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Vivien Marcow Speiser has directed and taught in programs across the United States and internationally and has used the arts as a way of communicating across borders and across cultures. She believes in the power of the arts to create the conditions for personal and social change and transformation. Her interests and expertise lie in the areas of working with trauma and cross-cultural conflict resolution through the arts and she has worked extensively with groups in the Middle East and in South Africa. In addition, she is an expert in the creation and performance of rites of passage rituals and in the use of dance and performance in expressive therapy practice. She is the winner of the 2014 Distinguished Fellows Award from the Global Alliance for Arts and Health, and the 2015 Honorary Fellow Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israeli Expressive and Creative Arts Therapy Association.
Vivien holds a Ph.D. from Union Institute, and M.Ed. from Lesley University, and a B.A. from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist (BC-DMT), a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), National Certified Counselor (NCC), and a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT).
Marcow Speiser, V.( 2017) A Case Study: Moving Towards Connection: Using Creative Arts Approaches to Enhance the Well-Being of Elders .Chapter in, Maller, D and Langsam, K.(eds) The Praeger Handbook of Mental Health and the Aging Community: ABC-CLIO, pp.113-121Maller, D. & Langsam, K. (Eds.). (2017). The Praeger Handbook of Mental Health and the Aging Community.
Schwartz, S., and Speiser, V.M. (2015) Introducing arts and health in Israel: How cultural factors affect the field's development. World Cultural Psychiatry Research Review 2015, 10 (3/4): 122-137.
Marcow-Speiser, V., and Schwartz, S. (2015) Culturally Responsive Teaching in a War-Affected Area: Lesley University in Israel 1979 - 2014. Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice, Volume 7:1.
Beardall, N.G., Brownell, A., Cardillo, N.J., Harmel, P., Karman, S., Marcow-Speiser, V., Newman-Bluestein, D., McKim, E., Smulian-Siegel, D. (2014) The Legacy of Norma Canner. American Journal of Dance Therapy, 36, 1:113-124.
Marcow Speiser, V. (2014). Working in a troubled land: using the applied arts towards conflict transformation and community health in Israel. Journal of Applied Arts and Health 4:3:335-343.
Schwartz, S, Marcow Speiser, V and Wikoff, N. (2014) The arch of arts in health (eds) Journal of Applied Arts and Health 4:3 237-245.
Marcow Speiser, V. (2012). Towards an Understanding of the Israeli Context for Teaching and Learning. in Schwartz et al, The Arts and Social Change: The Lesley University Experience in Israel: Porat Books.
Schwartz, S., Marcow Speiser, V., Speiser, P., & Kossak, M. (Eds.). (2012).The Arts and Social Change: The Lesley University Experience in Israel. Zur Yigal, Israel: Porat Books.
Marcow Speiser, V. and Schwartz, S. (2011). These stories are burning a hole in my brain: Using the arts to tell the stories of the Jewish immigrant community in Israel. In Art in Action: Expressive Arts Therapy and Social Change, (eds) Levine, E. and Levine, S. London:Jessica Kingsley.
Marcow Speiser, V. and Schwartz, S. (2009). Reflections on the Development of the Lesley University Extension in Israel. Chapter in the Lesley Centennial Publication.
Kossak, M. and Marcow Speiser, V. (eds). (2009). Special edition of the Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism and Practice, Issue 14. The Lesley University Extension Program in Israel: Teaching in a Troubled Land.
Marcow Speiser, V. (2009) Towards an understanding of the Israeli context for teaching and learning JPPP (ibid).
Marcow Speiser, V. and Serlin, I. (2007) (eds). Special Edition on The Imagine Conference. The Journal of Humanistic Psychology 47(1), 280-288.
Marcow Speiser, V. and Speiser, P. (2007). An Arts Approach to Working with Cross Cultural Conflicts, The Journal of Humanistic Psychology 47(1), 361-367.
Marcow Speiser, V. and Speiser, P. (2007). The Use of the Arts in Working with Fear and Stress in the Israeli Context. The Praeger Series in Body-Mind Medicine: The Art of Healthcare, Volume II.
Franklin, M. and Marcow Speiser, V. (2007). Authentic Movement as a Meditative Practice. The Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism and Practice, Issue 12.
ICET Annual Conference, Israel, feb 6th,2017. Presenting 35 years of Expressive Therapy in Israel, with Avi Hadari and Karen Barzilay Schechter.
4/23/2015 Panelist, Irle Goldman's Salon. "Mental Health Counselor Training: The Past, the Present, and the Future."
3/12/2015 Panelist in Symposium. "International Aid Using Artistic Tools -- How To." Academic College for Society and the Arts, Netanya, Israel.
11/21/2014 Co-presenter. "Buffering Suffering. Expressive Therapy Approaches to Working with Trauma." The 6th Annual Drama for Life Research Conference, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
9/17/2014 Workshop co-facilitator. "Moving Soul, Soul Moving." Expressive Therapies 40th Anniversary celebration conference.
9/17/2014. Co-presenter. "Expressive Therapies Approaches to Working with Trauma in Korea." Global Arts Series, Creativity Commons, Lesley University.
9/4/2017. Co-facilitator. "Creative Approaches to Working with Conflict Through the Arts." Kids4Peace Summit. Newburyport, MA.
11/21/13 Keynote Session. Opening to Ritual . The Drama for Life Research Conference, University of the Witwatersrand. The Unfinished Business of Truth and Reconciliation: Arts, Trauma and Healing., Soweto, South Africa.
11/20/13 Workshop co-facilitator. Moving Through Trauma : Dance, Drama, Psychodrama and Expressive Therapy Approaches to Working with Trauma. The Drama for Life Research Conference, Soweto, South Africa.
12/11/12 Panelist and Panel Chair, On the Seam of Arts and Health: A survey of the Field of Arts and Health in Israel and around the world. The Israeli Society of Creative and Expressive Therapy annual conference. Jerusalem, Israel.
4/3/12 Netanya, Israel. Panel member on arts and social change programs in action. Lesley Conference on arts and social change.
3/05/12 Melbourne, Australia, MIECAT, Lecture:Arts in Action: Social change through dance and expressive arts therapy.
1/22-23/12 PelePele Arts Academy, Mbabane, Swaziland Liberating Creativity training workshop.
Creating Change in the World:Expressive Therapy Approaches.
Authentic Movement as a Meditative Practice. Faculty development day workshop. Lesley University, January 2006.
Workshop Co-Facilitator, When the time comes: A psychosocial approach to crisis intervention and building hope through the Expressive Arts. The Academic College for Society and the Arts, Netanya, Israel. October 25th, 2017.
Convener, Creative Process as Pedagogy and Arts Based Research. Community of Scholars, Lesley University, March 30th, 2017.
Workshop Co-Facilitator, Presenting 35 years of Expressive Therapy in Israel.
The Israeli Creative and Expressive Therapy Association Annual Conference, Israel, feb 6th, 2017.
Panel Participant in Arts and Health, Americans for the Arts Conference. Boston: Children’s Hospital, June 18th, 2016.
Invited Lecture, Expressive Therapy Approaches to Working with Trauma, Department of Psychology conference on Trauma, University of the Witwatersrand, May 30th, 2016.
Conference co-convener and panel participant on Creative Approaches to Healthy Aging, the 7th Annual Arts in Health Conference, Lesley University, April 15th, 2016.
Panel Moderator, Multi-Media Arts Project for Seniors - Community of Scholars, Lesley University, March 30th, 2016.

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