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6 ACT 48 Hours available

All three forms must be completed and returned to Tanya Faust in the College of Education.  Address and email are on the form. 

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Conference Evaluation

Professional Development Survey

Dr. Frida Rundell is a founding International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) faculty member and professor. A committed teacher and practitioner, she brings extensive experience in Narrative and Solution-Focused Therapies to restorative practices and supports her students in mastering competencies related to life-space crisis intervention, adversity, and trauma. Professor Rundell works directly with young people and their families, together with training and workshops for teachers and counselors in the IIRP model programs. Her current work involves using somatic experience to help traumatized children and families.

Professor Rundell has more than 50 years of experience working with children and families facing adversity, from youth with learning difficulties to those who are homeless, disabled, delinquent or suffering from AIDS. She initiated and developed an undergraduate degree program for child and youth-care professionals at Durban University of Technology, South Africa. She has also worked with IIRP community-based programs.

Professor Rundell is committed to empowering people and helping them achieve their potential. She has presented her work at seminars, workshops, and international conferences in over 10 countries. She earned her M.Ed. Psychology from the University of Natal, South Africa, and her Ph.D. in Community Psychology from the University of Zululand, South Africa. She is a licensed professional counselor in the USA.

Recent publications:

Rundell, F. C. (2022). Systemic racism: A transgenerational trauma haunting the soul of South Africa. Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice. https://proctor.gse.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/SystemicRacism_SA_0.pdf

Rundell, F. C. (2021, Summer). Processing trauma using the Relational Care Ladder. IIRP Presidential Paper Series, 4, 1-20. https://www.iirp.edu/images/pdf/Processing_Trauma_Using_the_Relational_Care_Ladder.pdf

Rundell, F., Sheety, A., & Negrea, V. (2018). Managing trauma: A restorative process. In E. Sengupta & P. Blessinger (Eds.), Refugee education: Integration and acceptance of refugees in mainstream society (pp. 17-31). Bingley, England: Emerald Publishing.

https://proctor.gse.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/SystemicRacism_SA_0.pdf

https://www.iirp.edu/images/pdf/Processing_Trauma_Using_the_Relational_Care_Ladder.pdf

Andrea Beck brings to the conference her experience of teaching multiple art classes from beginner and advanced students including International Baccalaureate® (IB) Art and Advance Placement (AP) Art. She has seen over and over when students experience art as a way they can process and heal the past, process current difficulties and communicate their unique perspectives, art becomes a metacognitive platform that allows students to ‘see’ themselves and value their own unique voice. 

Andrea Beck has a BFA from the University of Hawaii and MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She also has a MA in education from the University of Phoenix and MFA in theater arts from the University of Minnesota. She has worked as an educator in Los Angeles, CA as well as Federal Way, WA and currently Central Kitsap School District in Silverdale, WA.

Lyndsay Rose Tingler is first and foremost a mother to her three wonderful children. She is married to her best friend Matt and loves being a homebody at her country home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She is a doctoral candidate in the University of Pittsburgh’s Doctor of Special Education program and holds a Masters Art Education with an Emphasis in Special Populations from Moore College of Art & Design.  Her Master's thesis is titled “Social Emotional Learning Visual Art Curriculum to Foster Positive Self-esteem in Girls”. Most of Lyndsay Rose Tingler’s work has been dedicated to teaching under-sourced communities including adjudicated youth and students with emotional disabilities. She founded and runs a nonprofit organization, A Frame of Mind, with a mission to teach students emotional literacy and wellness through visual art and creative movement.

Eric Anthony Berdis (Erie, PA) is an artist and educator whose practice strives to celebrate DIY collectivity and play for both themselves and his students. All while reflecting on the ghost of queer history and activism. Eric Berdis is excited to be the Marlin and Regina Miller Art Gallery Artist in Residence this fall at Kutztown University. Other solo exhibitions include the University Galleries of Illinois State University, Project 1612 (Peoria, IL), Practice Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Bunker Project (Pittsburgh, PA), Iridian Gallery (Richmond, VA), Stay Home Gallery (Paris, TN), Oklahomo (Chicago), Erie Art Museum, and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Eric Berdis received his BFA from Slippery Rock University and MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Works have been published on Teaching Artist Podcast, Emergency Index Annual Performance Publication, and New American Painting.

Ann Lemon is the Executive Director of the Amos Lemon Burkhart Foundation and “Amos’s mom.” Amos “Lemon” Burkhart was a talented young artist who also struggled with mental illness and substance abuse, and accidentally drowned under the influence of Xanax, alcohol and pot, in 2018. The 501c3 Foundation’s mission is to continue to promote his work, and to inspire teens to “stay alive and make art”. The organization creates exhibitions, workshops, and media campaigns to create a new conversation about creativity and mental health, and to help young artists resist threats to their wellbeing like addiction, self-harm, racism and gender discrimination. The construction of a community art gallery and Commons in Mohnton, PA is underway and will begin renovation in 2023. 

