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Vivien Marcow-Speiser
Professor Vivien Marcow-Speiser, LMHC, BC-DMT, REAT, has directed and taught in programmes across the United States and internationally and has used the arts as a way of communicating across borders and across cultures. She believes in the power of the arts to create the conditions for personal and social change and transformation. Her interests and expertise lie in the areas of working with trauma and cross-cultural conflict resolution through the arts and she has worked extensively with groups in the Middle East and in South Africa. In addition, she is an expert in the creation and performance of rites of passage rituals and in the use of dance and performance in expressive therapy practice. She is the winner of the 2014 Distinguished Fellows Award from the Global Alliance for Arts and Health and the 2015 Honorary Fellow Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israeli Expressive and Creative Arts Therapy Association.