S4E2 | Christine Brooks, Mimi Savage, Shoshana Simons | Building Community through Expressive Arts Coaching

FEATURED GUESTS: Christine Brooks, PhD is a Professor and the Chair of the Expressive Arts Coaching and Community Building program at California Institute of Integral Studies. Her research interests include adult development, intentional childlessness, qualitative research methods, and transformative processes in coaching. She is a consultant and coach with expertise in social and emotional intelligence, identity development tools such as the enneagram, and leadership and executive presence. When not traveling the roads of the United States to experience the profound variety of people, creativity, landscapes, and regional food ways, she lives in Florida. 

Shoshana Simons, PhD, RDT is Professor and former Program Chair of CIIS’s MA in Counseling Psychology, Expressive Arts Concentration. She is a drama therapist, voice actor and arts-based coach & consultant. She is also adjunct faculty at the Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute, Seattle, WA, offering a Certificate in NarrARTive Expressive Arts in Coaching. Shoshana has 35+ years of experience in community-building in many settings including with children and adults in the fields of play, education, antiracism, counseling psychology, organizational development, and community work. 

Dr. Mimi Savage is an associate professor and core faculty member in the Master's of Counseling Psychology with Expressive Arts program at CIIS in SF. She has an extensive background in acute milieus and has researched adopted young women and boys from foster care using narrative inquiry, arts based and participatory research on the topic of intersectionality and self identity. She is a founding faculty member of UCLArts and Healing in Los Angeles--now called Integrative Arts and Healing Initiative. She is a registered drama therapist and board certified trainer and mentors an international student body for professionals interested in drama therapy certification at her own school--So Cal Drama Therapy Center. She is now also core faculty for a new program she is helping to launch at CIIS which is Expressive Arts Coaching and Community Building. She is in the process of editing her book for Taylor & Francis/Routledge due next year called The Future of Black Creative Art Therapists: Practice, Pedagogy and Preservation.

LISTEN & LEARN:

• What does a Master's in Expressive Arts Coaching & Community Building consist of?
• What is Coaching & Community Building?
• What is the Scholar-Artist-Practitioner model of pedagogy used in this program?
• The integration of theory and neuroscience that grounds the program. 
• Brook's definition of loneliness as the perception of social isolation and why community is an integral aspect of healing work. 
• The stipend discount offered for the inaugural cohort in the program. 

RESOURCES MENTIONED ON THE SHOW:

• https://www.ciis.edu/academics/department-expressive-arts-coaching-community-building
• The CIIS Expressive Arts Coaching & Community Building Launch Party April 23rd @ 11:30AM PT https://www.ciis.edu/events/launch-party-new-ma-expressive-arts-coaching-community-building
• Christine Brooks, PhD LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/sofchristinebrooks 
• Shoshana Simons, PhD, RDT CIIS contact https://www.ciis.edu/profiles/shoshana-simons
• Shoshana's Narrative Expressive Arts Coaching certificate program https://seattlearttherapy.org/narrartive-expressive-arts-coaching-certificate/ 
• Shoshana's LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/shoshana-simons-b029a34/
• Mimi Savage, PhD, RDT, BCT contact msavage@ciis.edu
• Mimi's SoCaldramatherapycenter http://www.socaldramatherapycenter.com/
• Mimi's LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mimi-savage-phd-rdt-bct-b0179931/
• Need support in creating your practice email me for a consult: creativeclinician@gmail.com