMT, is a Professor Emerita and Co-Director of the Institute for Arts and Health in The Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, Lesley University.
Professor Marcow Speiser has directed and taught in programs across the United States and internationally and has used the arts as a way of communicating across borders and across cultures. She believes in the power of the arts to create the conditions for personal and social change and transformation.
Her interests and expertise are in the areas of working with trauma and cross-cultural conflict resolution through the arts, and she has worked extensively with groups in the Middle East and South Africa. Her contributions to the field have made her an international leader in dance and expressive therapy and earned her Fulbright Scholar Awards 2020, and 2023, as well as a Salzburg Global Seminars Fellowship in 2020.
She received an honorary JAAH Lifetime Achievement in Arts and Health Award in 2019, the 2014 Distinguished Fellows Award from the Global Alliance for Arts and Health, as well as a 2015 Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israeli Expressive and Creative Arts Therapy Association.
Phillip Speiser
PhD, REAT, RDT/BC is an artist, expressive arts educator/therapist, drama therapist, and psychodramatist who has developed integrated arts therapy, wellness/health and educational programs for over four decades.
He is currently Director of Parkside Arts and Health Associates in Haymarket, Virginia where he does supervision and project development/management around the globe. He is also research associate at the University of the Witwatersrand and lecturer at the art therapy program at the University of Johannesburg. After the tragic events of 9/11 he developed the ‘Healing Arts Project’, a trauma recovery/prevention program in Boston and New York City.
