VFTS 1. Voices From the Expressive Therapies Summit | Meet the Summit's Founder | Barry M. Cohen

Voices From the Expressive Therapies Summit Episode 1

I have been asking Barry to be a guest on the show to talk about the Expressive Therapies Summit
before I even had any podcasting equipment in 2019. The idea for TCP had been brewing for several years before I began taking the necessary action steps to bring it to life. I learned that Barry, similarly had the idea for the Summit percolating within him for decades before the opportunity to breathe life into it was ripe.

Barry M. Cohen, MA, ATR-BC began his career in the helping professions as a Child Life Specialist at Yale/New Haven Hospital in 1979. In 1982, while Director of Expressive Therapies at Mount Vernon Hospital, Alexandria, VA, he developed the Diagnostic Drawing Series (DDS), a standardized art assessment and award-winning multicenter research project, still in use worldwide. Cohen is the author/co-author of numerous journal article sand chapters, and co-authored/co-edited three books, including Telling Without Talking: Art as a Window into the World of Multiple Personality, and the workbook, Managing Traumatic Stress through Art, both published in 1995. He has taught extensively in the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands. A professional conference planner and consumer fair promoter, he produced and chaired the Eastern Regional Conference on Trauma and Dissociation (1989-1996) and was Conference Manager of the American Art Therapy Association's 2006 and 2007 conferences. Barry joined Expressive Media as Executive Director in 2008, and introduced its Institute of the Arts in Healing Spring Institute in 2009, then founded the annual Expressive Therapies Summit in 2010. In 2013, with Eliana Gil, he co-founded the Mid-Atlantic Play Therapy Training Institute, an annual conference held just outside Washington, DC. In 2017, Barry co-founded the annual Expressive Therapies Summit: Los Angeles conference with Ping Ho of UCLArts & Healing.

Resources:

• Expressive Therapies Summit website: http://expressivetherapiessummit.com
• Expressive Media: http://www.expressivemedia.org/
• Facebook: ExTxSummit
• Twitter: @ETSummit
• Instagram: @expressivetherapiessummit
• The Diagnostic Drawing Series: http://www.diagnosticdrawingseries.info/Home.html
• Episode 4 of TCP: https://anchor.fm/reina-lombardi5/episodes/4--How-Speaking-at-a-Conference-Can-Garnish-a-Publishing-Deal-eagrv1

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