Heal Up! Arts & Wellness Talk with Ebony Nichols
Heal Up! Arts & Wellness Talk with Ebony Nichols
February 4 | 11 AM - 12:15 PM
Virtual
In this talk, Ebony will be discussing the healing and transformational power of movement and dance with a specific emphasis on community-based healing applied to mental health, higher education, transformative leadership, and research career trajectories.
Ebony T. Nichols LCAT, BC-DMT (She/Her) is a Board Certified Dance/Movement Psychotherapist, licensed Creative Arts Therapist, licensed cosmetologist, entrepreneur & adjunct professor. Ebony is the proprietor Locks of Nu Natural Hair Spa and AYA Creative Wellness a culturally responsive somatic mental health and wellness practice with a therapeutic retreat space centering Black Indigenous healing of the African Diaspora, located on over 3 acres of land, with a 1927 updated farmhouse, barn, and cottage. As a therapy practice, AYA Creative Wellness meets the community needs through affordable somatic mental health care services and offers an accessible and affordable space to individuals, community groups, community scholars, change makers and healers seeking a space to cultivate joy, relax and commune in nature. She was awarded the presidential scholarship to attend Lesley University's Doctorate program in Counseling and Psychology: Transformative Leadership, Education and Applied Research, where she currently continues her research and work rooted in cultural/race identity, Liberation Psychology, centering Black Aesthetics of the African Diaspora through cultural movement narratives, non-verbal communication, and somatic-based healing practices.
Ebony is an adjunct professor at Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY), where she teaches Cultural Competency and Social Justice in Creative Art Therapy; Lesley University (Cambridge, MA), where she teaches Power, Privilege, and Oppression in Clinical Practice and Psychopathology in the Expressive Therapies Program; and Cultural Humility through the Power of Storytelling at The Embodiment Education Institute of Chicago. In addition, Ebony is the Multicultural and Diversity Committee Chairperson of the American Dance Therapy Association.
Southout Atlanta: "Meet Ebony T. Nichols LCAT, BC-DMT | Entrepreneur, Somatic Mental Health & Wellness Practioner."
Photo by Maria J Hackett
About Heal Up! Career Pathways in Creative Wellness
A 2023 Brooklyn Arts Council Creativity and Wellness Professional Development Series
This professional development series explores career pathways and training that offers artists an opportunity to integrate their art and wellness skills.
These workshops feature art and wellness practitioners and welcome participants from all creative industries into a supportive space to learn about the transformational power of the arts. This professional development series will assist creative agents in growing and expanding their craft on practices of wellness.
Community development, social engagement, creativity, museum wellness, craft, and indigenous experts will discuss new art and wellness training programs, workshops, and engagements from a variety of cultural practices and educational spaces (formal and informal).