The Dr. Anita B. Ogden Memorial Symposium

The Dr. Anita B. Ogden Memorial Symposium
At
Elmira College
Hamilton Great Hall
8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Molly Scott, Ed. D.

Friday, March 22, 2013

The theme for this year’s symposium is: Creative Resonance: Giving the Body a Voice

As a musician, performer and recording artist, Dr. Molly Scott has devoted her performing and songwriting career to supporting issues of peace and social justice. Dr. Scott has focused her clinical work and research on the role that vocal resonance plays in the healing process, particularly in the treatment of trauma. Molly attended Smith College in MA, received a masters and doctoral degree in Consulting Psychology from the University of MA at Amherst. She teaches counseling at Anitoch New England Graduate School in Keene, NH, has a private practice in Shelburne Falls and Chalemont, MA and is on staff with the MSPCC Family Counseling Center in Greenfield, MA. Her poems have appeared in several journals.

Creative Resonance: Giving the Body a Voice is a presentation in deepening listening skills and using the voice therapeutically in clinical settings. In healing practices, we can embody and model effective use of the voice to tune relationship with oneself and others. This workshop offers clinical tools for working with the embodied voice as an instrument for therapeutic change which can be directly applied to practice. The tools and techniques of Creative Resonance Therapy are geared for people in the helping professions who use their voice to nurture and tune relationships with their patients/clients. These techniques and intervention have particular relevance for clinicians who work with clients in a wide range of settings and circumstances. Heightened listening and vocal awareness training allows therapists both to “read” subtle cues in affect through the voice’s mirror, and to entrain with clients through the agency of the body’s own emotional intelligence modulated by frequencies of vocal interaction. This presentation includes information on vocal resonance as affect modulation, the effect of the voice on the neurophysiology of memory and cognition, the voice-ear linkage, and the use of pre-language sounding techniques in the treatment process. 

Elmira College is able to bring this nationally known voice therapist to the College through a generous gift that provides primary funding for the Dr. Anita B. Ogden Memorial Symposium. Additional support is provided by Rho Gamma Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing and Professional Nurses District 3.

The fee for attendance will be $30 which includes a continental breakfast and buffet lunch. Reservations should be made by March 11, 2013. The public is invited. Send check, name, address and telephone number to: Nurse Education Program, Elmira College, One Park Place, Elmira, NY 14901. For questions or additional information, phone the Nurse Education Program at 607- 735-1890 or e-mail ekerrick@elmira.edu

This activity has been submitted to Joint Education and Training, Inc. who is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by:
The American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
This Provider Directed Activity is for 4 Contact Hours.