Facilitate Arts, Toronto
for expressive arts therapists

Facilitate Arts Toronto is a professional group for therapists, consultants, counselors, coaches and educators
who work with the arts (visual arts, dance, movement, poetry, music, voice and/or theatre)
and students of arts-based therapy, counseling or pedagogy programs.

This forum is great opportunity for networking, marketing opportunities,
informative discussion and the joy of meeting like hearted and minded individuals.

MEMBERSHIP BENIFITS INCLUDE:

MEETUPS
You will be able to attend two to three Meetups a year which will involve networking and/or guest speakers

MEMBER'S PRIVATE WEB AREA
Members can visit http://www.meetup.com/professional-facilitate-arts-toronto/about/

and:
a) post a blurb about themselves with a photo
b) create posts for the message board
c) post career articles or academic papers
d) Keep track of upcoming events on the group calendar
* All posts in this web area can be read by members only. The general public does not have access to this web area



FACILITATE ARTS TORONTO WEB-DIRECTORY
Members who have completed professional training in accordance with standards for their field and have paid their posting fee. may post their biography on www.facilitateart.com web-directory.


MEMBERSHIP COST
- Membership is free (although a donation of $10 a year is suggested to help us pay for web service fees we incur. You can give this donation to the organizer at any of the events you attend)

- Members who have completed professional training in accordance with standards for their field and have paid the $50 posting fee may post their profile in FAT Web-Directory (http://facilitatearts.com/waiver.html ). You will not need to pay again unless you make significant changes to you listing (significant changes to your listing will cost $30)




WHO LEADS PROFESSIONAL FACILITATE ARTS TORONTO?



Kathleen Rea has a Master's degree in the Expressive Arts with minor in Psychology from the European Graduate School and ISIS-Canada. She is also certified as a psychotherapist with the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counselors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists (OACCPP). Kathleen has a private practice and works as a dance and movement focused therapist at various clinics in the Toronto area. She offers services in the areas of body image, stress management, depression, bereavement, gender issues, addictions, mental health issues and trauma recovery. Her therapeutic methods involve the use of talk therapy, music, vocalization, and dance. Kathleen's also does therapeutic performance facilitation in which she helps marginalized groups express their life stories through public dance and theatre performance. Recently Kathleen started teaching Dance Therapy at York University.



Kathleen Rea combines her career as a therapist with a career in dance. She danced with Ballet Jörgen Canada, National Ballet of Canada and Tiroler Landestheater (Austria). Kathleen has choreographed over 30 original works for various organizations including Bravo Television, Canadian Olympic Association, Ballet Jörgen Canada, Gender Play, Ryerson University, Theatre Passe Muraille and Toronto Dance Theatre. In 2004 her award winning film Lapinthrope aired on Bravo Television and was screened at numerous international film festivals and. In 2009 Kathleen's full length modern ballet Long Live was nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore awards including outstanding choreography. In 2010 Kathleen won the K.M Hunter Dance Award. Kathleen is a member of the Contact Dance community, founding the Wednesday Dance Jam. The Wednesday Dance jam combines dance improvisation with live music has run weekly for 11 years. Kathleen is heading into her 11th year as a faculty member of George Brown College Dance program. She also teaches workshop in modern dance, dance improvisation and contact dance throughout the year with various organizations.



JOIN PROFESSIONAL FACILITATE ARTS TORONTO BY GOING TO
http://www.meetup.com/professional-facilitate-arts-toronto/