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DRAMA THERAPY AND COACHING | MA, LCAT, RDT

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Posted on October 27, 2018October 30, 2018 by Danielle Levanas

On radical change

Day 27. Feeling very good about this new pin and the #dramatherapistsagainstwhitesupremacy campaign ✔️
Conference day two was full and rich. Thank you all.
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#healers #activists #educators #nadta2018 #dramatherapy #blacklivesmatter #talkmore #talktoyourneighbors #radicalempathy https://ift.tt/2Pp3AFH
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Sunday self-care 🌿 • I often work on Sundays but this weekend was an exception. The smell of eucalyptus brings back so many memories from childhood visits to Santa Barbara. I’m planning on drying some and decorating my sparsely furnished new home with the rest! Kind of loving living in a place with negative space available to dream about and project onto. For the time being. Eventually a couch and some bookshelves would probably be a good idea. • What’s your #selfcare gift to yourself today? • #sundayvibes #sundaymorning #sundayselfcare #farmersmarket
Details for the February People’s Playback play session! Come one come all. No need to have previous experience with Playback Theatre. Spread the word!! • #playbacktheatre #improv #losangelesworkshops #losangelesactor #healinglosangeles #healing #socialjustice #dialogue #peoplesplayback
Had the privilege of witnessing and taking part in the NADTA Playback Theatre Conference today with keynote speaker @armandvolkas and @livartsplayback. Day of transformation, healing, and exploration of resiliency. Thank you Mimi for organizing and community for showing up in the most beautiful of ways. In the presence of greatness 🌿 • @socaldramatherapycenter @nadta.dramatherapy @ciis_drama_therapy @dramatherapyla @adrienne.glasser @kvpsummer • #dramatherapy #embodiedhealing #playbacktheatre #losangelesworkshops #traumainformed #creativeartstherapy #expressivetherapy #experimentaltheater #improv #improvisation
Hey LA! Join us this Saturday, February 9th for a one-day PLAYBACK THEATRE conference. I’ll be presenting on the use of Playback in clinical settings. Can’t wait to gather our LA Playback community in one place! • #playbacktheatre #embodiedhealing #dramatherapy #losangelesworkshops
Happy birthday Liz. You were the real deal. I miss you. • Elizabeth Swados was a brilliant composer, director, musician, and artist. She was also a mentor and teacher of mine. We met in 2003 in NYC, and she changed my life. She guided, pushed, made space for, encouraged, and championed me and my love of theater, politics, social justice, and healing. She just GOT me (how few people in our lives truly GET us, right?) and she saw what made me pulse. She was a driving force behind a critical decade of growth in my life and my movement into the field of drama therapy. I was one of dozens, if not hundreds, of young people who Liz similarly impacted and mentored in the world. We carry her with us today and everyday. But damn, I wish you were still here Liz. I’d give a lot to hear you say “Dannieeeeee!!!” as you used to when you picked up my calls. I wish you could have played with Remy. 💔 (Also, my calendar says that today is your 19th birthday for some weird reason and I just love that. hi to Tootsie and Billy Bob) • #elizabethswados #lizswados #fuckcancer #suckerpunchsorrow
Time for WORK ☟ • #Repost @iamrachelricketts ・・・ The hate crime against @jussiesmollett was no random act + is in no way out of the usual. Jussie was breathing while Black AND gay. Black folx stay knowing that our lives + livelihoods are at risk all the time. That Whiteness wants to stamp us out - mentally, emotionally, spiritually + physically. Not just in America, around the whole fucking world.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So here's what we're NOT gonna do. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We're NOT gonna blame Trump or Trump supporters. This is a result of Whiteness PERIOD. I don't care where in the world you live or who you voted for - if you're White, you're implicated. Impact over intention.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We're NOT going to "send love + prayers" without taking action. Donate to organizations supporting LGBTSTGNC folx of colour like the @audrelordeproject. Support @antiviolence + add their hotline in your phone so when you see or suspect violence or harassment you DO SOMETHING.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We're NOT going to pretend this is unusual. "LGBTQ people living at multiple intersections of oppression, such as racism and homophobia, experience compounded violence...Jussie is not alone. Gay Black men are some of the most vulnerable to violence in the LGBTQ community + this must continue to be addressed" - New York City Anti-Violence Project.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We ARE going to protect, support, nourish + uplift Black folx.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We ARE going to keep doing our work to bring about racial justice. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you need a suggestion, join my Spiritual Activism 101 replay for ALL hue-mans (link in bio) or my Spiritual Activism 102 for POC/Mixed Folx healing (link in bio). ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This work is URGENT, it is NECESSARY + its NON-NEGOTIABLE. Black lives depend on it.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Sending Jussie + his entire family so much love. To all my Black bbs around the world, take good good care. xo R⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Image description: Jussie Smollet w/ his fist up #jussiesmollett #meandwhitesupremacy

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  • Workshop | Power and Privilege through Drama Therapy | LACPA March 2, 2019 at 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
  • Workshop | Playback Theatre in Clinical Spaces | Expressive Therapies Summit LA March 28, 2019 at 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
  • Workshop | Transformation of Failure and Self-Blame | Expressive Therapies Summit LA March 31, 2019 at 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm

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