Dr. Julia Byers – Humanitarian Expressive Therapy: Establishing Resilience In The Aftermath Of Severe Physical Trauma
Thu, May 30
|Meetinghouse Arts
Dr. Julia Byers, Professor Emerita & former Expressive Therapy Division Director at Lesley University, speaks on her experience in Lebanon using Expressive Arts Therapy to work with refugee Syrian children who are severe burn victims as a result of the continuing conflict in the region.
Time & Location
May 30, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Meetinghouse Arts, 40 Main St, Freeport, ME 04032, USA
About the Event
This is a free event, with no ticket required.
Dr Julia Byers is widely acknowledged for essentially creating the idea and practice Humanitarian Expressive Therapy: deploying Expressive Therapy with populations that have been deeply damaged and traumatized by natural or man-made disasters.
When we say the word therapy or psychotherapy, the image that immediately comes to mind is of a client speaking with his or her therapist. Communicating through spoken language the therapist and client come to an analysis and understanding of what is going on with client; and then, based thereon, further use spoken language to achieve a therapeutic effect.
Beginning in the mid-1950’s a small group of pioneers made an observation as profound as it is simple: language is but only one way in which human beings express themselves. In fact, language perhaps more so than other forms of human expression lends itself to obfuscation and self-deception. And…