ABOUT MARJORIE HEYMANN, BFA, PHD
Marjorie Heymann, BFA, PhD, is the creator of EMPOWERMENT THROUGH THEATRE® program, and currently provides all of the ETT™ training programs for parents, teachers, and medical professionals. Drawing on her professional background in theatre as well as her academic work in psychology and education, Dr. Heymann created this unique program specifically to improve the lives of children and families. The EMPOWERMENT THROUGH THEATRE® program, which was issued a registered service mark by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, has been offered in various formats and to a wide variety of audiences for over three decades.
Dr. Heymann utilizes her extensive experience in directing theater and implementing the ETT™training program to help parents, teachers, and health professionals improve relationships with children in their care. Through ETT™, Dr. Heymann teaches participants how to listen with their heart, ears and eyes -- the art of communicating in the moment -- and advanced listening skills, in order to improve their relationships with those around them, whether it be a parent and a child, a teacher and a student, or a doctor and their patients.
Dr. Heymann utilizes her extensive experience in directing theater and implementing the ETT™training program to help parents, teachers, and health professionals improve relationships with children in their care. Through ETT™, Dr. Heymann teaches participants how to listen with their heart, ears and eyes -- the art of communicating in the moment -- and advanced listening skills, in order to improve their relationships with those around them, whether it be a parent and a child, a teacher and a student, or a doctor and their patients.
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Dr. Heymann currently holds several professional positions, including:
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Dr. Heymann recently worked as the Director of the Healthy Schools, Healthy Students, and Learning for Life Program, implemented at three schools in the Bronx. This program, sponsored by the NYC Department of Education, had several components. Dr. Heymann, in collaboration with Scott Bloom, LCSW, Director of School Mental Health Services and CEI-PEA (see left), trained teachers in ETT™, and also provided specific curricular games that are part of the ETT™ curriculum (e.g. Math Baseball Leagues, Debating Baseball Leagues and Entry and Exit Card Games) as well as other evidence-based programs to improve child behaviors and outcomes. Of particular importance was the use of the PAX Good Behavior Game, with the help of Dennis D. Embry Ph.D and a senior consultant at the PAXIS Institute. To deliver the other two components of the program, Dr. Heymann collaborated with Dr. Peter Jensen, former co-chairman of Child Psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic and Director of the REACH Institute, who delivered training to school counselors, and Dr. Kimberly Hoagwood, Vice Chair for Research at the New York University Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Director, Youth Services, Office of Evaluation and Research at the New York State Office of Mental Health, who provided trained parent advocates, who connected our program to the family advocates at the Bronx Family Resource Center, and partnered with neurologists at the Bronx Lebanon Child Study Center.
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