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It is the intelligence of the tongue, the creativity of the pelvis and the freedom within the spine which reconnects the head and body of a human being and allows the soul to sing.
- Fides Krucker (visiting faculty)
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Rowesa Gordon, M.A. C.A.G.S., is a visual artist and therapist who teaches, supervises and consults in expressive arts therapy. She has a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies from the European Graduate School, a Masters Degree in Expressive Therapies from Lesley University and is a graduate of ISIS-Canada, the Ontario College of Art and Design and Toronto Teacher's College. She has studied in Mexico, Los Angeles and with Paolo Soleri, visionary architect and is presently adjunct teaching faculty at the European Graduate School and ISIS-Southwest. Over the past three years, Rowesa has been expanding her range of play through voice classes and movement. |
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Melanie Nesbitt, ADTR, CAGS, is a teacher, supervisor, and clinician in private practice in Canada, the U.S, and Israel where she worked with victims of terror. Her practice also includes children with special needs such as asperger’s syndrome, adolescents with mood disorders and adults experiencing depression and post-traumatic stress.
A graduate of York University and European Graduate School (CAGS), she is an accredited dance/movement therapist with the American Dance Therapy Association. She taught eight years at York University and guest lectured at McMaster addressing medical students on the outcome of non-verbal interaction with patients. She also lectured at Ryerson and Waterloo Universities. As a researcher, she has studied parent/child interaction, speech stimulation and movement with the aging population. Melanie’s artistic training includes years of performing in music, dance, drama and voice on stage and television. |
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Lee Shields, M.A., is a graduate of Ryerson University, ISIS-Canada and European Graduate School. Lee has been practicing expressive arts therapy with children, youth and women for eight years. She studied at Toronto Institute for Relational Studies and has worked in community agencies as a facilitator and therapist and supervisor for over 19 years. Presently she is a mentoring artist, with the Youth Arts Project at the Griffin Centre. This is an arts based community group for queer and trans youth. As a qualifying member of O.S.P., Lee works in private practice and as the Practicum Coordinator for the ISIS programme.
Lee is a dancer and vocal artist. She practices inter-modal art-making with the interest of avoiding burnout and caring for herself. She has a particular interest in the relationship between art and political change. |
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Lesley Swartz is an intermodal artist, expressive arts therapist, group facilitator, teacher, and supervisor. She holds an undergraduate degree from Dalhousie University in International Development Studies and a Masters of Education from the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE/UT) where she focused on spiritual, holistic and aesthetic education and creative community development. She is also a graduate from ISIS-Canada. For many years she has worked with high-risk populations, and she is currently running an expressive arts program in under-serviced neighborhoods within Metropolitan Toronto for refugee and immigrant women who have experienced violence. She has a private expressive arts therapy practice in downtown Toronto for adults and children with special needs and spends her free time travelling, exploring and playing with her own artistic creations. |
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Janine Hancock, B.A. M.A., is a visual artist, Expressive arts therapist, supervisor and facilitator. She brings herself playfully to her endeavours and is inspired in thought and practice, by the "call and response" between all things. Janine has her Masters Degree in Expressive Therapies from Leslie University, and Honours Bachelors Degree in Fine Art from Guelph University and is a graduate from I.S.I.S.-Canada. She has been practicing as an Expressive Arts Therapist since 1993 and is currently working at Sheena's Place, Toronto General Hospital and in Private Practice at JMH Studios and Gallery. |
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Consultants and Visiting Faculty
In addition to the core ISIS faculty, the programme uses the services of consultants who specialize in the various arts therapy modalities. Weekend intensive training is offered by both local trainers and visiting international faculty.
Some past weekend intensives have included an Intermodal Intensive with Prof. Paolo Knill from Switzerland (Provost of the European Graduate School), Voice Intensive with Toronto-based performer Fides Krucker, Poetry Intensive with Boston-based poet & performer Elizabeth McKim, and a Psychodrama Intensive with ISIS-Israel Director Yaacov Naor. Throughout the year, ISIS sponsors public lectures, readings and workshops, given by both visiting faculty and local trainers. |
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Ellen Levine, M.S.W., Ph.D., is a graduate of the Toronto Art Therapy Institute (D.T.A.T.I.), a Board Certified Registered Art Therapist (A.T.R.-BC) and a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT). She is a graduate of the Toronto Child Psychotherapy Programme and a registered psychoanalyst (NAAP). Although her primary medium is visual art, she has also studied clown and mask work with Richard Pochinko and others.
Ellen is a Senior Staff Social Worker at the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre for Children's Mental Health and Dean of Independent Studies in Expressive Arts Therapy at the European Graduate School. She is the author of Tending the Fire: Studies in Art, Therapy and Creativity (EGS Press), co-editor of Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy: Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives (Jessica Kingsley Press), and co-author of Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward a Therapeutic Aesthetics (Jessica Kingsley Press). |
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Stephen K. Levine, Ph.D., D.S.Sc., is Professor of Social Science and Social and Political Thought at York University and Dean of Doctoral Studies in Expressive Arts Therapy at the European Graduate School. Steve is a graduate of the Toronto Institute of Human Relations, and was a post-doctoral Fellow in Expressive Therapy at Lesley University Graduate School. He is a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT).
Steve is a poet, actor and clown. He is the author of Poiesis: The language of Psychology and the Speech of the Soul, co-author of Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy: Towards a Therapeutic Aesthetics and co-editor of Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy: Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives. He is the editor of Poiesis: A Journal of the Arts and Communication and co-founder of IEATA (International Expressive Arts Therapy. |
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Lisa Herman, M.Sc., Ph.D. has been practicing, teaching and supervising psychotherapy for over 30 years both privately and in community agencies in Canada, the U.S., and Israel. She is a certified member of the Ontario Association of Counsellors, Consultants, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists and a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California. She performs her work internationally.
A professional actor (stage, film and television), a teacher of creative drama and a published writer of both fiction and non-fiction, Lisa is in private practice and as well as her position at ISIS-Canada, she is a faculty member of the Institute for Imaginal Studies in California, and adjunct faculty at the European Graduate School in Switzerland, the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and the Institute for Transpersonal Studies in Palo Alto, California. |
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