How Art Heals A Panel Discussion Saturday, March 16, 2019 at 7pm Free to the public

Moderator: Carole Weaver Linsner, PhD 

Motivational speaker and author of Side Effects: The Art of Surviving Cancer

Panelists

Robyn Ellenbogen is an artist in residence at New Jersey hospitals, making art with chronically ill children, young adults and their families. “We travel together from initial diagnosis, treatment, remission and often relapse. Together we explore the arts in the intimacy of their hospital room, making paintings, animations, books, reading poetry, sharing stories, listening to music and learning to dance while in bed. When children are actively dying they return home and many would choose to continue their self expression”. Robyn has a B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts and an M.F.A. from Hunter College.

Susan Osberg’s creative work has been informed by her spiritual and  healing practice.  She studied with Sufi Master Adnan Sarhan and has taught Sufi work as a guest artist at Bard College, Barnard College  

and Princeton University.  She includes Sufi work in the annual retreat in France--Dance as Ritual/Dance as Performance in Nerigean (Bordeaux). Ms. Osberg has had an energy healing practice since 2001, beginning in New York City.  She studied in a three year program at the IM School of Healing Arts with Turkish healer, Levent Bolukbasi and became an ordained interfaith minister, graduating in 2004.  She taught a healing workshop at Poli Talu in Estonia in 2004.  She took a year course in Transformational Psychology at the Open Center in NYC in 1997. In addition, she is a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher, practices Tibetan Buddhist meditation, practices Soaring Crane Qui Qong, and studies Algonquin rituals with Evan Pritchard.