Amy Oestreicher
Amy Oestreicher is a PTSD peer to peer specialist, artist, author, writer for Huffington Post, speaker for TEDx and RAINN, health advocate, survivor, award winning actress, and playwright, sharing the lessons learned from trauma through her writing, mixed media art, performance and inspirational speaking. As the creator of the Gutless & Grateful, her one woman autobiographical musical, she's toured theatres nationwide, along with a program combining mental health advocacy, sexual assault awareness and Broadway Theatre for college campuses and international conferences. Her original, full length drama, Imprints, premiered at the NYC Producer's Club in May 2016, explores how trauma affects the family as well as the individual. To celebrate her own “beautiful detour,” Amy created the #LoveMyDetour campaign, to help others cope in the face of unexpected events. "Detourism" is also the subject of her TEDx and upcoming book, My Beautiful Detour, available December 2017. As Eastern Regional Recipient of Convatec’s Great Comebacks Award, she's contributed to over 70 notable online and print publications, and her story has appeared on NBC's TODAY, CBS, Cosmopolitan, among others. She has devised workshops for conferences nationwide, and is this year's keynote speaker for the Hawaii Pacific Rim International Conference on Diversity and Disability.
"I had a wonderful time at Art Kibbutz NY these past two weeks. These are some of the paintings I did while I was there (most of these nine are 16 x 20 canvases, some larger) , and a much-needed creative refueling period to celebrate nature, Judaism, social justice, art, artists, and beautiful detours." Read about Amy's blog: https://www.amyoes.com/2016/07/07/art-kibbutz-part1/
Amy Oestreicher is a PTSD peer to peer specialist, artist, author, writer for Huffington Post, speaker for TEDx and RAINN, health advocate, survivor, award winning actress, and playwright, sharing the lessons learned from trauma through her writing, mixed media art, performance and inspirational speaking. As the creator of the Gutless & Grateful, her one woman autobiographical musical, she's toured theatres nationwide, along with a program combining mental health advocacy, sexual assault awareness and Broadway Theatre for college campuses and international conferences. Her original, full length drama, Imprints, premiered at the NYC Producer's Club in May 2016, explores how trauma affects the family as well as the individual. To celebrate her own “beautiful detour,” Amy created the #LoveMyDetour campaign, to help others cope in the face of unexpected events. "Detourism" is also the subject of her TEDx and upcoming book, My Beautiful Detour, available December 2017. As Eastern Regional Recipient of Convatec’s Great Comebacks Award, she's contributed to over 70 notable online and print publications, and her story has appeared on NBC's TODAY, CBS, Cosmopolitan, among others. She has devised workshops for conferences nationwide, and is this year's keynote speaker for the Hawaii Pacific Rim International Conference on Diversity and Disability.
"I had a wonderful time at Art Kibbutz NY these past two weeks. These are some of the paintings I did while I was there (most of these nine are 16 x 20 canvases, some larger) , and a much-needed creative refueling period to celebrate nature, Judaism, social justice, art, artists, and beautiful detours." Read about Amy's blog: https://www.amyoes.com/2016/07/07/art-kibbutz-part1/
