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Amber Elizabeth Gray |
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Amber is both a longtime practitioner of body centered arts and sciences (somatic psychology, massage therapy, Life Impressions Body-work -- based on the teachings of Ida Rolf, Ayurvedic medicine and Feldenkrais -- dance movement therapy, energy medicine, cranio-sacral therapy, yoga, and shiatsu), and an advocate of human rights. She is a newly authorized Continuum teacher, and a licensed mental health professional. She has worked internationally and nationally as an activist, an artist, a mental health professional, a program director and a trainer/consultant on behalf of victims of human rights abuses such as torture, war, and organized violence for over ten years. As a dancer, her passion is Afro-Caribbean dance, and she was co-director of Planetary Dance Ensemble for four years. She has twenty years experience in human services and work with displaced people, refugees, and survivors of human rights abuses, and as human rights professional her expertise is in the development of culturally congruent programs that reinforce individual and communal resilience for communities who have experienced mass social trauma such as war or natural disaster.She combines somatic psychology, current trauma and neuropsychological research, movement therapy, ritual, creative arts, and Continuum in her trainings for health and mental health professionals and paraprofessionals on such topics as models for the cross-cultural application of psychotherapy; innovative approaches to trauma recovery that integrate local, individual and community resources, rituals and traditions; and the application of somatic psychology and creative arts psychotherapies to torture and war trauma recovery. Her passion is in training paraprofessionals globally who work on the edge, and in the field, to work creatively through the body and the arts to assist survivors of human rights abuses and mass atrocities. As a newly authorized Continuum teacher, her dream is to bring Continuum to the farthest, least resourced reaches of the planet where it can be of service to the restorative process that follows large scale trauma. Amber is also an initiate in the Guinee tradition of Vaudu. She continues to work and study with a Mambo in Haiti who is the last living practitioner with direct lineage to this tradition. Currently, she is Director of Restorative Resources Consulting and Training. Her work has taken her to Indonesia, Kosova, Rwanda, Central America, Mexico, New Zealand, Croatia, Norway, Sweden, and India and she travels regularly to Haiti and Norway to teach and to dance. CLOSE THIS WINDOW TO RETURN TO PREVIOUS PAGE |
