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*UCLArts and Healing Launches*

* Social Emotional Arts (SEA) Certificate Program*

*In partnership with Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Visual and
Performing Arts Department
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*and the Visual and Performing Arts Education Program in the UCLA School of
the Arts and Architecture
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UCLArts and Healing is launching a Social Emotional Arts (SEA) Certificate
Program to empower educators and community arts professionals in maximizing
social-emotional benefits of arts experiences, and minimizing self-judgment
and anxiety that can impede learning. Training will be interactive and
experiential, and will feature the use of sound, rhythm, movement, and
other creative approaches to group behavior management, verbal and
nonverbal communication, managing special needs and integration with
typical students, identifying and responding to trauma, strengthening
personal presentation skills, and evaluating program outcomes. SEA also
offers best practices in the multiple disciplines of art, dance/movement,
drumming, music, poetry, and theater because of their symbiotic benefits.

Trainees that complete all sessions will obtain a UCLA Certificate in
Social Emotional Arts Education. Certificate holders that demonstrate solid
mastery of SEA training practices may be recommended for future teaching
opportunities.

*Significance:*

Through eight Saturday training sessions, SEA trainees will learn to
develop and deliver process-oriented arts education for children and
adolescents in school and community settings to improve emotional
well-being, the social climate and the learning environment. This, in turn,
will encourage lifelong participation in the arts. Arts education programs
that can be shown to improve social-emotional learning and that are
evaluated in ways that are meaningful to stakeholders, such as school
administrators, will also increase the likelihood of adoption by
schools—which will increase access to arts experiences for underserved
youth. The National Education Association advocates the use of the arts as
a "hook" for getting students interested in school. Positive arts
experiences can maximize this value for youth.

Arts educators are often not sure what to do or say when the inevitable
“stuff comes up,” like when a student comes crying after seeing a
performance and says: *that happened to me*. There can also be unintended
consequences of arts experiences, such as self-judgment, anxiety, and
inadvertent re-triggering of trauma.

To help strengthen the role of educators and arts educators in community
health, UCLArts and Healing is launching this certificate program aimed at
maximizing the social-emotional benefits of arts education, and the
effectiveness of program development and delivery, through a focus on the *
process* of creative expression.

The process of creative expression can be used as a metaphor for life that
deepens reflection and dialogue, which brings meaning, self-understanding,
empathy, connection to others, and allows for behavior change. Moreover,
engagement in the process of creative expression without expecting
perfection or mastery reduces self-judgment and anxiety that can impede
learning, creativity, and future participation.

Without performance anxiety, students are more apt to volunteer to lead
activities and share ideas, which transfers to more active participation in
the classroom and greater willingness to take positive risks, such as
volunteering to sing solos in the school chorus. In service of life, these
students are acquiring skills for thinking on their feet, generating
creative solutions, and expressing themselves with confidence.

*Dates:*

Eight Saturdays: 9/21, 9/28, 10/12, 10/26, 11/9, 11/23, 12/7, and 1/11.

*Time:*

9 am to 5 pm

*Location:*

Professional Development Learning Center
Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District
2802 4th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405

*Instructors:*

Camille Ameen
Jessica Bianchi, MA, ATR-BC
Carolyn Braddock, MA
Kathy Cass MA, BC-DMT, NCC, CYT, E-RYT, 500
Erica Curtis, LMFT, ATR-BC
Mike DeMenno
Helen G. Dolas, MS, MT-BC
Joseph Bocàge Few, MA, BC-DMT, LPC
Giselle Friedman, LCSW
Ping Ho, MA, MPH
Gabrielle Kaufman, MA, BC-DMT, NCC
Perie J. Longo, PhD, MFT, PTR
Stephanie Nash, MFA
Mimi Savage MA, RDT

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*UCLArts* *and Healing* facilitates the use of the arts for mind/body
wellness and healing in the community, as a vehicle for empowerment and
transformation. We work with community partners to develop sustainable
programs that utilize the *process* of creative expression - in art, dance,
music, theater, writing, and more - for insight and deepening the
connection to self and others. We also offer professional development
training and workshops for the general public. UCLArts and Healing is a
partnership between The Arts and Healing Initiative, a 501 (c) (3)
nonprofit organization, and the UCLA Collaborative Centers for Integrative
Medicine.

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