Ann Lemon’s first career was as an internationally awarded Art Director and eventually, Creative Director, in the fast-paced world of New York ad agencies and Fortune 500 clients. She taught advertising, design, and design history for ten years, as a tenured Associate Professor in Communication Design at Kutztown University retiring in 2021. She is currently enrolled as a graduate student in the Counseling Department at Kutztown University, pursuing certification as an addictions counselor, and is grateful for 30 continuous years of sobriety and ongoing work with the recovering community.

Mindy Jacobson-Levy, MCAT, ATR-BC, LPC, HLM PAATA is a board certified, registered art psychotherapist, SoulCollage® trained facilitator, and licensed professional counselor in PA and NJ. She specializes in complex trauma and eating disorders, and has been in private practice since 1980. Mindy is the President-Elect of the Pennsylvania Art Therapy Association and on the faculty of the Expressive Therapies Summit. She offers professional supervision and consultations for art therapists and other mental health professionals nationally and internationally, and is a workshop facilitator on a multitude of topics. She formerly taught and supervised graduate students at Drexel University for forty years.

 Mindy received the Delaware Valley Art Therapy Association (now PAATA) Honorary Life Member award (1996) and the Innovative Applications of Art Therapy Award (2015). Among her publications are Creative Destruction and Transformation in Art and Therapy: Reframing, Reforming, Reclaiming (Jacobson-Levy & Miller, Art Therapy Journal, 2022), Finding Your Voice through Creativity: The Art and Journaling Workbook for Disordered Eating (Gϋrze Books, 2010), Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults (ISST-D, 2005 & 2011), Abreacting and Assimilating Traumatic Dissociated Memories of MPD Patients Through Art Therapy (Art Therapy Journal, 1994), and Group Art Therapy with Multiple Personality Disorder Patients: A Viable Alternative to Isolation (in Kluft, E., 1993). She also has several conference audiotapes published, related to dissociation and art therapy. 

My work embraces a maximalist aesthetic of archival research, personal secrets, and pubescent gay boy glamour. In periods of instability, insecurity, and oppression, I, as a queer maker, continuously find ways to imagine and embody joy through my practice. Happiness, play, and pleasure are not only sought after during difficult times but are arguably necessary components of survival. For queer artists like myself, joy is an act of resilience—a critical method of subverting hegemonic narratives of suffering. Queer joy in my work is found through forms of exuberance such as world-building, committing to materials, and escaping into new types of processes. Inspired in part by Jack Halberstam’s “The Queer Art of Failure”, the studio becomes experimental, joyful, and playful during uncertain or fearful times. 

I seek to create a stimulating yet jarring experience while aiming to create a familiar and inherently strange world for the viewer. Using imagery of superheroes, abandoned fish sculptures in my hometown, and queer historical icons, I seek to build a world and share that place through drawing, installations, objects, and costumes. My practice engages childhood idealism, mythology, and historic events, to subvert ideas of place, language, and imagery that are often considered neutral in a hetero-normative society. 

In my work, thrift store castoffs and hobbyist craft supplies are reassembled into a cast of characters that blur the lines between ghost, creature, and friend. These discarded materials are imbued in perspective and care that, with fresh eyes can be magical. None of these materials cover the body or hide uncomfortable truths of failure or becoming; the AIDS epidemic; or navigating inclusive conversations and spaces. Slapdash construction conveys the enormity and messiness of feeling in the face of a political structure that confines queer bodies. For this reason, I draw from activist processes. Appliqué cloth and safety pins together reference the San Francisco Flower Power performance troupe, the Cockettes, who, through their pageantry, changed notions of dress, gender, community, and the ACT UP movement that demanded change in the healthcare industry.

The girls (cis/trans/nonbinary gender) at the Lancaster County Youth Intervention Center were asked to delve deep into their own perspectives– on their lives, their identity, and their choices to gain an understanding of their unique view of the world. With the guidance and knowledge of teaching artist Lindsey Rose Tingler, the residents at the center found healing and empowerment while gaining a new point of you using art, creativity, and self-awareness. 

The youth residents responded by creating pieces through identity themed essential questions. The prompts were aimed at diving deep into the core of who they are as individuals, how their choices in life stories contribute to their identity, and how their environment has a huge impact on their mental health. They found meaning in their identity through photographs, mixed media collages, paintings, and writings centered around the core of their mental well-being. 

The Lancaster County Youth Intervention Center opened in 2012 to provide temporary safe and secure care for alleged delinquent juveniles and dependent juveniles, males and females between the ages of 10 and 18 years of age in Lancaster County. The Center offers a wide range of helpful services that support juveniles’ physical, emotional, and social development. 

A Frame of Mind, a 501(c)3 organization, established in 2019, is dedicated to providing visual art programming to children and teens who endure depression, anxiety, and stress. The organization's mission is to provide support, guidance, a safe place, and an outlet for creativity. The purpose of the visual art programming is to develop appropriate interpersonal skills, healthy coping mechanisms, and social responsibility to foster lifelong success focusing on self-care and positive mental health through the arts.