Keynote Speaker: LINDA PASTAN is a nationally
acclaimed poet who has been compared to Robert
Frost and praised by May Sarton. She grew up in
New York City, graduated from Radcliffe College,
and received an MA from Brandeis University. She
has published 12 volumes of poetry, most recently
Queen of a Rainy Country. Two of these books
have been finalists for the National Book Award.
Her new book, Traveling Light, is due from Norton
in January. Pastan's poems have appeared in
many journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, The
New Yorker, The Nation, The Georgia Review. She
has been Poet Laureate of Maryland, and in 2003
she won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime
achievement. She lives with her husband in
Potomac Maryland. They have 3 children and 7
grandchildren. Learn more at www.poets.org.
Workshop Information: Offering 6 continuing
education credits for social workers (Category I),
and members of allied helping professions,
including LPCs. Also open to community members
not pursuing continuing education credits.
COSTS: $60.00 for those registering for CEU
credits $10.00 for members of the community not
pursuing CEUs. No registration fee for employees
of agencies associated with the Bureau of Senior
Services.
LUNCH: An hour and 15 Minute lunch break is
scheduled to allow participants to have lunch in one
of the many fine restaurants in Shepherdstown.
For example: A-Wok; Betty’s Restaurant; Blue
Moon; China Kitchen; Kazu; Maria’s Taqueria;
Mellow Moods; Shaharazade’s; The Sweet Shoppe;
Stone Soup Bistro; Three Onions; Tony’s Pizza;
Yellow Brick Bank
Lunch is on your own and not included in the
registration costs.
SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY’S
SOCIAL WORK PROGRAM
In collaboration with the
West Virginia
Bureau of Senior Services
Presents
AGING WELL:
CREATIVE AGING
AT ANY AGE
Wednesday
May 12, 2010
9 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Byrd Center for Legislative Studies
(adjacent to Library on main campus)
Shepherdstown, WV
Directions at http://www.shepherd.edu/
PRESENTERS
PM1 Sherri Philpott, LICSW has worked with
trauma survivors, homeless families, chronically
mentally ill adults and the bereaved. She has a
small private practice in Charles Town, WV and is a
volunteer counselor at the Eastern Panhandle Free
Clinic. A journal keeper since age 12, Sherri
received certification as a Journal Facilitator
through the Center for Journal Therapy in Denver,
Colorado last summer. She is enthusiastic about
sharing therapeutic benefits of journal writing with
others.
PM2 Karen Stefano, Ed.M., M.A., L.P.C., is an
artist and practicing counselor. She has been
leading Collage Playshops around the world for
more than 20 years. Bringing together the
artistry of her creative work (she is a trained
sculptor and painter), psychotherapy, and the
quest for higher meaning, Karen's goal is to
establish unity between body, mind, and spirit.
www.tissuepapercollage.net
PM3 Karen Green, MSSW, LCSW-C is an Assoc.
Prof. at Shepherd Univ. and has extensive
experience is working with group participants of all
ages. She is a recipient of a CSWE BEL grant
which aims to recruit students to gerontological
social work to ensure an adequate elder care
workforce. BSW students will assist in this
workshop.
PM4 Jennifer Soule, Ph.D., MFA, is former
Program Director and Professor Emerita of
Social Work at Shepherd University, a diplomate
in clinical social work and a published poet who
is interested in the transformational power of
words.
Geri Crawley-Woods, Ph.D. LICSW is a Prof. of
Social Work at Shepherd Univ. where she
directs the field education program. She and
Jennifer have collaborated in many community
and creative projects over the years.
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REGISTRATION FORM
May 5
th
Deadline
Name:______________________________
Organization:________________________
Email:______________________________
Tel #:_______________________________
Are you registering for CEUs?
___Yes($60)
___No($10)
Please return registration form with check
made payable to: Department of Social Work
Mail to P.O. Box 5000; Shepherd University
Shepherdstown, WV 25443.
