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Suellen Semekoski
Adjunct Associate Professor of Art Therapy
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Andersonville
1) Intro; VetCAT explanation
2) Vet art movement; social pathology
3) What the creative arts do for veterans
4) Network of opportunity; experiencing joy again
5) Specific VetCAT programming
6) Collaboration with community; bring vets and civilians together
7) Transforming Trauma
8) What art therapy is
9) How became art therapist
10) Traditional systems of healing
11) Activating the body
12) "No diagnosis, no stigma";
"in the river"
13) Role of veteran art in society
14) Vietnam; friends there
15) Chicago NATO march;
Blue Cliff Retreat
16) Dismantle stereotypes
Andersonville
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