|
Bridgit Dengel Gaspard, LMSW
Co-Founding DirectorNew York Voice Dialogue Institute Education: Columbia University, MSW
Professional Affiliations & Certifications
* National Association of Social Workers
* Certified Dialectical Behavior Therapist Current Practice
* Payne Whitney-New York Presbyterian Hospital Continuing Day Treatment Program, New York, NY
Serves as primary therapist and group therapist
Other Professional Experience
* Bellevue Hospital Center
Served as inpatient psychiatric social worker
* Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, Queens Village, NY
Internship specializing in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
* Partnership With Children, P.S. 67, Brooklyn, NY
Internship serving as primary therapist for children
In 2005, co-founded The New York Voice Dialogue Institute
* In partnership with Dr. Hoffman, designed and implemented a course called "Power Your Creativity Using Voice Dialogue" as well as Level I & II professional seminars, introducing and teaching Voice Dialogue to mental health professionals for Continuing Education Credits (CECs) sponsored by the Association of Humanistic Psychology and the National Association of Social Workers. Currently serves as guest lecturer for Jason Bennet Actor's Workshop incorporating Voice Dialogue into character building and improvisation
* May 2003: Completed Intensive Training Program in Albion, CA with Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone, Creators of Voice Dialogue.
1990-2003Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Performer/Writer
* Performed in films Enemies of Laughter and Jungle to Jungle; in original works Off-Off Broadway; wrote original shows including Off the Rack: Cruelty in Retail using humor to explore the role of women in society; served as entertainment journalist for Comic Bible, Broadway.com, SHOWBUSINESS and more as well as daily correspondent and festival line-producer for 1010 Radio and Hollywood.com at the Cannes Film Festival.
Other Education
* Boston University, Bachelors of Science
* Improvisation and Acting Teachers
Gary Austin - Creator of the Groundlings in LA; Michael Howard; Cayemichael Patten; Carol Fox Prescott; Rod Menzies
* Vision Quest
Led by Trebbe Johnson and Bill Plotkin through Animas Valley Institute.
|
|
Dassie Hoffman
PhD, LCAT, ADTR
Co-Founding Director
New York Voice Dialogue Institute
Professional Affiliations and Certifications
* The Association of Humanistic Psychology
* The American Dance Therapy Association
* The American Psychological Association
* The American Mental Health Counselors Association
* Serves as the first president of the Saybrook Graduate School Alumni Association
* Serves on the board of directors of "Jacob’s Pillow"
Education and Experience
Dr. Hoffman received a PhD in Humanistic Psychology from Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center. She received her Masters degree in Dance Therapy from New York University and her Bachelors degree from Bennington College. In 1993 Dr. Hoffman co-founded The Center for Experiential Psychotherapy in New York City. In 2005 she co-founded The New York Voice Dialogue Center where she teaches Voice Dialogue to mental health professional as well as maintains a private practice. In partnership with Ms. Dengel Gaspard, LMSW, designed and implemented a course called "Power Your Creativity Using Voice Dialogue" as well as Level I and Level II professional seminars introducing and teaching Voice Dialogue to mental health professionals for Continuing Education Credits (CECs) from the National Association of Social Workers and the Association of Humanistic Psychology in addition to serving as guest lecturer at the Jason Bennett Actor's Workshop incorporation Voice Dialogue into character building for actors. Before that she worked as a dance/movement therapist at Hall-Brooke Hospital in Connecticut, where she served as a clinical supervisor and trained dance/movement therapy interns from New York University.
Dr. Hoffman has been working within the Voice Dialogue community for the past 17 years. She is known throughout the international community for her innovative work integrating movement into Voice Dialogue sessions. She served as resident dance/movement therapist at the Voice Dialogue International “Summer Kamps” with Dr. Sidra Stone and Dr. Hal Stone from 1986-1994 in California. She is a senior staff member at Voice Dialogue International and frequently staffs advanced training workshops there.
Publications include her Saybrook dissertation, “Connections and Parallels Between Humanistic Psychology and Modern Dance at Jacob’s Pillow" published in 2004 by The Edwin Mellen Press, her article, “Sandor Ferenczi and the Origins of Humanistic Psychology” published in the fall 2003 issue of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and her article, “Integrating Dance/Movement into a Subpersonality/Voice Dialogue Session,” printed in Voice Dialogue International in 1995.
Dr. Hoffman presented "Voice Dialogue: Meet the Selves Who Eat" at the Fall 2005 Annual Conference sponsored by the Renfrew Center Foundation for Eating Disorders.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Visiting Faculty Curricula Vitae
DR. MARTHA-LOU COHEN
is a Voice Dialogue teacher and facilitator based in California who has
studied with the developers of Voice Dialogue, Dr. Hal Stone and Dr.
Sidra Stone since 1984. She continues to serve on their training staff
as a senior instructor of their Level III advanced training program at
Voice Dialogue International in California. She was responsible for
spearheading the Dream Room, which is the on-going interactive dream
interpretation section of the web site of the Drs. Stone
(www.voicedialogue.org). In 2001, she co-founded the Southern
California Voice Dialogue Institute, (www.scvdi.com) which is based in
Los Angeles, California. From 1990 to 1995, she founded and directed
the Mountain Oaks Voice Dialogue that was also based in California. Dr.
Cohen has assisted in the creation of Voice Dialogue centers and
networks throughout the United States and Europe. Dr. Cohen has a
graduate degree in Anthropology from the University of California, Los
Angeles and a PhD in Clinical Psychology.
CATHERINE KEIR
is a Voice Dialogue teacher and facilitator based in Seattle,
Washington and has studied with the developers of Voice Dialogue, the
Drs. Stone since 1980. She continues to serve on their training staff
as a senior instructor of their Level III advanced training program at
Voice Dialogue International in California. Since 2004 she has been on
the faculty of the Institute of Structural Medicine in Twisp, WA,
teaching Voice Dialogue and its application to body work. She is
currently a registered counselor in the state of Washington and
maintains a private practice. She studied and taught the Hellerwork
Training Program from 1979-1992. Since 1983 she has attended several
Transformational Healing conference study groups led by Brugh Joy, M.D.
She earned her Bachelors degree from Lewis & Clark College.
COLY VULPIANI
is a Voice Dialogue facilitator and teacher on the faculty of the Voice
Dialogue Training Institute in Denver, Colorado. His training includes
completing Level I and Level II with Dr. Hoffman, Dr. Francesca Starr
and Judith Tamar Stone. He also completed the Master Level III training
with the Drs. Stone. Mr. Vulpiani has been a senior Zen student for the
last 15 years and has developed Parallel Realities Practice, a rich
combination of Voice Dialogue and Meditation. He conducts workshops and
seminars nationally, as well as consults with individuals and
businesses ranging from men's groups and progressive spiritual
congregations to non-profit agencies and corporations.
|
|
|
|
|
