Social Emotional Arts Toolkit Training (SEA-T) - Winter 2025

Lori Baudino, PsyD, BC-DMT has been a practicing clinician for over twenty years. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology and masters in creative arts therapy – dance/movement therapy. The national clinical spokesperson for The Andréa Rizzo Foundation, Dr. Baudino, through the support of the Foundation, brought the first dance/movement therapy programs to the top pediatric hospitals in Los Angeles, providing bedside therapy to children with cancer, special needs, and terminal illness. In her private practice, she works with children and their families to support the developing child and the integral relationships between parent, child, and siblings. Understanding the premise that the body, mind, and spirit are interconnected and that life is experienced through movement, Dr. Baudino’s approach allows the child to put words into action, understand individual sensory and motor preferences, express emotional needs, and support overall integration and well-being. Visit drloribaudino.com to learn more about her published books, the Collaborative Health Summit, the Global Therapists Program Initiative, advisory offerings, and much more.

Erica Curtis, LMFT, ATR-BC is a board-certified art therapist and licensed marriage and family therapist. Erica is an internationally sought-after speaker on creative approaches to emotional and relationship health. She regularly serves as an expert for articles, appearing in more than 100 media outlets, including The Guardian, USA Today, ELLE, The Boston Globe, and PBS. Formerly an instructor in the Loyola Marymount University Department of Marriage and Family Therapy with specialized training in art therapy, she now serves as their admissions consultant and maintains a therapy practice in San Juan Capistrano. Erica is core faculty for Arts & Healing Initiative, has served multiple terms on the board of directors of the American Art Therapy Association, and is a past president of the Southern California Art Therapy Association. She has served as an expert consultant for organizations such as The Foundation for Art Healing and currently works with the Board of Behavioral Sciences, consulting on ethics and standard of care. Erica has collaborated with giants like L'Oréal and The Getty Museum on big-impact creative wellness programs.Erica is an award-winning author, with Ping Ho, of The Innovative Parent: Raising Connected, Happy, Successful Kids through Art. She is also author of Art Therapy Activities for Kids and Working with Anger Creatively: 70 Art Therapy-Inspired Activities to Safely Soother, Harness, and Redirect Anger for Meaningful Change. For more information visit therapywitherica.com or subscribe to Erica’s newsletter at subscribe.therapywitherica.com/connect.

Ping Ho, MA, MPH is Founder and Director of Arts & Healing Initiative, which transforms lives through the innate power of the arts, guided by mental health practices, to foster healing, connection, and resilience for all. She spearheaded the development of the Certificate Program in Social Emotional Arts (SEA) and the SEA Toolkit: Supportive Art, Movement, Music & Writing for Individuals or
Groups in Any Setting. In addition, she co-developed and served as principal investigator for the evidence-based program, Beat the Odds®: Social and Emotional Skill Building Delivered in a Framework of Drumming. Ping is associate editor for the Creative Arts Therapies section of the Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine, and she is co-author of the 2019 National Parenting Products ward winning book, The Innovative Parent: Raising Connected, Happy, Successful Kids through Art (Ohio University/Swallow Press).

Ping was founding administrator of the UCLA Collaborative Centers for Integrative Medicine (now the UCLA Integrative Medicine Collaborative) and UCLA Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, which led to the privilege of writing for Norman Cousins and co-writing the professional autobiography of George F. Solomon, M.D., founder of the field. She has a BA in psychology with honors from Stanford—where she was appointed to initiate the still-thriving Health Improvement Program for faculty and staff, an MA in counseling psychology with specialization in exercise physiology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MPH in community health sciences from UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Nadia F. Paredes, MA, LMFT, ATR helps people connect with their inner creativity and empower their mind and soul through her expressive arts program and is the founder of Nadia Paredes - Creative Studio, a bilingual resource for empowering, healing, and artistic inspiration. With expertise and training as an art therapist, Intuition Painting facilitator and a licensed marital and family therapist, Nadia creates programs for transformation, creativity, and art making as a mindfulness practice. Her offerings include a YouTube channel and podcast in Spanish called Revolución Creativa, The Smart-Heart Method: Art Journaling for Personal Well-being, and introspective art groups: a female-centered wellness program through Embodied Arts. Nadia is an adjunct professor and art therapy supervisor at Loyola Marymount University, where she teaches about art activism. Learn more at artfooddreamers.com.

