Yehudit Silverman, MA, R-DMT, RDT
Department Chair, Creative Arts Therapies
Seeds of Hope - an arts based approach to suicide and resiliency
Exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - March 8 - April 2, 2017
Under the direction of Yehudit Silverman, in collaboration with theEducation and Community Programs Department of the Montreal Museum of FineArts, this exhibition presents the work of many individuals who have been directly affected by suicide. Using the mask, a form that suggests the stigma that frequently surrounds the issue of suicide, the participants courageously communicated their feelings around issues of suicide through the use of diverse mediums, structures, and creative processes.
Media coverage
http://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/27397b2e-068d-4f9d-a2a4-3d4ad4f8eec9%7C_0.html
Award winning documentary filmmaker - SSHRC and FQRSC funded
English with French subtitlesDubbed in Polish
“An outstanding example of how the arts have the power to transform, illuminate, and make connections otherwise not possible”Patricia Leavy, Author, Method Meets Art:Arts-Based Research Practice
Screened at
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,
Cinema du parc
Curzon Cinema, London, UK
Montreal World Film Festival
over 30 Film Festivals, Conferences, Universities worldwide
PBS Interview www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFAOnut9B-I
Website - www.yehuditsilverman.com
rent or purchase online: https://www.reelhouse.org/yehuditsilverman/the-hidden-face-of-suicide
Award winning documentary filmmaker
The Hidden Face of Suicide © 2010
Produced, written, and directed by Yehudit Silverman (58 minutes)
Original music composed by Yehudit Silverman
Dubbed in Polish
The Story Within - myth and fairy tale in therapy © 2004
Produced and Directed by Yehudit Silverman (53 minutes)
English with French subtitles
Awarded a Raschkowan Grant for “Interfaith Arts Dialogue- documentary film project for peace.”
Bringing together young adults from Jewish, Christian, Muslim communities to work together through the arts.
Awarded a Curriculum Innovation Fund Grant, for “Introduction to Creative Arts Therapies blended learning course”
Developed an online/classroom learning undergraduate course in Introduction to Creative Arts Therapies course
Research award
2009 - National Association for Drama Therapy (NADT)
Teaching activities
Awarded a Curriculum Innovation Fund Grant
For the Development of the first blended and online course in the Department of Creative Arts Therapies
CATS 210 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE ARTS THERAPIES
CATS 210 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE ARTS THERAPIES Blended Learning Course
CATS 210 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE ARTS THERAPIES Blended Classroom and online Learning Course
Offered Fall, 2017
CourseDescription:
Inthis blended learning course students will be introduced to the basic conceptsand practices of creative arts therapies - art therapy, drama therapy, musictherapy, and dance therapy. Studentswill learn general theories and themes common to all of the creative artstherapies related to creative process, creative projection, meaning making,expression, therapeutic space, symbols, and witnessing. These themes will be explored throughintegrating in class discussion and experiential activities, films, videoclips, interviews, readings, podcasts, blogs, and assigned field trips. This course will give students theopportunity to gain an understanding of how the creative arts therapiesfunction, the range of professional practices, and give a wide overview of thefield.
CATS 638 CREATIVE PROCESS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
CATS 638 CREATIVE PROCESS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
May/June 2017
COURSE
DESCRIPTION
In this class students willhave the opportunity to experience, document, and learn about the creativeprocess through the use of myth and story. Students will choose a character from a myth or story that reflects theirown personal journey. In class they willexplore this character through the use of masks, movement, art, drama, andmusic. Through readings, discussions andcreative exercises students will learn the documented stages of creativeprocess and how this can be a model for personal and clinical growth.
Research activities
SEEDS OF HOPE - an arts based approach to suicide and resiliency
Exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - March 8 - April 2, 2017
Award winning documentary filmmaker - SSHRC and FQRSC funded
English with French subtitlesDubbed in Polish
This film enters the world of survivors, thosewho have lost loved ones to suicide, and reveals their remarkable stories.Looking for the story behind the silence in her own family, Silverman sets outon a journey of understanding and transformation. Using masks, the survivorsfind a unique and creative way to express the unspeakable. Their journey brings to light the danger ofsecrets and the terrible cost of silence
“...goes behind theveil of silence... and concludes that healing demands an end to silence.. JohnGriffin, The Gazette
Screened at
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,
Cinema du parc
Curzon Cinema, London, UK
Montreal World Film Festival
over 30 Film Festivals, Conferences, Universities worldwide
PBS Interview www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFAOnut9B-I
Interfaith Arts Dialogue- funded by University Seed grant - Raschkowan Foundation - private donor
Interfaith Arts Dialogue
http://www.yehuditsilverman.com/yehudits-current-film-project/
“When we have an opportunity to witness heartfelt creative work from those who are different, we can develop empathy and our attitudes can change.When given the chance to work collaboratively through the arts, our perceived differences can disappear.”
— YehuditSilverman, professor and chair, Department of Creative Arts Therapies,director, Interfaith Arts Dialogue
— Interfaith Arts Dialogue is a documentary film currently in the early stages of production that explores an innovative arts-based process to building solidarity between people of different groups. So far the initiative has brought together young adults and community leaders from Jewish, Christian and
Muslim communities to take part in collaborative
arts activities that shift their attitudes towards one another in profound ways.
Documentary Film - The Story Within- myth and fairy tale in therapy
The Story Within - myth and fairy tale intherapy-©2004
Produced and Directed by Yehudit Silverman (53 minutes)
In English – translated in French and Turkishsubtitles
Six people embark on journeys of profoundself-discovery by immersing themselves as characters in self-selected andpersonally meaningful myths or fairytales. This film takes us through the stages of an original and dynamicapproach to the Creative Arts Therapies and is a moving testament to thepower of creativity and myth in clinical practice.
“A thought provoking and incredible evocationof the richness to be found within the interplay between the narratives thatare handled between us over generations and the immediacy and power unleashedby exploration of myths and fairy tales for personal exploration...an essentialfilm for anyone interested in the arts, narratives and therapy” Phil Jones, Professor, UniversityCollege London, author, Drama as Therapy
Screened internationally at over 40 conferences, Universities, and on A&E television network show Breakfastwith the arts