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A regular feature in the GWSCSW newsletter, Out & About shares news about our members’ professional accomplishments - publications, speaking engagements, seminars, workshops, graduations -- and their volunteer projects, special interests and hobbies.
March 2005
Our thanks to Tricia Braun for keeping us up to date with GWSCSW members’ professional accomplishments - publications, speaking engagements, seminars, workshops, graduations – and their volunteer projects and special interests or hobbies.
In December, the Student Government Association of Howard University invited Jewell Elizabeth Golden to present An Overview of Licensing, and a similar workshop was presented to students at the University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus.
Joel Kanter has been busy lecturing on Clare Winnicott. In October, he spoke at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust in the Cotswold area of England; in November at the Indiana Society for Psychoanalytic Thought, and in February at the Illinois Society for Clinical Social Work. His related article Let’s Never Ask Him What to Do: Clare Britton’s Transformative Impact on Donald Winnicott was published in a special January 2005 volume of American Imago on D.W. Winnicott. Also in February, Joel gave the Rebecca Cohen Lecture, co-sponsored by the Institute for Clinical Social Work and the Chicago Council for the Jewish Elderly on The Half Full Nest: Aging Parents and Dependent Adult Children.
One of Marilyn Austin’s poems received an Editor’s Choice award and was published in a new book called Invoking the Muse.
In October, Christine Erskine and Marshall Alcorn presented their co-authored paper Capacity for Participation in a Liberal Arts Education: Insights from Attachment and Theory of Mind at the 10th Annual Conference of the Association for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. Christine is presently a fourth-year Candidate at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.
“FOCUS”, a black and white photograph by Ruth Neubauer, won an Honorable Mention at the opening of the 2005 Ellipse Photographic Show, which was held at the Ellipse Gallery in Virginia. Ruth’s photographic website is http://www.liminalspace.com.
Kate Scharff’s book Therapy Demystified: An Insider’s Guide to Getting the Right Help (Without Going Broke) is now available in bookstores and on http://www.Amazon.com. Kate says she tried to make it “simple without being simplistic, and comprehensive without being overwhelming - a no-nonsense guide pulling back the curtain on the therapy profession.”
Marilyn Austin has written a piece of music for children's chorus, which will be sung this Christmas season at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Maryland.
Donna Oberholtzer sings with the Capitol Hill Chorale, an SO-voice ensemble that gives six major performances a year. The next is the Christmas concert, "Chorus Angelorum: Angels Above, Angels Below, Angels All Around'" on Saturday, December 4 at 7:30 PM and Sunday, December 5 at 4:00 PM. The concert will be held at St. Joseph's Church, 2nd & C Streets, NE, on Capitol Hill. For more information and tickets, go to http://www.capitolhillchorale.org.
Ruth Neubauer had a photography show and reception at The Red Dog Cafe in Silver Spring, MD on November 15. The restaurant donated a portion of food costs to a charity, which supports children in poverty working in the arts.
Connie Ridgway is singing in "The King and the Fool", a medieval winter solstice tale, with the Washington Revels. The show is December 3-5 and 10-12 at Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC. Connie will be singing a duet for the opening number of the show. For more information go to http://www.RevelsDC.com.
In June, Marilyn Stickle presented "The Healing Power of Connection in Psychotherapy: Transforming Individual, Social and Global Consciousness" at the Ninth Annual Conference of the Society for Spirituality and Social Work at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Peggy Osna Heller, PHD, LCSW -C, RPT and Judith Andai, PsyD, LCSW presented an all day Continuing Education workshop at the University Of Maryland School Of Social Work on October 29. In the highly experiential workshop: “Embodied Poetry Therapy: Movement and Words for care of Self and Others” - poetry therapy merged with sacred circle dance to provide participants with a blend of two powerful healing modalities.