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UNE College of Health Professions 6th Annual I²H² Spring Symposium

More Creative Expression
in Health and Healing

Finley Recreation Center
Westbrook College Campus
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2008
8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Agenda

8:00 – 8:30
Registration/Continental Breakfast
Finley Building

8:30 – 8:35
Danielle Ripich, Ph.D.
President, University of New England

8:35 – 8:40
David Ward, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Health Professions, UNE

8:40 – 8:45
Denise Bisaillon, Ed.D.
Assistant Dean, CHP

8:45 – 9:00
Native American Blessing
Junior Peter Paul

9:00 - 10:00
Maura Spiegel, PhD
Department of English and Comparative Literature; Program in Narrative Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
"Affect and Insight: Narrative Medicine Goes to the Movies"
Why do we feel so much and so intensely when we watch movies? How can we put these potent narrative experiences to work toward a narrative-empowered practice of medicine?

10:00 - 10:30
Break

10:30 - 12:00
Workshops # 1 - 5

1) Unexpected Lives/ The Art of Hope
Shelley Cohen Konrad, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
The Art of Hope: Stories from parents living with seriously ill & dying children is a film that is used as a tool for teaching relational and communicative strategies to students and professionals in the health care professions who will be working with parents of seriously ill and dying children. The purpose of the film is to sensitize practitioners to the lived experiences of these families and to encourage practice strategies inclusive of connection, compassion, and competence.
Faculty Facilitator: Barbara Haas, Ph.D., MA, B.S.N., Associate Professor, School of Nursing
CHP Lecture Hall

Child's Drawing

2) Play it Forward: Constructing a Healing Narrative
Presented by: Clay Graybeal, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Associate Dean, College of Health Professions
with “Playful Conversations”
Health is perhaps best defined not as the absence of disease, but as the full engagement of living, and comprised of biological, social, emotional, and spiritual dimensions. Thus, the process of achieving health and healing is unique to every individual. This workshop combines patient-centered interviewing with improvisational theater to help shift stories of pain and dysfunction to stories of growth and change. The purpose is to engage the audience in a different kind of discussion about the healing process.
Faculty Facilitator: Jeannette Froehlich, M.S., OTR/L, Associate Professor, School of Occupational Therapy
Alexander Hall - Wing Lounge

3) Art and Observation
Karen Pardue, M.S., B.S.N., B.C.,
Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Department of Nursing & Health Services Management
and Anne Zill
Director, UNE Art Gallery
This workshop will actively engage participants in a guided observational experience of art pieces in the permanent collection at the UNE Art Gallery. This session is designed to provide the audience with an opportunity to sharpen and challenge visual assessment skills, while enhancing proficiency in communication.
Faculty Facilitator: Elizabeth Moyer, M.S., OTR/R, FAOTA, Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor, School of Occupational Therapy
Art Gallery

4) 5Rhythms™ Movement Practice
Gail Edgerly, R.N.
Movement is the expression of life and it is, on all levels, fundamental to health. The 5Rhythms™ is an expressive and improvisational movement practice that accesses the rhythms inherent in all of nature and in every cell of our body. We dance these rhythms to bring what already exists in and around us more fully into our bodies, and into our awareness, connecting us deeper to the fullness of life, bringing potency to our own healing capacity.
Faculty Facilitator: Kathryn Loukas, M.S.O.T., FAOTA, Assistant Clinical Professor, School of Occupational Therapy
Ludcke Auditorium

5) Art and Healing - Physically, Emotionally, Spiritually, Communally
Priscilla Dreyman
Executive Director, SPIRAL Arts, Inc.
and Jean Badran
Director of Elder Arts, SPIRAL Arts, Inc.
In this workshop we will explore the power of making art to heal us on a multitude of levels. We will watch a video about the work of SPIRAL Arts, a community arts program in Portland, and then create some art ourselves using clay or watercolors. No artistic experience needed. Come and play!
Faculty Facilitator: Diana M. Crowell, Ph.D., M.S.N., M.Ed., B.S.N., A.D.N., Director, Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Alexander Hall – Room 07

12:00 - 1:00
Lunch
Drumming by Robert Duquette and Ellen Rondina

Display by the Maine Women Writers Collection

1:00 – 2:00
Readers Theatre - Case: “Imelda”

