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Slide talks have been designed for and presented to specific audiences:
- Health care professionals
- Mental health practitioners
- Arts organizations
- General public
Presentation
Description:
Presentations feature 80 images by the
Secret Club
artists, as well as creative responses to pregnancy loss from other
cultures. The artists' words and images also accompany an overview of
the mental health risks that can be associated with pregnancy
loss.
Viewers take
with them a deeper understanding of the physical, emotional and
spiritual challenges presented by this often hidden loss. Woven
into the experience of viewing the artwork is an enhanced awareness of
the healing nature of the creative process and how it can be applied in
a range of clinical and grass roots settings.
This
presentation is an excellent teaching tool to sensitize health care
providers and mental health practitioners to the challenges faced by
bereaved families. Families find the Secret Club experience validating
and inspirational.
Recent Secret Club presentations:
- Women & Infants Hospital, Providence, RI
- Pregnancy Loss Support Program, New
York, NY
- Western New England College,
Regional Social Work Conference, Springfield, MA
- School of Nursing - University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
- Jacob Edwards Library, Southbridge,
MA
- Annual Creative Arts Therapy Conference,
Consultation Center, Albany, NY - OB-GYN Grand Rounds - Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA
- New England Art Therapy Association,
Springfield College, MA
Presenter:
Laura Seftel, MPS, LMHC, ATR-BC
Laura Seftel is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Certified Art Therapist in practice for 20 years. She earned her Masters in Art Therapy from Pratt Institute.
An experienced
speaker, she presents on art and healing at colleges, conferences, and
agencies. Her writing appears in national publications and
she is the author of Grief Unseen:
Healing Pregnancy Loss Through the Arts (2006). The Secret Club
Project, inspired by her own
miscarriage in 1993, is an opportunity for her to bring together her
work as both an art therapist and an artist. Her ability to speak the
language of the mental health world and the art world provides a bridge
for new forms of communication between these disciplines.
To
arrange a Secret Club Presentation in your community, contact Laura
Seftel:
Laura@secretclubproject.org or call
413-586-7710