Transforming Trauma Through Hip Hop Therapy
Transforming Trauma Through Hip Hop Therapy
Presented By
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JC Hall, LCSW, EXATMore Info
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Dates and Times
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-In-Person
Location
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Southern Hemisphere IIIWalt Disney World Dolphin Resort
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
Despite drastically different cultural underpinnings, Hip Hop and therapy are both widely used expressive practices that serve as a form of catharsis and connection. For over half a century, Hip Hop culture has served therapeutic purposes and reached people where, historically, talk therapy has not. With roots in progressive social movements and political protest, its messages transcend geography, race, ethnicity, and class. First developed in the mid-90s by Hall’s late mentor Dr. Edgar Tyson, Hip Hop therapy (HHT) embraces Hip Hop’s capacity to facilitate personal and communal transformation, mixing the inherently cathartic components of the culture with various well established treatment modalities. In this presentation, you’ll learn about:
- • The basics of HHT and how it overlaps with several well-established treatment modalities, including CBT, DBT, narrative therapy, and expressive arts therapy
- • The impact of a HHT Studio program at a second chance high school in the South Bronx over the past decade
- • A trauma-informed approach to HHT, including top-down and bottom-up strategies
- • How rhythm and rhyme facilitate self-regulation, co-regulation, bilateral stimulation, and traumatic processing
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
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Define the origins of Hip Hop culture and its inherently cathartic elements as they relate to various forms of psychotherapy.
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Explain the theoretical and practical underpinnings of Hip Hop therapy as a receptive and expressive approach to treatment.
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Explain 3-4 ways that a studio-based approach to Hip Hop therapy impacts a transfer high school setting over the course of a decade.
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Analyze a trauma-informed approach to HHT based on the neurophysiological implications of its parallels with expressive arts therapy and EMDR.
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Practice top-down and bottom-up techniques through song analysis and lyric writing.
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