2:15 – 3:30
Workshops # 6 - 9

6) African Healing
Oscar Mokeme
Executive Director, Museum of African Culture
with Drumming by Robert Duquette and Ellen Rondina
This workshop and performance will use a comprehensive cultural sensitive approach to explore traditional African healing. Drumming and ancient sacred chants to heal the body, mind and spirit will also be explored. We will also look at African masks and art objects as composite art. Art that communicates ideas through symbols about the societies that created them. Ritual for using mask will also be presented.
Faculty Facilitator: Lisa Southwick, P.A.-C., M.P.A.S., Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator, Physician Assistant Program
Ludcke Auditorium

7) Healthy Grieving: Using the Arts for Safe Expression of Feelings
Rev. Patricia Ellen, M.A., M.S.C., M.Div., C.R.S.
Loss comes in many forms - death, illness, divorce, physical changes etc. Grief brings with it a range of feelings that can be confusing and overwhelming- sadness, anger, guilt, and more. An opportunity to be hands on while learning about art expressions that can support individuals as they move through the grieving process.
Faculty Facilitator: Patricia Morgan, A.D.N., M.S., B.S.N., Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
Alexander Hall – Room 07

8) Image, Meaning & Public Health
Kash Dutta and Michelle Lohutko
This workshop will journey through villages of India documenting the human conditions, and brutal lives of street dogs. According to the Center for Disease Control, 75% of all rabies related human deaths per year occurs in India, of which 99% are caused by dog bites. Thus, animal welfare becomes an important part of public health. In this workshop we will share our images, stories and our inspiration behind our project.
Faculty Facilitator: Jennifer Lee Morton, M.S.,M.P.H., B.S.N., Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
CHP Lecture Hall

9) I Make Books So I Won't Die: Martha Hall's Artist's Books
Cally Curley
Curator, Maine Women Writers Collection
The Maine Women Writers Collection is a special library collection of rare and unique materials by and about women in Maine, located in the Abplanalp Library. This workshop will discuss the work of Martha Hall (1949-2003), a gifted and successful book artist whose works explored her experience with breast cancer and the power of creativity to heal.
Finley Recreation Center

Photography Exhibit

Kash Dutta and Michelle Lohutko
Parker Pavilion

dog

Biographies

Maura Spiegel, Ph.D.
Department of English and Comparative Literature, Program in Narrative Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University

Maura Spiegel, Ph.D. teaches literature and film at Columbia University, and at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Part of the Core Faculty of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia, she is currently co-teaching a graduate course with Rita Charon on Narrative Medicine, “Giving and Receiving Accounts of the Self.” She is the co-author of The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying and Living on (Anchor/Doubleday), The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History (Workman), which was a Book-of-the-Month Club-Quality Paperbacks selections. She co-edited the journal Literature and Medicine (Johns Hopkins University press) with Dr. Charon for seven years. She has written for The New York Times, and has published essays on the history of the emotions, on Charles Dickens, on diamonds in the movies, among many other topics. She is currently writing a book about the films of Sidney Lumet.
http://www.narrativemedicine.org

1) Unexpected Lives/ The Art of Hope

Shelley Cohen Konrad, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work

2) Play it Forward: Constructing a Healing Narrative

Clay Graybeal, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Associate Dean, College of Health Professions, UNE
Coordinator of the Center for the Arts and Social Transformation (CAST), and playwright.

“Playful Conversations”

Kathy Amsden, M.S.W., Clinical social worker, singer/songwriter, certified psychodramatist.
Deborah Hall, M.S.W., Renal social worker, actor, and singer.
Valerie Jones, M.S.W., Clinical social worker, fitness instructor, and actor.
Jackie Oliveri, M.S.W., Clinical social worker, actor.

3) Art and Observation

Karen Pardue, M.S., B.S.N., B.C.,
Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Department of Nursing & Health Services Management
Karen T. Pardue’s background in nursing has been rich and varied, where one experience has opened the door to another completely different and unforeseen opportunity.

