Note: this meeting will begin at 9am MDT/11am EDT and last 6 hours.
What do prisons have to do with acupuncture? How do we, individually and collectively, heal inside and outside of the carceral state? In this interactive workshop, we'll explore these questions and more together through the lense of art, history, and grassroots testimonials.
Featured Speakers Include:
- Maine Inside Out - Theater performance and artists talk back
- David Rothenberg & Heather Ann Thompson - the carceral state & 50th Anniversary of the Attica Rebellion
- Sheila Murphy - NADA & Restorative Justice
- Testimonial Panel - NADA in Carceral Settings
Continue your education by gaining 5.5 CE credits. This course is approved by the NCCAOM, Florida Board of Acupuncture, Taylor College (for nurses and other healthcare professionals), and is pending approval from California Acupuncture Board. Refunds not available after registration.
ABOUT THE EVENT
This online meeting will explore how theater and visual art, research initiatives, innovative re-entry programs and mental health interventions such as the NADA ear acupuncture protocol promote healing in carceral and post-carceral settings (ex. jails, prisons, reentry programs, juvenile detention centers).
Cross-disciplinary presentations create an opportunity for students and practitioners of the NADA protocol to grow their awareness of potential partners and collaborators in carceral contexts, develop stronger cultural competence skills and create a more informed perspective on what it takes to bring a health and recovery intervention into a carceral setting.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Welcome & Opening Ceremony
Part 1: Art, Transformation, & Healing in Carceral Settings
Interactive Theater performance | Maine Inside Out Artists
Theater, visual art and creative writing as tools for healing, collaboration and personal growth | The Prison Creative Arts Project
'Prison conditions and pilot strategies to promote the well-being of people who are confined and work behind bars' | Jesse Jannetta, Urban Institute: Prison Research and Innovation Initiative
Breakout groups
Break
Part 2: Keynote Presentation by David Rothenburg and Heather Ann Thompson
50 years after Attica: The impact of the Fortune Society and the Pulitzer Prize book, Blood in the Water
Break
Part 3: NADA & Restorative Justice in Carceral Contexts in the United States
NADA as a restorative Justice tool | Sheila Murphy
Testimonials from 3 Carceral Settings | We'll hear about the impact of the NADA protocol as an addiction and mental health intervention from people in the three different carceral settings in Wyoming, Maryland, and New Mexico.
Part 4: NADA & Restorative Justice in Carceral Contexts (International)
Running NADA services in various carceral contexts: An international perspective | Panel moderated by Sharon Jennings-Rojas
Closing