Topic: Arts in Trauma Healing

Speaker: Mary Beth Saurman

How does arts play a part in the process of trauma healing? Does using arts actually help in the trauma-healing process? Mary Beth, an Arts Master Facilitator and experienced Consultant, shares her experience of using ethno-arts to help others heal from the pain that results from experiencing trauma.

About the speaker:

Mary Beth Saurman is an Arts Master Facilitator with the Bible Society’s Trauma Healing Institute. She teaches MA courses in Arts and Trauma Healing and also offers shorter training in Arts in the Healing Process.

She has worked with SIL International for the last 30 years as an advocate for the music and arts of ethnic minority groups and has 13 years of experience working as a Creative Arts Therapist and Music Therapist in clinical settings, including mental health care, geriatric care, and special needs. Her training and expertise focus on Music and Dance/Movement Therapy. She has also used other forms of Creative Arts as therapy such as drama, visual arts, and verbal arts.