She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Russell Sage College in Troy, New York. Her initial work was in the area of neurosurgical intensive care, providing nursing to patients with significant brain and spinal cord injury. It was in this work that she discovered her interest for family-focused nursing care. From her experience dealing with patients and their families in the ICU, she came to understand the significance of family members in maintaining health and coping with illness.

This led Karen to two decades of community health/public health nursing, focused primarily on home or workplace visits to families facing illness or crisis. One of her roles was providing nursing services through the Health Care for the Homeless Project in Hartford, Connecticut. As a project coordinator, she worked with undergraduate and graduate nursing students delivering direct care services to homeless people and exploring the issues surrounding cultural beliefs and practices, access to care and health financing.

Karen thoroughly enjoyed teaching and interacting with nursing students. This experience strongly influenced her decision to teach nursing at the college level. She has taught at a variety of levels, including associate, baccalaureate, RN-to-BSN and master's degree programs. She has worked at the University of New England since 1993, helping to establish the curriculum for the RN-to-BSN option.

and Anne Zill
Director, UNE Art Gallery

4) 5Rhythms™ Movement Practice

Gail Edgerly, R.N.
Gail Edgerly has been drawn toward movement as a healing modality for the past 20 years. She graduated from UNH in 1984 with as BS in Nursing. In 1987, Gail was certified as a Trager® Practitioner, beginning her career as a movement educator. In 1995, she discovered the 5Rhythms™ Movement Practice™ as a tool for answering her passion for dance, music, personal expression, self-exploration, and spiritual connection. In 2004, she completed the teacher training with Gabrielle Roth, and now teaches the 5Rhythms™ in Southern Maine. Gail uses both modalities in her own healing journey and offers both in her practice called Movement as Healer.
http://www.movementashealer.com/

5) Art and Healing - Physically, Emotionally, Spiritually, Communally

Priscilla Dreyman
Priscilla Dreyman is the founder and Executive Director of SPIRAL Arts, Inc. A United Methodist minister and a sculptor, she has worked in urban, rural, and suburban settings in hospitals, prisons, and social services since 1972. A BFA graduate from the Maine College of Art, she has integrated her interests in art, creative expression, outreach to disenfranchised people of all ages, community building, personal and societal transformation, and healing, in the work of SPIRAL Arts. She has extensive experience working with children and youth in arts, educational and recreational programs. She also worked as a hospital chaplain before moving to Maine. Her education also includes a Master of Arts in Education and Theological Studies from Union Theological Seminary (N.Y.), a Master of Divinity from Episcopal Divinity School (Cambridge, MA), and a BA in Urban Politics from Allegheny College (Meadville, PA).

In the local community, Priscilla was a founding member of the Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance (PACA) and served on the steering committee of the Community Cultural Plan. She was a fellow in the “Building Community through Culture” initiative of the New England Foundation for the Arts, where arts and civic representatives from across New England explored issues relating to art and community building. She served on the Greater Portland Children’s Leadership Council, seeking to improve services for our children and the life of our community. She is a 2002 recipient of the Jefferson Award and a 2004 recipient of the Arthur Hall Award given to an artist who is working to improve the life of the community. In October 2005, she participated in an international Building An Inclusive Society Through the Arts Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 2006, she received a Prevention Award from the Children’s Advocacy Council of Youth Alternatives in Portland for the work of SPIRAL Arts in the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
www.spiralarts.org

Jean Badran
Jean A. Badran, MS has been working at SPIRAL Arts as Director of Elder Arts since September, 1999. She received her Master of Science degree in Adult Education from the University of Southern Maine in 2001. Her concentration was in Gerontology, with a special focus on Creativity and Aging. She also studied Life Review and Reminiscence, and related adult learning issues and development. Her BA in Sociology was also from the University of Southern Maine. She has been a docent at the Portland Museum of Art and studied art, weaving and design at San Francisco City College, Fort Mason Art Center in San Francisco, and the Maine College of Art. At SPIRAL Arts, she developed a weekly outreach arts program for frail elders at the City of Portland’s Barron Center Nursing Care Facility. Over several years, this program grew to include in-room sessions, as well as large group sessions. During the past three years, she has offered weekly art sessions at both Franklin Towers and Harbor Terrace low-income public housing residences for elderly and younger people with disabilities. Periodically, she gives presentations on the topic of creativity and aging to graduate classes and other groups interested in elder issues. Her own artwork encompasses a number of mediums, including artbooks and card-making, paper crafts, weaving and textile crafts.