Attention:
Beth Gilbert (304-876-5268)
Workshop Series I
11:0 0 -12:15 p.m. [Indicate 1st and 2nd
preferences]
___ AM1 - Intergenerational Gardening
____AM2 - Dance through the Ages
___ AM3 - How Far We Have Walked
___ AM4 - The Nature of Motivation
Workshop Series II
2:3 0- 4:00 p.m. [Indicate 1st and 2nd preferences]
___ PM1- Journal to the Self for Seniors
___ PM2 - Accessing your Creative Nature
___ PM3 - Creative Group Work with Elders
___ PM4 - Nurturing Language
Contact Geri Crawley-Woods (304-876-5337)
for further information
Agenda
9 – 9:30
Registration
9:30 -9:40 Welcome - Dr. Vanin
9:40-9:50 Introduction of Linda Pastan by
Jennifer Soule
9:50 - 10:40 Keynote Address by Linda
Pastan- "Old Woman Or Nearly So Myself:
The Poetry of Aging."
10:4 0- 10:50
Questions/Reflections
10:50-11:00
Break
11: 00 – 12:15 Workshop Series I
AM 1: Roots and Shoots: Intergenerational
Gardening a program in which older gardeners
teach the skills and the science and joy of
growing one's own food and flowers to children
http://www.rootsandshoots.org/aboutus
AM 2 Dance through the Ages
AM 3 How Far we Have WalkedA workshop built around walking, shoes, &
the meaning of our travels; includes poetry
reading, writing, and sharing,
AM 4 The Nature of Motivation: Why don’t we
do what is good for us?
12:15 – 1:30 LUNCH
1:30-2:30 Demonstrations in Zumba, Wii,
Reiki, massage, and nutrition
2:3 0- 4:00. Workshop Series lI
PM1 Journal to the Self for Seniors – an easy
effective empowering model of journaling for
personal growth, creative expression and life
enrichment
PM 2–Accessing your Creative Nature Through
the Art and Play of Tissue Paper Collage transcends a simple activity to become an
outlet for discovery, healing, wisdom, and reconnecting with our true potential.
PM 3 Creative Group Work with Elderstechniques for engaging elders in the group
process
PM4 Nurturing Language –a word buffet for
exploring who we are, where we are from, and
where we are going
PRESENTERS
AM1 Fanny Smith is a retired psychiatric social
worker who is a master gardener and an active
volunteer in the community. R. Grant Smith and
Renny Travers Smith are retired from the US
Department of State. Grant was a Political Officer
specializing in South and Central Asia and US
Ambassador to Tajikistan. Renny received an MSW
from Catholic University. They enjoy tending their
horses and garden in Bakerton.
AM 2 Betty Ellzey, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor
of English, Co-coordinator of Women’s Studies, and
Director of the Rude Mechanicals Medieval and
Renaissance Players at Shepherd University. She
earned her Ph.D. in Medieval Literature from
Catholic University. She started dancing in college,
over 40 years ago, and has continued taking ballet
and modern dance ever since.
AM 3 Peggy Osna Heller, PhD, LICSW, RPT, is a
diplomate in clinical social work, a clinical poetry
therapist, and a master mentor/supervisor and has
been active in the poetry therapy community since
1981 when she completed her poetry therapy
training at St. Elizabeths Hospital. She has held
poetry therapy positions at major Washington, D.C.
psychiatric hospitals and treatment centers and with
Kenneth Gorelick, M.D. co-directed the Wordsworth
Center for Growth and Healing. Peggy conducts a
private practice of psychotherapy and poetry
therapy in Potomac, Md.
AM 4 Glenda E. McNeill, ACSW LCSW-C is
former Program Director and Associate Professor
Emerita, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland.
Gretchen J. McKnew ACSW LCSW is an
experienced Clinician with established mental
health practice.
Donald H. McKnew, Jr. MD Psychiatrist: provider
of psychotherapy and psychopharmacology in
extensive private practice in addition to research
about childhood depression at NIMH