Stacie Aamon Yeldell, MA, MTBC, AVPT is the founder of Amöntra and the best-selling author of the workbook, “Choose Yourself: A 12-week Journey to Becoming the God of Your Own Heart.” She is an award-winning vocalist, speaker, and music psychotherapist with over 15 years of experience in mental health treatment. As a consultant, Stacie has worked with a range of organizations, including The Grammy Foundation, LA Opera, GoogleArts and Culture, Netflix, and YoungArts. In addition to being a faculty member for Arts & Healing Initiative and California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), she is a contributing author of the best-selling book: "Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness." Stacie has spoken at events like Women in Music, National Arts Policy Roundtable, and Sound Health Summit. She has also appeared on CBS News, in Renée Fleming’s "Music and Mind Live," and is featured in the documentary "Proven." Stacie holds a Master’s degree in Music Therapy from New York University, and certifications in Sound and Music Healing from the Open Center, and Vocal Psychotherapy (AVPT) from the Vancouver Vocal Psychotherapy Institute. Learn more about her work at stacieaamon.com.

Writing:

• Pencil or pen
• Paper, notepad, or journal
• A little handheld shaker. Homemade alternatives: small plastic Easter egg or small plastic bottle or container filled with a little rice, seeds, sand. Make something that sounds pleasing to your ears.

Movement:

• A tissue box (with tissues in it)
• Cotton swabs
• Cotton balls
• A scarf (as large as possible)
• Pencil or pen
• Paper, notepad, or journal

Music:

• A little handheld shaker. Homemade alternatives: small plastic Easter egg or small plastic bottle or container filled with a little rice, seeds, sand. Make something that sounds pleasing to your ears.
• Found sounds. Look through your home or kitchen for things that make noise – bring out your homemade shakers again, look for wooden spoons (you can tape your homemade shakers to them!), try hitting stainless steel mixing bowls with rubber spatulas or homemade mallets made of chopsticks with a large wad of tape wrapped around the ends, boxes, plastic food storage containers, pillows . . . Bundt pans turned upside down make great bells.
• Pencil or pen
• Paper, notepad, or journal

Art:

• Pencil or pen
• Paper, notepad, or journal
• Colored pencils or markers (if you have them; don’t worry if you don’t)
• Found objects for art making (you do not need to have all of these things). Here are some examples below. You can gather and use as many or as few of these objects as you wish in your art making. And feel free to come up with other ideas of your own. You will make the art piece during the session.

Found Art Object include:

• Paper plates
• Yarn
• Masking or painter’s tape
• Paper cups
• Straws
• Cotton balls
• Cotton swabs
• Bandaids
• Gauze pads
• Disposable face masks
• Disposable gloves
• Popsicle/craft sticks
• Twigs
• Construction paper
• Pipe cleaners
• Foil
• General office supplies such as a stapler, paper clips, or rubber bands
• Clean sock

Day 1:

• 9:00 am - 12:30 pm PT: Communication Guidelines
• 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm PT: Lunch Break
• 1:15 pm - 4:00 pm PT: Dance & Movement

Day 2:

• 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PT: Art
• 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm PT: Lunch Break
• 12:45 pm - 4:00 pm PT: Music

We believe transforming lives through creative expression should be financially accessible. Please reach out to us at info@artsandhealinginitiative.org for scholarship and payment plan information.

This is a online program through Zoom. A welcome email, which includes the link to join the program, will be sent to you after you register. Please check your inbox and spam folders.

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Note that Zoom breakout rooms are not recorded.

In order to keep our programs affordable yet self-sustaining, we regret that we are unable to offer refunds for cancellation; however, we are happy to provide you with credit good for one year from the date of the program toward the next offering of the same program or a different one. Credit applied toward a program with higher registration fees will require payment of the balance. In addition, credit may be applied toward purchase of curriculum materials for any program. Unused fees after one year would then be tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law because no goods or services would have been received for them.

Exceptions to our no-refund policy may be considered in cases of personal emergencies. Please contact us at info@artsandhealinginitiative.org if any questions.