6) African Healing

Oscar Mokeme
Chief Oscar Ogugua Mokeme is the founder and the Executive Director of the Museum of African Culture in Portland, Maine. Mr. Mokeme comes from a long linage of an Igbo royal family of healer practitioners "Umu-dibia". He is a direct inheritor of this ancient healing wisdom with over 35 years experience as a healer practitioner. Some of the issues addressed by the Igbo traditional medicine include skill development, creation of visions, and dealing with pluralistic trans-cultural therapy such as dealing with grief. He also holds the traditional priesthood title of "Ugo-Orji," and is the first Ozo-Dimani of Aborji-Oba in his native country Nigeria. He has been awarded a traditional Arts Masters as a Traditional healer by the Maine arts Commission. His workshops and presentations blend traditions and have touched millions of people worldwide.
www.museumafricanculture.org

Robert Duquette
Rob Duquette has been an active drummer and percussionist for more than 20 years. He has toured nationally and received international airplay with the jazz-folk-eclectic group, Cactus Highway. He has studied with Alan Dawson, Gary Chaffee and Yaya Diallo among others. Besides his busy performing schedule, he teaches African Drumming and World Music at the University of New England. Rob also teaches at his private studio, where he regularly records his own and other people's music. Rob is also a candidate for a Master's Degree in Jazz Studies with a focus in the music of West Africa and Cuba.

"Cactus Highway is the most rare of acoustic acts. They are a duo of true sophistication who merge folk, pop, jazz in flowing, cool, unpretentious ways."
-The Boston Herald

Ellen Rondina
Ellen Rondina has been playing flute for over 20 years. She has studied with Seta DerHohannesian and Peggy Vagts. She has been teaching privately for over ten years and currently runs a flute studio out of her home in Portsmouth, NH. She teaches both flute and African drumming at the University of New Hampshire Summer Youth Music School (SYMS) and regularly adjudicates music festivals and competitions in New Hampshire.

Ellen went on a sabbatical to Ghana, West Africa in 1996, where she studied African drumming and taught music in three Kindergartens. She has toured New England and California giving African drumming and African music presentations to several junior and senior high schools and currently appears as guest artist and teacher at schools, camps, and workshops throughout New England. Ellen also has extensive singing experience. Ellen currently performs solo, ensemble, and theatre engagements throughout New England.

7.) Healthy Grieving: Using the Arts for Safe Expression of Feelings

Rev. Patricia Ellen, M.A., M.S.C., M.Div., C.R.S.
Patricia Ellen, a registered counselor with a practice in Portland, Maine is trained as a Rubenfeld Synergist, interfaith minister, and educator. As Outreach Director for the Center for Grieving Children in Portland, Maine, Patricia provides education and crisis response. She has also directed the Center’s Tender Living Care Program, serving families dealing with illness. She serves as Abbess of the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine (ChIME), a two-year interfaith chaplain preparation program. Patricia is co-author of a forthcoming book, A Family’s Journey: For Families Living with a Serious Illness.
www.cgcmaine.org

8.) Image, Meaning & Public Health

Kash Dutta
Prof. Kash Dutta has been at UNECOM since 1997 as a Senior Research Associate and more recently as a teaching Asst. Prof. for the Health Sciences Program, College of Health Professions.

Kash has received his BS in biology from UMaine-Farmington and MS in physiological sciences/ neurosciences from University of Arizona. Prof. Dutta's postgraduate research experience includes respiratory pathophysiology at Dartmouth Medical School and pathophysiology of diabetic cardiomyopathy at UNE. Besides teaching, Kash is involved in documentary travel photography and culture.

Michelle Lohutko
Michelle Lohutko, a photographer since the age of 14, always knew she wanted to do something with her talents to better the lives of animals. In 2001, she started as a pet photographer and is the owner of Fourlegged Photo (an on location pet photography business). Michelle graduated from Hallmark institute of photography, specializing in fine arts photography. She is currently involved in her 'Stray Dogs' project that aims to document the lives of stray dogs throughout many countries and raise awareness regarding animal welfare and human health.