Apr 30, 2018
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Can circus be a vehicle for personal growth?
Carrie Heller has spent 30 years in the social circus world, helping clients and creating resources. Carrie and Dr. Lauren Taglialatela show empirical evidence in a data driven study, that circus is good for not just your body, but your brain as well! Shannon sits down with Carrie in her beautiful space in Atlanta to find out how.
Carrie’s Certifications:
MSW: Masters Degree in Social Work from Tulane University
LCSW: Licensed Clinical Social Worker
RPT: Registered Play Therapist
Website:
www.circusartsinstitute.com
Page about the research paper:
www.circusartsinstitute.com/blog/catpublished
READ THE ARTICLE:
International Journal of Play Therapy (published by the American Psychological Association): http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pla0000068
Social Media Links:
https://www.facebook.com/circusartsinstitute/
https://twitter.com/circusartsatl
Regarding positive reinforcement:
“The Difficult Child” by Howard Glasser
Research articles on Crossing the Midline
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pms.1998.86.1.201
Supplemental information:
http://blog.sascentre.com/en/midline
http://spectrumpediatrics.com/blog/2013/12/crossingmidline/
This podcast is dedicated to CIRCUS. Aerialist, Shannon McKenna interviews guests from acrobats in Cirque du Soleil to circus therapists and everyone in between. Learn the backstage lives of those who flip, twist, sparkle, and shine under the big top.
Shannon McKenna is an internationally recognized circus
performer and coach. For the past decade, she has been a freelance
artist: giving workshops and classes across 7 countries and worked
on both traditional and contemporary circus shows in the US,
Portugal, Germany, and Australia including the Shrine Circus and
SOAP. She holds a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a
concentration on post-modern physical theater (how's that for a
mouthful?). She founded The Artist Athlete in 2018 as a means to
produce educational materials about circus arts including a line of
e-books to help aerial artists train safely and a podcast in which
she interviews experts in the industry about their careers. If
you're reading this, you're probably listening to it. Thank
you!
She currently lives in whichever circus community is the
warmest.
Find her online: www.theartistathlete.com
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